"the smallest decrease" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a small decrease in something, such as a price or a quantity. Example: "The stock market saw a slight decline, with the smallest decrease seen in the technology sector."
It was the smallest decrease since January, when inventories rose.
The report also showed inventories of durable goods fell 0.6percentt in January, the smallest decrease since April of last year.
Nationwide, serious crime declined just three-tenths of a percent in the first six months of 2000 compared with the same period in 1999, the smallest decrease since the nation's crime rate began falling in 1992, according to F.B.I. statistics.
Non-Hispanic whites registered a 3 percent decline, or 31,649 (compared with a drop of nearly 362,000 in the 1990s) — the smallest decrease in a half-century of white flight.
That's the smallest decrease during what is now a three-year slump in the prices paid to Google for ads appearing alongside search results and other Web content, a measure known as "cost-per-click".
Serious crime declined in the first six months of 2000 compared with the same period in 1999, but only by three-tenths of 1percentthethe smallest decrease since the nation's crime rate began falling in 1992, according to a report released yesterday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Although all treated populations suffered initial declines, those experiencing the smallest decreases were most likely to be evolutionarily rescued.
The DecDyNL0.8 model showed the smallest decreases in ROM during flexion (-58.96%) and lateral bending (-32.48%) compared to the INT model.
Conversely, moving two transduction units from the largest group to the smallest decreased predicted firing rates for supra-threshold displacements by 25%.
Will Morris, the managing director of retail at SSE, defended the small decrease.
Will Morris, managing director, Retail at SSE, defended the small decrease compared to slumping wholesale prices.
