Sentence examples for decreasing to about from inspiring English sources

In all years except 2000, the error rate was above acceptable 5% limit; however, after 2006 the gap between real and expected error rates became narrower, decreasing to about 4% in 2009.

At the beginning of the 1980s, HTO was estimated to constitute about 30% of the primary knee reconstruction surgery in Sweden (Tjörnstrand et al. 1981), decreasing to about 20% during the period 1989 1991 (Knutson et al. 1994).

Compared with women in occupational class I and II, age adjusted rates were about one third higher in women in occupational classes III manual and IV and V, decreasing to about 20% higher when adjusted for other risk factors.

Over most of the South African Highveld, the average annual rainfall is between 15 and 30 inches (380 and 760 mm), decreasing to about 10 inches (250 mm) near the western border and increasing to nearly 40 inches (1,000 mm) in some parts of the Lesotho Highlands; the South African Lowveld generally receives more precipitation than the Highveld.

Because it is situated in a very hot and dry region, however, Lake Nasser can lose up to 10 percent of its volume to evaporation annually when it is full, decreasing to about one-third that amount when it is at minimum capacity.

For higher concentrations, different kinetic regimes with reduced apparent diffusion constants DtotH were found, depending on the driving force, decreasing to about DtotH = 10−18 m2 s−1.

A century later this proportion had decreased to about one-tenth.

In addition, the friction coefficient decreases to about 0.1, and the corrosion resistance of coated substrate surfaces is improved significantly.

Velocities gradually decrease to about one knot off Cape Hatteras.

The amount of fat eaten daily by those in the schools with healthy-eating programs decreased to about 31percentt of their total calories, from 34percentt.

After the previous two studies raised questions about the drugs, sales of Vytorin and Zetia decreased to about $4.56 billion in 2008, compared with about $5.19 billion in 2007, according to a company regulatory filing.