Sentence examples for became less efficient at from inspiring English sources

With higher carbon dioxide levels, the plants became less efficient at photosynthesizing and produced less oxygen.

While the breeding population increased more than 350% (1828 to 6580 breeding pairs) average clutch size decreased by 14% (1.92 to 1.65 eggs) and birds became less efficient at hatching and/or rearing young even while controlling for decreasing clutch size.

In restrictive conditions, the device became less efficient at higher inspiratory effort and level of assistance.

It happens as we get older because the body becomes less efficient at turning protein into muscle, which is why older people need to have more protein.

However, skin becomes less efficient at producing vitamin D as you get older, and official advice states that everyone over the age of 65 should take a daily supplement of vitamin D (10 micrograms per day).

Thanks to the scale and nature of the housing and financial bust, the labour market has almost certainly become less efficient at matching the supply of jobseekers with the demand for workers.People saddled with mortgages worth more than their homes are less able to move in pursuit of new jobs.

Even though passive techniques are effective in noise reduction at middle-high frequencies, they become less efficient at low frequencies (below 300 Hz) due to the limited dimensions of commonly deployable barriers.

Over the course of a year the Southwest receives double the amount of solar energy that the Northeast does, but that usually translates into somewhat less than double the solar system output because the material converting the sunlight to electricity actually becomes less efficient at higher temperatures.

The tendon becomes less efficient at adaptation to load.

However, diffusion becomes less efficient at long-length scales, where directed transport is more efficient to reach a distant target.

In the pharmacological literature, the 'Inoculation effect' is also well known: antibiotic treatments become less efficient at higher initial bacterial densities (Udekwu et al. 2009).