The phrase "a decrease of approximately" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes in quantity, size, or value, particularly in statistical or analytical contexts.
Example: "The report indicated a decrease of approximately 15% in sales over the last quarter."
Alternatives: "a reduction of about" or "a decline of roughly".
In addition, compared with TST, DST is superior in tower resistance, with a decrease of approximately 39.7%.
Overall, the amount of suitable winter habitat available in 1997 represented a decrease of approximately 832.88 ha (8.53%) from 1975 levels.
In addition, the friction coefficient of the material can be reduced to 0.34 at 800 °C, a decrease of approximately 62.6% below the monolithic Al2O3 ceramics.
This corresponds to a global mean specific emission of CF4 from aluminum smelters in 1995 of 0.48 0.05 kg CF4 per ton of aluminum produced, a decrease of approximately 35% relative to levels in the late 1980s.
Films with 1% and 2% ZnO show a decrease of approximately 50% in electrical resistivity and no change in hardness after annealing.
As compared to the evaporator surface without any CuNW coating, an increase of nearly 2.7 times in the heat transfer coefficient values and a decrease of approximately one-third in the thermal resistance values were observed in nanowire coated surfaces.
After 100 cycles, negligible transmittance modulation decreased in the visible spectrum, and a decrease of only approximately 5.6% was found in the near-infrared spectrum.
The 24-h spirometric profiles at day 28 in the subset of patients at overnight sites showed in the placebo-treated patients a diurnal variation, with a FEV1 decrease of approximately 100 mL overnight.
Dramatic increases up to 5 6‰ in δ18Ootolith, representing a temperature decrease of approximately 20 °C, were detected in a blind cusk eel (Barathronus maculatus) otolith and in the otoliths of Synaphobranchus kaupii during leptocephalus metamorphosis to glass eel, inferred from the drop of otolith Sr/Ca ratios and increase of otolith growth increment width.
The data reveal a mixture-dose dependent decrease in T4 concentrations that produced a mixture-dose dependentproximately 50%.
A further confirmation was noted as the species richness test indicated a drastic decrease of approximately 97.23 98.48% when comparing the control samples to nCeO2 NP treated samples.
