| Women have greater fluency and are less likely to become tongue-tied when lying. |
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| It seems that serious religious believers were less likely to become collaborators. |
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| People with schizophrenia are less likely than healthy controls to report physical symptoms spontaneously. |
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| The farther the fruiting canes are from the main stem, the less likely they are to bear fruit. |
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| Rural institutions are less likely to benefit from the advantages offered by information technologies. |
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| Pulse rate, on the other hand, is less likely to be an important trait in intersexual selection. |
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| As they both fall about laughing, any fear that they were going to give one line mumbled answers instantly becomes less and less likely. |
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| The biologist said the rare type of red squirrel was important because more genetically diverse species were less likely to die out. |
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| On drains, and rivers canalised by man, with mile upon mile of seemingly identical water, finding a group of pike is much less likely. |
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| Meanwhile, the chances of a white Christmas in York looked less likely as showers were expected to stay on the west side of the country. |
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| Smaller, lighter cars are much better at taking evasive action and are therefore much less likely to crash at all. |
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| Darker shoes are also less likely to look dirty simply because stains won't show as much. |
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| If the genes of violence are in many of us, why are they less likely to be in democratically elected rulers than in dictators? |
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| But I do think that the further north you go from Marco Island, the less likely there's going to be major damage. |
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| This alone is quite a tribute to some of the less likely manufacturing countries' quality standards. |
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| The less hungry you are, the less likely you will make bad food choices or binge-eat come mealtime. |
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| Plus I was far less likely to further injure myself by taking a header down yet another flight of stairs. |
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| In fact, triplets born to older mothers were actually less likely to experience poor birth outcomes than were triplets born to younger mothers. |
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| Which is not to argue that a course of action is unavailable to the government that would make such atrocities less likely. |
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| Consequently, nectivores, granivores, and frugivores may be less likely to experience food shortage in small fragments. |
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| We want to end a system where youth from low-income areas are seven times less likely to graduate college than youth from high-income areas. |
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| Several congenital abnormalities are rendered less likely by an adequate folate intake. |
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| One is much less likely to consider the possible choices and decisions made as they buzz by quickly. |
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| They are less likely to be tainted with the chemical residues that lace non-organic, intensively reared meat. |
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| Finding a mate might be easier, but moving to a committed relationship is less likely, those roaming free in the singles world say. |
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| Antinori takes this as evidence that humans are less likely to suffer abnormalities than animals. |
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| The more people believed the headmaster, the less likely his cover was to be blown. |
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| Employers with a strong sense of social obligation to workers are less likely to engage in deskilling practices in the workplace. |
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| Flexible muscles are far less likely to be strained or pulled than tight ones. |
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| The higher the concentration of dioxin in the serum of exposed males, the less likely they were to sire a male child. |
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| By abusing people's willingness to respond to emergencies, you make them less likely to respond to them at all. |
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| I add blue cheese and do them bite-size instead, which makes them easier to eat and less likely to sink despondently on cooling. |
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| After all, no other guest is likely suddenly to need a glass eye, and even less likely to need one of this size and color. |
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| The middle grouping make up the majority readership of these scandal sheets, but they are also much less likely to read the qualities. |
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| Sober, sensible readers who get to bed by half past ten may have no fun, but they may be less likely to get heart disease than the rest of us. |
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| Mudeyes head straight for the cover of vegetation where they are less likely to be found by hungry trout on dinner patrol. |
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| Men are also less likely then women to wince when they look at the price tag, according to the report from market analysts Mintel. |
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| In such settings, workers are less likely to seek health services and are more likely to conduct their services underground. |
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| And if a thief can see from the car parked in your drive that you are security-conscious he is less likely to try and burgle your house. |
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| They are also less likely to get support from strong religious or spiritual beliefs. |
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| We know that, where people feel good about themselves and about their environment, they are less likely to indulge in unhealthy behaviour. |
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| The apparent advantage for the eggs is that, buried in the debris, they are less likely to be parasitized by wasps. |
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| Men, he claimed, are much less likely to weep due to bodily pain since weeping is seen as a weak and unmanly behaviour. |
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| His ability to handle such a big movie became less and less likely as he became increasingly debilitated by Parkinson's disease. |
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| The syntactic structures of written English are less likely to have been internalized by second language students in the region. |
