Sentence examples for A shade less from inspiring English sources

A shade less than 15 years after the end of apartheid, it's an unlikely twist that Mr Zuma's main threat at the ballot box is coming from a white politician, Helen Zille.

A Rangel mailer was only a shade less strange.

His parents, he said, are each a shade less than 6 feet.

The broiled wings are a shade less crisp but equally satisfying.

ReprintsIn the country's teeming capital, Tehran, the repression is a shade less overt.

Norwegian offers a shade less width (17.2 inches), but the same amount of legroom.

But he suggested it wouldn't hurt to be a shade less enthusiastic than Mr. Ridge.

In Nigeria, then mired in bitter civil war, the Lagos embassy was only a shade less freewheeling.

It's a shade less high-end, thanks to an à la carte menu, a bar menu and less caviar.

The Utes had scored a shade less than 25,000 points heading into today's game with U.S.C.

Cormac McCarthy's The Road, I daresay, would be a shade less oppressive in 16-point green Comic Sans.