Sentence examples for long less from inspiring English sources

The plume was up to 420 m long, less than 50 m wide and 3 m thick.

The Wagon R itself is less than 14 feet long, less than 5 feet wide and about 6 feet high.

C. diandra has a strict bristly inflorescence, with short (2 mm. long), less conspicuous scales, and with more evident perigynia, 2-2.5 mm.

It was an unfinished manuscript, 397 pages long, less than half of the planned book, as well as an outline detailing story arcs and plot points to come.

After her family fled Havana for the United States with just three suitcases when she was 10, her father traded a comfortable living as an accountant for long, less lucrative hours as a carpenter.

Each Event was about 40 minutes long, less than half the length at which I have loved Events in the past, but perhaps sufficient for a hot July afternoon without conventional seating for the audience.

It was then, on those long, less-than-scenic, up before the crack of dawn drives between Houston and Tucson that I really got to know my dad.

Previous studies suggested that there, on the Tibetan Plateau, a lake holding 800 cubic kilometers of glacial meltwater broke through a natural dam either an arm of an ice sheet or a landslide deposit sending floods carrying as much as 1 million cubic meters of water per second down the 200-kilometer-long, less-than-200-meter-wide Tsangpo Gorge.

Long considered less popular and less relevant than the Giants, the Jets hired perhaps the most confident coach in sports.

Candidates for office, including those for the presidency and Congress, are covered in Volume II of the voters' guide, which is a mere 36 pages long -- less than a tenth the size of the one for the ballot measures.

Surely to distil their argument into half as long (or less) would be twice the challenge.