Sentence examples for slightly less efficient from inspiring English sources

At a 20% consistency of Avicel, the core enzymes were only slightly less efficient, while the wheat straw was hydrolyzed equally efficiently by both enzyme groups.

They are slightly less efficient than derailleurs.

So the process is slightly less efficient than South Africa's design.

Banks have proved slightly less efficient at ensuring their own survival, but they do seem to hunt customers with one fervorous aim: to maximise profits for shareholders.

They quickly looked to see what genes had been altered and discovered that, in both groups of flies, the same gene was slightly less efficient because a genetic fragment had interfered with its expression.

Solar panels are slightly less efficient at energy conversion per surface area than individual cells, because of inevitable inactive areas in the assembly and cell-to-cell variations in performance.

Most thin-film modules are slightly less efficient at converting sunlight into electricity than conventional panels, but they are much lighter, which makes them easier to mount in locations that may not support the weight of conventional panels.

Both mutant proteins rescued the depleted extracts almost as efficient as the wild-type, except at high concentrations in which the GK/AA mutant was slightly less effective.

The platform, introduced in 2002, allowed Apple a toehold in the heavy-duty IT world but the 1U servers have proven to be slightly less energy efficient than a standard Mac Mini and, obviously, much larger.

In contrast, neutrophils (which develop slightly later) are less efficient in phagocytosing microbes in the blood, but are potent scavengers of surface-associated bacteria (Colucci-Guyon et al., 2011).

The one might be smaller or less efficient or slightly worse off than the other, but they used the same weapons, fought in the same formations, and thought in the same way.