Sentence examples for maintained smaller from inspiring English sources

Males nesting in areas with little forest cover and large inter-patch distances spent more time perching, maintained smaller home ranges, and provisioned their nests less frequently.

Fourthly, on average, older Korean adults maintained smaller but denser networks than those of older American adults.

However, when compared to older U.S. adults, older adults in Township K maintained smaller (3.07 vs. 3.65) but denser (0.98 vs. 0.85) social networks.

Oil droplets containing OBZ tended to coalescence and form larger droplets in o/w emulsion when thickening agent was present, but oil droplets containing DEET aggregated slowly and maintained smaller droplets size.

As a bizarre extra, some camp systems maintained small orchestras.

Males that cared for at least part of their brood, however, maintained small nest entrances regardless of predation threat.

For a time the Seljuq sultanate continued as a Mongol province, although some Turkmen emirs maintained small principalities of their own in distant mountainous districts.

Minimal immunoreactivity was reported in naïve animals in which microglia maintained small cell bodies with thin and long ramified pseudopodia.

Halliburton's subsidiary maintains smaller, similar business relationships in Iran and Iraq, Mr. Vaughn said.

Farmer, J. A. & Campbell, C. T. Ceria maintains smaller metal catalyst particles by strong metal-support bonding.

Landscape ecologists also realize the significance of maintaining smaller patches like Edgewood Park because they link larger preservation areas together.