Sentence examples for and markedly less from inspiring English sources

Provenzano, who looked older and markedly less macho than his identikit image, was jostled as officers in ski masks escorted him into police headquarters.

There was some good news in the report, which found that the teenagers were more serious than their predecessors, less likely to be play truant, more convinced of the importance of hard work, and "markedly" less prone to risky behaviour including smoking, drinking and drug-taking.

Yet Eriksson restored order and calm to the shambles left by Kevin Keegan in 2000, when England were trailing Albania in their qualifying group for the 2002 World Cup, and has handed over a squad in better shape and markedly less shambolic to his successor, Steve McClaren.

In contrast, mean sestonic chlorophyll-a levels in the karst reaches were only 1.3 to 1.4 μg/L (=mg/m3) and markedly less than the 8- to 10-mg/m3 eutrophic threshold suggested by Dodds (2006).

I was younger than most of the students and markedly less experienced, sexually and otherwise.

In Texas Tough, Perkinson concludes that "American lockups have become harsher, more regimented, more racially divisive and markedly less rehabilitative.

In contrast to patients with other mutations, individuals homozygous for the ΔR608 mutation had normal height and weight, markedly less hepatosplenomegaly and bone age delay, and normal IGF-1 levels.

From these data it emerged that patients monitored less frequently tended to have lower HbA1c and lipid levels and were markedly less likely to have microalbuminuria.

Initially, it was believed that these mutations may be loss-of-function or dominant-negative, as mutant IDH showed a reduced affinity for isocitrate and produced markedly less α-KG and NADPH in vitro (Yan et al., 2009; Zhao et al., 2009).

There I'll be, in my flat, working hard at the computer or reading Proust (trans: making tea and watching Star Trek: Voyager), and the markedly less than dulcet tones of a PE teacher or head of year will float through the window mocking the kids for not being able to catch or threatening them with detention if they dare speak.

However, the mass of the data logger in air was only ca. 1% of the body mass of male and female European shags (1896±121 and 1619±99 g respectively; means±s.d)., and weighed markedly less than the typical load of fish brought back after a foraging trip (mean 106 g) [27].