Example sentences of "[adv] less [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glass giant Pilkington looks rather less sparkling , as profits continue to fall . |
| 2 | Upset and annoyance seem rather less strong emotions than ‘ distress , ’ which connotes some degree of perturbation and emotional upset . |
| 3 | A rather less contentious session was on EDI : Editions , Edicts and Edifications . |
| 4 | The English ambassador — and the English king — no doubt found the spectacle of what was going on in Scotland rather less surprising than Sir George Douglas . |
| 5 | This leads to the rather less splendid ascent of Princess Volupine ‘ To climb the waterstair ’ and to entertain |
| 6 | The story today is rather less critical as Lotus reports significant gains across the Windows software scene , with , for example , Freelance Graphics increasing its market share from 35% to 59% in just one month . |
| 7 | Blacksell and Gilg ( 1981 ) , however , in a more comprehensive evaluation of development control in Devon , are rather less sanguine in their conclusions . |
| 8 | He says the fans are rather less impassioned than elsewhere in Italy , although I had to tell him that once , when Trevor Francis missed a penalty for Sampdoria , his car was bombarded and his son , Matthew , was struck by a stone . |
| 9 | Exclusion , though , is rather less general a problem than a low status for some categories of painting . |
| 10 | Consequently , he started looking rather less convincing as self-appointed bard of the downtrodden , with 1978 's Blue Valentine and 1980 's Heartattack & Vine verging precariously on self parody . |
| 11 | This simple question is rather less easy to answer . |
| 12 | It is rather less easy to see how it would lead to interference effects like those described in Chapter 4 . |
| 13 | But we should be able to achieve that without cutting back in those regions where needs , though still real enough , are rather less acute . ’ |
| 14 | Officially they are national heroes , but there are revisionist versions of history which make some , including Crockett , rather less heroic . |
| 15 | He looked rather less plump than he felt now . |
| 16 | The Black Prince was to show that he was a man of considerable military flair but rather less political sensitivity than his father , and that he was capable of adopting a harsh and inflexible approach in government which would have augured ill had he ever become king . |
| 17 | But did you know that the preposterous programme had a ‘ Did you know ’ section that in the currency of football trivia proved rather less fraudulent . |
| 18 | The male defenders were rather less fortunate and the thousand or so Royalists were starved out after eleven days ; half joined Waller immediately . |
| 19 | However , if Jupiter were slightly bigger or had a rather less regular orbit , scientists believe the other solar planets would follow far less predictable orbits . |
| 20 | Um and erm I was just wondering y'know kind of erm often when I write questionnaires I like to go for a sort of more kind of rather less declarative statements . |
| 21 | Carbohydrates : Fish are rather less good at assimilating this energy source than humans . |
| 22 | He looked rather less rational than his dog . |
| 23 | Share sales tend to be rather less complex structurally than asset sales in that through buying the shares the purchaser acquires all the assets and liabilities of the target . |
| 24 | In the far south we have Kappa Pavonis in the Peacock , which is what is termed a ‘ Type II Cepheid ’ , rather less powerful than a classical Cepheid with the same period . |
| 25 | This was a third form of government , after rule by gentlemen and rule by military discipline had turned out not to be very successful , and most Englishmen would have found it rather less usual than either of the earlier types of government . |
| 26 | There are earlier Berman recordings of nearly all the pieces in this latest recital ; in no instance is the interpretation all that different ( though he has found a better edition of Funérailles ) and in most it is rather less satisfying . |
| 27 | In fact , the point of having him played by a 6-foot 10inch ( 2.1-m ) Nigerian student , Bolaji Badejo , plus a rather less tall stuntman , was largely lost . |
| 28 | ONE day you 're a movie star , the next your rolls are rather less grand . |
| 29 | The top reporters may not be able to spare the time and you could end up with the story being written by someone rather less familiar with the subject , whereas a quick telephone call or fax could mean that the story gets to the person you want . |
| 30 | Daphne , whom Cecilia suspected of being rather less well-off than she was herself , though this was not a matter to delve into , phoned her just after six on alternate evenings and she phoned Daphne on the others . |