Sentence examples for been less sharp in from inspiring English sources

Although investment-banking revenues have declined everywhere compared with a year ago, the drops have been less sharp in Asia.

A report prepared by three leading European economic institutes said that while the region's prospects remained subdued, the contraction was expected to be less sharp in the coming months.

Economists too had expected the fall to be less sharp in 2009.

However, the comparison is less sharp in this case.

Other public polls have found a narrowing in Democrats' midterm advantage, although it has been less sharp than in the Post-ABC poll.

But the decline has been less sharp over the past two years.

The isotherms of C5 hydrocarbons on Fe-BTC show one saturation step being less sharp than in the case of Cu-BTC.

The ability of BACH in distinguishing the native state from both decoys is confirmed; the discrimination is less sharp than in the case of GB3, because of the higher similarity of decoys to the native state.

BURBANK — The number of passengers who used Bob Hope Airport continued to drop last year, but the rate of decline was less sharp than in 2009, when the economy was tanking.

Accordingly, "horns" in the diffusion path are less sharp than seen in earlier work but are similar in that they point in the same direction.

In Central Africa, the contrast is less sharp: gene pools Is and In were found in evergreen forests with very high annual rainfall (1620 to 3480 mm; mean = 2460 mm), while SC occurred in the drier semi-evergreen forests (annual rainfall 1370 to 2050 mm; mean = 1640 mm), and SW in the forest-savanna mosaic of northern Cameroon (annual rainfall 1530 to 2090 mm; mean = 1710 mm).