The phrase "a smaller rate of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the frequency or amount of something in relation to another quantity.
Example: "The new policy resulted in a smaller rate of absenteeism among employees."
Alternatives: "a lower rate of" or "a reduced rate of".
Parameter was allowed to differ between the SC and MC experiment, as in our previous work50, to account for potential viral yield reduction (a smaller rate of infectious virus production, ) in the SC experiment which would arise when using an inoculum of high MOI if defective interfering particles (DIPs) were present in our samples.
With that correction incorporated, the trend between 1979 and 1997 (a slightly longer run than that studied by Mr Wentz and Dr Schabel) shows a smaller rate of cooling, but a cooling nonetheless, of 0.01°C per decade.Why do Dr Christy's figures still conflict with those in the Nature paper?
Those six shows were popular with tourists and families who pack the city during the Christmas and New Year's holidays, but they were not as durable as the biggest blockbusters – "Wicked," "The Lion King" and "The Book of Mormon" – which had a smaller rate of decline over the last two weeks.
The analysis reveals that there are cohort effects not only in the level of earnings, with more recent cohorts generally having relatively lower entry wages, but also in the rate of growth of earnings, with more recent cohorts having a smaller rate of economic assimilation.
And at the very bottom of the growth league, Japan's economy should see a smaller rate of shrinkage in 1999 than in 1998, before at last chalking up modest growth (0.3%, thinks the IMF) in 2000.In this section COMMODITY PRICE INDEX THE WORLD ECONOMY PRICES AND WAGES OUTPUT, DEMAND AND JOBS Reprints.
When the injection depth is as shallow as 50 m, injection water at a lower temperature of about 17 °C with a smaller rate of 50 m3/sec would cause 2 °C warming at the 20 m depth.
In general, an axial-flow fan is suitable for a relatively large rate of flow with a relatively small pressure gain, and a centrifugal fan for a small rate of flow and a large pressure gain.
The account will give villagers access to a pool of money that can be borrowed – at a small rate of interest – to expand or develop business ideas, and provide a crucial safety net when problems arise.
Mutations in the MET oncogene are an essential step into the pathogenesis of hereditary pRCC forms, but they can be found only in a small rate of sporadic cases.
Even a small rate of inflation just 4% to 5%, as occurred in the late 1980s destroys capital gains.
The model estimates that the population of urban Charlottetown will increase from 34,565 (2011) to 44,765 by 2061, a small rate of increase of +0.5% per annum.
