Sentence examples for were somewhat less common from inspiring English sources

Squirrels were particularly common at the edges while brown hares were somewhat less common at these edges.

Prior to the 2005 reform, lump-sum payouts were somewhat less common, in the order of 20% of total assets (Bütler and Teppa 2007).

Compared with the situation for females, significant differences between the conditions were somewhat less common for males.

Moving to other sections of the map we find types of days that were somewhat less common and indicative of extreme conditions for a variety of combinations of pollutants (Fig.  2).

Laboratory testing of children with a clinical diagnosis of malaria was common at all time points (84% to 91% cases) while requests for a haemoglobin measurement in children documented to have pallor were somewhat less common (49%to7676%) (figure 1, Panel A).

Certain feldspars are somewhat less common.

On the other hand, public nudity is somewhat less common.

The items in the second section, Nice to Have," are somewhat less common — ground pad and blanket, night-vision equipment, a spotting scope — but nothing you couldn't find at an army-navy store.

Not only do the faces of Manhattan vary in color & size but they differ even in individual expression... Roughly 50% of the faces are in some way painted, on the lips being most common, green on the eyelids being somewhat less common, and purple onthe eyebrows being a downright rarity.

Kan Yao is somewhat less common, but prized for its longer window of time when it is both sweet and odorless at the same time.

Gram-positive infections, including S. aureus, are very common pathogens isolated from severe sepsis patients [ 22, 23], while fungal infections are somewhat less common.