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Example sentences for "less common"

  • It appears to be more or less common in all counties around London, extending to Somerset in the west; to Cambs, Norfolk, and Suffolk in the east; and to Northampton and Warwick in the Midlands.

  • It is rather less frequently seen in the Midland counties, but it is more or less common in some parts of Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire.

  • The species is more or less common in many parts of Europe, but it seems to be most at home and abundant in the south.

  • There are several European species more or less common in cultivation, indiscriminately known in nurseries as Tilia Europæa.

  • It is of less common occurrence, but by no means rare, especially in the wooded districts of the southern and midland counties.

  • The Hobby is a less common bird in England than in France, where it is said to be a constant companion of the sportsman, and to be endowed with enough discrimination to keep out of shot.

  • In habits it differs little from the last described species, but is less common, occurring both in fresh-water lakes and along the sea-coast.

  • This use is very common in Plautus and Terence, less common in Cicero and Caesar.

  • A considerable number of summer-flowering grasses are more or less common in fields and meadows.

  • There are a few summer-flowering species of Orchids that are more or less common in fields and pastures.

  • Coming now to the order Salicaceae, we have to deal with the Poplars, of which we have several species, all more or less common, and largely planted in cultivated ground.

  • Three species of Mallow (order Malvaceae) are more or less common by waysides and on waste ground.

  • The moth flies on sunny days in May and early June, and is more or less common in grass-bordered lanes, hay meadows, etc.

  • The moth is out in April and May, and seems to be more or less common in woodlands throughout the greater part of the British Isles.

  • An example of each sex of this species is shown on Plate 12, together with a less common form.

  • It is more or less common in many woods throughout the southern half of England, and its range extends northwards to Yorkshire.

  • Epithelioma of the upper lip is less common.

  • Impaction is less common than in fracture through the base of the neck; it usually results from the patient falling on the trochanter, the distal fragment being driven as a wedge into the proximal (Fig.

  • Less common sources of infection are erysipelas of the face or scalp, infective conditions of the mouth or nose, and diseases of the bones of the skull.

  • Common summer resident east of Cascade Mountains; less common and of irregular distribution in the Puget Sound region; breeds in Cascades up to 3,000 feet.

  • Resident in coniferous forests thruout the State from sea-level to limit of trees; retires to valleys and lowlands in winter; less common east of the main divides (Cascade).

  • Scandinavian Vikings on our shores, and which are no less common on Anglo-Saxon MSS.

  • It is no less common on contemporary English, and indeed European coins; and as an argument, one way or other in the present question, is utterly valueless.

  • Less common, but abundant locally, are soda, potash, iron, and silica.

  • For the most part, no specific references or acknowledgments are made, on the ground that the book aims to present the general features which are now the more or less common knowledge of economic geologists.

  • Less common, though by no means infrequent, were the stoops of this sort with a single handrail at one side.

  • The disease is less common in France than in England or in Germany,[26] and in general appears to be more common in northern than in southern countries.

  • In the middle of September new patients begin to be less common, and in the latter part of this month and subsequently new cases do not occur, unless under unusual circumstances which favor the development of this malady.

  • The statement of DaCosta[27] coincides with my own impression that gastric ulcer is less common in this country than in England or in Germany.

  • It frequently falls a victim to the parasitical flies, and it is probably due to these enemies that the species is less common in some years than in others.

  • This species appears to be less common in England than formerly.

  • From the Midlands northwards it appears to be less common, and its range more restricted.

  • With the compound numerals, such a construction is less common; yet the denominator of a fraction may be a number of this sort: as, seven twenty-fifths.

  • Less common in impersonal construction are expressions of occurrences involving indefinite or indifferent persons or things: Humúkay.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    emigrant ship; interrogative pronoun; large number; larger number; less amount; less certain; less considerable; less dangerous; less differentiated; less distinctly; less extensive; less flattened; less frequently; less general; less important; less irregular; less liable; less likely; less marked; less perfect; less time; less true; more comfortable; open vessel; public feeling; upon hearing