Sentence examples for but is rather less from inspiring English sources
When faced with foreign cells, these proteins are activated one after the other, in a domino-like effect, eventually forming rings which punch crippling holes in the cell-membranes of the interlopers.Such damage is a good thing in the case of a bacterial invader, but is rather less desirable when it happens to a transplanted organ.
Such studies largely upheld the monophyly of all 18 [ 7] traditionally recognised orders but were rather less successful in resolving the relationships between the orders (e.g. [ 4]).
The process of national decomposition he feared and foresaw may have come to pass, but it is rather less clear why the postcolonial citizen settlers of the 50s and 60s should be made to pick up the tab for it.
But it is rather less selfish and small-minded than that pursued by the US, a country for which the concept "ally" works only, it would appear, in one direction.
The governor's Yankee fans are enamoured of his brusque charisma, but it is rather less beguiling to voters in the South and Midwest, to whom Mr Christie can come off as a shambling loudmouth.
The mutant resembles control in meiotic chromosome behavior but pollen fertility is rather less.
But, on closer inspection, it is rather less expansive (and expensive).
Ezra Klein's account of how it is that a Supreme Court ruling against Obamacare became a real possibility is rather less sensationalistic, but it seems to me Mr Klein is asking the same exasperated question: how did it become probable, much less conceivable, that the Supreme Court will strike down the greatest liberal legislative achievement in a generation?
67 In those cells with the joint-firing profile, the phasic response was greater to cocaine cues than sucrose cues, but only by around 50%, which is rather less than the ballpark difference indicated by the microdialysis studies.
