The phrase "a decrease in spent" is not correct in English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity.
Example: "There has been a decrease in spending this quarter."
Alternatives: "a reduction in expenditure" or "a decline in spending."
Rather, when COPD was present in the youngest age category, it was associated with a large number of comorbidities, generating substantial outflow and a decrease in spending.
Local government cuts should fall precisely where the community and local council feel they can best handle a decrease in spending.
Second quarter earnings by companies like Starbucks, McDonald's and Chipotle have indicated a decrease in spending by US consumers.
It was the largest drop in six months and was a result of a decrease in spending on cars and clothes, the Commerce Department said.
Scott said athletic programs "feel tremendous pressure to pay for themselves because of a decrease in spending on higher education.
Though Mr. Paterson was talking about a decrease in spending, not an increase, his proposal represented an implicit promise to bring new flexibility and fairness to the old method of distributing state money to school districts.
Eventually he found it, recorded as a decrease in spending: the car-tax money stayed with local government, so the state sent less money down the system.
That is to say, a decrease in spending earlier in the pipeline increases risk later in the pipeline, which is likely to have an effect on cost of capital at later stages.
Dr. John Gibbons, the White House science adviser, said NASA's budget reflected the stable finances of some mature programs and a decrease in spending on some Earth observation research programs.
