Sentence examples for rather than long distance from inspiring English sources
In one scheme, MCI signed contracts with small local phone companies that would receive the calls, change the billing codes to make it appear that they were local rather than long distance, and complete them, according to the statement.
Therefore the repeated high taxonomic similarity between the dominant vent species and the dominant control sediment species, suggests that local colonization and adaptation, rather than long distance dispersal seeds the vent fauna [30], [37], [39].
Nematode genera occuring at vents and on bare basalt are also known from deep-sea plains, suggesting local adaptation rather than long distance distribution of nematodes (for details see [68]).
According to the American Discovery Trail Society, the nonprofit group coordinating local efforts to maintain the trail, it is expected that people living near the Discovery Trail rather than long-distance backpackers will be the most frequent users.
They have their stocks in online portfolios and prefer to communicate by E-mail rather than long-distance telephone.
The rate of decrease was steeper for parallel growth indicating that neurons with the same time window of axonal growth tend to prefer short-distance connections rather than long-distance connections.
Short distances influence transport efficiency less than long distances.
They simply don't have much attachment to anything like a home, and rather than traveling long distances every day to the same hunting grounds, they pack up and move closer to feeding opportunities.
Forbes.com: Does Tandberg see it as an advantage to be operating in the current environment, with high oil prices and the economic slowdown pushing companies to stay put rather than travel long distances?
The threshold cell density concept also explains why aggressiveness of gliomas should depend on high densities rather than on long distances of cell invasion.
Second, virtually all colonization events in the West Indies occur in stepping-stone fashion from one island to the next, rather than over long distances [ 2, 40].
