Sentence examples for modestly less than from inspiring English sources

Hundreds of stations supply compressed gas in a few states like California, New York and Arizona, but most are either closed to the public or charge only modestly less than regular gasoline prices.

For Infinia (Figure 2), the contrast recovery of the 4-mm rod obtained with scatter correction was almost 0. When the data were not post-filtered in Flash3D (Additional file 7), contrast recovery increased very modestly (less than 0.05) for the cold rods but more severely for the hot rods.

In a major study, Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce observed median earnings of those with bachelor's degrees majoring in "humanities and liberal arts" ($47,000) were only modestly less than those majoring in some STEM disciplines ("biology and life science" majors had a $50,000 median).

President Barack Obama's new budget, to be released Monday, forecasts two consecutive years of near $160 billion in war funding, far more than he hoped when elected and only modestly less than the last years of the Bush Administration.

Moreover, we identify a previously unrecognized class of mRNA whose levels decline only modestly (less than 2-fold) during lytic growth.

Although a few hundreds of genes are affected only modestly (less than two-fold) by Jmjd3 deletion, a handful of genes show a higher dependence on Jmjd3 for their expression, as exemplified by Ccl5 and IL12b (which mediate recruitment and Th1 polarization of T lymphocytes, respectively).

For antagonists, the GP was consistently, albeit modestly, less sensitive than the other tissues.

Thus, Republican congressmen, senators and governors -- even staunch, principled conservatives -- developed the instinct to propose only modestly less statist policies than Democrats did (as, for example, George W. Bush's Medicare Part D subsidies for drugs).

Breast preservation was modestly less frequent in ILC patients than in IDC patients.

Background: In prior research, Africans who knew about blood-borne risks were modestly less likely to be HIV-infected than those who were not aware of such risks.

At the individual level, persons who know about blood-borne risks are modestly less likely to be HIV-infected than those who are not aware of such risks, independent of demographics and sexual behaviors.