marked decrease
collocation in Englishmeanings of marked and decrease
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marked
adjective
uk
/mɑːkt/us
/mɑːrkt/
A marked change or difference in behaviour or in a situation is very obvious ...
(Definition of marked and decrease from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of marked decrease
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Faculty members claimed that they did not understand the reason for this ' marked decrease ', as they put it, yet they did leave some clue.
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No respondent assigned a "5" (marked decrease) to an event.
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The disease-induced mortality led to a marked decrease in 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 a marked decrease in fecundity.
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This could be due to the marked decrease in 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 a marked decrease in the mean number of iterations to convergence.
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There was a marked decrease in 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 a marked decrease in the proportion of personal names.
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Parasite abundance therefore declined rapidly just after a marked decrease in host abundance.
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However, this attempt to increase the readability of the book is more than negated by the marked decrease in quality of the photographs compared with the second edition.
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Offset of the vowel for all words was indicated by a marked decrease in the amplitude of the waveform.
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Hemodynamic studies after one year revealed a marked decrease in 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 a marked decrease of 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 a marked decrease.
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On the contrary, there has been a marked decrease in 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 a marked decrease in the number of outbreaks.
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He said there would be no specific or no marked decrease in local authority housing.
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I hope that the corresponding figure for this year may show a marked decrease.
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The number of petty offences also shows a marked decrease.
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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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