marked decrease

collocation in English

meaningsofmarkedanddecrease

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marked
adjective
uk
/mɑːkt/us
/mɑːrkt/
A marked change or difference in behaviour or in a situation is very obvious ...
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decrease
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈdiː.kriːs/us
/ˈdiː.kriːs/
a ...
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(Definition ofmarkedanddecreasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmarked decrease

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Faculty members claimed that they did not understand the reason for this 'markeddecrease', as they put it, yet they did leave some clue.
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No respondent assigned a "5" (markeddecrease) to an event.
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The disease-induced mortality led to amarkeddecreasein the frequency of susceptible genotypes over the course of the epidemic.
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Stressful conditions therefore increase variability in fecundity when cumulative effects are sufficient to cause amarkeddecreasein fecundity.
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This could be due to themarkeddecreasein births, which has hindered the transmission of the virus from one susceptible individual to another.
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In this complicated region, there is amarkeddecreasein the mean number of iterations to convergence.
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There was amarkeddecreasein the use of opioid analgesics but an overall increase at the city level.
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At 60 words, the proportion of object names and action words had both increased while there was amarkeddecreasein the proportion of personal names.
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Parasite abundance therefore declined rapidly just after amarkeddecreasein host abundance.
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However, this attempt to increase the readability of the book is more than negated by themarkeddecrease in quality of the photographs compared with the second edition.
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Offset of the vowel for all words was indicated by amarkeddecreasein the amplitude of the waveform.
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Hemodynamic studies after one year revealed amarkeddecreasein pulmonary vascular resistance and a sustained reduction in the gradient across the left ventricular outflow tract.
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Arginine had no effect on the disease, whereas the inhibitor led to amarkeddecreaseof hepatic injury with, in particular, reduced fibrosis and decreased lipid peroxidation.
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The proportion of senior pupils in all-age schools continues to show amarkeddecrease.
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On the contrary, there has been amarkeddecreasein the total number of persons over seventy years of age in receipt of poor relief.
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I am glad to say that the latest figures show amarkeddecreasein the number of outbreaks.
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He said there would be no specific or nomarkeddecreasein local authority housing.
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I hope that the corresponding figure for this year may show amarkeddecrease.
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The number of petty offences also shows amarkeddecrease.
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