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The phrase "attrition set in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a gradual reduction in numbers or strength begins to occur, often in contexts like workforce reduction or the diminishing of resources.
Example: "As the project dragged on without sufficient funding, attrition set in, leading to a significant loss of team members."
Alternatives: "decline began" or "diminishment started".
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It was a brilliantly paced fight until the attrition set in, but at the end, Chavez was throwing and landing right hands despite the pain.
In its Thursday edition, The Times recounted how time revealed just how narrow Kennedy's margin of victory really was: "Just about midnight a slow process of attrition set in that whittled away at his 'sure' win until, in the dramatic hours of the early morning, it was clear that this was the closest election in generations".
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Looking Ahead As the years pass and class size dwindles, 50th reunions are the last hurrah before major attrition sets in along with reduced activities and hours.
It could have flopped, attrition could have set in, and it was still small enough to be vulnerable to competitors.
They showed grit before fatigue set in, but the Premiership is now about more than attrition.
To allow for sample attrition, we set a sample size target of n = 650 per group.
We plan to evaluate risk of selection and attrition bias using the Cochrane guidelines as set out in Review Manager V.5.2 (http://ims.cochrane.org/RevMan).org/RevMan
Sample attrition due to censoring was set at 1% per month.
There is no significant difference between the average attrition rate in the OPM historical data set and the model data output for any of the three model types.
Each of the two job classifications has defined satisfaction threshold levels in three segments: satisfied, committed, and unsatisfied; these segments are based on the NASA 2005 OPM data set for age-group attrition rates.
The stage is set for a battle of attrition.
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