greatest reduction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandreduction
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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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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(Definition ofgreatandreductionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Flanking stimuli at different locations reduced the response of these neurons, but the largest extraclassical stimuli produced thegreatestreductionin response.
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For example, it would permit tests of whether parasite strains that elicit thegreatestreductionin vector fecundity have the greatest transmission success into new hosts (adaptive for the parasite).
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The result is a significant, if modest decline in expenditure on these conditions, with thegreatestreductionin expenditure on heart disease, and the smallest reduction on cancer.
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Muscle response latency was also decreased by all interventions in all patients with thegreatestreductionoccurring after direct activation (p < 0.005).
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For example, thegreatestreductionin inflation will be caused by the reduction in mortgage interest payments.
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Thegreatestreductionin public sector house building took place between 1976 and 1979.
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Thegreatestreductionhas come in the biggest area of local authority budgeting.
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Thegreatestreductionin unemployment took place before a duty of any kind was put on.
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What we have seen is thegreatestreductionin payment appropriations in the history of the past ten years.
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It might be said that it should be as long as necessary to achieve thegreatestreductionin costs.
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It will be noticed that those are the districts where there has been thegreatestreductionin wages.
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We are suggesting that in such a situation one must assess what course of action is likely to bring about thegreatestreductionin the loss of innocent lives.
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What would be thegreatestreductioninvolved?
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Thegreatestreductionin air flow occurs when breathing out, as the pressure in the chest is compressing the airways at this time.
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Swimming organisms with a fusiform shape are likely to experience thegreatestreductionin both pressure and frictional drag.
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They have been subject to the greatest reductions in wages.
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The greatest reductions therefore necessarily go to those who have suffered the greatest increases.
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The villages already shared some services to lower their expenses, but the greatest reductions, especially in school and property taxes, would come from merging the two villages.
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