The phrase "a strict reduction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing a significant or rigorous decrease in size, quantity, or scope.
Example: "The budget for the project faced a strict reduction due to unforeseen financial constraints."
Alternatives: "a significant cut" or "a severe decrease".
Senior managers looking over financial data may mandate a strict reduction in pipeline inventory only to discover that squeezing costs at the front end just raises the costs of handling at the other, like a child squeezing one end of a balloon.
With the exclusion of criterion 2b (if all CNS BSIs were processed according to laboratory routine C and/or managed with a strict reduction in initiation of antibiotic treatment), the ranking of CRBSIs would not be modified; however, a reduction of CRBSI rates of 19% and 45% in ICU-A and -B, respectively, would be seen.
This groundbreaking case, which requested strict reduction and regulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse-gas emissions in order to ensure a habitable planet for young people and future generations, made its way through the legal system until the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently upheld a lower court's ruling in the state's favor.
Strict reduction in fat intake was emphasized by 86.0% of male and 92.9% of female physicians (p = 0.020) when giving nutritional advice.
The United States rejects benchmarks for the adoption of renewable energy, and the Bush administration has rejected the Kyoto Protocol, the environmental treaty that imposes strict reductions on greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming.
Especially the demands for i. stricter reduction factors, ii. a quantitative suspension with and without organic load in combination with a test simulating practical conditions, and iii. a specified and realistic artificial tear fluid as organic load have been neglected.
In the European test hierarchy for chemical disinfectants and antiseptics, stricter reduction factors of ≥ 5 log units for bacteria and ≥ 4 log units for fungi are recommended in each test norm regardless of the type of test (quantitative suspension test or practical setting).
A strict regulation for the reduction of mortality of dolphins caught with tuna fishing was implemented in this area.
30/2833 held by T.H. with a strict implementation of the Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement (3Rs) principles.
Owing to worldwide deflation in the late 19th century, however, a strict gold standard had resulted in reduction of incomes without the equivalent reduction in debts, pushing debtors and the poor to call for silver coinage as an inflationary measure.
Data were collected following a strict protocol, with biological validation of smoking reduction status.
