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"was adjusted downwards" is correct and usable in written English
You can use the phrase to describe an event in which a quantity, amount, or value has decreased relative to an earlier state. For example, "The company's profit margin was adjusted downwards after the costs of materials increased."
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To reduce the risk of type I errors where multiple statistical tests were run on different distance ratios measured on the same dataset, the significance limit (α ≤ 0.05) was adjusted downwards according to Šidák (1967).
When an upstream gene was within the 3 kb, the size of the putative promoter was adjusted downwards.
Patients 50 years and older accounted for 69%% (5.9 MSEK; 0.7 M€) of the total drug cost.> -wrap-foot> *The number of prescriptions was adjusted downwards with 12%% to correct for prescriptions to other diagnosis than HZ During 2011, 370 patients with the diagnosis HZ were on sick leave for an average length of 51 days, based on information from the SSIA.
The prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in TB cases is estimated to be 5.1%. 1 Parameter values for this group assumed a higher mortality rate in treated and untreated case-patients, and the number of DALYs per case treated was adjusted downwards by 40% and 30% for smear-positive and smear-negative cases because of the lower life expectancy in surviving patients.
As the number of prescriptions of other drugs than antiviral drugs was based on the same patients who were prescribed antiviral drugs, the number of prescriptions of other drugs was adjusted downwards by 12%% to correct for the patients with other infections than VZV (see above).
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"People with old money nearly always have to be adjusted downwards," he said.
There are three "protected" budgets that will remain immune from the cuts – the NHS, schools and overseas development, though the latter will be adjusted downwards if Britain's gross national income (GNI) shrinks.
It will not be easy, says Mr Najafizada, but people's expectations and their budgets will have to be adjusted downwards once the economy is off a war footing.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected]: a little betterSIR – Your report on the recent HIV household survey in Kenya suggests that apparent discrepancies between preliminary results and the UNAIDS/WHO estimates of the HIV epidemic in Kenya mean that prevalence rates should possibly be adjusted downwards elsewhere in Africa ("Good news, apparently", January 17th).
The sums requested for the programme by President Barack Obama have routinely been adjusted downwards by Congress.
Grain and straw yields of malting barley were adjusted downwards by 10% prior to calculation.
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