The phrase "a continued reduction in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a persistent or ongoing decrease in a particular quantity or aspect.
Example: "The report indicates a continued reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over the past decade."
Alternatives: "an ongoing decrease in" or "a sustained decline in".
Recent observations suggest that the AMOC may already be declining [ Smeed et al., 2013; Robson et al., 2014a], and our forecasts show a continued cooling of the SPG out to 2017 driven by reduced ocean heat transport convergence resulting from a continued reduction in the AMOC.
Both numbers exclude special gains and charges, including $422.2 million in pretax revamping charges during the fourth quarter of 1999, which were attributed mainly to a continued reduction in the number of employees.
While a reading below 50 suggests economic activity is stagnating, the purchasing managers' data showed "a modest expansion of service sector activity broadly offset a continued reduction in manufacturing production," Markit said.
In meetings last month with Wall Street executives, he said, "we got the impression that the same thing that had moved Schwab to say, 'We have to do something again,' was driving a continued reduction in force at some of the other firms".
Still, change isn't always bad and we continue to believe yesterday's results reflected improvement in several key areas, including higher revenues, increased loans and deposits, controlled expenses, an expanding NIM [net interest margin], improved core asset quality, higher capital ratios and a continued reduction in Citi Holdings.
"The signals seem to say if you continue on your medicine, there probably is a continued reduction in the risk [of substance abuse]," Wilens says.
Such change in the bonding configurations is also responsible for a continuing reduction in the film surface energy with increasing F incorporation.
"I hope this proves to be the beginning of a continuing reduction in such cases, leading to the end of this outdated, dangerous and cruel practice".
A continuing reduction in the top marginal income tax rate of one percentage point is promised, but will it be offset by an increase in the flat tax now at 8% or 10%?
The results are similar to the unadjusted values and confirm that after allowing for time since last smear there is a continuing reduction in risk associated with increasing numbers of negative smear episodes and suggestive evidence that the reduction may be greatest for higher levels of disease (i.e., those most likely to progress to invasive cancer).
However, even though we did recover lines with H2B-DsRed2 and H2B-DsRedExpress expression [ 24], subsequent maintenance of these lines in culture revealed a continued reduction and heterogeneity in fluorescence.
