Sentence examples for picked less from inspiring English sources

An ageing talent included in the squad amid grumbling that he's being picked less on merit than on past reputation?

When I ask Jim Collins when each of his crops was harvested, most were picked less than 24 hours ago.

In a way, the senators facing recall, after residents gathered thousands of signatures on petitions, were picked less for individual acts than for fitting one of two categories.

On the whole this is a fight you wish he'd picked less often, as it tends to bring out his most censorious tendencies.

The computer predicted correctly up to 80% of the peptides that bind to a given MHC, and it falsely picked less than 5% of the peptides that didn't bind.

Patients with apathy made significantly more risky choices on the IGT compared to neurologically intact and brain damaged non-apathetic controls, both of whom (as groups) picked less from the risky decks as the game progressed.

Or why couldn't I pick less expensive neighborhoods?

Some regulations help: forcing restaurants to post calorie counts on dishes, for example, prompts diners to pick less calorific treats.

"I had no FA people coming up to me and … telling me which team to pick and to pick less black players.

Even if he wished to, responsibility for waste management is devolved to municipal governments, where public funding is tighter and litter picking less lucrative.

However, Taylor later went on BBC Radio Five Live and said: "Certainly never during my time at the Football Association I had no FA people coming up to me and telling me which team to pick and to pick less black players.