"adjusted downwards" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when referring to a figure or amount that has been reduced. For example: "The company's profits were adjusted downwards for the quarter due to increased costs."
"People with old money nearly always have to be adjusted downwards," he said.
It will not be easy, says Mr Najafizada, but people's expectations and their budgets will have to be adjusted downwards once the economy is off a war footing.
There are three "protected" budgets that will remain immune from the cuts – the NHS, schools and overseas development, though the latter will be adjusted downwards if Britain's gross national income (GNI) shrinks.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected]: a little betterSIR – Your report on the recent HIV household survey in Kenya suggests that apparent discrepancies between preliminary results and the UNAIDS/WHO estimates of the HIV epidemic in Kenya mean that prevalence rates should possibly be adjusted downwards elsewhere in Africa ("Good news, apparently", January 17th).
For it will, at minimum, start with the idea that he's just made a $3.5 billion or so profit (adjusted downwards for the difference between the private market value of Facebook last fall and the IPO price) on his Facebook stock which he got originally for minimal amounts of money.
Grain and straw yields of malting barley were adjusted downwards by 10% prior to calculation.
In this regard, we used a cumulative risk reduction adjustment factor (AF) to adjust downwards the DPPs attributed to multiple risk factors acting additively or separately, more details can be found in section 2.5 of the online supplementary technical appendix.
At present, price differentials on manufacturers' leading brands can be more than 30%, so there is plenty of scope for arbitrage by retailers big enough to threaten to buy from someone else.All the same, industry observers suggest that prices are much more likely to adjust downwards over a period of time than to collapse immediately.
"We don't expect the NBS to adjust downwards the real GDP growth for 2008 because the NBS will most likely revise up nominal GDP numbers for 2008.
In many short scale countries, milliard was dropped altogether and billion was redefined down to 109, adjusting downwards the value of trillion and all the larger numbers.
Those estimates are being adjusted sharply downwards after Glotel said that it will need to make room in its balance sheet for unpaid contracts totalling £1m.
