The phrase "a much less robust" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the strength or effectiveness of two things, indicating that one is significantly weaker or less effective than the other.
Example: "The new software is a much less robust solution compared to the previous version, which had more features and better performance."
Alternatives: "far weaker" or "significantly less strong".
"We know the border has more poverty and a much less robust health infrastructure than the rest of Texas, and the rest of the country.
"What we've ended up with is a much less robust program that's more focused on security than it is on humanitarian activities, so that right there is helping to put more people in danger," Daryl Grisgraber, a senior advocate with the humanitarian group Refugees International, told The WorldPost.
The Trump administration also has clearly signaled it will carry out a much less robust effort to enroll people in health coverage during the open enrollment period that begins Nov. 1 and ends Dec. 15 in most states, which risks lower sign-up numbers for 2018.
Parameters describing important control points at the complex 1 and 2, the Bim/Bid module, the phosphorylation of JNK and the the NF-κB module show a much less robust behaviour.
The conical cells found on Antirrhinum flowers produce a much less robust hydrophobicity than that shown on N. nucifera as the exact contact angle was strongly influenced by very local petal surface properties.
However, it is important to note here that the FDR ranges for this particular class comparison ranged from 14-19%, a much less robust gene expression profile statistically than any of the other comparisons performed.
In my experience, the reason programs fail to replicate is that they were never all that successful in the first place, or because they attempt to replicate a form of a model much less robust than the one they researched.
But because of the long lead times in shipbuilding, those vessels only now are being delivered by the hundreds — into a very different, much less robust international economy than when they were ordered.
However, because particularly for publications from the 90's there is no strict relation between PubMed ID and date of publication, a PubMed ID based ranking is much less robust that a year-wise ranking.
Sometime next year the work should join the museum's famous Bruegel, "The Triumph of Death," a prospect that poses a few curatorial challenges because the new picture is so much bigger, painted differently and in much less robust condition, making the pair an odd couple.
If the intercellular coupling is impaired with a low gc value, the function of the β-cell cluster is much less robust against β-cell damages.
