Patch reef: small colonies of corals, sometimes less than 10 m (33 ft) in diameter.
Understandably, details become more sketchy (and sometimes less credible) for the older April fools.
In Formula One today, the difference between first and 15th position is sometimes less than a second.
Although widely embraced by conservatives, critics said it failed to account for the sometimes less-than-rational aspects of human behavior.
It may be counterintuitive but sometimes paying less nets the same result and sometimes paying less gets you more.
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He calculates there are more than 500 of these sometimes less well-known firms doing their bit to help Germany's exports.
While innovations in technology make it possible for people to work many more hours, it also means employees are sometimes less efficient.
If it isn't, the target may pay off the complainer anyway, extortion payments being sometimes less costly than damage to the brand.
Lemerre's World Cup results with his former teams seems to reflect this mantra -qualification is vital, the results in the final tournament are sometimes less impressive.
What is sometimes less noticed is that the congressional Republicans are falling over themselves to make the state governors the dominant force in the party as a whole.
The simplicity and flexibility of those old rules are all the more extraordinary when you consider how long the heavy modern rulebooks are today, especially if you think that sometimes less is more.
Before, he says, he and his brother James, who heads international, looked for people fluent in foreign languages, with social graces and who were sometimes less ambitious and hard driving than their domestic counterparts--diplomatic types.
He describes the bruised egos, the failed ideas and the sometimes less than gripping serendipity of product placement: Absolut turned up in a James Bond film because a friend of the firm knew Roger Moore.
In his view, a cluster of cultural prejudices have steered many potential tradesmen into college, and then toward stultifying office jobs, which provide less satisfaction and less security than skilled manual labor, and sometimes less money.
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Most of the quests in FGO can be completed in under 15 minutes (and sometimes less), and the game actually plays better this way: Extended sessions underline the repetitive nature of much of the gameplay, while a quick stint is a nice break from whatever else you were doing.
The banks and brokerage houses are now so big that quality control is less reliable and sometimes even less expected.
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If your life is less boring than mine, it can sometimes be less than clear what state you are a resident of.
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The second reason, paradoxically, is that the industry can sometimes be less commodity-like than it seems.
Each fight is typically very quick, sometimes lasting less than a minute.
While bonds rarely offer more than 1% or 2% more than inflation (and sometimes much less), stocks have historically offered much better returns.
Branding helps too: teachers may label Somali refugees damaged basket-cases, but Tamil children, sometimes no less traumatised, are stereotyped as industrious maths geeks.
The result sometimes feels less like a machine than like an organic whole, a huge, thick-skulled, powerful animal moving with equal menace and grace through its element.
About five years ago, the federation joined with local community groups mobilizing to improve working conditions for car washers, mainly immigrants sometimes paid less than the hourly minimum wage and largely relying on tips.
Indeed, they say high energy prices are encouraging the closure in Europe of energy-intensive plants for example, those manufacturing steel or aluminum in favor of imports from outside the region from manufacturing facilities that sometimes are less energy-efficient.
Maria, it was not a thrilling match it was played at roughly three-quarters speed, sometimes far less than that. (Exhibition tennis is a little like airline food: sufficient when trapped with limited options, but no comparison to an authentic meal.) Roddick won 7-5, 7-6, a meaningless but still conspicuous result, as Federer owns a 21-2 lifetime record when the stakes are real.
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Sometimes we feel certain about when it's taking us, sometimes we feel less certain.
Now we all sometimes speak with less than complete care, and we are justly criticized when we make mistakes.
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