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The phrase "of lesser standing than" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means something or someone has a lower status or importance compared to another. Example: The first-year associate was of lesser standing than the senior partners in the law firm.
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Now it fell to Zawahiri, a man of lesser standing, to deal with the problem.
Scores of men of lesser standing also crowded the entrance here to gawk or in the faint hope of delivering some plea.
In a way, Sotheby's has been one of the ways people of lesser standing but greater cash move up in the world.
He writes "plums" while considering them of lesser quality than rhyming poetry.
Political parties are of lesser importance than personalities in Nauruan politics.
Indeed, these variables were of lesser importance than the attributes of the burned habitat.
Coins of lesser value than the Spanish dollar were in short supply in the new country.
The belief, for example, that beauty products are of lesser import than high science.
However, his works are considered of lesser quality than that which was to come.
The route to health should be a path of lesser resistance than it is, free of turbulence and traffic.
Thus, recent warming in the Rocky Mountains is of lesser magnitude than that witnessed in the Arctic.
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