"anticipate a decrease" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which you expect something to decline. For example: "We anticipate a decrease in the number of customers this winter due to the COVID-19 pandemic."
Only 22% of them anticipate a decrease in hiring, down from 86% a year ago.
Expectations also fell to 65.7, with fewer Americans foreseeing an increase in income, while more anticipate a decrease.
By notifying applicants' institutions and the NRMP regarding inaccuracies and publicizing these efforts, we anticipate a decrease in intentional erroneous claims on applications.
Considering marital status as an indirect marker of global social interactions, we thus hypothesize that an MS patient with a severe disease course would anticipate a decrease in his/her social interactions.
With improved experimental control, signal acquisition, and imaging apparatus, we anticipate a decreased noise level in the optical signal and, as a result, significantly less regularization will be required in the reconstruction.
Within the next decade the Air Force anticipates a decrease in manned aircraft but expects its number of "multirole" aerial drones like the Reaper — the ones that spy as well as strike — to nearly quadruple, to 536.
In another report, chief executives of many corporations are anticipating a decrease in expected sales, capital expenditures and employment figures for the next six months, the Business Roundtable said Tuesday, underscoring the significant pressures that the global economy continues to put on businesses.
When the recession fully took hold in 2008, many lawyers cut back even more on their number of employees, anticipating a decrease in the number of new clients who were able to pay their fees for divorce.
Rather than an increase in HR we had anticipated a decrease, since opioids are known to cause bradycardia through medullary vagal stimulation [ 41].
We chose not to include math skill only items on the outcome assessment, because we anticipated a decrease in student effort had they been asked to complete an overly long assessment for which they were receiving participation credit only.
