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Discover LudwigThe phrase "less ground" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about how much space something takes up in comparison to something else, or when talking about an amount of something that is smaller than expected or desired. For example, "Since the floor was wet from the rain, we had less ground to cover for the race."
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Broader indices made less ground.
The private banks more or less ground to a halt.
I'll cover less ground than in a car.
Smaller drawdowns in bad times mean less ground to retrace when the market direction is up.
There is even less ground for complacency in the recent figures on extreme poverty.
And the book covers less ground than a stats primer ought.
Then, "the less ground he had, the more [his position] would get fierce... and false".
They are trying to till less ground, which can destroy an underground ecosystem.
A. Smaller technology stocks have lost less ground than large technology so far this year.
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Growing all of the main-crop onions you might use in a year would take an enormous amount of space, but their younger siblings are much less demanding and less ground-hungry.
Differential diagnosis in favour of IPF is based on the presence of less ground-glass opacity and more coarse reticulation and honeycombing.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com