The phrase "a gross reduction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or substantial decrease in quantity, size, or value.
Example: "The company reported a gross reduction in profits this quarter due to increased operational costs."
Alternatives: "a significant decrease" or "a substantial cut".
This, said the EEA, is the equivalent of a gross reduction of CO2 emissions of 362m tonnes in 2013.
And the secretary for work is announcing today for his department a gross reduction of 40,000 staff posts, a redeployment of 10,000 posts to new priorities, and thus an overall reduction over four years of 30,000 posts.
The Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise are announcing today a gross reduction of 14,000 staff posts, a redeployment of 3,500 staff and thus an overall reduction by 2008 of 10,500 staff numbers.
He added: "I can't think of any reason why as a population we should be expected to stand by and see a gross reduction in the living standards of ourselves and our kids, possibly for generations, when the people who have got us into this have been rewarded for it – they've certainly not been punished in any way because they're too big to fail.
We also found a gross reduction in M. gast.
As well, the P361R mutation also did not lead to a gross reduction in ACDase protein expression and stability.
This is a gross simplification.
If a pivot shift is present, the examiner should feel an anterior subluxation of the knee during extension and a glide, clunk, or gross reduction during flexion, corresponding to grades I, II, or III, respectively [ 21, 22].
Gentle remediation options (GROs) are risk management strategies or technologies involving plant (phyto-), fungi (myco-), and/or bacteria-based methods that result in a net gain (or at least no gross reduction) in soil function as well as effective risk management.
As shown in Figure 1a HPV16 episomes persisted in these cells without any apparent loss or gross reduction of copy number through all the passages.
This excess of sugar in phloem sap potentially reduces the need for OXPHOS-generated ATP in symbionts, leading to the gross reduction of these pathways in the Sulcia-ALF and Nasuia-ALF genomes.
