The phrase "a falling proportion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a decreasing ratio or percentage of something over time or in a specific context.
Example: "The study revealed a falling proportion of participants who reported satisfaction with the service over the last year."
Alternatives: "a decreasing ratio" or "a declining percentage".
Another disconcerting feature of the shifting demand is the falling proportion of males among applicants and recruits which is leading towards a 55 45% female majority among university students.
Analysis at 1 and 6 months will cover, for all such events, and those coded as a fall: the proportion of patients that call 999, attend ED, get admitted or die; survival analysis of the time to the first subsequent emergency contact; the mean number of further emergency contacts adjusted for time at risk, excluding days in hospital or after death; and recurrent event analysis where feasible.
Numbers are crunched to produce a net balance, so instead of telling us how many surveyors think prices will go up and how many think they will go down, the index subtracts the proportion forecasting a fall from the proportion forecasting a rise – so if 10% think prices will rise but 20% think they will fall, it says -10% think there will be a fall.
"In the autumn statement we set out a plan to get debt falling as a proportion of GDP by 2016-17 and to get the current structural deficit in balance a year later," Clegg said at Mansion House in the City of London.
Based on the available data it is estimated that about 30%to40%0% of community-dwelling older persons experience at least one fall per year with a high proportion falling more often than once [ 1- 3].
The need for more rational choices in weapon programs and in the deployment of scarce resources increased as the defense budgets grew in absolute size (though falling as a proportion of a growing GDP).
A fall in the proportion of reports with susceptibility data in 1997 reflected early problems after a switch to electronic reporting and was not exclusive to ciprofloxacin.
A fall in the proportion of positive chlamydia test results in counties using Abbott or Roche test systems began in 2005 and continued in 2006, whereas positivity rates in counties using BD tests did not change.
It adds that the chancellor could cancel the planned cuts to tax credits without any revenue raising measures and still meet his two main fiscal objectives of debt falling as a proportion of GDP and a £10bn surplus by 2019-20.
Meanwhile, rice is falling as a proportion of the national diet; a rising middle class is developing a taste for meat and wheat.
