"curb the increase" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to control or limit the growth or rise of something. Example: The government must take immediate action to curb the increase in pollution levels in the city.
The all-party parliamentary hepatology group said the government, the NHS and PHE must take action to curb the increase.
It is unacceptable that world leaders are still stalling on a global plan to cut emissions of carbon to curb the increase of temperatures.
The central bank is expected to raise its benchmark lending rate next week for a fifth consecutive month to curb the increase in monthly inflation.
But even the Postal Service's avowal to try to curb the increase does not placate publishers like Mr. Little, who criticized the Postal Service as poorly managed.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) revealed the 505% rise in Islamophobic incidents as officers said they would take tough action to curb the increase in hate-fuelled incidents.
Hoping to curb the increase in the number of young people who smoke small, inexpensive cigars, Baltimore plans to bar shops from the common practice of breaking open packages to sell them individually.
To help win passage of the debt increase, Democratic leaders put forward budget rules intended to curb the increasing deficit.
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1994).), which may explain why the auditing literature's reductionist, holistic and historical-event approaches to audit risk and fraud do not curb the increasing number of fraud cases occurring today.
The panel called on the international community to halt arms transfers to Syria and to take "tangible steps to curb the increasing influence of extremists," insisting there is no possibility of a military solution.
Now we know why Facebook is not making any effort to curb the increasing invasions of privacy that are occurring as a result of more and more consumers are using the site.