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| For ketosis, the scientists' goal is to come up with a fast, accurate method of identifying animals less likely to suffer the disorder. |
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| Not only can flexible people bend over more easily to pick up something off the floor, but they're also less likely to suffer achy joints. |
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| The food writer has eaten more braciola stateside than in Italy, where, he says, it is less likely to be fussed with or overstuffed. |
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| Some people prefer waxed floss because it slips between the teeth more easily than unwaxed floss and is less likely to break. |
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| According to a recent study, women from rural areas are less likely to breastfeed their children. |
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| Not surprisingly, younger people and Netizen newbies are less likely to be bothered by spam than older people and internet veterans. |
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| Students who lived on campus and were involved in fraternities, sororities or extracurricular activities were less likely to drop out of college. |
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| They're faster to load than XML and non-expert users are less likely to muck about with them. |
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| Younger cattle are less likely to suffer from the fatal brain wasting disease, officially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy. |
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| Also if you stack several filters together you are much less likely to get vignetting. |
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| It is easy on the digestive system so the baby is less likely to have constipation or diarrhea. |
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| Abused women were also less likely to have prenatal care check-ups during pregnancy. |
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| The result is that the Joe Schmoes of the world are far less likely to get as much attention from the press or from distributors. |
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| The Welsh club are still expected to send a representative to the Minstermen's game but an immediate transfer now seems less likely. |
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| By this standard, serious and committed people of faith will be less likely to be approved for judgeships. |
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| Anyone having a florid imagination or a tendency to exaggerate is less likely to be a reliable witness than one who is precise and careful. |
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| Cyberchondriacs are less likely to be older people and people with low incomes. |
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| If women present with a different constellation of symptoms, they're less likely to associate those symptoms with heart disease. |
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| It seems less likely that weak-culture firms will be able to exhibit behavioral consistency over time. |
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| They are less likely than the well-off to be connected to mains water supplies and pay on average 12 times more per litre. |
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| Statistics prove that people living in deprived areas are less likely to use medical services than those living in more affluent areas. |
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| In addition older drivers may be less likely to reapply for a license when an in-person renewal is required. |
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| Contemporary apartments and condominiums are even less likely than single-family dwellings to have Japanese-style rooms. |
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| However, successful fibrinolysis probably depends on drug delivery to the clot, and as blood pressure falls, so reperfusion becomes less likely. |
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| The keyhole saw will minimize the vibration between the span of the rafters and will be less likely to cause the drywall to break or crack. |
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| If staff act in a trained, controlled manner they are less likely to inflame the situation. |
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| This means that typos and infelicities are more likely to remain, but that you're less likely to see a post repeated several times. |
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| If the virus kills a bird quickly, the animal is less likely to spread the disease. |
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| These add moisture, hydrating the cuticle so the hair is less dry and less likely to split. |
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| Youths in the treatment group were significantly less likely to be recidivists. |
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| After all if your house is alarmed and another house just up the road isn't then your house is a lot less likely to get targeted. |
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| But the ruthless rule of the Norman kings meant that the kingdom was less likely to disintegrate than ever. |
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| If nothing else, those with purple feelers are less likely to want to be out in freezing weather, to pick a trivial example. |
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| Moreover, larger hunting parties are less likely to lose kills to kleptoparasites because they reduce carcass access time. |
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| You are much less likely to be arrested for destroying London trees if you buy planks of wood from a local timber merchant. |
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| Berlin also could be redshirted, although that is less likely, considering the instability the Gators have had at quarterback the past few years. |
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| It is hoped the clampdown will re-educate motorists about road safety and make them less likely to break the law in the future. |
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| Of course, the more valuable people perceive their individual cell phones to be, the less likely they may be to trade up for new ones. |
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| For example, they might be less likely to recognize that a social faux pas or insult could cause someone else offence. |
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| City aldermen believed that these new industries would be less likely to complain of pollution damaging their property than private individuals. |
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| Once you get more proficient and are a lot less likely to fall, you might start to eschew wristguards. |
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| While there may be more things to go wrong on a modern car, manufacturers claim they are less likely to do so. |
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| Today, those who lose their jobs are less likely to be rehired by the same company six months later. |
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| They are less likely than horses to become ill or lame, and can live on frugal rations and in more extreme temperatures than horses. |
