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The phrase "a very small decrease" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a minor reduction in quantity, size, or intensity.
Example: "The report indicated a very small decrease in sales compared to the previous quarter."
Alternatives: "a slight decrease" or "a minimal reduction."
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Unexpectedly, these microgel particles displayed only a very small decrease in size with increasing electrolyte concentration.
In this time of excessive expenditures for government pensions, wouldn't a very small decrease in pay to military retirees be reasonable, particularly during the period of their lives when they are fully capable of civilian employment?
Meanwhile, there is at best a very small decrease in downlink interference to the home user.
It exhibits a very small decrease of Tc because of the small amount of Fe doping.
The right panel of Figure 7 shows that a setting in diffuse noise results only in a very small decrease in SNR improvement (on average 1 dB).
As seen in Fig. 3, no change in the lifetime of 2.8-nm NCs was detected and a very small decrease in the lifetime of the 3.3-nm NCs was observed.
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Few stations show an initial very small decrease followed by an increase.
From 1998 to 2010, the AAR showed a significant but very small decrease in TFRs, barely −0.06 children per woman a year.
There was also a significant (p = 0.0028), but very small decrease (2%) in the size of the nuclei of SiHa cells stained with all three dyes as compared to Hoechst only stained cells.
In cells expressing the H486R mutant, level of polyubiquitinated RIP was higher compared to wild-type optineurin expressing cells and co-expression of CYLD resulted in very small decrease in the level of ubiquitinated RIP, as detected by Lys63-specific polyubiquitin antibody (Figure 6B).
These results suggest that neurocytes have a number of genes with extreme sensitivity to Gelsemium s. effects, even if those effects of high dilutions are quantitatively very small (decrease in expression by approximately 10%to20%0% compared to the control).
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