Sentence examples for became a bit less from inspiring English sources

When the Philippines became a bit less friendly, Mr. bin Laden turned more aggressively to Indonesia after Suharto fell in 1998.

The tests also involved constant moderation to keep the particles from melting within the furnace and therefore the real-world imitation for these tests became a bit less accurate than for others.

Between 2002 and 2008 some 40m Latin Americans, out of a total population of 580m, were lifted out of poverty, and income distribution became a bit less unequal almost everywhere.

The peculiarly personal touch of Alfred Hitchcock became a bit less personal but no less penetrating in his direction of the 1940 film REBECCA, Daphne Du Maurier's tale of a shy young woman ill-equipped to compete with the haunting memory of her husband's first wife.

Fastenal, which makes industrial and construction fasteners, jumped 5.9% to $57.34 after it said customers became a bit less cautious about spending in December.

And the West will become a bit less western.

Consequently, the cost of interest and principal repayments has become a bit less burdensome.

But if reform included simplification, the task might become a bit less onerous.

Mr. Goings's Upper West Side apartment has just become a bit less crowded, however.

And the authorities are starting to become a bit less inflexible about women.

It is not probable, but it has just become a bit less improbable.