Sentence examples for by a lesser amount from inspiring English sources

When you get colder, people's emotions start to dip, too, after a point — but by a lesser amount.

If any of the surplus is spent or used for tax cuts, the debt would be reduced by a lesser amount.

In that trial, tumors shrank by at least half in 12 of 58 patients and shrank by a lesser amount, or stopped growing, in 38 others.

But lawmakers said he had overestimated the cost of some programs, so that the $1.4 billion of new spending in the budget accord would actually raise total spending by a lesser amount.

And over the whole of the 20th century, the two countries have displayed the same trends in the spousal age-gap: on average men were older than their wives by the greatest amount in the 1950s, and older than their wives, but by a lesser amount, in the decades before and after.

It would have raised the state minimum wage slightly — by a lesser amount than it has since been raised — and, in the fine print, would have made it impossible ever to raise it again except by a two-thirds vote in both houses of the legislature, while, for good measure, eliminating overtime for millions of workers.

Keep the project alive by spending a lesser amount?

Therefore, hemorrhagic shock was induced by withdrawing a lesser amount of blood (20 mL/kg; Fig.  1b).

Drugs released specifically at the site of inflammation could decrease collateral damage by requiring a lesser amount of drug.

In a homeowners association, the quorum requirement was lowered by statute to 30% of the total voting interests, unless the By-Laws allow for a lesser amount.

64 The uptake of MTX into the cell is primarily mediated by the RFC and, to a lesser amount, by the FR-α.