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Example sentences for "less numerous"

  • Birds of this genus are, generally speaking, migratory, and travel in more or less numerous flocks.

  • Sociable in their dispositions, they assemble in more or less numerous bands, and make the forests re-echo with their loud cries.

  • All that need be remarked is, that a body which is to correct this infirmity ought itself to be free from it, and consequently ought to be less numerous.

  • African Elephants live like those of India, in troops more or less numerous; yet they are sometimes found alone—these are called rovers or prowlers.

  • It associates with its fellows in herds, which are more or less numerous.

  • Many caterpillars are solitary; others live in companies more or less numerous, either when young, or during the whole of their existence.

  • This apparatus consists of a lengthened tubular organ, swollen at certain points, forming more or less numerous convolutions, and provided with two distinct orifices.

  • They are distinguished from them chiefly in this, that the right edge developes itself with age in long and slender digital spines more or less numerous, the numbers of which vary according to the species.

  • Together with the population of harvesters there mingles another, less numerous, of mere drinkers, whose nesting-time has not yet begun.

  • This sheath is next divided, by partitions, into more or less numerous storeys, each of which forms the cell of a larva.

  • The cover of the pot consists solely of round pieces, very nearly alike and more or less numerous.

  • Illustration] Another conspicuous bird-group in the marisma are the herons, of which seven or eight species are here, more or less numerous.

  • This association may be more or less defined, more or less restricted, more or less numerous; but the fact that the newspaper keeps alive, is a proof that at least the germ of such an association exists in the minds of its readers.

  • Not only are its injunctions different, but we shall shortly see that they are less numerous, less precise, and that its dictates are less rigorously obeyed.

  • The rules of honor will therefore always be less numerous amongst a people not divided into castes than amongst any other.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    drive back; had lived; less affected; less completely; less degree; less depressed; less distinctly; less extent; less general; less hairy; less irregular; less number; less numerous; less perfect; less permanent; less pubescent; less severe; less than; less value; less well; less white; lesse then; lesser extent; must seek; political issue; popular religion