Sentence examples for less if not from inspiring English sources

Place these about 3cm above the hemline (or less, if not enough material is available) then move on to the next stage.

Far from a huge government bureaucracy, he proposes a simple adjustment of incentives: "You get paid more if the treatment has been shown to be effective and a little less if not".

The US would export far less if not any rice if it was not for it subsidizing its rice farmers.

Experience is worth less, if not altogether worthless.

That my first encounter with Mitko B. ended in a betrayal, even a minor one, should have given me greater warning at the time, which should in turn have made my desire for him less, if not done away with it completely.

It seems likely then that these participants were at least less if not completely unmotivated to change these two behaviors as compared to participants in other sleep and physical activity interventions.

Powell had the ability -- a useful one, perhaps -- always to have looked less thoughtful, if not less abstracted, than in fact he appears to have been.

Less ornate, if not less elaborate, and more edifying are the ḥaju (derogatory verses, personal and otherwise) and the shahr-āshūb (poems lamenting the decline or destruction of a city).

But solving science problems by similar means was at least less reported, if not less common.

In part, the "gratitude" of this book's title refers to that initial gesture from Lessing, if not always to what followed.

Plenty of great ideas, inventions or technologies fail miserably at the hands of skill-less if not incompetent management.