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Example sentences for "far less"

  • Not one soul has offered to claim even common companionship with him,--far less kindred.

  • New housing construction is far less than we need--to assure decent shelter for every family.

  • They scarcely prepared the way for, far less produced a historical view of, dogmatic tradition.

  • As yet we have only a most thankworthy preliminary study in Schürer's great work, and beside it particular or dilettante attempts which hardly shew what the problem really is, far less solve it.

  • Statesmen do far less than they suppose, far less than is implied in their resounding fame, to augment the material prosperity of nations, but in this province Mr. Gladstone's name stands at the topmost height.

  • And though your love is far less, far cooler than mine, yet you will not defraud me of the best happiness of my life?

  • Never had the brave artist's heart throbbed faster in any danger than on the eve of this meeting; but it was no longer love that thrilled it so passionately, far less hate or the desire to let his foe feel that her revenge was baffled.

  • This art is like that of engraving on copper, except that the number of copies is far less limited.

  • There need be no loss of ammonia from evaporation, and the manure is far less bulky, and costs far less labor to draw out and spread.

  • It is far less work to manage a heap of manure in this way than may be supposed from my description of the plan.

  • The sudden change at sunset which is the terror of the Riviera is far less perceptible at Capri; indeed the average night temperature is but two degrees lower than that of the day.

  • It is easy indeed to resolve on "helping" the poor; but it is far less easy to see clearly how we can help them, what is real aid, and what is mere degradation.

  • I can't think how he could look any of us in the face, far less expect to rule us all, and interfere with you!

  • In our prosperous land, where the means of living are diversified almost equally with the necessities of life, it is far less hazardous to assume the responsibilities arising from early marriage, than in other countries.

  • In its final form the message was far less provocative.

  • This may be the sense he wished to convey to Champion de Cice but the actual letter is far less categorical.

  • This change of teeth too is of far less moment as far as the health is concerned, than was the cutting of the first set.

  • But the decision is far less easy in mild cases, for in them the rash is sometimes extremely evanescent, the general disturbance of health very slight, and the fever and accompanying rise of temperature small.

  • It seemed to be necessary to him, as to an ambitious conqueror, to push on from achievement to achievement, without stopping to secure, far less to enjoy, the acquisitions which he made.

  • After the matter has been threshed out and an agreement reached the decision is far less likely to be reversed, or even seriously modified, by his personal preferences.

  • In such bodies the rule may result in killing a great many bills that had better die, but in Parliament this is far less true.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    complete failure; far away; far back; far better; far from; far more; far north; far off; far too; far west; fare thee; farewell dinner; farinaceous food; farm labor; farm life; farmyard manure; faro bank; farther north; farthest south; organic origin; reckon maybe; sharp fight; sixth chapter; this sense; wide circle; with the result that