Sentence examples for lessens off from inspiring English sources

Stopping smoking at any age is effective in reducing the loss of nonsmokers life expectancy, although this lessens off as age at quitting increases.

Soon it will be a "lessening", "backing-off", "correction period" or even a "realignment" (with countries that have done even less well).STEFAN KRZYWICKIBloomingdale, New Jersey.

Such reports place pressure on the forest industry to review their current harvesting and post-harvest practices to lessen the off-site impacts associated with future storm eventse,o.

Faced with the impasse, some senators have raised the possibility of using a one-time state budget appropriation to put off or lessen the proposed 23percentt fare increase and service cuts.

He had survived, but there was one more task he knew he had to deal with: the electrical switches in the basement had to be turned off to lessen the load on the building's emergency power supply.

A logical aim for initial siRNA translation is local therapies, as delivering siRNA directly to its site of action helps to ensure that a sufficient dose reaches the target tissue, lessens the potential for off-target side effects, and circumvents the substantial systemic delivery barriers.

Another case of 20 sea lions found shot near the Oregon-Washington border had authorities suspicious that frustrated fishermen were killing them off to lessen competition for their catch.

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.

Downstream blockade therefore has the potential to lessen the unwanted off-target effects associated with more upstream blockade.

The new debt has lower interest payments -- which is good for the economy, since it improves those companies' balance sheets and lessens the pressure to lay off employees.

The prospect of Ajockalpyse (Boris Johnson's colourful description of SNP involvement in UK government) must surely lessen if Scots are packed off with home rule or full fiscal autonomy.