long-term reduction
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflong-termandreduction
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long-term
adjective
uk/ˌlɒŋˈtɜːm/us/ˌlɑːŋˈtɝːm/
continuing a long time into ...
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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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Distinguishing between these categories is useful because extinction causes along-termreductionin responding that prefeeding does not.
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Alternatively, the annual treatment over the period of the four-year trial could have caused along-termreductionin environmental worm burdens.
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A quite different picture emerged duringlong-termreductionof fetal placental blood -ow, achieved by in-ating an occluder around the distal aorta.
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Attempts to enforce a more rigorous version of the law involved both a short-term increase andlong-termreductionin recorded crimes of violence.
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Mortality change has traditionally been considered a necessary prerequisite to anylong-termreductionin fertility.
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We must look to along-termreductionin the number of people committing crime.
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It does not indicate anylong-termreductionin the cost of living.
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Massive spending in the public sector is irrelevant to the achievement of any substantial orlong-termreductionin unemployment.
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Until we have the courage to return to the contributory principle, we will not get anylong-termreductionin the welfare budget.
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The eventual success of our economic policies will bring along-termreductionin this evil.
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As we have shown in the past 10 years, along-termreductionin the tax burden is not incompatible with increases in public spending.
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There has been along-termreduction, but the figure fell faster in the 1980s than in previous decades.
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It can be defined as a mental or physical defect, medically ascertainable, which carries a considerablelong-termreductionin working capacity or a significant increase in living expenses.
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Thelong-termreductionin benefit expenditure from applying the deduction to those who are fit and able to work is provisionally estimated at approximately £9 million at 1990–91 prices.
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There is no other way to achieve the objective oflong-termreductionof existing differences in levels of development and the consequent enhancement of economic and social cohesion.
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International developments in recent months has generated a certain amount of uncertainty regarding our efforts to achieve our main aim, that is, a visible andlong-termreductionin unemployment.
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Thelong-termreductionplan set a target to reduce the number of children living in poverty by 25 per cent over 5 years.
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