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- Decrease in of - WordReference Forums
Hi, I'd like to know what sounds better to you: "decrease in turnover" or "decrease of turnover" "decrease in pressure" or "decrease of pressure" "increase in taxes" or "increase of taxes" "drop in income" or "drop of income" Is there a certain way to know when to chose IN and when OF?
- The decrease in of - WordReference Forums
"The decrease in oil consumption" is the correct way of saying this "Decrease of sth " is used more for expressing by how much something has decreased, e g They saw a decrease of 40% in sales etc
- decrease or decreases? - WordReference Forums
Use "decrease" to match your description Remember, what you should be describing is what the data represents, not the form it is presented in This does not mean that you cannot say that the number of local calls decreased in each of the three years 2000-2002, and then use "decreases", but don't feel that you have to describe the shape of the chart If the data had been plotted on a line
- To increase decrease reduce by X times times.
Unfortunately English is ambiguous in this respect People argue about it Everyone thinks it's obvious that 'four times bigger' means X and 'four times as big' means Y, but they disagree about X and Y If the budget was £1000 and it increased (by) eight times, or by a factor of eight, or by eight, is it now £8000 or £9000? We have previous threads about this, though I'm not sure how you
- increase decrease (by) . . . times - WordReference Forums
Dear English speakers, could you help me decide whether I must use 'by' to specify how much times one number increased decreased in relation to another number, as in the example below To me, it looks like there is substantial difference in the meaning The company's revenue increased two
- To decrease up - WordReference Forums
"To decrease by up to" could make sense "Illiteracy in the urban population has decreased by up to forty percent" - this means that the biggest reduction recorded in any one town is forty percent In the town (s) showing a forty percent reduction, illiteracy has been reduced by forty percent Edit: I have just seen post #3, in reply to which:
- decrease up down to - WordReference Forums
Hi, can you tell "temperature was decreased up to -20ºC"? I don't know if you can tell "down to" instead any suggestion? thanks for helping
- reduce decrease - WordReference Forums
reduce decrease When they are used in "verb + noun" form, what's (if any) the main difference between them? Are the following phrases correct? 1 reduce air pollution decrease air pollution 2 reduce happiness decrease happiness 3 reduce the speed decrease the speed 4 reduce
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