Sentence examples for less in practice from inspiring English sources

Although many ways to estimate TDOA have been proposed, noise always prevents us from finding exact time differences more or less in practice.

That should help keep Russia from bankruptcy in the coming months: as finance minister, Mr Zadornov had the job of sweet-talking international lenders, with some success, into bailing Russia out again.But this means less in practice than on paper.

These ports theoretically transfer data at 480 Mbps (but it's usually less in practice).

Battery life is quoted as 10 hours maximum, probably rather less in practice, but charging is easy and you can use it while it fills up.

Note that b i will be 1 (or less, in practice, if our knowledge of p is approximate) at the block center, and will decrease as we move away from it, while σ εi is modeled as an ever increasing but upper bounded function of ||x−x C ||, thus behaving in a complementary way to b i.

Assuming the original text T is from a small fixed alphabet, the number of distinct characters in the reduced text can become as large as, and therefore, the bucket pointers for the first level of recursion can require almost buckets (often considerably less in practice), leading to a working memory of roughly bytes (with 4-byte pointers).

Presumably the nurses knew less about, and therefore engaged less in, practices corresponding to these dimensions because these activities were further removed from clinical practice or were more complex.

In fact, poor access, recommendation, acceptance, and adherence rates can lead to highly efficacious interventions being less effective in practice than less-efficacious interventions.

(The requirement that the size of a unit cell of the system be much less - in practice at least twice less - than the wavelength of the relevant electromagnetic signal, is implied in its definition as an optical medium, and is inherited by quantum metamaterials).

Students who experienced high stress were less stimulated by their clinical activities and developed less confidence in practice.

Methods that produce nonsparse models, such as ridge regression [ 57], are less preferable since ITRs based on many biomarkers are often unstable and less useful in practice [ 31].