large decrease
collocation in Englishmeanings of large and decrease
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(Definition of large and decrease from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of large decrease
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All populations diverged from the base population - an expected result given the large decrease in genetic variability.
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This represents a very large decrease from a high of almost 36% in the early 1950s.
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A large decrease in the coverage of votes deemed important by liberal and conservative lobbying groups is also evident.
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The residual methods, however, give very different, but similar-shaped graphs: large decrease initially followed by increases in performance at later iterations.
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An increase in employment in the service industries was offset by a large decrease in the numbers employed in the manufacturing and production industries.
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There is an increase in the expenditure on the diseases of animals branch, yet there is this large decrease in drainage work.
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Has there been, under these new arrangements, a very large decrease in the overhead expenses of collection?
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The destruction of small companies has meant a large decrease in the numbers in employment.
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Would privatisation result in a diminution in safety standards and thus lead to a large decrease in safety in the public sector?
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We expect a loss, but we hope there will he a large decrease.
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Those returns indicate that there is not likely to be either a large increase or a large decrease in private capital formation next year.
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It would be very strange, when the war is over, if there were not a very large decrease there.
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Other expenses show a large increase, and one a very large decrease.
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There was a large decrease, and with one exception it was the best year for seven years.
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Then we have forgotten about the reductions in the insurance benefit and the consequent large decrease in the purchasing power of the home.
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He confessed that in two important trades, cotton and coal, there was a very large decrease in employment.
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It is proposed to make a slight increase in the rate on uncertificated sugar, but on the certificated sugar it is proposed to make a large decrease in the duty.
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However one looks at this, one must be like the proverbial ostrich with its head in the sand not to realise that there has been a large decrease in unemployment.
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said when you want to say something good about yourself, but do not want to seem to think you are too important
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