The phrase "a chain of less" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a concept related to a series of diminishing elements or a reduction in quantity, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "In the context of resource allocation, we often find ourselves facing a chain of less, where each decision leads to fewer available options."
Alternatives: "a series of reductions" or "a sequence of diminishment".
In March 2002, BBBY bought Harmon stores, a chain of less than 27 freestanding stores in three states that were largely selling beauty and healthcare products.
Zecha has plenty of income, including that from his Aman stake and a chain of less pricey hotels, General Hotel Management, that he controls.
As a result it has launched 365 by Whole Foods, a chain of less-expensive stores to compete with the likes of Trader Joe's.
Racine's site has already been seized on by Caffe Concerto, a small chain of less formal restaurants.
In Chinese, as in English, the nominal group begins by identifying, giving the location of the thing in the context of the speech event: 'this, that, the, my, your, any, some, all &c.' It then proceeds through a chain of attributes which have less and less identifying potential but which, by the same token, are more and more permanent in their assignment.
Short-chain fatty acids are fatty acids with a chain length of less than C6.
He owns three restaurants at Tokyo's Haneda and Narita airports and thinks he's developing a winning idea: a chain of restaurants in smaller, less cosmopolitan U.S. cities that will attract diners by offering food that he says will be better than the "bland" fare they're used to.
When an enzyme becomes deactivated while on the surface, it is programmed to remain stationary at that point and only desorb when the cellulose chain it is located on is hydrolyzed into a chain of six sugars or less by an EG or CBH and becomes soluble.
He hopes to have 45 Morton's open by the end of the year, up from 41. Six years ago, he started Bertolini's Authentic Trattorias, a chain of Italian restaurants that are less expensive than Morton's.
But he has fluently translated accounts of distant conflicts into his own transfixing and ultimately very moving form of existential theater, in which life is less a chain of signal events than a steady, relentless flow that wears you down but lets you keep moving until you stop for good.
On the flank of the V1P3 cone, a chain of three explosion craters, each less than 500 m wide and as deep as 100 m, occurs (Fig. 2(a)).
