The phrase "and the three less" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a quantity or comparison, but without additional context, it is unclear when to use it.
Example: "If you take the total and the three less, you will find the final amount."
Alternatives: "and three fewer" or "and the three subtracted".
The Washington Post's analysis published last year highlighted the same geographical signature, with a break in death rates between the two most urban classifications (big cities and big-city suburbs) and the four less urban classifications, which The Post described as an urban-rural divide.
The optimal ancestral range for each internal node is listed first and the two less optimal reconstructions are italicized.
And now the three less-touristy branches of Union Jacks have closed, he is, blessedly, not trying to sell patriotism on a plate to us either.
ITV, NTL and Telewest put in bids for the two less attractive, Saturday packages.
The Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News were among the twelve less-profitable Knight Ridder newspapers that McClatchy put up for sale when the deal was announced in March.
Furthermore, in order to confirm whether the slightly better performance between the IOBESf and the other two less representative tag schemes (IOBf and IOBEf) is statistically significant, a two-sample paired t-test is applied.
We sequenced the liver PCR product obtained with those primers and observed the superimposition of two sequences, one corresponding to Rae-1δ and the other one less represented corresponding to Rae-1ε (Figure S1).
Finally, the Western region covers the one municipality, Chongqing, and three less developed provinces: Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan.
There have been dozens of different accounts of the events in Kopeysk circulating on the Internet and in the media, one less reliable than the next.
The result: a satisfying pop and a sizzle and one less mosquito in the world.
