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They continued to work together when artist teams were much less common than today.

Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) were installed in every high school and university (100%), but were much less common in care facilities (30.1%).

The team found that high-grade cervical abnormalities, which include precancerous changes to cells that can progress to cancer, were much less common in the under-18 set in the post-vaccine years.

They conclude that postapocalyptic forests were likely chock-full of fast-growing deciduous species such as extinct relatives of sycamores, walnuts, and palms (pictured above in an artist's reconstruction), whereas thick-leaved, slow-growing evergreens similar to today's hollies and ivies were much less common than they had been prior to the impact.

Other pathogens were much less common – Giardia intestinalis  was discovered on two filters, and Cryptosporidium spp. was found once.

Diabetes, AIDS and other chronic lifelong conditions were much less common (percentages of less than 0.5%).

Today, that is much less common.

Screening is much less common in Britain, Dr. Heath says.

But it's much less common in other countries.

It does happen sometimes, but it's much less common.

It resembles Alzheimer disease but is much less common.