"less of a response" is correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase is used to describe a response that was not as comprehensive or thorough as expected. For example, "The student's answer was less of a response and more of a rambling overview of the topic."
Each question elicited less of a response.
Maybe Alford would be more comfortable with photographs, which, in their vivid particularity, seem to demand less of a response.
In the first 2 years of life, signs that differentiated children with ASD from children with developmental delays were as follows: less of a response to their name, less looking at others, lower eye contact quality and quantity, less positive facial expression and intersubjective behaviors (e.g., showing shared attention).
So this was less of a response directly to that speech and I know that you stressed that the quality wouldn't change.
Although many Western countries, including the United States, have acknowledged the threat of foreign terrorist financing, Britain "has seen far less of a response from policy makers supporting moves to tackle the challenge of foreign-funded Islamist extremism," the report said.
Because of its subject, the song garnered less of a response from radio and peaked at number 15. Read My Mind became another major seller for McEntire and her label, selling three million copies by 1995 and certifying at 3× Multi-Platinum from the RIAA.
Thus, the reduced endocrine and sleep response to metyrapone in PTSD suggests either that PTSD subjects have downregulated central responses to CRF or that PTSD subjects had less of a CRF response because of less adrenal suppression of cortisol.
There can be little doubt that ongoing climate science consensus bleatings are receiving less and less of a howling response.
Embryos are not as robust to oxygen changes and have much less of a dynamic response than is seen with temperature.
A better treatment, scientists say, would be to prompt less of an immune response from a transplant recipient to begin with, rather than suppressing the response once it's already there.
When the researchers measured markers of inflammation and stress, people in the meditation group had less of an inflammatory response than those in the wellness program group.
