Sentence examples for less proficient than from inspiring English sources

Agostino's painterly style was drier and less proficient than that of his brother.

Many north Africans have joined Iraq's insurgency; veterans are apparently returning to wage jihad at home or in Europe.The jihadists stirring next door in Morocco so far seem less proficient than their Algerian cousins.

Evidence supports that girls are less proficient than boys at performing ball skills.

It is important to accurately measure FMS competency in adolescent populations, particularly in girls, who are less proficient than boys.

They can learn to become very proficient, but they are going to be less proficient than someone who learns it as their first language.

Since Min females are generally less proficient than Min males in Taiwan (Huang and Fon 2007), it is tempting to overlay the effects of gender and proficiency and align males with high-level talkers and females with mid-level talkers.

If young breeders are less proficient foragers than experienced ones, the age difference may be expressed in several ways.

This would be especially interesting for the case of Taiwan Min because speaker gender generally covaries with language proficiency and females tend to be less proficient in Min than males (Huang and Fon 2007).

In other words, even though [R] realization is due to a negative transfer from Mandarin, this negative transfer is more likely to happen when speakers use heavily Min-accented Mandarin, which is more often found among proficient than less proficient Min talkers.

The test showed that American students are less proficient in history than in any other subject over all.

As mentioned above, previous studies showed that young female speakers tended to be less proficient in Min than their male counterparts (Huang and Fon 2007).