The phrase "attrition on a" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to assess its correctness in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing the gradual reduction of something, such as personnel or resources, but it needs to be followed by a noun to clarify its meaning.
Example: "The company is experiencing attrition on a significant scale due to recent layoffs."
Alternatives: "loss of" or "reduction in".
Next he got his POWs home - a political necessity - by agreeing to allow North Vietnamese forces to remain in the South and to compensate for attrition "on a one for one basis".
When asked about job attrition on a public conference call Monday, Dell was curt: "I think there are other companies in our industry who are far better at reducing headcount than we are, so jump on their calls," he said.
Four years after the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants slugged out a 13-10 war of attrition on a morass of a surface in the first such game, enough people were still prepared to stump up hard cash to watch to fill Wembley to see two struggling teams.
We examined the patterns and reasons for attrition on a yearly basis.
Table 6 summarises the number of active patients per wave and shows the patient attrition on a quarterly basis as well as the number of active patients remaining at the end of each quarter.
How you can hope to represent attrition on such a scale — to find a dramatic form, usually spun around a single hero, that will hint at more expansive suffering — is a conundrum that Crowe, who directs "The Water Diviner" as well as starring in it, is hardly the first filmmaker to wrestle with.
Assuming a 3 1 ratio of FHR and CO, and a 15% attrition on follow-up, a sample of 316 (158 receiving intervention and 158 in a control arm) is required to detect an effect of intervention that halves the risk of SMI as statistically significant (p < 0.05) in a survival analysis with a power of 80%.
Thus, it is possible to extract the dependence of the rate of reduction of radius (affected by a fuel's reactivity and attrition) on radius from a measured steady-state particle size distribution.
St George Illawarra won a war of attrition 13-0 on a wet and windy Saturday night at Hunter Stadium to end Newcastle's unbeaten start to the NRL season and claim the inaugural Alex McKinnon Cup.
Grant knew that Lee had limited manpower and that a war of attrition fought on a battlefield without entrenchments would lead to Lee's defeat.
It's more like a war of attrition on your will than an outright assault on your freedom.
