Sentence examples for than optimum from inspiring English sources

Built in 1934, the refinery was in less than optimum shape.

Secondly according to Stoodley, the cavity design should give a sensitivity which is 4.4 times worse than optimum.

Installation of more than the optimum requires excessive capital investment, while less than optimum means excessive delays in service.

But conversations with several people who have seen it make clear that more than a few things operated at less than optimum efficiency.

After one glass (feel free to adjust for personal tolerances, you dipso), one is aware that one is more relaxed than optimum cut-throat marketplace sharpness demands.

Conditions could also favour Sweden with temperatures close to zero forecast and a less than optimum playing surface.

Also new is the dust- and splash-proof body, so it can tolerate less-than-optimum weather.

Rosenbauer's is a succinct and enlightened text on the persnickety art of nymphing for trout, and Osthoff is charmingly enthusiastic and informative about fly-fishing for trout under less-than-optimum conditions.

To meet the requirements of the future, it will be essential to develop new and improved temperate oilseed cultivars adapted to less-than-optimum acreage.

Silver birch is often planted in parks and gardens, grown for its white bark and gracefully drooping shoots, sometimes even in warmer-than-optimum places such as Los Angeles and Sydney.

However, newborn care often receives less-than-optimum attention.