Sentence examples for lesser periods from inspiring English sources

He also sat for lesser periods on the Joint Economic, Budget and Ethics committees.

Edman degradation showed a mixture of termini similar to those previously observed from cultures induced for lesser periods of time [ 19].

If, for example, you have worked for eight years your notice would be the statutory minimum of eight weeks, regardless of whether your contract provides a lesser period.

So if you don't want to rent an inferior house, you rent the same house for a lesser period of time".

During the cross-examination, Mr. Hardin also pressed Mr. Duncan on whether he knew that the government would be making its decision on whether to write a letter to his sentencing judge recommending a lesser period of imprisonment depending on the judgment by prosecutors as to his truthfulness.

Meanwhile, a lesser period of slag treatment could make the specimens fracture at a lower level of slag substitution.

Those with a conventional sleep pattern (sleeping for seven or eight hours at night) experience periods of maximum fatigue in the early hours of the morning and a lesser period in the early afternoon.

To assure that each action was not having an effect on the following actions (e.g., whereby a subject pressing on a beautiful image for a long period of time, may press for a lesser period in a following trial), an analysis of variance was performed for the effect of preceding trial behavior (independent variable) on each subsequent trial (dependent variable) across and within subjects.

For a little less than half the year (48 days before Easter, 40 days before Christmas, and various lesser fasting periods), observant Greeks abstain from all animal products except certain shellfish and mollusks.

According to the catalogue, the works have been selected "to emphasise lesser-known periods of Nicholson's art when [its] fluidity between representation and abstraction is most evident".

Of particular interest in this exhibition is the emphasis on the lesser-known periods of Nicholson's art, which reveal the fluidity between his faux-naïf representation and abstraction.