The phrase "a tendency of less" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a decrease or reduction in something, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "There is a tendency of less engagement in the meetings this quarter."
Alternatives: "a tendency to decrease" or "a trend of reduction".
Seasonal differences in water discharge and SSD over the recent 60 years exhibited a tendency of "less flooding during the flood season and more drying during the dry season".
Also there is a tendency of less abundance of cardiac endothelial cells in males compared to females (n = 29, 16 males and 13 females)).
In general, the location and type of injuries was similar to the previous World Cups, but a tendency of less knee and more thigh injuries was observed.
Even though we found wear reduction of more than 50% for alumina heads and a tendency of less osteolysis in the alumina group, we cannot say that this was clinically significant after 10 years as there was no difference in the number of revisions between the groups.
In fact, there is a tendency of becoming less thorough in the compliance to recommendations [ 8].
Analytical gel filtration and chemical cross-linking studies showed a growing tendency of less modified isoforms to dimerize.
On the contrary, our results show a clear tendency of less migration and lower wear rates in the HA-coated group.
We concluded from our experiments that the number of wild type and L860P channels was generally low with a tendency to less expression of mutant L860P channels (channels/μm for wild type: 2.5 ± 0.3, n = 27 and L860P: 1.9 ± 0.3, n = 14; p = 0.13, Mann Whitney U-test).
It could also explain a tendency for less use of chemotherapy.
OPN−/−-mice also presented with a tendency to less induction of glutathione peroxidase-1 during I/R).
These results imply that SI improved from 0.7 ± 0.1 (0.6 0.9) to 0.8 ± 0.0 (0.7 1.0) showing a tendency to less kyphosis of the vertebral body.
