Sentence examples for rather than intensive from inspiring English sources

It was an indisputable Novel, but it was extensive rather than intensive.

But a shift to a much less fossil-fuel dependent agriculture would almost inevitably see that reverse with more extensive rather than intensive production.

The filth and the toil did not deter her; it merely reinforced her longing for an old-fashioned hill farm rather than intensive production in industrial-sized buildings.

Studies show that a doctor does not shorten the life of the patient when he chooses to provide palliative rather than intensive care.

Other human sciences necessarily abstract: their descriptive power is extensive rather than intensive, their descriptions thinner.

The other bus lines are based on an extensive rather than intensive service, with low-medium frequency lines and a very large service coverage.

"The benefit of roads to recovery, as opposed to major infrastructure projects, is that it is labour intensive rather than capital intensive.

As a general rule, and although it varies by segment, energy is capital-intensive rather than labour-intensive.

Maintenance was labor-intensive rather than metal-intensive, trend-dominated rather than cyclical, and relatively larger, next to new production, in 1861 than in 1913: metal consumption overstates the growth rate of the industry's total product at constant prices, and much overstates its cyclical volatility.

It aims to give more intensive education to a smaller number of interested people rather than less intensive education of the whole community.

As The Economist pointed out earlier this summer, much of the investment that's gone into China has funded capital-intensive projects, rather than labor-intensive ones.