The phrase "apparently less likely" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing probabilities or likelihoods in a context where something seems to be true based on available evidence or observations.
Example: "Based on the recent data, it is apparently less likely that the event will occur this year."
Alternatives: "seemingly less probable" or "reportedly less likely".
A negative advertisement that might rub viewers the wrong way in their living rooms is apparently less likely to do so when they are at their computers.
And the mere mention, by a suspect under arrest, of a powerful narco-trafficker "friend" is apparently less likely to produce a quick release than it traditionally was in Tijuana.
The dimmed neuronal activity was most notable between the brain regions that control the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems; the physiological calming that should occur after stress was apparently less likely to take place.
Drunken husbands are now apparently less likely to settle domestic brawls with bullets.To police the borders and protect Karamajong kraals, a number of "local defence units" have been set up, staffed by volunteers but under army control.
A happy feature about the Boat-tailed Grackle of the Everglades is apparently less likely to lodge in our memory than a story about the invasion of huge Burmese pythons, which can easily devour you, in those same swamps.
Every year, US media outlets report on the phenomenon whereby people holed up inside their apartments are apparently less likely to murder on another than they are during the summer, a notoriously violent season.
People who savour their food are apparently far less likely to be overweight or obese than fast eaters.
They are apparently much less likely to go to a doctor about a sexual health issue than an older woman.
That 2% difference may seem slim but the SSA data from the Scottish Centre for Social Research has another figure which will be cause for concern for the pro-UK campaign Better Together: amongst undecided voters, those leaning towards no are apparently 19% less likely to cast a vote than those leaning towards yes.
The research, which was presented at the Eurpean Society of Cardiology conference in Amsterdam, said the most afflicted group were women below the age of 70, who are apparently 56 per cent less likely to be treated for atrial fibrillation than men with the same risk profile.
It showed that people respond as freethinking individuals to quite small things, which might encourage them to act for themselves and do big things differently – such as signing their tax form before filling it in rather than after, which apparently makes people less likely to lie on it.
