Sentence examples for less was given from inspiring English sources

"More and more authority was taken over by headquarters, less and less was given to the field agents, and more and more field agents resented headquarters and believed they didn't support them," a former F.B.I. official said.

We took this value as our benchmark so that any team whose city had a coldest month average high temperature of 6 °C or less was given a CAN value of 1.

Therefore, while "Beauty and the Beast" received heavy promotion from the studio, significantly less was given to "Be Our Guest" and "Belle".

Similarly to other settings [ 65], much attention was generated around the design of the policies, while far less was given to their implementation at local level, which remains problematic, despite some innovative features, such as use of civil society monitors at facility leveld.

While much attention is directed towards understanding the patterns of biodiversity, much less is given to determining the areas of the landscape most vulnerable to threats.

Donations to charity have fallen by 20% in real terms in the past year, with £1.7bn less being given, says a report.

"He took the most precious thing [that] could have ever, more or less, been given to me," Alexander says in an interview.

13 The French data are not directly comparable because 90% of French children aged 9 years or less were given Panenza – an unadjuvanted vaccine.

Less and less thought was given to enriching the spirit.

None the less, he was given much public credit for tackling what were probably impossible problems.

Less emphasis was given to book illustration during the period of Jahāngīr (1605 27).