"born less of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used in the context of someone or something having a lesser degree of some trait or characteristic, usually compared to a higher degree of that same trait or characteristic in someone or something else. For example: "The modern artist was born less of a natural talent than the classical artist."
Hello's dewy modesty, however, was born less of proper British restraint than of shrewd business practice.
Of family and friends, I didn't know, ignorance born less of incuriosity than a reluctance to ask.
For all the anxiety about Hamas, there remains in Israeli society a broad consensus for a two-state solution — a desire born less of an Oslo-era optimism about an integrated "new Middle East" and more of sheer weariness with occupation and an understanding that to retain the territories is to risk the Zionist idea of maintaining a Jewish majority in a democratic state.
This is an important principle of information economics: Market power is rarely seized so much as it is surrendered up, and that surrender is born less of a deliberate decision than of going with the flow.
But this bleak state of affairs is born less out of global crisis and more of government resistance.
Surely not in any big way, and both this and the recent bipartisan budget deal were born less out of the urge to compromise with the opposition than to avoid hurting your own brand.
It's the same effect the nation got when Barack Obama talked about his background and you remembered that when Obama was born, less than 10 percent of Americans approved of interracial marriage.
The most widely used definition of apnea of prematurity (AOP) specifies a pause of breathing for more than 15 20 s, or accompanied by oxygen desaturation (SpO2 ≤ 80% for ≥4 s) and bradycardia (heart rate < 2/3 of baseline for ≥4 s), in infants born less than 37 weeks of gestation [ 55].
Within trimester 3, we had 85% power to detect a doubling of the prevalence of babies born less than the tenth centile (from 13%to2626%), and to detect a tripling of the preterm birth rate (from 5%to1515%) for a two-sided test at P< 0.05.
In the United States, NEC affects 7% of all infants born less than 1500 g, causes the death of approximately 16 42% of those infants depending on their birth weight (Fitzgibbons et al., 2009) and increases the chance of developmental delays in survivors (Hintz et al., 2005; Fitzgibbons et al., 2009).
In the magnesium exposure group, cases were infants born less than 28 weeks of gestation (3/21 vs. 0/61, P=0.015).
