The phrase "difference was smaller" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: The difference between the two groups was smaller than we originally thought.
23 While other studies have also found IPAQ-L sitting time to differ from accelerometer-determined sedentary time, 32 33 the difference was smaller when the IPAQ-L was interviewer-administered.
The abundance of 15N in plant parts was clearly different for plants grown on glutamine and NO3− mixtures, but this difference was smaller for plants grown on NH4NO3 (Table 2).
When the unloading failed confining pressure difference was smaller, coal would be easier to get unstable failure.
The TSM difference was smaller for optimized mode than that of conventional mode, so the thermal regime of the optimal filling mode was better.
The difference was smaller than expected and is explained by both fouling and changes in the membrane performance due to the combined effects of pH and temperature.
RTs were shorter on food cue trials in both the bottom-up (p = 0.01) and top-down tasks (p < 0.001), however the difference was smaller in the bottom-up task.
Because the upper bound of the 95% confidence interval of the new IMI rate difference was smaller than the predefined noninferiority limit, it was concluded that the experimental product was not inferior compared with the positive control.
Compared with TC, fecal output was overestimated and digestibility of the low-CP diet was underestimated when iNDF was used as a marker, although the magnitude of the difference was smaller compared with that for AIA.
This difference was smaller after the second thawing and did not exceed 30%.
When the phase difference was smaller, the cell body was stiffer and the actin structure became richer.
Note that a not correctly identified model in most cases means that the DIC difference was smaller than 2, not that the wrong model was selected.
