Sentence examples for have tended to decrease from inspiring English sources

And since cities have competing dispensaries, prices have tended to decrease or at least keep pace with street prices.

In satoyama, species that require connectivity among habitats (e.g., grey-faced buzzard [Butastur indicus] and Genji firefly [Luciola cruciata]) have tended to decrease.

Therefore, a potential selection bias due to exclusion of people with missing information for exposure before the index date would have tended to decrease the strength of the association.

Over the last few decades, clinicians have tended to decrease VT from 8.8 ml/kg actual body weight (ABW) to 6.9 ml/kg ABW in critically ill patients [ 13].

Incidence rates in Sweden have tended to decrease among both men and women (Swedish Cancer Registry, 2000), during the past two decades in contrast to many other areas in the world.

Imports by developed countries have tended to decrease over the past two decades, while those by the developing countries remained steady through the 1960s, rose during the 1970s, but fell thereafter, having been replaced by rising imports of wheat and rice.

In countries with consistently collected data, NmB incidence has tended to decrease, even as the proportion of invasive meningococcal disease cases caused by serogroup B has increased.

Overall, expedition size has tended to decrease across time, with a notable exception the expedition of 2005 with 33 people, which is exceptionally large and stands out as an outlier.

The age-adjusted mortality rate of gastric cancer has tended to decrease worldwide, and the age-adjusted mortality and incidence rates in Japanese have also tended to decrease 12.

In the past 15 years, the incidence of some lineages distributed worldwide has tended to decrease, and local endemic clones and lineages have emerged.

In parallel their robustness has tended to decrease, as shown by the sensitivity to diseases, locomotor weakness or behavioral problems [ 1].