Sentence examples for towards a decreasing from inspiring English sources

John Britton, the director of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies at the University of Nottingham, said the trend towards a decreasing use of smoking cessation services was likely to be down to a number of factors, including cuts to mass media campaigns and the move of stop smoking services into local authority control.

This review does not show any trend towards a decreasing incidence of TBI in Europe.

A general trend towards a decreasing incidence of endophthalmitis has been observed in recent decades [ 2- 4], with incidence rates ranging from 0.05 to 0.4% after intraocular surgery.

The prevalence in children born 1995 98 and resident in western Sweden in December 2002 was 1.92/1,000, and a trend towards a decreasing prevalence compared to the birth years 1991 94 was reported [ 8].

The fact that there was a tendency towards a decreasing risk of asthma in workers with longer work history may indicate a healthy worker effect due to the irritating properties of NCl3 in pool environments.

Four years of warfarin use in the 5-year period immediately preceding the index date was associated with a rate ratio of 0.80; there was a trend towards a decreasing rate ratio for prostate cancer with increasing duration of warfarin use through 5 years (Tagalakis et al, 2007).

Our data partly contradicts the tendency towards a decreased respiration of isolated skeletal muscle mitochondria by Garrabou et al. [10].

In fact there was a tendency towards a decreased frequency of CD8 Foxp3+ T cells in both pMOG- and pMOG-IFNbeta treated rats (Fig. 8B and C).

A trend towards a decreased ipsilateral STR volume was observed at wk 1, but this failed to reach statistical significance (Figure 4B).

In contrast, nonspecific COX inhibitors showed a tendency towards a decreased rate of proteoglycan synthesis [ 18].

A low CNR (<5) was also associated with a trend towards a decreased OS (p = 0.062) in ER-positive patients.