This ensured prompt scanning and reassurance, reducing the average waiting times for hospital admission.
Ethnic Mexicans, whether native or immigrant, are younger on average than Anglos, reducing the average age of greying Arizona's population.
In fact, many companies are intentionally reducing the average age of their work forces in an effort to save money.
O.K., not exactly nothing: some of the huge options grants at the top went away, reducing the average among the top 100.
Tatton-Brown said the smaller purchases were partly because of price pressure but also because customers were ordering more frequently, increasing total sales but reducing the average spend.
Reducing the average cost of capital on our £200bn low-carbon infrastructure programme by as little as 1%, would reduce interest payments by £2bn per annum.
But it has not yet achieved the most difficult goal: reducing the average workweek to the maximum allowed by Chinese law, a global monitoring group said on Thursday.
California has implemented the most ambitious such scheme in the country by reducing the average class size in the first three grades from 30 to 20 students.
At the same time, Nice has called for the acceleration of national salt reduction targets, with the aim of reducing the average British adult's intake to 6g a day by 2015, and 3g by 2025.
Reducing the average cost of paying for care from £30k to £20-25k hardly amounts to an ambitious transformation of the existing system, even if it ensures that the least well-off are fully protected.
The agency also instituted ChildStat, a case review system, and increased the number of child-protective caseworkers by about 400, reducing the average caseload to 11 per caseworker compared with an average of 21 in March 2006.
