The Gargoyles were very small of stature, being less than three feet in height.
All Len wants out of me is information about Allen, and Howard couldn't care less where I am.
Within less than two minutes, Billy saw Mary Green whispering, and she had to take his place.
We could go on here and talk about other military powers and alliances, but the simple fact is that large countries are less willing to risk war in defense of small ones.
Well, I don't esteem you the less for it.
It was either that or start from scratch but he's not even sure he's a catholic, much less committed to anything.
Finding the most effective sources remained less than satisfactory.
So when people have excess goods, they are able to trade those goods away for things they want and suffer less of a decrease in utility than the amount they are increasing in their trading partners.
A competing company decides to make an up-front investment and build a new factory in a distant land, high in the mountains where residents who choose to live there have less economic opportunity.
And advances in drip irrigation, which itself isn't exactly new but is becoming far more widespread and ever more efficient, allows crops to be grown with massively less water.
But you have less than a month to go.
Now there is one less hunter to compete with me for the precious little ones.
While this was less dramatic than the Timothy snatch, it was an important victory.
Perhaps a female voice would offer less chance of a connection to our other calls.
After too much heated discussion, I agreed to give a less than specific tip saying I didn't believe the child was abducted.
He named a figure that surprised us by being far less than we'd guessed.
None the less, we were elated at the detail he'd gathered.
If you are in a desert dying of thirst, you value the first glass of water very highly, the second glass a bit less, and the 802nd not at all.
Operating at basically 5 percent efficiency, they are less than half as efficient as solar panels now on the market.
While military service was less important to securing work in commerce, that was not a particularly noteworthy occupation.
As the poorest nations become wealthier, they too will grow less and less inclined toward war.
If NATO is responsible for the bulk of the world's military spending and NATO no longer has the stomach for full-on war with modern states, then large-scale war seems less likely.
Despite his seniority in rank Bagration, in this contest of magnanimity, took his orders from Barclay, but, having submitted, agreed with him less than ever.
It seemed that no horses could be had even for the carriages, much less for the carting.
Everything in haste, but more haste, less speed.
"There will be less panic and less gossip," ran the broadsheet "but I will stake my life on it that scoundrel will not enter Moscow."
"Sire, I expected nothing less than to find you at the gates of Moscow," replied de Beausset.
You'll see everything from there and it's less dangerous, and I'll come for you.
The more closely a man was engaged in the events then taking place in Russia the less did he realize their significance.
There is a certain limit of time in less than which no amount of heat can melt the snow.
All historians agree that the external activity of states and nations in their conflicts with one another is expressed in wars, and that as a direct result of greater or less success in war the political strength of states and nations increases or decreases.
He felt that his words, apart from what meaning they conveyed, were less audible than the sound of his opponent's voice.
Sonya was not less agitated than her friend by the latter's fear and grief and by her own personal feelings which she shared with no one.
He said that Murat was spending the night less than a mile from where they were, and that if they would let him have a convoy of a hundred men he would capture him alive.
His activity at that time was no less astounding than it was in Egypt, in Italy, in Austria, and in Prussia.
There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less speak about it, but must only attend to one's own work.
And the more he desired it the less he allowed himself to believe it.
It was necessary to let the French reach Shamshevo quietly without alarming them and then, after joining Dolokhov who was to come that evening to a consultation at a watchman's hut in the forest less than a mile from Shamshevo, to surprise the French at dawn, falling like an avalanche on their heads from two sides, and rout and capture them all at one blow.
He ascended an incline, stopped, looked about him, and advanced to where the screen of trees was less dense.
Still less did Pierre think about himself.
Still less did that genius, Napoleon, know it, for no one issued any orders to him.
Still less could it matter to him who was appointed chief of the artillery.
