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The phrase "a proportionate decrease of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a reduction that is in proportion to something else, often in contexts like finance, statistics, or resource management.
Example: "The company reported a proportionate decrease of 15% in sales compared to the previous quarter."
Alternatives: "a relative reduction of" or "a corresponding decline of".
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Similarly for householder application, an absolute difference of 13% (24.6-11.2) or a proportionate decrease of 54% (13.4/24.6).
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This has been associated with a proportionate decrease in the rate of nasopharyngeal colonization.
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It can be seen for all cell lines that exposure to increasing doses of gamma radiation causes a proportionate decrease in clonogenic cell survival.
16 We held the total calorie intake constant, assuming that the addition of calories consumed in apple form would lead to a proportionate decrease in calories consumed elsewhere in the diet.
Admixture of an equivalent of a strongly bound 64-nucleotide hairpin DNA to the reaction mixture inhibits binding to the 16-nucleotide DNA and results in a proportionate decrease in fluorescence.
The observed proportionate decreases of HF and LF power with aging (Figs. 1J 1K) in the face of normal circadian variations of RR interval (Figs.
The envelopment in CCR is constant returns to scale (CRS) meaning that a proportional increase (decrease) in inputs results in a proportionate increase (decrease) in outputs.
Figure 1D shows that an increase in either duration of homogenization or agitation speed all results in proportionate decrease in the entrapment efficiency.
New York City's reported de cline of only 0.1percentnt since 1960 contrasted with much larger, proportionate decreases in 11 of New York State's other largest cities, which included a decrease of 74,945, or 14.1percentnt in Buffalo, for example, to a 1970 count of 457,814.
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