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The phrase "and hence less" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a consequence or result that leads to a reduction or decrease in something.
Example: "The new policy is more efficient, and hence less time-consuming for the employees."
Alternatives: "and therefore reduced" or "and thus diminished".
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More saving means less spending and hence less demand.
Eat less and you get less tryptophan, and hence less serotonin.
They get lower yields and hence less money for their crops and livestock.
Attacking Iraq now, they argue, would make this a preventive, not a pre-emptive, war, and hence less morally justified.
Friendship circles are perhaps tighter and hence less open in Germany than they are in many other countries.
These students take more credits towards their college requirements, and hence less towards the major than SEAS students.
And the global financial system is less leveraged and hence less vulnerable to contagion.
So American companies are becoming ever more highly geared, and hence less creditworthy.
As a result, they will come to be seen as less bad and hence less worthy of outrage.
Ecotowns and eco-quarters can be used to show that new development can come with low car use and hence less traffic in surrounding roads.
Second, rising inequality has not, by and large, been accompanied by a smaller (and hence less distortive) state.
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