The phrase "lessens the problem" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe how something reduces the size or severity of a problem. For example, "Adding more staff to the department lessens the problem of long wait times for customers."
The fact that 97% of the group in question don't have a particular problem doesn't lessen the problem for those who do.
She says HMRC has made efforts to lessen the problem but ultimately it's bound by the framework of the EU.
One set of experiments from Google's DeepMind group suggests that what researchers are terming "learning to learn" could also help lessen the problem of machine-learning software needing to consume vast amounts of data on a specific task in order to perform it well.
The mostly bullish stock market of the past five years has lessened the problem of pension funding, says Mark Ruloff, director of asset allocation at pension consultant Watson Wyatt.
Rosberg said the indications from practice in Hungary were that the new design of tyre that has been introduced for this race was going to lessen the problem.
Well, if you're anything like the rest of us, chances are that as soon as you sense that your efforts are beginning to lessen the problem, your motivation to solve the problem altogether dissipates.
The selection of distance between the borings and CPT holes involved two opposing desires; to minimize the effects of soil failure zones and to lessen the problem of non-homogeneity of tested soil.
To lessen the problem, organizers have shifted the schedule so that the outputs of the IPCC runs from the first working group will be released with more time to spare so that the Working Group II researchers can run those climate scenarios in their impacts models.
Instead of lessening the problem, the industry actually spread the virus into the southern waters.
