Sentence examples for this seems less likely from inspiring English sources

But this seems less likely to be significant in cricket.

As Mr Walcott grows older this seems less likely.

This seems less likely now, as Mr McConnell has toned down his "back to the drawing board" rhetoric.

In India itself, opposition to the deal could yet topple the government, though this seems less likely by the day.

This seems less likely if the economy is powered by millions of micro-entrepreneurs who own their businesses, rather than a small number of giant corporations.

In an interview last week, Merkel described the populist party as a "temporary phenomenon" – with the party now entrenched in state parliament this seems less likely.

Abf1 binding motifs in the promoters of these two classes were indistinguishable, making this seem less likely (Yarragudi et al. 2007).

By this same token, the LG6 locus may also be a recessive male sterility locus that interacts with products of the LG4 locus unrelated to CMS, but in this case this possibly seems less likely because we have specific evidence of PPRs at this locus and a CMS-like atp8-orf225 in gynodioecious F. vesca subsp. bracteata.

However, this explanation seems less likely because this sample included all reviewers, including those self-referred, and no screening was performed (or possible) to select higher quality reviewers in advance [ 2].

A duplication/loss model of translocation seems plausible for the tRNA-V translocation, whereas this model seems less likely for the tRNA-N rearrangement, since this rearrangement also involves an inversion (remote inversion).

You've expressed that you'd like your parents to be together, but maybe this possibility seems less likely if they're finding new partners.