The phrase "a reduction in foreign" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing changes in foreign-related metrics, such as trade, investment, or influence.
Example: "The report indicated a reduction in foreign investments in the region over the past year."
Alternatives: "a decrease in foreign" or "a decline in foreign".
Also, given that drilling will produce oil in say, 2015, will that be accompanied by a reduction in foreign imports?
The crisis has led to a reduction in foreign correspondents, editors and fact-checkers, and less in-depth investigative reporting.
Second, the United States must negotiate a reduction in foreign regulations, monopoly practices and other barriers to the export of American services.
ABC managing director Mark Scott has slammed the $120m cut to the broadcaster's budget and warned a substantial round of redundancies, a cut to services and a reduction in foreign reporting bureaux was now likely.
Nathan Gandomi (MIMS '10) will spend the summer of 2009 working on high-tech public policy research in Washington, D.C. Research by Dean AnnaLee Saxenian suggests that a reduction in foreign entrepreneurs may slow U.S. economic innovation.
The government has to do more, she said, to support exporters with credits and tax breaks or risk a currency crisis and a reduction in foreign capital flows that finance the budget deficit.
Most officials thought the asset purchases would help push down long-term rates and bolster the prices of stocks and other assets, while "some observed that it could also lead to a reduction in the foreign exchange value of the dollar".
India responded to the recent fall in the rupee by resurrecting a grab-bag of controls, including a cut in the amount of money residents can take out of the country without special approval from $200,000 to $75,000 a year; a reduction in the foreign acquisitions a domestic company can make, from 400% to 100% of its net worth; and higher import taxes on gold, silver and flat-panel televisions.
Nothing in NSB's report called for a reduction in the foreign supply.
Trump will seek to boost Pentagon spending by $54 billion in his first budget proposal and slash the same amount from non-defense spending, including a large reduction in foreign aid, a White House budget official said.
The People's Bank of China (PBoC) reported a $540 billion reduction in foreign currency reserves from August 2015 through November 2016, but a team of Goldman Sachs analysts believes the real currency-adjusted figure is closer to $1.1 trillion.
