Sentence examples for less for the first time from inspiring English sources

He is missing the N.B.A.'s midseason showcase — just down Interstate 45 in Houston, no less — for the first time since he was a baby-faced beanpole receiving a rude introduction to the league 14 years ago.

I'm sure there were a few people out there thinking, "Why aren't our team competing a little bit more, getting a bit closer to the likes of France and Sweden?" But the biggest factor for us was that the British people were seeing the sport more or less for the first time in some cases.

April 10 2013 April 15 201313 In a sale consisting of just three lots (April 10), Christie's will offer a seven-page letter written by the Nobel Prize-winning British biophysicist Francis Crick to his twelve-year-old son, which explains (more or less for the first time) the structure of DNA.

Captain Juninho, ending a season trophy-less for the first time since 1996, can't decide whether to jet off for a final payday in Qatar.

In view of their abysmal performance, medal-less for the first time in their history, they clearly could have done with him.

Step forward Kai, who provides vocals on Cold Spring Fault Less Youth for the first time.

According to Apple Corps, the Beatles' company, and EMI Music, it will be released, at last, on Sept. 9 — the whole catalogue, more or less, revitalized for the first time since 1987, when it was converted, disastrously, for the CD format.

The Hurun Report into Chinese luxury travellers found that wealthy Chinese were travelling overseas on business less frequently for the first time in five years.

Our taste for risky drinking is being sated: data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that national consumption of alcohol fell to a 50-year low in 2014 – we're drinking less overall for the first time since 1966.

In a month dominated by news reports of racial tension, a significant milepost in American race relations garnered less attention: For the first time in this country's history, white students will this year no longer comprise a majority of the nation's schoolchildren.

Less City Ballet doesn't mean less ballet though: For the first time, the center hosts the National Ballet of Canada (July 16-18) and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet (July 24-25).