The phrase "a much less powerful" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the power or effectiveness of two or more entities, indicating that one is significantly weaker than the other.
Example: "The new model is a much less powerful version of its predecessor, lacking many of the advanced features."
Alternatives: "far weaker" or "significantly less potent".
The likely compromise would create a much less powerful school board of perhaps seven members, all named by the mayor, after the current board was abolished.
Nevertheless, Keys makes a good case that a stupendous eruption (or possibly several eruptions) blasted the island of Java in 535 or thereabouts, at about the same spot where a much less powerful volcano, Krakatoa, blew up in 1883.
In other words, your CPU and GPU are up in the cloud, and instead of needing a powerful gaming rig to run a hit game like Crysis, you can run it on a much less powerful device, like the iPad (if this sounds familiar, it's because OnLive is a gaming service with similar technology).
57 It is apparently difficult to elicit during medical consultations, 58 perhaps because "laughing by itself" is a much less powerful stimulus than "laughing excitedly".
This is a very important step, as different machines will have different requirements, e.g. an office computer will require a much less powerful machine than one designed for gaming.
Instead, this Type Iax supernova resembles a nova star explosion — a much-less-powerful stellar blast — called V445 Puppis, an explosion in the Milky Way that astronomers detected in 2000.
The oil industry, as we've learned, has experienced the government as an entity that is much less powerful than it is, and which can easily be shaken off, whether it's a matter of getting permits or exemptions or evading concerns about dispersants in the course of the non-clean-up of the spill.
Obviously, the Galaxy Note 10.1 is much less powerful than a Windows 7 slate, having a 1.4GHz dual-core ARM processor and 1GB of memory, and it won't run standard Windows software.
In many situations, the analysis of data from a single study alone will be much less powerful than if it can be correlated with other studies.
Although the LS6 offers a manual five-speed (which enables the much less powerful car to get to 60 mph almost as quickly as the V-8), it's not available on the LS8.
Because PC-E is much less powerful than PC as an OA disease-modifying drug, it suggests that the proliferation-inhibitory activity of PC plays little role in its OA disease-modifying activity and that those PC downregulated genes classified in cell proliferation are unlikely key OA disease candidate genes.
