The phrase "a distinct decreasing" is not standard in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts where you want to emphasize a clear or noticeable decrease in something, but it would be better to rephrase it for clarity.
Example: "There was a distinct decreasing trend in sales over the last quarter."
Alternatives: "a clear decline" or "a noticeable decrease".
Even though the analysis was performed at a uniform peptide amount across all samples, we saw a distinct decreasing trend of total identifications across the entire time course, which is more obvious during the light phases.
While the STI regular check up visits increased over the quarters of follow-up, there was a distinct decreasing trend in syndromes diagnosed, as shown in Fig - 1. * p-value for all syndromes = <0.001.
A distinct decrease in coherence was observed for several iconic buildings in central Kathmandu, which were completely destroyed.
A distinct decrease of the Coulomb friction coefficient in the course of the pull-out test was observed.
The incipient precipitation temperature, where a distinct decrease in relative light transmittance occurred, was considered as the cloud point (CP).
In addition, a distinct decrease in the cutting forces in the c-a-c structure shows a great value for prolonging the life of the diamond tool.
A distinct decrease of the PL intensity of Si NCs can be observed due to this energy transfer process [19], as shown in Figures 2 and 3.
When the face advance speed exceeded 4.5 m/d, there was a distinct decrease of spalling depth, thus the slope of the trend line increased.
Within treatment types, there is no trend from baseline to harvest for bacterial colonies, but there is a distinct decrease in fungal colonies.
There were a slight and a distinct decrease of the cake layer permeation as MLSS increased less and larger than 10,000 mg/L, respectively.
When 5AT particle diameter reduced, there was a distinct decrease on enthalpy of activation by 36.7 kJ mol−1, and entropy of activation by 75.5 J mol−1.
