The phrase "are less different from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two or more items to indicate that they share more similarities than differences.
Example: "The two species are less different from each other than previously thought."
Alternatives: "are more similar to" or "are closer to each other than".
It suggests that twentieth-century Chinese peasants were less different from seventeenth- or eighteenth-century French peasants than might be imagined and points to continuities between pre- and post-1949 rural protest.
That is a point John S. D. Eisenhower makes well in this book, which is a history of the ground forces on the Western Front -- the American Expeditionary Force or A.E.F., commanded by Gen. John J. Pershing: "Pershing's A.E.F. was the first modern Army the United States ever fielded, and the Army of the Second World War was less different from the A.E.F.
The other gap stimuli may have been less different from each other and the no-gap stimuli and although all stimuli occurred with same probability, the effect of novelty may have been less expressed.
Then, each pair of matrices that x% of their appearances on the promoter set were overlapping was clustered and the matrix with the lower information content (i.e., the matrix which is less different from a uniform distribution) was removed.
The PPD for model 2 is less different from the PPD the true model would have generated.
This suggests that the nerve response to sweet was less different from that of non-sweet compounds when the sweeteners contained lactisole.
However, for the remaining segments, TOV sequences were less different from their closest BTV sequence than the 2 most distantly related BTV serotypes (segments 2, 6, 7, and 9).
Gould has used his discussion of the Burgess Shale (Gould 1989) to challenge such views of evolution, arguing that the disparity of the fossils in that shale indicates that living things are significantly less different from one another than they once were.
Also, the results of calculated Nash equilibriums by GA are less various and different from each other compared with those of SA and HSAGA.
