The phrase "much less significant" is a perfectly acceptable and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that has less importance, value, or significance than something else. Example: The impact of the store's closure was much less significant than the impact of the factory's closure.
The amount is much less significant.
But it also makes us seem so much less significant.
In truth, what the investigators did was much less significant, and it was undertaken for a different purpose.
In fact, the archives that WikiLeaks has published are much less significant than the Pentagon Papers were in their day.
The French leader told Europe Radio 1 that whatever had taken place was "much less significant than those in Damascus … but very deadly".
The other moral, less encouraging, is that popular culture is a much less significant marker of public attitudes than its close readers wish to imagine.
In 1999, based on perjury charges related to a much less significant matter, this same senator voted to remove the president of the United States from office.
Jacques Delors, for example, dismisses the polling evidence as much less significant than the history and the deep structures which he believes bind Britain to America.
Elizabeth Franklin, the founder and managing editor of the report, acknowledges the mistakes but insists they are much less significant than the architects assert because her Web site lists the accurate ratings.
And if you change just one — the length from the plate to the mound, the number of strikes and balls, or even something much less significant — the landscape of the game changes.
In the Premier League this year, it's notable how much more common the latter two are than the former, something that probably in part goes towards explaining why home advantage is apparently so much less significant than it was.
