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The phrase "reduces the proportion" is correct and perfectly usable in written English
It is typically used to describe a situation in which something decreases or lessens the amount or share of something else. For example: - The new tax policy reduces the proportion of income that wealthy individuals must contribute. - Regular exercise reduces the proportion of body fat and increases muscle mass. - The company's decision to cut costs reduces the proportion of its budget allocated to marketing. - Environmental conservation efforts aim to reduce the proportion of plastic waste in our oceans. - Increased access to education reduces the proportion of illiteracy in developing countries.
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Agricultural growth reduces the proportion of underweight children, whereas non-agricultural growth does not.
Even if Forest City Ratner reduces the proportion of low- and middle-income units in the project, new market-rate units will add supply and reduce housing prices for all New Yorkers.
The change, which reduces the proportion of a film's budget that must be spent in the UK for a production to qualify for tax relief, is expected to benefit Britain's globally renowned special-effects industry.
They use a variety of statistical tests to conclude that a percentage-point drop in the turnover of workers reduces the proportion of men under 25 without a high school diploma in work by 1.4 percentage points.Some economists at Jackson Hole found the statistical tests unconvincing.
This indexation reduces the proportion of ARDS patients for whom EVLW is in the normal range.
Increasing the arc current reduces the proportion of porosity and hardness of the coatings and modifies their composition due to the increasing dilution of the cast iron.
Inbreeding reduces the proportion of heterozygotes, making recessive alleles more likely to be found in homozygotes where their negative phenotypic effects become apparent.
However, it alters the national-origin mix of the immigrant flow, which reduces the proportion of immigrants from regions that generate flows of those who are low skilled.
Cutting off the external access of randomly-oriented fires along an infinite edge reduces the proportion burnt per year at the edge to one half; the average interval doubles there.
On average, working split shifts increases the proportion of women who eat at home or in a restaurant and reduces the proportion of those having a meal on the job.
1H CRAMPS (combined rotation and multiple-pulse spectroscopy) and 13C cross-polarization/magic angle spinning (CP/MAS) spectra of extruded and stabilized lignin fibers indicate stabilization severely reduces the proportion of methoxy groups present, while also increasing the relative proportion of carbonyl and carboxyl-related structures, typically associated with cross-linking chemistries.
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