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Discover LudwigThe phrase “less of a necessity” is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is not necessary but still desirable or helpful. For example, "Having a car is becoming less of a necessity due to the rise of ride-sharing services."
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Testing: the Porter & Davies BC2 and Roland hybrid triggers Drummers are becoming less of a necessity.
Lifting these would make a boat to Europe seem less of a necessity – as well as the reinstatement of certain cash handouts that the UN refugee agency scaled back earlier this year.
For video game fans, carrying around a portable game player from Sony or Nintendo has become less of a necessity now that they can play games on their increasingly sophisticated smartphones.
As a result, travel became less of a necessity, and the environment was spared an estimated 21,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per month.
But now Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other cloud providers are putting in this work, so a distribution vendor becomes less of a necessity.
Our app usage has grown not only because of the ubiquity of smartphones, but also other factors – like faster speeds provided by 4G LTE networks, and smartphones with larger screens that make sitting at a desktop less of a necessity.
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More women went to work, making marriage less of a financial necessity for them.
In a sense, then, it is a typical anthology, a book form which has always invited the reader to pick and choose, to become an editor of a kind: but in City of Disappearances that editing process is less of a prerogative, more of a necessity.
I guess as the show went on there were fewer polo shirts and more fine suits… Less polo shirts became more of a necessity as Jim Gandolfini gained more weight.
Chief Justice Roberts used the Riley decision to support the suggestion that having a cell phone is becoming less of a choice and more of a necessity.
"As storing sensitive personal and commercial data electronically becomes less of a luxury and more of a necessity, protecting that data has also become a necessity," the attorneys for Microsoft and Google wrote.
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