The phrase "a lesser reduction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the degree of reduction between two or more items, indicating that one reduction is smaller or less significant than another.
Example: "The new policy resulted in a lesser reduction of emissions compared to the previous regulations."
Alternatives: "a smaller decrease" or "a minor reduction."
Myocytes from the FVB group exhibited a lesser reduction in PS in response to elevated stimulus frequency.
Industry experts noted that the agreement might actually result in a lesser reduction -- of a million barrels a day -- given the expectation that some OPEC nations eager to take advantage of higher prices would exceed their quotas.
Some experts inside and outside of the Government said the problem could be eased by removing the Administration's proposed ban on mobile missiles, so the United States could have missiles that could elude attack, raising the limit on the number of deployed missiles and, perhaps, accepting a lesser reduction in arms, as the Soviet Union now proposes.
If a reduction by one-fifth is impossible then a lesser reduction of 15, 10 or even 5 per cent should be sought, the President said in a letter of instructions to Mr. Davis, who read the message to a hushed audience which included the statesmen and Admirals of Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy and the United States.
The smaller filter kernel applied to HD and UHD to match noise combined with voxel correlation leads to a lesser reduction of this overestimation.
Similarly, in the case of cells stimulated by Wnt 3a or Activin A, the greatest reduction in the fraction of GFP+ cells was seen following addition of Dkk-1 and SB 431542 (∼75% and ∼90% respectively), whilst a lesser reduction in the proportion of GFP+ cells was observed in response to treatment of cells at d3 with noggin (∼35%) (Figure 5B).
Holopainen and Krootila [ 13] compared the reduction in corneal thickness during the first 30 minutes of riboflavin instillation with the eyes closed versus the latter 30 minutes of UVA irradiation while eyes were kept open by a lid speculum and found an approximately 50% lesser reduction during the first 30 minutes when eyes were closed.
Black race is consistently associated with a clinically significant lesser reduction in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure to ACE-inhibitor therapy in clinical trials in the USA and Europe.
Nuclear fractions extracted from the heads of E9-E12 mutant embryos and probed with Proteintech anti-Thap1 antibody revealed a drastic reduction of the ~50/52 kDa T1-LIR doublet and the ~75 kDa species, and a very noticeable, but lesser, reduction of the ~29 kDa species.
The main negative effect identified by the interviewees was the discontinuation or sharp reduction in routine vaccination services and, to a lesser extent, reduction in the availability of other health services, such as ANC, during the 10 days of the campaign.
The SEM fractographs of filler-added joint tested at RT and 550 °C is shown in Fig. 8e, f, respectively, which reveals a similar behaviour with much lesser reduction in the cross-sectional area of the specimen tested at 550 °C than at RT.
