At these times his thermometer would be placed under her armpit and he would hum and haw about the relative inefficiency of the method.

Their relative inefficiency created openings for nonmammalian predators to play more prominent roles than usual (similar to the situation in Australia).

Merrill's relative inefficiency has posed a growing problem as the financial markets have gone from bad to worse this year.

This tended to exacerbate any cost penalties arising from relative inefficiencies in the Dagenham plant's operation, and new model investment decisions during the 1990s tended to favour mainland Europe.

This method of communi- cation compensated for its relative inefficiency by being far cheaper.

The relative inefficiency of the drawover vaporizer contributes to its safety.

Many database systems use the inverted technique, and the convenience of having the software provided by such systems will often outweigh its relative inefficiency.

It never made it into series production because of its relative inefficiency and, by 1958, the lack of non-electrified lines in the SBB-CFF-FFS network.

All the quibbling in the galaxy about the relative inefficiency of the SDS's design can't alter the firepower advantage it gives them.

At the present time, however, the European fund landscape is extremely fragmented, which breeds relative inefficiency and excessive costs, especially by comparison with competitor countries.