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Example sentences for "less number"

  • Also a less number of worms will infest it, when well provided with bees; and the chances of box honey are greater.

  • As for the higher organization, an army consisted simply of a greater or less number of battalions and squadrons, without, as a rule, intermediate commands and groupings.

  • Usually the tracheae open by paired stigmata placed upon the sides of a greater or less number of the somites, but never quite regularly on alternating somites.

  • The adhesion of a greater or less number of somites to the buccal somite posteriorly (opisthomeres) is a matter of importance, but of minor importance, in the theory and history of the Arthropod head.

  • He inspected this for some time with bland interest, then turned to Adams once more.

  • The same good sense which admits universal and necessary truths, easily distinguishes them from those that are not universal and necessary, and are only general, that is to say, are applied only to a greater or less number of cases.

  • In the third place, it was intended, by this mode of ratification, to enable the people of a less number of the States than the whole to form a new Union, if all should not be willing to adopt the new system.

  • Defn: The number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three.

  • Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dear gossip; less complete; less conspicuous; less curved; less distinctly; less flattened; less frequently; less hairy; less liable; less likely; less marked; less number; less numerous; less permanent; less severe; less sterile; less value; lesser degree; little nearer; meanes whereof; rotary motion; similar kind; tropical marine; ultimate extinction; various proportions; well with