The phrase "a limited reduction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a decrease or lessening that is not extensive or comprehensive.
Example: "The company implemented a limited reduction in staff to cut costs while still maintaining essential operations."
Alternatives: "a minor decrease" or "a slight reduction".
For IDC, we found a limited reduction in endocytic and phagocytic capacities and a transient increase in motility on irradiation, while MDC function was unaffected in these assays.
First, the model confirms that IPV provides only a limited reduction in cVDPV risks after OPV cessation, because the same conditions that favor cVDPV outbreaks after OPV cessation also limit the impact of IPV RI on population immunity to poliovirus transmission [ 24].
"In the end, we expect a limited reduction in the size of the state work force," the governor said to reporters after the meeting.
Yet this solid performance results in a limited reduction in public sector borrowing this year to £107.8bn, from £111.2bn on the OBR's last estimate.
The decision to start the reduction before the end of the year follows an appeal by Senator John W. Warner, a senior Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, that the Bush administration take the first steps toward a limited reduction of troops by year's end as a way of signaling Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki that the American commitment to Iraq is not open-ended.
Techniques based on data scrambling have demonstrated that security can be improved with a limited reduction in performance.
The former causes a more uniform attack with a relatively limited reduction of the rebar cross-sectional area, while chloride may cause severe pitting in the rebar with highly localized reductions in the cross-sectional area; therefore, corrosion due to chloride ions is discussed in this section.
Cyclic voltammograms revealed a diffusion limited reduction wave coupled on the reverse sweep with an oxidation wave that corresponds to the dissolution of a bulk deposit.
RNAi-mediated knockdown of MEK2 in WT cells caused a very limited reduction in SCV-associated F-actin compared to cells transfected with a scrambled siRNA oligo, and microcolonies remained associated with F-actin in MEK1 KO cells.
As mentioned in the introduction, Veldhuis et al. [ 10] were able to demonstrate a significant, yet limited, reduction in milk production and calf mortality in the Netherlands during the hypothesized SBV transmission period by distinguishing between herds with high and low seroprevalence and between farms with and without reported clinical cases.
Our luciferase assay with a mutated TBE in the SHF resulted in very limited reduction in the capacity of Tbx1 to inhibit enhancer activity.
