Sentence examples for decrease in proportion to from inspiring English sources

"decrease in proportion to" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is typically used to describe a decrease in one thing that is directly related to or dependent on a decrease in another thing. For example: "The number of students attending the workshop decreased in proportion to the tuition fee increase." In this example, the decrease in the number of students attending the workshop is directly related to or dependent on the increase in tuition fees. Here are a few more examples: - "As the temperature drops, the demand for warm clothing also decreases in proportion to." - "The amount of food available for the animals decreased in proportion to the length of the drought." - "The value of the property decreased in proportion to the amount of damage caused by the hurricane."

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The N.H.L.'s salary cap for this season is about $39 million and will increase or decrease in proportion to league revenue.

The study says that participation by blacks and Hispanics in higher education will actually decrease in proportion to their populations between 1995 and 2015.

The number of seats may increase or decrease in proportion to the size of the country's population.

If the ray just grazes the edge of the Sun, the angular deflection should be 1.75 arc seconds, and the deflection should decrease in proportion to the distance of the ray from the Sun's edge.

The fraction of RCA does not decrease in proportion to the decrease of specimen size.

The full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the 2D peak of CVD graphene, Γ2D, was found to decrease in proportion to carrier mobility, but the intensity ratio of the Raman D and G bands (ID/IG) was not related.

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The rate difference, or spread, between the ARM and a fixed-rate loan is critical, he said, because it decreases in proportion to the security sought.

The force also increases in proportion to the rapidity with which air is drawn into the lung and decreases in proportion to the force with which air is expelled from the lungs.

"The chances of being elected pope decreases in proportion to the number of times he is described papabile in the press," George Weigel, a Vatican expert, told CNN in 2005.

Precolonial Fipa established a segmentary state between 300 and 500 years ago, with a paramount chief at Milansi whose authority decreased in proportion to the distance from this centre.

It is difficult to illuminate a large picture, because screen brightness decreases in proportion to the square of the increase in screen size; i.e., the light source used to produce a 30-foot-wide picture will have to be not twice but four times as bright as that for a 15-foot image.

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