"less" in the Big Book

He is always more or less insanely drunk.

The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences* which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God’s universe.

All of us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such intervals—usually brief—were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization.

Several of our crowd, men of thirty or less, had been drinking only a few years, but they found themselves as helpless as those who had been drinking twenty years.

Fred would not believe himself an alcoholic, much less accept a spiritual remedy for his problem.

Their chances are less than average.

Established on such a footing we became less and less interested in ourselves, our little plans and designs.

running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day “Thy will be done.’’ We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions.

He becomes still less communicative.

He will be less likely to drink again, and anything is preferable to that.

The less people tolerated us, the more we withdrew from society, from life itself.