Sentence examples for reduction somewhat from inspiring English sources

Factors traditionally associated with reduced fertility, such as the proportion of women not in conjugal unions, the proportion using contraception, the proportion of women not fecund (primarily as a result of breast-feeding), and the level of induced abortions may have contributed to this reduction somewhat but do not seem to be the main force behind the changing fertility patterns in Canada.

The effect of General Petraeus's recommendations would be to begin troop reductions somewhat earlier than many experts had anticipated, while deferring deliberations on more fundamental troop issues.

If the effects of stratification become less severe under scenarios of reduced nutrient inputs, this would make the estimated loading reductions somewhat conservative.

This amounts to a reduction of somewhat less than four-tenths of a percentage point a year.

By the use of a computer model of a shallow rectangular enclosure it is demonstrated that whilst the reductions in Ep which can be achieved are still critically dependent on the source locations, the criteria governing the levels of reduction are somewhat different.

Although variance reduction is somewhat low (54.1%), the determined focal mechanism seemed to explain the polarities of the first P phase.

The degree of reduction varied somewhat between the different siRNAs, but these siRNAs were capable of reducing protein levels by 60 95% (quantitated blots, results not shown).

In the last case (the Brisbane/2007 polymerase genes), the magnitude of the activity reduction is somewhat less, but all three mutants are still clearly impaired.

If anything, the magnitude of risk reduction was somewhat greater in the group receiving both interventions than that observed in the group receiving routine blood pressure lowering alone.

A number of studies have indicated that patients prefer to take medication only when the degree of risk reduction is somewhat greater than the risk reduction at which clinicians and clinical guidelines recommend preventive treatment [ 5- 8].

The mean log10 reduction was somewhat lower in subjects with glove size 9 (1.03 ± 1.24), but the difference between all glove sizes was not significant (p = 0.051, ANOVA; Table  3).