Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb mod] reduce the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carl Wood , the chairman of the obstetrics and gynaecology department at Monash University , predicts that the freeze-thaw technique will reduce the number of surgical procedures needed to produce a pregnancy . |
| 2 | Mr Waddington , who hopes to eliminate prison overcrowding within three years , now appears to be satisfied that other sections of his white paper will reduce the number of less-serious offenders sent to prison . |
| 3 | We your Memorialists therefore pray that your Worshipful Company will reduce the number of scholars to such an amount as will ensure scholars with whom a tradesman 's son ought to associate , leaving others to go to the National Schools . " |
| 4 | Using computer simulations to complement physical experimentation can reduce the number of design options to be physically tested without compromising the design evaluation . |
| 5 | The assumption is that increasing arousal should reduce the number of peripheral cues used and thus impair performance on the subsidiary task while improving performance on a main task . |