The phrase "a substantially less" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts where a comparison is being made, but it should be "substantially less than" to be grammatically correct.
Example: "The new model is a substantially less expensive option than the previous version."
Alternatives: "significantly lower" or "much less."
A German official I talked to last week provided a substantially less comforting notion.
Root elongation of cucumber was a substantially less sensitive indicator to As than data from the 4 weeks pot study.
Investigative journalist Gerald Posner found a substantially less reverential tale that involved Miller delivering pizzas to the hotel room of Mickey Stevenson in 1966.
Their monofunctionalized analog and ortho-, meta- or para-heterofunctionalized morpholine-containing complexes with the single carboxyphenylsulfide substituent showed a substantially less inhibitory activity.
The method proposed herein is able to provide results which are consistent with those predicted by Monte Carlo (MC) simulations with a substantially less computing cost.
The military is tied to the National Democratic Party's "old guard," a substantially less wealthy elite who made their careers as ministers, officers and apparatchiks.
The new entrance, the only completed part of the restoration, has new Art Deco-inspired furnishings, paintings by California artists and a substantially less-showy chandelier.
A substantially less-sucky celebration of Walter Hill's cult-acclaim slice of highly stylised violence was Rockstar Games' October 2005-released video game adaptation of the movie, the sole movie license game the company's ever developed (although it did co-publish 2001's The Italian Job).
A substantially less-sucky celebration of Walter Hill's cult-acclaim slice of highly stylized violence was Rockstar Games' October 2005-released video game adaptation of the movie, the sole movie license game the company's ever developed (although it did co-publish 2001's The Italian Job).
Evans himself was on an extortionate 33.3% deal – a figure substantially less amusing when the band hit trouble than it had been when they laughingly signed up.
Gateway, which has lost money in 11 of the past 12 quarters, made an early splash in consumer electronics last year by introducing a 42-inch plasma television for $2,999 a price substantially less than similar sets at the time.
