Sentence examples for than precisely from inspiring English sources

But as Keynes used to say, "It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong".

But he never makes professional predictions because it is better to be "broadly right rather than precisely wrong".

But they will continue firing in hopes one of those allied missiles launched in response will be guided less than precisely to its target, and will instead strike a mosque, a baby food factory, a school or a hospital.

But the new rage for khakis in designer fashion calls for pants that don't droop in the rear, nor billow at the thighs, nor fall short of the ankle by more than precisely one inch (unless, of course, they are artfully rolled and worn without socks).

This chapter is about calculations that are loosely connected to fabrication rather than precisely a fabrication concern.

My motto in life that I borrowed from Keynes is "I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong".

Each panel has more than four thousand precisely cut shards of mirrored and painted glass.

His band is well drilled, less concerned with playing hard than playing precisely.

That is a much graver worry for Mr Osborne than when precisely he should get the budgetary squeeze under way.

"You mean," I said, "this is a centre for people who are more Jew-ish, than Jewish?" "Precisely," they say.

Rather than explaining precisely what "unauthorized" means, the C.F.A.A. leaves it up to the owner of the computer to decide.