The phrase "a surprising decrease" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing unexpected reductions in quantity, value, or performance in various contexts, such as finance, statistics, or general observations.
Example: "The company reported a surprising decrease in sales this quarter, which took analysts by surprise."
Alternatives: "an unexpected drop" or "a notable decline".
Once the rewards passed a certain threshold and the particular tipping point depended on the individual the scientists observed a surprising decrease in success.
Once the rewards passed a certain threshold — and the particular tipping point depended on the individual — the scientists observed a surprising decrease in success.
Chemical Engineering Science 62, 4579 4588] about micro-oxygenation of wine, where, when dissolved carbon dioxide was present in the liquid phase, a surprising decrease in the value of the apparent kLa was pointed out.
In contrast, overexpression of S14 in the Neu model resulted in a surprising decrease of lung metastases.
Although SPS activity in leaves was elevated, there was a surprising decrease in leaf sugar contents in the OE lines, contrary to results for transgenic Arabidopsis [ 5].
The somewhat surprising decrease in emotional health found in the present study has, to our knowledge, not been reported in other longitudinal studies of PI-ART.
Ferromagnetic signals revealed a surprising temperature dependence: with decreasing temperature, their integral intensity decreases nearly linearly, and the signals disappear at temperatures below 70 K.
A surprising finding was a decrease in hospitalization for respiratory illness when peak PM10 concentrations coincided with flu outbreaks, whereas PM10 increases at other times were associated with increased hospitalizations.
Scanlan observed in empirical data that as c is lowered the failure ratio F R c)=F D (c)/F A (c) and success ratio S R(c)=[1−F D (c)]/[1−F A (c)] can both be increasing with decreasing c, a surprising result Scanlan calls Heuristic Rule X (HRX).
There was also a surprising tendency for intensity of soil hydromorphy, and thus SOCC, to decrease with increasing mean annual precipitation and soil clay content.
A surprising finding was that the amplitude of the temperature difference decreased with the increase in feed oxygen concentration.
