'lesser reduction' is a perfectly valid and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that something has decreased by a smaller amount than it has in the past. For example, "Although our costs have gone up, we made a lesser reduction to the price than we did the year before."
Myocytes from the FVB group exhibited a lesser reduction in PS in response to elevated stimulus frequency.
Transgenic plants maintained higher leaf relative water content (RWC) and showed lesser reduction in plant growth under drought stress as compared to non-transgenic (NT) plants.
Industry experts noted that the agreement might actually result in a lesser reduction -- of a million barrels a day -- given the expectation that some OPEC nations eager to take advantage of higher prices would exceed their quotas.
Some experts inside and outside of the Government said the problem could be eased by removing the Administration's proposed ban on mobile missiles, so the United States could have missiles that could elude attack, raising the limit on the number of deployed missiles and, perhaps, accepting a lesser reduction in arms, as the Soviet Union now proposes.
If a reduction by one-fifth is impossible then a lesser reduction of 15, 10 or even 5 per cent should be sought, the President said in a letter of instructions to Mr. Davis, who read the message to a hushed audience which included the statesmen and Admirals of Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy and the United States.
NH219 showed lesser reduction in yield/plant and related traits compared to N22.
But Senate leaders in both parties are considering a spending proposal, offered by Senators Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, and Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, encompassing lesser reductions from levels proposed by Mr. Obama.
One example of such a differential is that lengths of bones are differently affected than widths and cortical thicknesses because of the differences between greater reductions of interstitial growth of epiphyseal cartilage (lengths) compared with lesser reductions of subperiosteal and subendosteal appositional addition or removal of bone (widths and cortical thicknesses).
MR211, Pokkali, and M232 showed lesser reductions, while severe reductions were observed in IR20, BRRI dhan29, and MR219 due to salt stresses at 8 and 12 dS m−1.
For CYP86A33-RNAi, this observation parallels the prior transesterification results, which show lesser reductions in aromatic breakdown products than either fatty acids or alcohols.
Since the mole percent of 4-linked GalA to 2-linked Rha was approximately 7 (Table 5), taken together, these linkage data indicate that the PdGAUT12.1-KD oxalate fraction extracts had reduced amounts of HG and lesser reductions in RG-I.
