in a lower degree
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However, the tradeoff results in a lower degree of accuracy for larger step size, as illustrated in Figure 4.14.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
To the every-day pleasures of summer and the English fields Hunt brought in a lower degree the same alertness of perception and acuteness of enjoyment which in Keats were intense beyond parallel.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
Not, as one would suppose, an acquittal, but, in nine cases out of ten, a conviction in a lower degree.
From Courts and Criminals by Arthur Cheney Train
Dost thou mind that passage in the late duke our father's letter to his son and me?—that we should live in a lower degree, and out of London and from the court.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
The mere craving for novelty makes itself felt; so that that which once gave pleasure gives it no longer, or gives it in a lower degree.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
