The phrase "a multiplicity of less" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a concept of having many instances of something that is lesser in quality or quantity, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "In the project, we encountered a multiplicity of less effective solutions that failed to meet our needs."
Alternatives: "a variety of lesser options" or "many inferior choices".
By this method, the editor hoped to indicate that character could be created in a multiplicity of ways, more or less conventional, more or less obvious.
We use the term rope to denote the presence of tighly woven filaments in the multifilament struture, as a special case of the more inclusive terms bundle or fascicle, that only imply a multiplicity of filaments more or less tightly held together by a common sheath, and would include cyanobacterial general like Trichodesmium or Aphanizomenon.
In ES cultures infected with elongation factor-1α (EF-1α) promoter-green fluorescent protein (GFP) recombinant MCMV at a multiplicity of infection of 10, less than 5% of cells were GFP-positive, despite the fact that ES cells have relatively high EF-1α promoter activity.
Indeed, at a very low control tumor multiplicity of less than three carcinomas per rat, celecoxib treatment resulted in a 74% reduction in tumor multiplicity.
The second and third proofs are similar, moving from an awareness of a multiplicity of beings that are more or less perfect to the recognition of that through which everything exists, which itself is supremely perfect.
Yet those multiple buttons enable a multiplicity of actions at your fingertips that even a multitouch interface doesn't approach.
After two washes with 1X DPBS, a minimal volume of RSV, at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 1 or greater, containing less than 1% FBS was added.
For the more than 500 billion envisioned by the S&L schemers there was a multiplicity of evasion tactics with the bailout billions being first requested in small installments of less than a hundred billion.
While its instrumentation is evocative of club music, stylistically it situates itself a little less conclusively; it's consistently caught in medias res in a multiplicity of oddly conjoined timbres and moods.
