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The part of the sentence "decrease the extent" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use this phrase when you want to talk about reducing the degree or amount of something. For example, "The government implemented new laws to decrease the extent of poverty in the country."
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Recent experiments show that manipulating coalitional variables can dramatically decrease the extent to which race is noticed and remembered.
And higher tax revenue now will decrease the extent to which interest on the debt consumes future budgets — and that probably means lower taxes in the future.
Of the anions evaluated only phosphate additions markedly decrease the extent of localised corrosion observed and provide a comparable level of inhibition to chromate.
Chemical and physical characterisation of FOGs would provide useful information that would help in the development of methods designed to decrease the extent of pollution caused by disposal of the waste and to utilise commercially some of its lipid constituents.
The addition of βA3 could elongate the lag time and slow down the rate of S228P aggregation, but did not decrease the extent of aggregation (Fig. S7).
In another investigation, the reports indicate that utilization of VC at amount of 1 kg/m2 could decrease the extent of damages by M. incognita in tobacco (Swathi et al. 1998).
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The presence of aluminum decreased the extent of copper oxidation.
An increase in the amount of carboxyl group decreases the extent of reaction.
PC significantly (P < 0.05) decreased the extent of infarction in normal (8 +/- 2% of AAR), but not diabetic (22 +/- 4% of AAR), dogs.
However, recent developments in statistical methodology are decreasing the extent to which pseudoreplication has to be tolerated.
Reducing wall-particle rolling or static friction or the fraction of fine particles decreased the extent of size segregation.
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