Sentence examples for less instead of from inspiring English sources

But white governments remained unmoved, and the rights of Africans became less instead of becoming greater.

How often does a politician cause you to choke on your coffee at anything, apart from saying "less" instead of "fewer"?

There will be no more need for daily injections for MDR-TB, and the Alliance says the patients will be taking maybe 360 pills or less instead of more than 14,000 over the course of their treatment, as now, and the drugs will be less toxic.

When the news got out that there was to be another show about the Phantom — to be set in early-20th-century Coney Island, no less, instead of gaslight Paris — a few of those fans took to their cybersoapboxes to cry sacrilege.

The program has raised concerns among some policy makers, economists and real estate market analysts, who argued that the program threatens to create a housing bubble by inflating house prices and making them less instead of more affordable in the long term.

Now you might learn more about less instead of less about more.

And when I did see them, I found I was becoming less and less ambitious: instead of a "unit" on jazz, we had seen an awful lot of movies lately.

Additionally, the behavior of the system can be changed by adapting the utility function to favor less resources instead of less runtime.

The entire setting, everything around Iris, is breaking down, accumulating dust, draining of people, as if the earth were rapidly becoming less populated instead of more so.

Poised in the grey area between recitative and arioso, the vocal writing, which sets large portions of Shakespeare's text verbatim, is less memorable: instead of defining the individuality of the characters, it feels generic.

But "hauling" is actually rather less sinister: instead of masked youths bragging about what they've stolen, it's a phenomenon whereby kids – usually teenage girls – go online to show off what they've been buying.