Example sentences of "less likely that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a little more expensive than a normal invitation but it is less likely that it will get lost . |
| 2 | As heavy water does not spontaneously give off heat from its deuterium fusing , so is it even less likely that it would when inside palladium . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's very unlikely that it survived the Civil War in 1919 , and even less likely that it was looted during the war and brought out of Russia in one piece . |
| 4 | When in doubt , beef it up — the more powerful the force , the less likely that it will have to fight and the more likely that it will succeed in its mission . |
| 5 | In this rather similar example , however , we think it is much clearer that the comma is a mistake and far less likely that it is simply a style variant : This has the implication that , novel-writing in Wales … |