Sentence examples for much less efficient than from inspiring English sources

Online bookselling, in this respect, is "so much less efficient than a high-street bookshop".

MP2 is less efficient than MP3, used by Napster, which is much less efficient than AAC, used by Apple's iTunes.

Alas, this is much less efficient than Brazil's sugar-cane ethanol or that using the cellulosic method.

Housing markets, moreover, are much less efficient than the stock market, so buyers can probably get good deals if they try.

It turns out that private plans are much less efficient than the government at providing health insurance because they have much higher overhead.

But it is riddled with deductions and loopholes, most of which favour the wealthy, so it is both less progressive and much less efficient than it could be.

Positive ion bombardment also can cause secondary emission, but it is much less efficient than electron bombardment, because only a small fraction of an ion's energy can be imparted to (much lighter) electrons.

Short flights, as Mr Longman and Ms Khan note, are much less efficient than longer ones, because it takes much more energy to get a plane to cruising altitude than it does to keep it there.

Rayleigh scattering by air molecules is much less efficient than fluorescence by alkaline atoms.

However, most of these systems are still much less efficient than viral vectors, especially for in vivo gene delivery.

The results of these assays suggested that the R163STOP protein is a much less efficient chaperone than wild-type αB-crystallin against both the heat-induced precipitation of βL-crystallin and DTT-induced precipitation of the insulin B-chain (data not shown).