gradual reduction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgradualandreduction
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gradual
adjective
uk/ˈɡrædʒ.u.əl/us/ˈɡrædʒ.u.əl/
happening or changing slowly over a long period of time ...
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reduction
noun
uk/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən/us/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən/
the act of making something, or of something becoming, smaller in size, amount, degree, ...
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Prudential regulation assures agradualreductionof the financial system's risk, but not rising expected returns, especially for longterm assets.
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He had agradualreductionin the use of negation over time (as a function of all utterances in his samples).
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The regime lasts for two weeks, followed by agradualreduction.
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This suggests that most of the alteration takes place at an early stage with agradualreductionof alteration rate with age.
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It seems that agradualreductionin follicular temperature is taking place during follicular development in the pig.
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During this latter step agradualreductionin temperature and simultaneous increase in relative humidity is desirable.
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Sudden cessation orgradualreductionin smoking are similar in their efficacy on average.
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Agradualreductionof the optical density of the solution as a function of the irradiation time can be observed.
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This permitted agradualreductionof humidity within the jars, ensuring that the plantlets would begin to adjust to more field-like conditions.
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But thegradualreductionin public transport provision and the increased reliance on the motor car has progressively restricted the options of commuters.
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A possible source of bias is thegradualreductionin stillbirth ratio over time.
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Additionally, agradualreductionprocess seems warranted considering that macroeconomic impacts can be significant if important emission reductions are required.
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Again, there is agradualreductionof the difference with time.
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For ambiguous responses, there was a moregradualreductionwith age.
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This resulted in much swapping and recategorization as overarching explanatory headings developed, based directly on thegradualreductionof the original data.
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This resulted in much swapping and re-categorization as overarching explanatory headings developed, based directly on thegradualreductionof the original data.
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A pervasive hazard causes agradualreductionin the resource potential of a landscape and affects the resident population in much the same way as overpopulation.
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In the regions with, initially, a greater intensity of marriage, agradualreductioncan be observed, while those where there were fewer opportunities to marry tended to experience an increase.
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Considering medical indications first, there was agradualreductionin these over the years.
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As a general phenomenon, agradualreductionin abundance of high molecular weight proteins was significantly apparent in silver-stained profiles, accompanied by an increase of the low molecular weight molecules.
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