Sentence examples for as if less from inspiring English sources

The phrase "as if less" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a comparison or a hypothetical situation, but it lacks context to be effectively used.
Example: "He acted as if less was expected of him."
Alternatives: "as though less" or "as if it were less".

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Pisarski [10] used the U.S. Census data to conduct the commuting patterns, and defined the unacceptable congestion as "if less than half of the population can commute to work in less than 20 min or if more than 10%% of the population can commute to work in more than 60 min".

Meanwhile, his sculptures of dancers and horses ride a jet stream of perfect realization, as if less produced than discovered.

Lambiel, despite a free program with two major errors, received higher scores for program components than Plushenko, who still seems hardwired to get manic when the time comes to get artistic, gesticulating as if less were definitely not more.

Mild weather is leading to the expectation of bumper harvests in the northern hemisphere, while it seems as if less of the American corn crop will be used to produce ethanol.

He spoke in slowly crafted sentences, punctuated by frequent pauses, as if less sure of aging mental legs in tricky intellectual terrain that he had once traversed with ease.

(It also doesn't help that the wireless providers are now merging left and right. As if less choice was ever beneficial to consumers).

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It may seem outdated to speak of blocs in Europe, but they are emerging just as clearly, if less ideologically, as those that existed on either side of the Iron Curtain.

And the Lincoln Navigator is super-plush as well, if less gutsy.

Islam, in its actual history, is a belligerent and domineering faith: as belligerent, if less insinuating, as the residue of Christianity now known as western culture.

But just as certainly, if less visibly today, it also includes Labour values, as it does sundry versions of Christianity, class-deference as well as democracy, fox-hunting as well as kindness to animals.

But the effect on music would be just as bad, if less obvious.

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