Sentence examples for a shade less than from inspiring English sources

His parents, he said, are each a shade less than 6 feet.

The Utes had scored a shade less than 25,000 points heading into today's game with U.S.C.

And recent opinion polls suggest that Germans loathe the prospect of losing their beloved D-mark a shade less than they used to.

In Canada, the game was seen on nine networks by an average of 16.6 million viewers — a shade less than half the nation's population.

Citi Field will use as much as 11 megawatts, or a shade less than the new Goldman Sachs tower near ground zero.

His coming in only a shade (less than a percentage point) ahead of Jerry Brown on Sunday in Maine, which usually follows the example of New Hampshire, didn't do him a lot of good.

Directed by "Kick-Ass" action specialist Matthew Vaughn with slightly more vigor than necessary and a shade less restraint than needed, it's a bit too too to be "brilliant," as the Brits say.

The Times' Betsy Sharkey calls "Kingsman" a "dry, wry sendup of the 007 world" and adds, "Directed by [Vaughn] with slightly more vigor than necessary and a shade less restraint than needed, it's a bit too too to be 'brilliant,' as the Brits say.

But he suggested it wouldn't hurt to be a shade less enthusiastic than Mr. Ridge.

While some of their homes were only a shade less sumptuous than the National Palace, others were working farms with handsome manor houses and stone outbuildings.

In private conversation, some members of the Official Unionist Party, generally characterized as a shade less intransigent than Mr. Paisley's Democratic Unionists, hint that eventual acceptance is possible.