The phrase "the extent of the decrease" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to how far something has decreased, or the amount of decrease, usually when discussing a numerical amount. For example: "The extent of the decrease in economic activity during the past year was unprecedented."
The extent of the decrease varies with event frequency and catchment size.
The extent of the decrease in surface resistivity depended on the polymer structures and physical properties.
The level of activation of these two regions predicted the extent of the decrease in fear behaviour produced by combined extinction and ABS.
Among the climate parameters, humidity was noted as the major environmental factor affecting the extent of the decrease of hydrophobicity rather than temperature and illumination.
However, the extent of the decrease of CTE and the deviation in Tg are significantly influenced by the alkyl chain length.
Additionally, the force-strain curves of the GFRP bars on the tensile side decreased when the GFRP-RCCs were subjected to eccentric loads, and the extent of the decrease was less than that on the compression side.
The present study clearly shows that the extent of the decreases in VEGF reflects later clinical improvement; a greater reduction at 6 months post treatment predicts better prognosis at 1 year.
However, in our study no difference in the extent of the decreased phosphorylation was observed in responders or non-responders, and we saw no increase in EGFR or HER2 expression or in phosphorylated MAP kinase activity in the clinical non-responders.
Notably, the extent of the initial decrease and then subsequent induction of MYC mRNA production varied among the cell lines.
In repeated testing, the extent of the subsequent decrease in the measured fluorescence signal due to the first antibody addition varied between 9% and 46%.
The extent of the frequency decrease for G C→A T was the strongest in exons: 19.2% (from 54.4% to 35.2%).
