The phrase "and a decreasing proportion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing trends or changes in quantities, particularly when indicating that a certain part of a whole is becoming smaller over time.
Example: "The survey results indicated that there is a growing number of participants, but a decreasing proportion of those who are satisfied with the service."
Alternatives: "and a diminishing share" or "and a shrinking percentage".
When considering aetiology of the most recent hospitalisation for the referred inpatients, however, very few and a decreasing proportion of patients were referred following percutaneous coronary intervention, but similarly there was a decreasing proportion of patients referred for bypass surgery.
It claims that in Britain three times as many horses are being produced as there were 40 years ago and a decreasing proportion - currently about 35perr cent - are sufficiently robust to start racing.
But few American adults, and a decreasing proportion of children and teenagers, consume enough dairy foods to get the recommended intakes of this essential mineral.
Our follow-up survey showed an increasing proportion of accidents and injuries and a decreasing proportion of non-communicable diseases.
The same three-group injury-repair biomarker pattern also corresponded with AKI type with an increasing proportion of patients adjudicated as ATN and a decreasing proportion adjudicated as pre-renal (overall chi-square P < 0.001, Figure 3B).
Additional file 2 shows that increasing gross household income was associated with a lower age at cohort enrolment and a smaller proportion of current smokers, and a decreasing proportion of women with advanced metastasis.
The second PC is orthogonal to the first, with each successive PC being both orthogonal to all those preceding, and accounting for a decreasing proportion of the variance.
Expression of the transcription factors AP-2γ and OCT4, and NANOG (a homeobox domain protein) was germ cell-specific and was detected in a decreasing proportion of the total germ cell population during progression through fetal life into the early postnatal period (Fig. 2).
Between the 1980s and the 2000s, with the rise of databases such as Compustat and EDGAR and software such as SAS, articles became mathematically more rigorous with increasingly sophisticated statistical analyses, and accounting practitioners comprised a decreasing proportion of authors in the journal.
The distribution by age and gender (Table 1) has shown a decreasing proportion of male patients with increasing age.
The current situation, unchanged, will lead to a UC System that educates a growing percentage of non-resident students, some from other states and others from other countries, with a decreasing proportion of resident students.
