1.   The operation is performed under local anaesthetic, which lessens the chances of infection.

2.   To get out of Palma would lessen her chances of running into Fernando.

3.   This process should lessen the chances of pricing too low or of needlessly giving away other concessions like favourable payment terms.

4.   And estrogen also lessens the chances of osteoporosis.

5.   Avoid shopping for the sake of shopping to lessen the chance of impulse purchases.

6.   But it also lessens the chance that anyone will ever know why Whitehurst did what he did.

7.   Clouds ahead of the front Friday morning may limit solar heating, thereby lessening the chances of severe storms.

8.   Despite the tribal rivalries, however, Pashtun Afghans say the fundamentally common ethnicity lessens the chance of real conflict in southern Afghanistan.

9.   Few women would return to the life of a peasant in an agrarian culture, even if it lessened their chances of developing the disease.

10.   Giving double rations to the entire family of a badly malnourished child lessens the chance that parents or siblings will steal food for themselves.