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| In addition, they were more likely to be incontinent of stool but less likely to be incontinent of urine. |
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| Migrants who emigrated with their entire immediate families are less likely to send remittances to their remaining extended relatives. |
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| The Asian students were less likely to exhibit such Americanized behaviors than the Caucasian students. |
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| Fortunately, advances in medical science mean this type of event is now less likely to be fatal. |
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| Women who have an induction are less likely to need a C-section than women who wait for labor to start on its own. |
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| They are smoother than mesh rollers and less likely to catch the hair, causing it to tangle or frizz. |
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| The longer the time elapsed, the less likely that the informant has retained freshness of recollection or can offer new information. |
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| Consultants in anaesthetics, radiology, and pathology were less likely to receive awards. |
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| It seems much less likely that these different origins were linked to any ethnic distinction between the Franks and the Lombards. |
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| Research funded by drug companies was less likely to be published than research funded by other sources. |
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| Asymptomatic young men are an important reservoir for infection and are less likely than women to be detected in the course of usual care. |
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| Studies have shown that women who resist and fight back are less likely to be harmed than those women who submit passively. |
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| Many doctors also believe that computer-generated prescriptions will make forgeries less likely. |
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| But while the terms of the Restoration settlement made political change less likely, they also intensified the pressures for change. |
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| Before you are allowed to place a bet there is a message asking you to confirm your bet so you are less likely to act on impulse. |
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| She's also noticed that she functions better under stress and is less likely to get caught up in the little annoyances. |
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| This is because union activist are more left wing than Labour party members and ordinary members are less likely to vote. |
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| If instruments are needed for the delivery, a vacuum extractor is less likely to lead to an episiotomy than are forceps. |
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| There hardly seems a less likely candidate to reveal aspects of slave life than a British wine bottle made for America's colonial elite. |
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| In poor countries with under-resourced police departments, enforcement is still less likely. |
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| Men are possibly more likely to be unwilling to report it, and are much less likely to be believed if they do. |
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| Alcohol has two anticoagulant effects which make blood less likely to clot in the wrong place. |
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| The more open they are, the less likely they are to wind up indicted for crimes after the fact. |
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| In a world where everything has to be purchased, too many children can be a liability and they are less likely to provide security. |
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| The increase in people's personal space would make pick pocketing much less likely. |
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| Owning a cat or dog means you are less likely to be stressed, have high cholesterol or high blood pressure. |
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| This is because at aphelion the planet is moving slowest, and consequently it is less likely to pass across the Sun during the critical window. |
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| Evidence shows that smallholders and cottagers were less likely to have kinsmen on the manor than large or middling tenants. |
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| Furthermore you can expect an original work to appreciate in value whereas a print is far less likely to. |
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| While money is supposedly the root of all evil, the wealthy are much less likely to argue about money than most folks. |
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| The result is more constant power that is less likely to fluctuate under load. |
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| I probably also thought that the drier and more academic my ethnography, the less likely the authorities were to object. |
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| His comments would be less likely to be taken at face value if your readers were made aware of this important fact. |
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| Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for him if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate child? |
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| Boys are less likely than girls to read and take part in music and the arts. |
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| Female speech is also more likely to be precise in its articulation and is less likely to include syntactic violations. |
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| Elderly Pennsylvanians are increasingly less likely to enter nursing homes now than they were a decade ago, the latest census numbers show. |
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| If the money was going for reading coaches in elementary schools, I might have been less likely to vote against it. |
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| Mobile phone users are less likely to look whether the road is clear before crossing. |
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| And fortunately, it is a story that grows ever less likely to be repeated with the ascent to the bench of increasing numbers of females. |
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| It follows that in cyberspace the intended victim of a verbal assault is also at least less likely to become disarmed, debilitated, and silenced. |
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| At this age they are less likely to feel influenced by peer pressure, said researchers. |
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| There were errors of judgment, but the more we are made to pay for them, the less likely they are to happen again. |
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| Also the lakes should be quieter and less likely to be infested with other water users such as sailboarders, water skiers and weekend sailors. |
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| Studies launched in 1960 concluded that pear-shaped women are less likely to suffer from heart disease and diabetes than are apple-shaped men. |
