Sentence examples for the less standard from inspiring English sources

Before turning to threats and weapons, the doctor in Burbank tried the standard tactics of ducking phone calls and knocks on the door, and the less standard taping of a pink sheet across his bedroom window.

In the 135 tAnGo DSS patients, there was good protocol compliance especially with respect to the less standard procedures of LVEF monitoring and pulmonary function testing, for which 97 and 91% of patients respectively had three or more of the required tests and 86 and 76% respectively had all required time points.

"Travel retail is very standard, but the trend now is to make the stores less standard, make them more local," said Stefania Saviolo, director of the Luxury & Fashion Knowledge Center at SDA Bocconi, a Milan business school that provides management trainees for DFS.

The following remarks refer to the more or less standard West Frisian that is developing in the province of Friesland.

The more or less standard version -- the WNO production clocks in at about three hours (including intermission) -- leaves some parts of the story sketchy and, in Act 2, crazily rushed.

In March 2011 the Diary was the subject of an even less standard production at the Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton.

And like his previous plays, the latest, "Tyler Perry's The Marriage Counselor," is less standard stage works than odd admixtures of gospel-pop concert, comedy show and church service.

The treatment is more or less standard: one aria is chosen as the focus of the embellishments and other themes from the opera are woven around it.

We briefly comment on the rules that are less standard.

The A1C test is less standard and relatively expensive.

Because the A1C test is less standard and relatively expensive, it is not widely available.