If you do cosmetic surgery, patients are often less happy.

This is a stronger knot. It will come untied less often.

Comparative data show that indigenous girls attend school less often than boys do.

Residents were often given less than a month's notice before their buildings were razed.

In less blatant cases, there's still a kind of negotiation that often goes on.

Less juice, which means keeping herself or himself less physically fit, physically active to hasten the recovery process, which is what is often advocated. You probably wouldn't do that.

Many men who have migrated in search of work to the cities of the country or abroad (more often to Russia) return home only once a year or less often.

So often, we look at dollar terms people making less than a dollar or two or three a day.

And maybe if we all tried to read our fears, we too would be less often swayed by the most salacious among them.

Indeed, when deciding how much disaster aid to offer, countries often seem to be influenced mainly by their leaders concerns about how others will view them. Charity responds to attention grabbing events, often neglecting less sensational disasters.

As is often the case, the experience of individual countries is more revealing than the averages. China started with less education than Tunisia, Mexico, Kenya, or Iran in 1960, and had made less progress than them by 2010.

So wherever you look, the message, it seems to me, is the same that less is very often more, that slower is very often better. But that said, of course, it's not that easy to slow down, is it?

In most cases recipients of foreign aid are promised funds for programmes and often receive either far less than what was promised or nothing at all.

When I speak at coaching clinics, I often tell young coaches and at coaching clinics, more or less, they'll be the younger coaches getting in the profession.

ROME Today s policies to combat climate change cost much more than the benefits they produce. Unfortunately, bad political choices often make these policies even less cost effective.

Political pressure on the parties to enter serious and sustained talks was often uncoordinated, thereby rendering mediation efforts far less effective than they could otherwise have been.

In a world where media is global, social, ubiquitous and cheap, in a world of media where the former audience are now increasingly full participants, in that world, media is less and less often about crafting a single message to be consumed by individuals.

Of course, some government spending is desirable or necessary. But an increase in government outlays often means wasteful spending that produces less value than consumers would get from those same dollars.

So what we did was, we gave away a lot of it for free, and then those who pay, I mean, they paid local market rates, nothing more, and often much less.

So actually we are getting less from more for less and less people.

We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.

Often the choice depends less on a rational assessment of similarities and differences than on gut feelings, proclivities to optimism or pessimism, or political orientation. Currently, two dates are circulating widely, 1907 and 1931.

Less meat, less junk, more plants.

Condoms are the most effective means of protection against STIs, yet less than half of all people at risk of HIV infection are able to obtain them, often simply because not enough are being produced .

The norms stated above were generally developed in relation to traditional warfare, and it is unclear how relevant they will be in the new era of less formal, non traditional and often domestic armed conflicts.

It's more with less and less again.

Fiona's letters gradually came less and less.

There would be more democracy, less oppression more freedom, less terrorism more growth, less poverty.

If you had charge spots everywhere, and you had battery swap stations everywhere, how often would you do it? And it ends up that you'd do swapping less times than you stop at a gas station.

In this sense, Europe has come to see itself, at least in part, as an alternative dream for everyone who had stopped dreaming about America. But, seen from within, the EU model often appears less convincing.

It is difficult for an individual to establish that discrimination based on sex has occurred, since it is often complicated to prove that a person has been placed in a less favourable position because of gender.

They're often quite brief. They're often very seasonally constrained.

I say, less and less the human touch.

Less effort, you're less persistent, and so on.

Fiona's letters were becoming less and less frequent.

Letters from Fiona came gradually less and less.

It turns out, most people over 50 feel better, are less stressed, are less hostile, less anxious.

When oil prices rise, Russia expresses its latent resentments more aggressively, often employing its military. Moreover, at higher prices, the oil industry crowds out other export sectors that support open markets and a less aggressive foreign policy.

That their parents be less tired and less stressed.

People are less kind. There is less trust around.

So, traffic keeps flowing, so that means less braking, which means less accelerating, less gas and less pollution, less time wasted, and that partly accounts for Europe's better efficiency than we have in the United States.

The training of managers in public and private sector volunteer programmes is becoming more widespread, although civil society organizations involving volunteers appear less inclined to take up the challenge, with financial considerations often cited as a major constraint.

We in public health, we hate child death, so we want less and less and less of child deaths.

And then the other areas become less and less positive.

None of this happened. Even the informational value of television turned out to be a dream individuals and communities that watch TV often know much less about what is happening in the world than comparable audiences that do not.