Sentence examples for a bit less likely from inspiring English sources

"I think it is a bit less likely that the Janjaweed would kill a young girl like her," he said.

But now that seems quite a bit less likely.

These new rules make it a bit less likely that governments will have to save banks and their creditors.

That way, the banks can be made to look a bit stronger, and the life insurers a bit less likely to collapse.

This ridicule may even serve a social purpose, making news organizations a bit less likely to treat these pundits as fonts of wisdom.

Theresa May is trying hard; including Scotland in the talks as she has promised makes Brexiter stupidity a bit less likely.

Any action its executives take that makes survival even a tiny bit less likely -- like giving up something for nothing -- is not good but bad.

Predictions that Team GB might challenge the odds-on favourites Australia in the "battle for fourth" in Beijing seem that little bit less likely to be fulfilled after former world champion Craig Fallon was defeated by the Austrian Ludwig Paischer in the second round of the men's judo 60kg competition.

"The shareholders who have lived through quite a bit of pain have their stock taken away for quite a bit less than they likely paid for it".

Had the state executive performed its constitutional function with a bit less grandstanding, it is likely that Proposition 8 would have been found invalid altogether.

B&N likely has a bit less, considering it has brick and mortars to maintain — a risky business.