Sentence examples for rather less likely from inspiring English sources

They are also rather less likely to be caught.

It is rather less likely that a merger would create any lasting value.

This month's GCap closures make that seem rather less likely: digital has succeeded in splitting the industry.

The alternative of a single ion satisfying electroneutrality throughout would require the rather less likely situation of a non-monotonic solvent flux.

The boys' market is wide open, with John, James and Charles all 10-1 or thereabouts, while the rather less likely Rylan has attracted some interest at 1,000-1 1,000-1

It is no disrespect to the current editor of the paper to suspect that an equivalent commission to one of the Guardian's current house historians is rather less likely this year, on the 200th anniversary of Fox's passing.

Worries over their reliability and security, and the lack of a common standard, mean the new machines may have made a Florida-like fiasco more rather than less likely.

The UK would want to use its vote in a way that makes a return to talks more, rather than less, likely".

The concerns we will raise are about (1) the unintended effects that these technologies could have on society and (2) the possibly self-defeating nature of these military programs in making war itself more, rather than less likely to occur.

"It is huge news, but I do think that the real shift will come when a high profile footballer comes out, but Tom's decision will have made that more rather than less likely.

Top-down prescription can never be sufficient to guarantee effective local partnering (as the consultation paper acknowledges) but what it can do is create a context within which partnering is more, rather than less, likely to flourish.