Below you will find example sentences with "less likely". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Less Likely in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: less
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 30 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 13 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "less likely" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 30 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as alderpersons are less likely to be, and so less likely to have, men, women and people stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with showers likely, less attractive, less expensive, less money and spend less, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with less likely
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
However, users with less experience are less likely to see the advantages or usefulness of a less intuitive website interface. (20 words)
New alderpersons are less likely to be tied to the traditional Chicago machine politic and are more likely to be progressive. (21 words)
Young people are less likely to require hospitalization or seek testing, so their cases are less likely to be detected, she said. (22 words)
Researchers have questioned whether healthy men are more likely to marry than men with health problems, but unhealthy men actually marry earlier, are less likely to divorce, and are more likely to remarry after divorce or being widowed than healthy men. (41 words)
First, the researchers’ analysis revealed that late sleepers/late risers are more likely to live on their own and less likely to be married, as well as more likely to have a smoking habit and to report irregular sleep patterns. (40 words)
They receive less encouragement to run from friends and family and nonpolitical sources, but they also receive less encouragement to run from political sources, and it is the case that political elites are less likely to recruit women as candidates. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Translated, that means African-American women are less likely to develop the disease but more likely to die from it—a lot more likely, in fact.
Researchers have questioned whether healthy men are more likely to marry than men with health problems, but unhealthy men actually marry earlier, are less likely to divorce, and are more likely to remarry after divorce or being widowed than healthy men.
First, the researchers’ analysis revealed that late sleepers/late risers are more likely to live on their own and less likely to be married, as well as more likely to have a smoking habit and to report irregular sleep patterns.
Less skilled people are also more likely to be manual labourers and so less likely to have jobs they can do from home.
Much of the analysis of why she failed has focused on the applied to female candidates, with voters less likely to view them as electable as a matter of course, and therefore less likely to lend them their vote.
Young people are less likely to require hospitalization or seek testing, so their cases are less likely to be detected, she said.
Additionally, homeowners in these areas are less likely to go into foreclosures and less likely to experience financial issues when compared to homeowners who spend a large sum of money on their homes each year.
Her research has that students who take more coursework with adjunct faculty are both less likely to graduate and less likely to transfer to a four-year college.
Women who eat less fruit and more fast food are less likely to conceive within a year and more likely to experience infertility, according to new study.
Bets to insure against blackjack are slightly less likely to be advantageous than insurance bets in general, since the ten in the player's blackjack makes it less likely that the dealer has blackjack too.
In the market for loans, the least attractive people are less likely to get approvals, although they are less likely to default.
Such FMJ bullets are less likely to fragment on impact and are more likely to traverse through a target while imparting less energy.
This generally takes two or three weeks longer than pond retting, but the end product is less likely to be dirty, does not smell as bad, and because the water is cooler, is less likely to be over-retted.
They receive less encouragement to run from friends and family and nonpolitical sources, but they also receive less encouragement to run from political sources, and it is the case that political elites are less likely to recruit women as candidates.
She said offering the rebate via a cut to gas taxes makes the carbon price impact less visible and therefore less likely to compel consumers to use less fuel.
However, users with less experience are less likely to see the advantages or usefulness of a less intuitive website interface.
For instance, reporting vision difficulty and activity limitation likely indicates a more severe disability, and folks experiencing more severe vision disability are much less likely to be employed," Dr. Houtenville explained.
If you know someone who wants to collaborate with you, their presence makes it less likely you’ll give up, and more likely you’ll succeed.
New alderpersons are less likely to be tied to the traditional Chicago machine politic and are more likely to be progressive.
Unlike Boomers, who are more likely to tune in to the news regularly, Millennials are less likely to believe that the news is typically negative, influenced by politics, untrustworthy, or of poor quality.