Additionally, ventilation techniques would operate through the floor instead of the ceiling, allowing cooler air to travel a lesser distance.

At this much lesser distance, it shone as a brilliant point of light that blazed wonderfully.

He forced himself to carry all three the last time, trading the extra effort for the lesser distance.

The children all swim lesser distances and I have to catch their toes before they reach the safety of the end or the side of the pool.

For farming societies, the main arable resource was usually at an even lesser distance (Chisholm 1962).

Its maximum effective range would be about 35 yards, but most birds are shot at lesser distances.

This causes the wavelength λ to decrease, which means that the signal then travels lesser distance.

In some situations, the radar beam is fired at the moving car as it approaches, in which case each successive wave travels a lesser distance, decreasing the wavelength.

Its slightly lesser distance from its sun meant a hotter and drier climate than Earth's, although a goodly portion of its surface was covered by oceans.

Does it roll a greater or lesser distance?