Sentence examples for an abrupt reduction from inspiring English sources

Then there was an abrupt reduction to 12 per week; now if your mail isn't in the slot early Saturday afternoon it won't go out until noon Monday.

"Typically, pay rises, income rises, but at some point you lose eligibility for a subsidies all together and it's an abrupt reduction in that family's resources," Skinner says.

The δ13C proxy data suggests an abrupt reduction in irradiance in AD 536, with even a more prolonged anomaly after the second eruption.

It appears to be caused by an abrupt reduction in the proportion of actively growing hairs, and after a few months the hair regrows normally without treatment.

Finally, oxidation stage IV is observed after the transition to stable α-Al2O3 results in an abrupt reduction of oxidation rate.

Fourth and finally, an abrupt reduction of permeability is imposed at a particular depth in the conduit, and the system response is observed for about 10 years.

Like the other phiCbK-like phages, Colossus exhibited an abrupt transition at the left end of a high-coverage region, but instead of an equally abrupt reduction at the end of a discrete length of sequence, a more gradual transition was observed, spanning ~ 200 bp from high to normal coverage on the right end.

In patient 1, paclitaxel was initially omitted because of neuropathy and an expected abrupt reduction in platelets was noted despite a concurrent reduction in carboplatin dose to AUC2.

In contrast, a more protracted period of uncertainty might lead to a less abrupt reduction in expenditure if companies judged it too costly to wait for any resolution to become apparent.

One of these is by a fairly abrupt reduction in atmospheric oxygen pressure, as would occur in one's being deposited atop a mountain by helicopter.

Given these findings, the evidence unarguably indicates that there is a causal relation between this abrupt reduction in use of E&P hormone therapy and the decline in breast cancer.