The phrase "a markedly lower number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing quantities or statistics to indicate a significant decrease in a particular value.
Example: "The survey results showed a markedly lower number of participants this year compared to last year."
Alternatives: "a significantly reduced number" or "a considerably smaller number".
Interestingly, the profile of antibacterial drugs is very different, with a markedly lower number of neutral compounds so that all categories are well-represented, with a small preponderance of acidic compounds.
Intrahepatic tumor volume showed no significant change at days 4 and 8, but a dramatic decrease at day 28 (9.7 ± 1.7% of liver tissue versus 25.2 ± 2.4% in controls), because of a markedly lower number of large nodules (11 ± 1.8% versus 42 ± 5.8%) likely to result from an increased apoptotic index (39.4 ± 5.6% versus 18.3 ± 3.4).
In this case, HCV populations isolated from non-responders and transient responders were composed of a markedly lower number of variants (mean: 6,462; SD: 3,406) than populations derived from sustained responders (mean: 11; SD: 3,496; Fig. 1a; Online Resource 3).
Eight days after pristane injection, the numbers of NK T cells and γδ T cells were significantly lower in the DA rats than in the E3 rats, but the most striking difference in cell composition was the markedly lower number of B cells in DA rats 8 days after pristane injection.
It is also important to consider the differences in duration of exposure to study drug across the five studies, in particular, the markedly lower number of patient-years of exposure to placebo that limits the ability to directly compare safety data.
This approach was shown to achieve markedly lower numbers of rRNA reads with non-rRNA going from 22% with random hexamers to 87% with non-random hexamers with brain RNA [26].
Countries other than the United States have reported markedly lower numbers (2%–3%) of nontyphoidal subspecies I extraintestinal infections than subspecies II IV infections (2, 3 ).
The influenza-specific T-cells present in subject D3 were detected by six laboratories, while the responses in the healthy subjects with markedly lower numbers of peripheral specific T-cells (D1, D2 and D5) were detected by three laboratories only.
The host-adapted serovar Lai showed a markedly lower expression of LigA compared to the host-adapted serovar Bataviae, which is consistent with its higher number of in vitro passages [25].
A markedly lower proportion, 26%, of less well-off people do sport: a 1.5% drop since 2005.
Signal-to-noise ratio calculations revealed that LPN had a markedly lower signal amplitude than other sampling areas.