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| Women are also less likely to have had the self-confidence to write diaries and autobiographies. |
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| In fact, a study of dockworkers given only 100 mg of vitamin C a day found that they were 28 percent less likely to get sick with the flu. |
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| There are few things less likely to stir the mind than a nice cookery book. |
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| Although no facility can be considered immune to attack, some are less likely targets than others. |
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| Higher-premium convertibles act more like bonds since it's less likely that they will offer the chance for a profitable conversion. |
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| Additionally, the perfect binding will make it less likely that the cover will be pulled off and harder for the mail carrier to fold. |
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| People who do not travel into cities to work are much less likely to patronize restaurants, theatres and shops. |
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| The people who were put on make-work schemes were less likely than others to find jobs. |
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| How does adding an inexperienced driver make it less likely that we'll need to claim on the insurance? |
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| It is also less likely to be damaged by a malefic planet when it is received by it. |
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| Still, it's lucky it's a proper illness as you'd be less likely to claim on your tour insurance for a stage-fright cancellation. |
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| Partnerships between the two departments were less likely for some interviewees than for others. |
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| Each merchant's tales of how the scarabs came from the tomb of Tutankhamun grew less and less likely with every member of the caravan. |
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| A long torso may mean roomier accommodations for a baby, making it less likely for a woman's belly to bulge outward. |
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| Microfiber or a bit of lycra will keep the panties where you want them and be less likely to bunch or slide around. |
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| As with manorial surveys, women and children are less likely to be mentioned in manorial court records than men. |
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| Without an independent media, the multiplicity of voices, whether in concert or contestation, are less likely to be heard, Jervis insisted. |
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| Meanwhile birds like blackcaps and chiffchaffs, which are wintering closer to home, are less likely to face bad timing with their food supply. |
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| Alternatively, the Balinese may be less likely to press the button, due to demand characteristics. |
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| Not testing is cheaper and easier than testing, and your athletes are much less likely to be busted for doping. |
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| A driver in a good mood is statistically less likely to be involved in an accident than one who's feeling scratchy and irritable. |
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| However, this part of the team believes it also possible, although less likely, that this fracture was caused by the embalmers. |
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| But the more you celebrate the former, the less likely you are to notice the latter. |
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| Oil-based or superfatted soaps may be less likely to cause dryness, but they too should be used sparingly. |
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| Young people who feel good about themselves are less likely to succumb to negative pressure. |
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| Older workers are less likely to consider an internship but they are an excellent way for career changers to enter a new profession. |
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| You're less likely to be stopped for a strip-search when heading across the Channel. |
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| In fact, Murray comments that societal elites were less likely to be religious. |
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| They are also less likely to be affected by mechanical forces or changes in the environment over their period of growth. |
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| A pitcher with sound mechanics and fluid motion is less likely to be injured. |
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| We are less likely to be thrown by losing our jobs than our parents might have been. |
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| The longer his losing streak continues the less likely he is to leap the final psychological barrier. |
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| Parents were much less likely than were professionals to assign responsibility for their boys' timidity to themselves. |
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| The more steps, the less likely a virus infection becomes, and certainly the less likely a catastrophically spreading virus becomes. |
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| Magnesium hydroxide is less likely to irritate the digestive tract than a stimulant laxative such as senna. |
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| Women are more likely to be employed in part-time or casual work and are less likely to hold management positions. |
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| A successful angioplasty brings relief from angina and can make a heart attack less likely. |
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| The cooks could serve a similar dish to the spaghetti but with short pasta, which is less likely to make a mess. |
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| This helps to slow the progression of coronary heart disease and makes a heart attack less likely. |
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| But regardless of age and status women are much less likely than men to read the financial pages of the newspapers. |
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| So, we have the prospect of a government with a smaller majority and facing voters who are less likely to be tolerant of economic pain. |
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| Patients tolerating the drugs initially are much less likely to develop side effects afterward. |
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| Another thing to bear in mind is that the majority of people using sunbeds are less likely to use a suncream to protect their skin against UV radiation. |
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| Women in Africa and the Middle East are 23 percent less likely than men to have that accessibility. |
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| Girls with ADHD are significantly less likely than boys to be diagnosed with it during childhood. |
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| The other person for whom a path to the nomination, let alone a candidacy, seems much less likely is Mitt Romney. |
