The phrase "a much lesser rate" is not correct in standard English; it should be "a much lower rate." You can use the corrected phrase when comparing rates, typically in contexts involving costs, prices, or interest rates.
Example: "The new supplier offers their services at a much lower rate than our previous vendor."
Alternatives: "a significantly lower rate" or "a considerably reduced rate."
Waddle and Majors could have easily hired them at a much lesser rate, but instead paid them a handsome sum for that time of one hundred dollars a month.
For example, the women faced barriers such as, taking chances on opportunities, voicing their opinions at work, worrying about what people think, overcommitting to things for fear of letting people down, and believing in their worth, compared to men who were found to experience these barriers at a much lesser rate.
Further, implementing this technique ensures uninterrupted power supply to the complete load at much lesser rate.
The type most widely planted in California is Muscat of Alexandria, a much lesser grape.
The actual increase in risk of disease manifestation plays a much lesser role.
However, if water salinity is relatively high, these small amounts of calcium are much less effective and change the infiltration rate to a much lesser degree.
Diabetes and hypertension were also the most important risk factors for AMI and OHD mortality in Native Hawaiian and African-American women with lower use of HRT also contributing to their increased rates but to a much lesser extent (see below).
In old age, vascular mortality rates declined by about two thirds between 1950 and 2005 in both men and women, but non-vascular mortality rates declined to a much lesser extent in this age group.
While the dynamic mechanical properties of Al foams have been investigated by several groups, the deformation mechanisms at higher strain rates has been considered to a much lesser extent.
We find however that such correction for fetal survival has little impact on total prevalence rates, especially for T21, and is certainly a much lesser explanation of temporal and geographic variation than maternal age.
Rates of NSSI in females and males differ to a much lesser degree than previously assumed [ 4, 12], but females engage in more frequent NSSI than males [ 13].
