The phrase "a battle less" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "In the end, it was a battle less fought than anticipated."
Alternatives: "a fight avoided" or "a conflict minimized".
At dawn both armies lined up for battle less than a mile apart.
Known as Dr. No, Mr. Coburn, a family practice physician, views legislative battle less in terms of Republicans versus Democrats than as a matter of yes versus no.
In the years since, restrictive campus speech codes have been widely repealed, which is why modern free-speech advocates are often left to battle less draconian forms of censorship, like cancelled commencement addresses.
By the end of the battle, less than 200 survivors from the 3rd Battalion managed to return to the UN line.
To find out what's at stake in this symbolically significant battle, less than 50 miles from Baghdad, VICE spoke to Omar Lamrani, senior military analyst at the Austin-based military intelligence firm Stratfor.
This makes your battle less isolating and keeps you committed to making progress against anorexic tendencies.[26].[26]
Pressler characterizes the conflict as a battle over "nothing less than the Spirit of New York".
The 2008 presidential election is shaping up to be a battle over nothing less than America's attitude to globalisation.That is not to say that questions about inequality and trade seem to the fore at the moment.
The star of the 1974 World Cup had been effortlessly shepherded away from danger, the loser of a battle that was less football, more One Man And His Dog.
On Marathon Plain, northeast of Athens, Athenian soldiers fought off the Persian army of King Darius, the mightiest ruler of the era, in a battle that lasted less than three hours on Sept. 12, 490 B.C.
