progressive decrease
collocation in Englishmeanings of progressive and decrease
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(Definition of progressive and decrease from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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The progressive decrease in the right ventricular systolic pressure with both age and somatic growth also supports the anatomical changes observed.
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The patient defaulted until the age of 17, when progressive decrease in exercise tolerance was noted.
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Recent observations tend to show that there is a progressive decrease in the foetal haeligmodynamic consequences induced by malaria.
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We can also calculate a progressive decrease in pollution load if mitigation measures are taken in more than one step.
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In early pregnancy, collagen fibres are tightly packed together but as delivery approaches, the fibres become more disordered and there is a progressive decrease in their content.
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There was a progressive decrease in mortality, and in length of stadium of those which moulted, nymphs fed on a series of bolls of increasing size.
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As demobilisation has proceeded, there has been a progressive decrease.
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It shows that, so far as generating expenses are concerned, there has been a progressive decrease.
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Is it not a fact that there has been a progressive decrease in the importation of negative cinema film?
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We were warned by statisticians of population that there would be a progressive decrease in the supply of juveniles for employment between 1938 and 1941.
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There was, as he said, a progressive decrease over the 10 years 1924–33, not in the total of wages, but in the rate of wages.
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Increasing dosages of carpaine from 0.5 mg/kg to 2.0 mg/kg resulted in progressive decrease in systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial blood pressure.
In substrate inhibition there is a progressive decrease in activity at high substrate concentrations.
There is progressive decrease in the height of the landforms.
The gas trapped inside the clathrates is predominantly biogenic and hints to a progressive decrease in microbial activity with depth and an additional upward migration throughout the sediment column.
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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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