The phrase "a much smaller reduction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the size or extent of a reduction in a specific context, such as in finance, statistics, or any situation involving quantitative changes.
Example: "The new policy resulted in a much smaller reduction in costs than initially anticipated."
Alternatives: "a significantly lesser decrease" or "a considerably smaller cut".
This compares with a 39% increase in Northern Ireland and a much smaller reduction, of 6%, in England.
"We are making a tragic mistake," Representative John J. LaFalce, Democrat of New York, warned in arguing for a much smaller reduction in S.E.C. fees.
That's a much smaller reduction than had been feared, but it will require the school, which is financed partly by the state and partly through tuition, to reduce the number of students this year by 100, to about 425, according to Jeremy Johannesen, the executive director of the nonprofit New York State Alliance for Arts Education, which works closely with the summer school.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, however, not only was there a much smaller reduction, in many cases the gap had grown.In this section Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index Productivity gaps Markets Reprints.
Schoeni (2002) finds a much smaller reduction of private transfers for the United States, estimating that 24 40 percent of private transfers are displaced by unemployment benefits.
An important conclusion from this result is that a reduction of the NOx levels, e.g., by a factor of two will result in a much smaller reduction in the NO2 mixing ratios, as long as the NOx levels are significantly higher than the background O3 levels.
Sanguinetti et al. compared the effect of thermal quenching of luminescence between QDs grown by standard SK epitaxy, with WL, and droplet epitaxy (DE), without WL, and reported a much smaller intensity reduction of the latter due to the absence of WL [44].
Senate Democrats had proposed a much smaller $4 billion reduction.
Similarly, an empowerment-based program for patients with T2DM improved QoL and glycemic control by 0.7% at 6 months (compared with a much smaller nonsignificant reduction in controls).
Although patients at lower risk also received a much smaller absolute reduction from the lifestyle intervention than did higher risk patients, the relative effects of the lifestyle intervention were fairly constant across risk groups (hazard ratio 0.42).
The placebo group had much smaller reductions as measured by the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (a system created by a psychiatrist to assess what role social anxiety plays in one's life) until they had further sessions with actual MDMA and saw similar improvements.
