The phrase "a net decrease of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes in quantities, particularly in contexts like finance, statistics, or environmental data, where the overall change is being highlighted after accounting for various factors.
Example: "The company reported a net decrease of 15% in sales compared to the previous quarter."
Alternatives: "a total reduction of" or "an overall decline of".
A net decrease of the rejection down to 0 was observed in the contemporary presence of light, photocatalyst and oxygen.
The management change comes amid a backdrop of declining assets at Schroder, including a net decrease of £3 billion ($4.7 billion) last year in funds that Schroder manages for American institutional investors.
Between 1993 and 2006, Sa Pa district experienced a net decrease of forest in favour of arable land, while this trend was reversed in the period 2006 2014.
During that same time, there was a net decrease of 9.7% of family owned interior forest area, such that 27% of family forest was interior forest by 2011.
One number in Sirius's report that caught analysts' attention was a net decrease of 30,000 in the number of customers who had canceled or failed to renew promotional subscriptions.
Over all, average trans fat per purchase decreased by 2.4 grams over the two years, while saturated fat increased by 0.55 grams, for a net decrease of 1.9 grams of fat per purchase.
Departing from this zero-sum calculus, the Cancun Agreements reached at the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) in 2010 called for "one or more market-based mechanisms" capable of "ensuring a net decrease and/or avoidance of global greenhouse gas emissions", an intention reiterated at COP 17 and COP 18.
At high temperature (>35°C), death rate exceeds the growth rate, which causes a net decrease in concentration of viable fungal populations with lower generation of ethanol.
In the reef flat habitat, caging had an acute effect on biomass change: there was a net increase in biomass of 30% inside cages, compared to a net decrease in biomass of 30 50% in the partial and open cages (SNK pairwise comparisons: Caged > Open = Partially Caged; p<0.01).
In terms of potential differences in uptake due to addition of food, Skjolding et al. [72] found that feeding resulted in a net decrease in uptake of AuNP but also gave rise to a higher deviation in uptake which could imply sorption of AuNP onto algae.
J. globiflora had a net decrease in biomass of 0.09 Mg ha-1.
