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The phrase "a very decreased" is not correct in standard written English.
It is not typically used because "decreased" is a past participle and does not pair well with "very" in this context.
Example: "The population has seen a very decreased number of residents this year."
Alternatives: "significantly reduced" or "greatly diminished."
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The median oxygen uptake was 99% of the peak aerobic capacity in one subject who was characterized with very severe COPD (FEV1: 17% pred) and a very decreased exercise capacity (peak load: 20% pred; VO2 peak: 688 ml/min (26% pred)).
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Further transformation of 1 into 11 does not seem to offer any advantages effect on heart rate but a very slightly decrease in blood pressure was observed.
Unlike systemic changes that are bi-directional (increases and decreases) we observe a very negligible decrease in metabolite diversity and instead see a strong and prominent increase.
However, a very slight decrease was observed up to the second cycle and a drastic decrease by 20% was observed at fifth cycle.
Only 4-OHE1, a metabolite with a very low concentration, decreased at the end of the high-soy diet in BEAN2, probably a chance finding given the multiple testing.
Moreover, an inspection of the log likelihood values indicated a sharp decrease from the 2-class solution to the 3-class and a very smooth decrease thereafter.
Therefore, only a very small decrease in specificity from 1 can result in the same bias as a high decrease in sensitivity.
Only a very modest decrease in plasma cells was observed after 1 year, predominantly accounted for by a decrease in IgM-producing plasma cells [ 10, 12].
A sharp decrease of proteins in solution was observed within the first few hours, followed by a very slow decrease during the immobilization process.
Global brain analyses between AN patients versus healthy controls revealed a significant decrease in global gray matter volume, with a medium effect size of −0.66 representing a very large decrease.
We saw a very substantial decrease in both traffic and in margins.
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