No, it's about a less period-specific sense of all that unpolluted potential in one place.
As manufacturing has shifted to cheaper locations, we have been through an unusually benign period of low inflation, though a less benign period of real wage stagnation and more job insecurity.
Furthermore, when a good number of nodes are discovered in a particular sector of a node, it must stay less period of time over there so as to reduce the discovery overhead.
He was prof-essor of graphic arts at the RCA from 1978 to 1985, a less happy period, as the administrative aspect did not suit him.
They do not have, one might argue, the Olympic tradition of many countries, so could be saving their spending for a less sporty period.
Patients and relatives report their experience of euthanasia as a more humane death than suicide, and they expect a less difficult period of mourning.
The first six months of 2013 coincided with a less-work period – thus generally positive thoughts about healthy eating and exercise, as well as time free for the latter.
MSNBC has been building up its weekend programming, but it is simply a less prestigious time period.
Author's response: The data suggest a more subdivided population during the evolutionary innovation periods and a less subdivided one when the periods end (i.e. between the periods).
The debate over whether greatness is defined by an excellent shorter period (Sandy Koufax) or a less-excellent longer period (Warren Spahn) is endless.
She pushed for two amendments that would have given businesses a less forgiving phase-in period to meet the new minimum wage.
