Sentence examples for has been a sharp reduction from inspiring English sources

Also, Mr. Weil said, there has been a sharp reduction in the percentage of robberies and assaults committed with guns since the Brady law went into effect, saving an estimated 9,368 lives from 1994 to 1998.

The report, "M&A: Hostility on the Horizon", by Carsten Stendevad, Anil Shivdasani and Gavriel Kimyagarov, notes that there has been a sharp reduction in the protections that managers can use to resist a hostile bid.

There has been a sharp reduction in violence in the West Bank over the last few years, with greater cooperation between the Israeli army and Palestinian security forces, but the relative calm is occasionally punctuated by attacks on Israelis, vandalism or attacks against Palestinian property or fatal encounters between Israeli forces and Palestinians.

There has been a sharp reduction in the number of 'hits' allowed, and penalties are right up and fines have been introduced.

Among the key environmental issues raised has been a sharp reduction in open-pit mining, which has devasted the local landscape, the faster reclamation of this land and its development for agriculture.

There has been a sharp increase in activism in Europe.

There has also been a sharp reduction in the number of people who have taken discrimination cases to employment tribunals – largely, unions say, because it is becoming unaffordable.

There has also been a sharp reduction in the persecution of many species which people previously either hunted for sport and food or sought to exterminate as vermin.

There's been a sharp reduction in child mortality.

That would have been a reduction.

Others have been a bit sharper.