Sentence examples for refined less from inspiring English sources

The band are rolling through rockabilly; a guitar, double bass, fiddle, and peddle steel guitar – the music here is a little more refined, less Bon Jovi, more Jerry Lee Lewis.

The most obvious change is that it now supports color, thanks to the new e-paper full-color display, but it's also visually altered from top to bottom to provide a more refined, less low-tech look, with rounded borders on visual elements; big bold, Susan Kare-style icons; and animations that pepper the user interface wherever you happen to look.

Before the war, Daura processed about 110,000 barrels of oil a day, but now it refines less than half that.

But it only has the capacity to refine less than a quarter of that.

Chinese oil companies — Strangled by government directives not to pass on full costs to consumers, oil giants will refine less petrol and diesel, worsening the country's fuel shortage problem, which has already been causing outbreaks of violence and the occasional death.

Subsequent comparison of allele frequency distributions in multiple population genomic samples could further test these signatures, and such data could also be used to refine less intensive approaches to identifying selection in pathogens with large genomes.

The saltwater sport was generally held (at least by fly-fishermen) to be much less refined, requiring less of the fly-tiers' art.

To create a single crystal of silicon by using the Czochralski method, electronic-grade silicon (refined to less than one part impurity in 100 billion) is heated to about 1,500 °C (2,700 °F) in a fused quartz crucible.

Gold's chemical stability is based on the relative instability of the compounds that it forms with oxygen and water a characteristic that allows gold to be refined from less noble metals by oxidizing the other metals and then separating them from the molten gold as a dross.

The overall improvement as the grid is refined is less than what might be expected.

Alternatively, genomic sequence assemblies can be partially refined to less rigorous quality standards at a fraction of the cost and effort, with the resulting sequences still being extremely valuable for numerous applications, including comparative analyses [ 5- 7].