'Not quite, but a fine thing.'

Turn the flame down low.

Tom should talk less.

Next he ll probably advise the public to drink less, and then to wear our clothes and our shoes more carefully, so we don t have to replace them as often. Then, he ll tell us to go to the bathroom less often, to breathe less, to speak less, and, finally, the best option of all, to live a bit less.

Do you have a smaller size?

Have you got smaller size?

Don't you have anything smaller than that?

I need something smaller.

Tom moved to a smaller house.

Don't you have anything smaller than this?

I wish you wouldn't smoke so much.

They didn't have anything smaller.

I wish I had bought a smaller house.

Do you have any smaller ones?

May I suggest you read fewer novels.

Do you think you could make a little less noise?

Let's order a smaller pizza next time.

You smoke far too much. You should cut back.

May I exchange this shirt for a smaller size?

We just need to give some thought to our health and eat a bit less.

Tom took the larger apple and gave the smaller one to Mary.

I wonder if Tom has ever considered buying a smaller car.

She advised him to cut down on smoking, but he didn't think that he could.

You should spend less time complaining and more time doing something productive.

For his political dependents, Tajikistan's president is the great ball of burning gas around which lesser stars must gratefully rotate.

She says her husband has agreed to drink less, and she s thrilled. I m so happy to hear about this.

But even if it is one of the smaller countries, it might be a serious threat because it could be seen as the beginning of the end.

In smaller cities, tramways became common and were often the only mode of public transport until the introduction of buses in the 1920s.

It is time for a change in how the European Commission thinks, for less of an obsession with deficits and more attention to government spending.

For the sake of what principle can we ask China and India, for example, to limit their economic dynamism so that they use smaller amounts of the planet s natural resources?

But don't I know,' he added laughing, 'that you always want less of everything and worse? However, this year I will not let you have your way.

Without Britain, the EU becomes a Franco German enterprise, with Germany very much the dominant partner, and all the smaller member states squeezed between the two.

However, as with the 2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine and the smaller ongoing anti government protests in Macedonia, the reasons behind the anti government protests in Montenegro run much deeper.

That guy there was made for a demo I did yesterday early in the day for a big car maker in Detroit who wants to put them in a car small version, over your head so that you can actually get binaural sound in a car.

But now, in the receding tide, Americans are beginning to see not only that those with taller masts had been lifted far higher, but also that many of the smaller boats had been dashed to pieces in their wake.

Now, there are ecological reasons for eating lower on the food chain too, whether it s the deforestation of the Amazon, or making more protein available, to the four billion people who live on a dollar a day not to mention whatever ethical concerns people have.