Sentence examples for surely less than from inspiring English sources

The cost of bigger capital buffers may not be zero, but it is surely less than the cost of another meltdown.

But already, Congress has doled out more than $9 billion in special earmarks for highly dubious and surely less than urgent projects never subjected to merit-based review.

The cost would be great, but surely less than killing large numbers of civilians and soldiers, inflaming the Arab world, ruining alliances and rebuilding a devastated country.

That is surely less than compelling for Balfour investors, who haven't even seen a rigorous assessment of the value in their company's PFI investment portfolio.

So the timing of these charges, at least, is surely less than ideal.And yet less than 48 hours after the indictments were announced it was worth asking whether Mr Perry was born lucky.

The cost of all the books I've bought in my life, starting with a slender volume of Heidegger soon after my Bar Mitzvah (the ironies abound), is surely less than a month's rent or mortgage payment on an apartment large enough to house them in a single row, which is why the unpacking of my library is also the story of its packing.

So it came as some surprise that the Sun's special pull-out Maggie supplement on Wednesday – the day of the funeral – came nestled between a surely less-than-respectful double-page spread featuring 18 famous women's chests, with captions such as "creamy tits", "royal tits" and "ginger tits".

It would also, he thinks, "surely have brought less deprivation to China than occurred under the Manchu Dynasty, and certainly less than under the terrible communist era of the 20th century".

Yet the fuss surrounding this issue - surely less controversial than that of civil partnerships for gays - hints at problems ahead for Civic Platform.

Yes, the system is surely less efficient than single-payer, both because it's more complex and because it introduces another layer of middlemen.

It is true that herring gulls are surely less lovable than lesser black backs, but let's face it they have much in common.