The phrase "a diminished proportion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a decrease in the amount or percentage of something in a specific context.
Example: "The study revealed a diminished proportion of participants who reported satisfaction with the service over the past year."
Alternatives: "a reduced share of" or "a smaller percentage of".
The increase in the strength could be due to the fact that the lime fully employed the available silica from the clay to form additional cementitious compounds, prevailing pozzolanic calcium silicate hydrate with increase in the amount of quicklime, no accelerating effect was detected due to the diminished proportion of soluble silica in the pore solution.
The preponderance of cluster 1 strains has been noted before, as have the paucity of cluster 2 and the diminished proportion of cluster 3 strains in North America (29 ).
Conversely, with few changes in the number of cells in G2/M, the number of control B lymphoblasts in G1 was increased in the presence of A23187, coinciding with diminished proportion of cells in S phase.
Similarly, daclizumab controlled MS-related increases in the innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) and lymphoid tissue inducer cells in the blood and CSF, and reverted the diminished proportion of intrathecal monocytes.
The relatively diminished proportion of high molecular weight PAHs (log Kow s > 5.5) in the dissolved phase is likely related to solubility limitations and competitive sorption to dissolved- and particulate-bound organic carbon.
Notably, the elevated Sub-G1 population was directly paralleled by diminished proportions of D54MG and PA-1 cells (Additional file 2: Figure S2A) in each cell-cycle phase.
RANKL blockade used as monotherapy led to a rapidly diminished tumor growth rate, with shrinkage in a large proportion of tumors, as monitored by in vivo micro-computed tomography.
The residual diminished BMD in a significant proportion of IBD children, during remission, suggests that nutritional therapy, IBD specific therapy and/or their duration are not sufficient to restore BMD to complete normality.
