Sentence examples for lessen before from inspiring English sources

Some of the more recent causes of congestion might lessen before too long, as the roadworks required for Crossrail and cycle superhighways are completed, but the growth in the number of delivery vans and private hire vehicles together with the loss of road space to cycling have worked against the good effects of the congestion charge, introduced in 2003.

We held bats fed ethanol for one hour after their flight trials so that the treatment wore off or lessened before we released them at the site of capture.

I am really reluctant to try to put a timetable on that because I think the goal is to get the mission accomplished, and that means that the Iraqis have to be capable of some things before we lessen our own responsibility.

The tried and true method of winos worldwide drinking what fucked you up the night before to lessen the effects of the hangover.

More diligent than some players, Murphy sometimes has to be urged to lessen his batting-cage workload before games.

Needless to say, the fact that the United States has defaulted before does not lessen the consequences of potentially defaulting again.

Therapeutic interventions that prevent or lessen cognitive impairment are needed before school entry for children with sickle cell disease.

I understand that we can't lessen the damage of sequester before taking action in Syria.

Especially in an organisation where patient safety initiatives are relatively new and the number of incident reports are likely to raise before they will lessen [ 31].

A single dose of acid suppressive drug is commonly administered immediately before surgery to lessen the risk of aspiration on induction of anesthesia; as the focus of this study was the risk associated with stress ulcer prophylaxis in the postoperative period, we assigned exposure status independently of the type of acid suppression drug administered on the day of surgery.

Some people like to roll sanitary napkin (pad) closed before disposing to lessen exposure of blood.