Sentence examples for less a match from inspiring English sources

It was less a match than a war of attrition — or extended target practice.

Less basic life points implies less time a match may take.

Though the Iraqi army is even less of a match for America's than it was a decade ago, that was a different sort of war.

In the United States they don't understand ties and draws much less playing a match that has no bearing on a best-of series result.

It was less of a match and more of a brawl as before, and during, Ziggler and one of The Usos were thrown into the metal steps as all six men battled with each other.

And the Kiwis did neither of those things to reserve grade Metropolitan Cup-level standard – much less a Test match against Australia – and were summarily towelled-up by 20 points.

IT WILL be less a love match than a marriage of convenience if the knot is eventually tied between Freescale Semiconductor, a chipmaking firm that used to be part of Motorola, and a consortium of private-equity firms led by the Blackstone Group.

They were right: "We observed that when a woman's income was less than a matched male counterpart, her risk of major depression and generalized anxiety disorder was significantly higher than in men," Platt says.

However, in order to discern general chemosensitivity from agent-specific sensitivity, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) context is required, or, less ideal, a matched case-control setup [ 15].

Then there are the competitions in which the scoring lays great emphasis on overtricks: pairs and (the much less common) board-a-match teams.

But anyone who has ever watched a soccer match much less a World Cup match knows the chances of that.