First they will try buying us off with lesser things.

She would more readily do lesser things, by her definitions.

To her, a lie was a lesser thing than death.

For the lesser things I still have time in plenty.

"The town flourished and it's a nicer place now, but I guess some of the lesser things he did caught up with him."

In this sea of happy expectation all lesser things were submerged.

She was starting to feel at home here, a little, and that meant she could become aware of lesser things.

For lesser things great powers had gone to war.

But in this case I want a lesser thing.

This time the experience was, without meaning to denigrate it, a "lesser" thing.