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| Gender roles exceed the biological circumstances of childbirth and they are, perhaps, much less likely to change. |
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| Women are more likely to recover sooner from birth and less likely to experience post-partum depression. |
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| Even though PLO diplomats have a history of buckling under pressure at the UN, they are less likely to back down now. |
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| Are white Hawks fans less likely to attend if the bulk of the fans are black? |
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| A new study reveals that fathers are less likely than childless men to die of cardiovascular disease. |
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| With higher wages in effect, says the CBO, employers are less likely to hire. |
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| Poets in this tradition are less likely to abominate the larger society than to ignore it altogether and to concentrate on a narrow range of personal and domestic subjects. |
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| Furthermore, while abstracts of novel drug types were more likely to be presented at the meeting, they were no less likely than abstracts on non-novel drugs to be published. |
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| Donna, who has been working with Castleton teenagers, told Castleton community forum that youths would be less likely to abuse drugs or alcohol if they had a shelter. |
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| White women were older, smoked more, and were less likely to have dietary calcium intakes in the lowest quartile of distribution than black and Hispanic women. |
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| If mountain areas were full of deep-rooted Japanese cedar rather than betel nut palms, torrential rains would be less likely to cause mudslides and overflowing rivers. |
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| The more acrimonious and bitter an argument or election contest appears to be, the less likely it is that anything of principle will really be at stake. |
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| Thirty percent of part-time liberal-arts faculty reported no scheduled office hours, and adjuncts were 50 percent less likely to require essay exams than full-time faculty. |
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| There are really no rules of thumb, but older couples are less likely to adopt infants and many younger couples prefer babies in order to fit in with peer groups. |
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| Research has documented that as offenders mature, they are less likely to continue using drugs and less likely to recidivate than are younger offenders. |
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| The distal muscles, those further away like the hands and feet, are less likely to be less affected. |
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| Because it is becoming less and less likely every day that they will prosper by attempting to repeat the actions of the Baby Boomers who came before them. |
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| This may be more of a bias, however, for male than female Latinas, who are less likely to be homeless or seek day work by standing on street corners. |
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| Even if this is not the case, if the young staffers have the perception that it is, they maybe less likely to aggressively challenge management's representations. |
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| As demand theory predicts, the higher the premium or amount a consumer is requested to pay, the less likely a consumer will be willing to pay the premium. |
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| Disclosed herein are genetic markers for pig leanness, methods for identifying such markers, and methods of screening pigs to determine those more or less likely to be obese. |
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| In this process, we see the fallacy of blaming others for our emotional reactions and we are less likely to act out antagonistically or violently toward others. |
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| Kids are less likely to drink appropriate amounts of fluid in preparation of and participation in physical activity. |
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| There's loadsa claret, and it mashes the face up something shocking, but the brain gets jarred around less, so you are less likely to end up a cabbage. |
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| Educational attainments are also deeply affected by poverty, with poor students more likely to be excluded from school and less likely to go on to university. |
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| The data indicated that although the Samoan women felt as fat as the Australian women, this feeling was less likely to impact on their feelings of attractiveness. |
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| Sons grew up to become less likely to form bonds with mates, making another generation of single-parent vole families more likely. |
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| While experts think a smallpox or sarin gas attack is less likely than another conventional assault, the anthrax cases in West Palm Beach have made people very nervous. |
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| When enemies jointly struggle with tiny plates of hors d'oeuvres, they are less likely to see each other as enemies. |
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| You'll also be less likely to fall victim to the muscle tension and strain that most keyboard-tapping cubicle dwellers are afflicted with every day. |
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| The average person is now 20 times less likely to die a violent death than a human in the Stone Age. |
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| The stereotype is always racialized, which isolates contestants of color and makes them even less likely to win. |
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| Vans that simply run from warehouse to retail outlet are less likely to fall foul of the opportunist thief as these are both theoretically secure areas. |
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| In fact, several of the studies found that children who received vaccines with thimerosal were less likely to develop autism. |
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| Women who give birth after age 35 are 58 percent less likely to get ovarian cancer than women who never had children. |
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| That, in turn, could make it less likely that the Court would be misled by compromised science. |
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| Although people are less likely to marry their first sexual partner nowadays, they are often serial monogamists, enjoying one long-term relationship after another. |
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| We found that people are less likely to become ill if they at least rinse their produce. |
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| Young women who have children out of wedlock are much less likely to marry as they age and much more likely to bring up their children in a single-parent family. |
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| Territorial spats are less likely to blow up into conflict when officers on either side of the dispute have the home telephone numbers of their counterparts. |
