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He also pointed out that only 3% of criminal cases went to a jury trial, adding "there will be a slightly lesser percent after these changes, but that's the change that we're talking about."

From BBC

But even a lesser punishment could amount to a death sentence for the 78-year-old Mr. Lai, whose health is deteriorating after years in solitary confinement in a cell with the window blocked.

From The Wall Street Journal

In “If I Go,” Thompson-Hernández scraps the three-act structure for something more novelistic, a risk that a lesser director might have fumbled but one he turns into a profound taxonomy on grace.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s worth noting that the world is also processing Big China and to a lesser degree Big Russia and Big India.

From Barron's

To greater or lesser degrees, we become the people with whom we socialize.

From The Wall Street Journal