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How To Use reduction In A Sentence

• The abrupt facies shift, bioturbation and cemented nature of the surfaces suggests that they represent marine flooding surfaces, formed during a rapid rise in relative sea level and/or a reduction in sediment supply.
• The advent of specific drugs joined with a more research-based, reductionist brand of medical diagnosis.
• Whether these positive initiatives will be enough to overcome disappointment on the limited over-all budget reduction will depend on the extent to which the investor is willing to look beyond near-term sluggishness in North American growth. Budget '85 Special Meeting of The Empire Club of Canada
• Both the antisense drug and glibenclamide led to 75% reductions in spinal cord lesion volume six weeks after the injury, compared with sham-treated animals, the researchers reported. Social Security Reports, News and Informaion
• A reduction in the days that vessels can spend at sea means trawlers fish harder near their home ports. Times, Sunday Times
• We observe a reduction in fluorescence anisotropy only in the presence of FRET from linked mVenus and mCerulean.
• In a medium saucepan, bring the lobster stock reduction to a boil, add the cream, and simmer until reduced by half.
• As a beneficial side effect, there was a notable reduction of damage to the crop by the rice brown planthopper; on the negative side, there have been reports that neem has a detrimental impact on non-target organisms, including fish. Chapter 13
• The latest cut last month was an average 15 % reduction in maturity values.
• Not to be outdone, many historians came to consider scholars trained in economics to be overly narrow, inattentive to historical context, and interpretively reductionistic.