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| Although continued arrests will land an individual in jail for 30 days if they are determined unamenable to treatment, the new law makes serving time less likely. |
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| That was nixed because it was thought that voters could be less likely to say no to an invitation to agree to something. |
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| Men who have been circumcised may be six times less likely to contract the HIV virus than uncircumcised men, research carried out in India suggests. |
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| Several studies reported that circumcised boys were between 10 to 39 times less likely to develop urinary tract infections during infancy than uncircumcised boys. |
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| Moreover, they are less likely to behave uncivilly in smaller groups. |
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| Back on his home patch, people are less likely to underestimate him. |
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| Maquilas prefer to employ young women, often as young as fourteen, because the owners believe that young women are easier to control and less likely to attempt to unionize. |
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| The same would apply to Democratic spending, too, of course, but the Democrats are less likely to hit the point of overkill. |
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| So, purely anecdotally and unscientifically, there's an inverse ratio here, where men are more likely to write, but less likely to have anything worth writing about. |
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| Stars' openness also means they're less likely to be assaulted by the paps. |
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| He is far less likely to take a year of parental leave and then return on a reduced work schedule for the next eight years. |
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| It comes as a pleasant bonus to find that moderate wine drinkers are less likely to develop dementia than their non-drinking or heavy-drinking compatriots. |
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| But to prod the War on Drugs ever further into history is to make the death of children like Michael Brown ever less likely. |
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| In other words, independents were neither more nor less likely than the affiliated to be childless, currently employed, or working in a non-manual occupation. |
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| Children from non-smoking homes are much less likely to take up the habit. |
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| Travel is further reduced when unemployment runs high because nonworking individuals are less likely to drive to activities like shopping or entertainment, he said. |
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| Generally speaking, a well-nodulated crop helps save on synthetic fertilizer costs and nourishes soils at rates less likely to affect groundwater, Hunter notes. |
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| Also, the cattle are less likely to stampede if it's early in the day. |
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| Companies that cannibalize their own business lines by offering something better are much less likely to be eaten alive by the outside competition. |
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| Drunk drivers and other misdemeanor offenders may be less likely to face prison if a Ministry of Justice policy proposed yesterday is implemented. |
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| Persons who have a cardiac arrest in a private residence are also less likely than persons who have an arrest in a public location to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation. |
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| Perhaps if one refrained from singing because you loved the sound of your voice, people would be less likely to scoop up ordure and fling it at your head. |
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| The narrow inclusion and validity criteria stated in the protocol ensured that studies included would be valid and less likely to be heterogeneous or diverse. |
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| You are correct to worry that a rash on the nipple areola area could be Paget's disease, but if the nipple itself is not involved this is much less likely. |
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| A few dozen of these political pariahs found employment, mostly in second-rate TV offerings where they were less likely to be spotted either by appearance or writing style. |
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| The cognitive dissonance inherent in this belief system makes it far less likely for a student to pursue the sciences for personal, family and community reasons. |
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| Patients with full range of motion in the early postoperative period may be immobilized for a longer period, because they are less likely to develop a stiff shoulder. |
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| Although married men are more likely to be overweight or even obese, married adults are less likely to smoke, drink heavily or be physically inactive. |
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| The alternative possibility, that incision was achieved by fluvial processes during an end-Permian eustatic lowstand, is less likely for the following reasons. |
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| The more you spend up front, however, the less likely your field glasses, rifle scope or spotting scope ever will see the post office, and the less time there the better. |
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| Finally, firms that were more dependent on constituencies that valued conformance with legitimate practices should have been less likely to downsize. |
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| Braided line is less likely to absorb moisture than plain-laid line. |
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| Nursing-facility residents who consumed 200 international units of vitamin E daily for 1 year were less likely to get the sniffles than those who took a placebo. |
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| If those youths are less likely to use contraceptives at first intercourse, are most of the pledgers putting themselves at greater risk of pregnancy or disease? |
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| This finding supports the prediction of Kuletz, who suggested that adults that deliver mostly low-lipid fishes are less likely to fledge a second chick. |
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| Participants with inadequate health literacy were less likely to correctly answer every question, with significant differences noted for 5 of 10 items. |
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| Transmission by virus-contaminated hands or fomites is less likely. |
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| Research has also shown that women planning to give birth at home were less likely to have a Caesarean, or forceps delivery, even if they had to later transfer to hospital. |
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| Those who laugh out loud and see the funny side of difficult situations are far less likely to have a heart attack than humourless individuals, researchers found. |
