Sentences with phrase «much less of»

«In a beetle - killed tree there is much less of a threshold to get over in terms of driving off moisture,» he said.

I have to see much less of this ignorant drivel.

Looking forward in time, studies suggest that an extended Maunder - Minimum - like period during this century would produce similar results — cold winters in Eurasia, but much less of a global impact.

Watts contends that if the global data were properly adjusted for urbanization and station siting, and land use change issues were addressed, what would emerge is a cyclical pattern of rises and falls with much less of any background trend.

But fire suppression by management is found in many studies to explain much less of the total area burned than does the variability in weather and climate (See: National Research Council, 2011.

The Howard Government's proposed emissions trading scheme, to begin in 2012, will almost certainly have a very weak target, which will require much less of Australian emitters.

Non-hydro «renewable» electrical energy is also more expensive to produce from a system viewpoint than most fossil fuel energy; non-hydro «renewable» sources have a much shorter useful life and operate for much less of each year at much less of their rated capacity.

If accounting was turned off on the system (s), there is much less of a footprint left.

There is much less of a slowdown over land.

In contrast this effort sharing approach makes much less of a difference to the efforts required of poorer and middle income nations.

Solar and wind now provide less than 5 % of Canada's electricity generation, and much less of total delivered energy.

There's much less of the delayed water return to the ocean that is seen with La Nina's.

No working physical scientist would fall for any one of those mistakes, much less all of them.

This was manifest as a refusal to accept for example, the theory of evolution, the existence of global warming, much less of the role of humans in this process, the value of vaccines or of embryonic stem cell research.

«PURPA is going to be much less of a market driver than it has been in the past,» O'Hara said.

A future hydrogen economy could use the gas as an energy carrier As this method doesn't produce oxygen which needs to be kept separate from hydrogen, safety from explosion of the two gases is much less of a problem with electricity in the national grids carried by ageing cables, it would be useful to replace them by passing the hydrogen along gas pipes used currently for natural methane gas.

If forecasts of La Nina conditions for this coming winter are correct, we will see much less of that.

From steadier, stronger wind speeds to the fact that NIMBYism is much less of a challenge, there are reasons why offshore wind has grown rapidly in recent years.

Ric Merritt wrote that solar energy is «spread out and hard to gather, which is why we so far use so much less of it than FFs.»

GORDON: There was so much less of an art culture at that time in L.A.â??

He's moved onto incorporating porcelains he's created himself as much less of a rarity, though the tableware of ancient dynasties remains a key ingredient in the art - fashion.

So our feelings about authorship are much less of an issue, or at least we feel that we are always under construction and not some singular fixed being.

The two Parabolic Monoliths that dominate her current show come as that much less of a surprise, then, reifying and refining the new size, and shape, Colon is now able to achieve.

She drops nude women, like a proper Victorian, into gestural abstraction, but not the raunchy intensity of Willem de Kooning classics, much less of Jean - Michel Basquiat's male ego.

But it's much less of a problem today (and, in fact, incorporating a small amount of pay - to - win into your game is an established best practice).

Another way they could solve this is to change the loot behavior to let you do it with much less of a head tilt.

The game gives you small and optional side quests and challenges to work on, that also give you XP — a way of levelling up that feels much less of a grind when compared to endless battles with low - level Pokémon.

Graham Russell: If you've ever played an NBA Jam game, be it the arcade / 16 - bit originals or the recent remakes, you know what I do: that it's much less of a sports game, and much more of a sports - themed multiplayer brawler.

However, the game's producer, Fernando Melo, has stated that multiplayer will have much less of an effect on the outcome of the campaign than it did in ME3.

If you've ever played an NBA Jam game, be it the arcade / 16 - bit originals or the recent remakes, you know what I do: that it's much less of a sports game, and much more of a sports - themed multiplayer brawler.

As latency is far much less of a priority, you can stream video over Wi - Fi or LTE.

Each Life has its own set of skills to raise, and it'll be a long time before you max out any bar, much less all of them.

It's more of a «guided experience» than a typical game, and as such there is much less of a sandbox to create than a lot of other games.

In high speed mode we can imagine level grinding and travel will be much less of a drain on players than the original.

This becomes much less of an issue as the game goes on, but is a pretty big turn off.Playing on the PlayStation Vita offers the same experience offered on PC and PS3.

Of course we expect Easter Eggs and references back to the previous series but this is much less of an undertaking than fitting in a whole new storyline.

It's a much more user - friendly game this time around — you can skip & rewind story sequences, creating new personas is much less of a hassle (you can pick inherited abilities & you can also see a list of all personas that you can currently create), death is less of a penalty (it starts you back at the beginning of that floor instead of at your last save), and you can easily see what you can do each day via the online feature.

However, upon entering, Jack soon realizes that Rapture is currently much less of a utopia than its creator had envisioned having survived a civil war.

Lara is much less of a super hero in this installment.

«We have all that great stuff but much less of the risk, because we're fully backed by Ubisoft and already have veteran staff».

In Mission Mode, it's much less of a time sink to finally try out everything you've unlocked from the campaign.

I mean, I have them twice over, but the Combo Pack has them as singular downloads rather than Demo + Unlocks, which is much less of a headache, at least without the like of PSDLE.

In Ranked Battles and Splatfests, the matchmaking was refined to reduce steps to change weapons and gear in - between rounds, therefore it's much less of a hassle and a much more pleasant experience.

In addition, the update also adds some brand new ground vehicles, which should make planetary adventuring much less of a slog.

If you have been put off by similar games in the past, you should give Nioh a go — you may find that this one is much less of a hardcore chore.

«Noobtubing» is much less of a problem — to the point that it's almost eliminated, guns are far more balanced, and for fuck sake, you can't dual - wield Model 1887 shotguns.

To be sure, compared with the tech and housing crashes, any rewards slowdown would have much less of an effect on the U.S. economy.

That's much less of a return but also more realistic.

The downside is that there's no free anniversary night (unless you make $ 10,000 on purchases each year) so this card is much less of a keeper in my book.

Many cat lovers who prepare homemade diets for their feline companions say that hairballs are much less of a problem.