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Lessened demand, competitive price cutting, are among apparent causes of depression.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lessened muscular activity is more likely to occur in elderly patients, whose food passes normally as far as the end of the small bowel, but then slows down in the flabby large bowel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lessened timber imports mean the exploitation of native forests.

From South America and the War by Kirkpatrick, F. A. (Frederick Alexander)

Why the Fear and Danger of Consumption have been Lessened.

From A Handbook of Health by Hutchinson, Woods

Lessened incomes mean lessened consumption and lessened demand for goods.

From New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various