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| But my funny money was even less likely to help me acquire anything here. |
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| So the area that has had the fat suctioned out of it is less likely to gain weight or increase in fat because there are fewer fat cells in the area. |
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| Men 18 to 24 are 43 percent more likely to use cologne than all men, whereas men older than 65 are 53 percent less likely to dab a little eau de toilette behind their ears. |
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| Compared with a decade or two ago, Glaswegians are less likely to smoke, more likely to eat healthy foods and are more likely to breast feed their children. |
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| It is also less likely to be hijacked by frivolous requests or by demands for unrealistically large quantities of material by one particular lobby group. |
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| You make similar mistakes against lower rated opponents but, of course, they are less likely to punish your mistakes, and they give you less opportunity to make them. |
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| The smaller diameter objective lens is less likely to reflect light. |
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| With so many traps waiting to ensnare the unwary we shouldn't be surprised that more and more of us are resorting to gifts that are less likely to betray our vulnerable cores. |
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| But the available data offer little proof that ex-cons who are monitored by parole officers are less likely to commit a fresh crime than those who are not. |
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| This is a sentence that, in my dotage, is far less likely to pass my lips and fingertips than it once was, back when I was positively dripping with vim and vigour. |
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| If you don't have to pick up a box or bottle every other minute, you're less likely to lose your train of thought as you're double-checking the shipment against the invoice. |
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| The Decoy also comes with a built-in removable Bluetooth earpiece, so you're less likely to lose your BT headphone and risk not looking like a douche. |
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| When the arriving female mosquitoes detect a chemical emitted by the backswimmer, they are less likely to lay eggs in that pool. |
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| This device is easy and quick to move, and has no pressure points, making damage to the pitch less likely. |
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| Women in the top fifth of the carotenoid table were less likely to have cancer than those in the bottom fifth. |
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| Private Members' Bills make up the majority of bills, but are far less likely to be passed than government bills. |
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| Lawn cut with a cylinder mower is less likely to result in yellow, white or brown discolouration as a result of leaf shredding. |
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| Participants who reappraised the scenarios logically were less likely to make intuition-based moral judgments. |
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| Those beachgoers who reapplied sunscreen every one to two hours, and after leaving the water, were less likely to get a sunburn. |
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| Ion-pairing with acidic dyes under the described conditions is less likely because the carboxy metabolite is a zwitterion. |
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| But testosterone-fuelled hunks may also be less likely to lie and cheat than some of their wimpier brothers, the research suggests. |
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| It looks to us that XR-NTX can help people remain abstinent by reducing the importance of these cues so they are less likely to relapse. |
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| Second, in both feeder and nonfeeder territories subordinate birds were less likely to be present than dominants. |
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| Both men and women with higher qualifications were twice as less likely to be unemployed than their less qualified counterparts. |
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| The patient with the latter carries an obvious stigma as the one less likely to be fully rehabilitable for social usefulness. |
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| Today, it is less likely that a sole producer, such as David Merrick or Cameron Mackintosh, backs a production. |
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| He concluded that distrusting entrepreneurs are less likely to discount negative events, and are more likely to engage control mechanisms. |
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| This drop in temperature is less likely felt by the body because the apparent temperature or heat index is high. |
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| There is evidence that people in Scotland are increasingly likely to describe themselves as Scottish, and less likely to say they are British. |
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| From the historical point of view, they are either Arabic-like or, much less likely, glottalized, as in the Ethio-Semitic and Cushitic languages. |
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| A spoonful on your breakfast porridge helps balance out blood sugar levels, making you less likely to reach for elevenses treats too. |
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| A series of small steps toward an agenda would be less likely to be questioned than a large and swift change. |
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| People who want to watch the channel will now need a descrambler box, so unintentional viewing is less likely. |
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| Another experiment showed that people were less likely to overindulge when they actively recalled the last meal they had. |
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| Short term complications are twenty times less likely from a vasectomy than a tubal ligation. |
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| But, college graduates are significantly less likely than non-college graduates to say they sometimes overdrink. |
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| The idea was that such men would be more tractable and less likely to alienate the fief from the crown out of their own greed. |
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| The younger boy, Vespasian, seemed far less likely to be successful, initially not wishing to pursue high public office. |
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| The work suggested iron could be even more conductive as temperature climbs, and therefore less likely to convect, than previously thought. |
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| Long-term use of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug is less likely to cause an ulcer after Helicobacter pylori is gone. |
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| When an organism exploits a wide range of resources, a decrease in biodiversity is less likely to have an impact. |
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