Sentence examples for former than latter from inspiring English sources

Hit-and-miss, as even the best in this genre tend to be, but it was more former than latter: nudging a little near to the bone admittedly, but it's on at 10.30pm.

For Box, perhaps it was more former than latter.

The higher amount of Lewis acidic sites present in Co4.0SiBEA and Co9.0SiBEA than in Co1.0SiBEA seems to be responsible for the higher activity of former than latter in N2O decomposition and SCR of NO with ammonia.

For example, RCTs for health behaviour change are more prone to bias than pharmaceutical trials, and reducing bias may also be more difficult for the former than latter condition [ 1, 2].

Our findings relating to exploration in these two corvid species, tested until sub-adulthood when they are not yet territorial, support the former rather than latter option.

It is often seen that the former process is less productive than the latter in producing the same commodity, in the sense that more resources are used in the former than the latter.

Better the former than the latter.

Kharms, admittedly, does more of the former than the latter.

Obama's "hope and change" turned out to be more of the former than the latter.

I am by nature and training much better equipped to address the former than the latter.

Educationally, academies are neither triumph nor disaster, but they are more the former than the latter.