Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] reduce [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain , the Beeching Report on ‘ Reshaping the Railways ’ ( BRB 1963 ) led to a programme of closures and cutbacks that by 1968 had halved the number of stations , closed 8,000 km of route , halved the number of goods wagons and sharply reduced passenger services ; by 1970 , railway employment was less than half what it had been in 1963 . |
| 2 | Corebyte — first used in BP 's four-well slimhole drilling programme in the Congo — provided near real-time data from Norne to optimise logging and testing operations and significantly reduce rig time . |
| 3 | Anticipating claims that industrialized countries could not afford the higher costs involved , the report stressed that higher government spending would raise incomes and actually reduce budget deficits . |
| 4 | If employees are provided with detailed information packs on the proposed new area at the time of the announcement this can go a long way to answering some of their questions and thus reducing anxiety . |
| 5 | In a mass , however , the birds sometimes defend the nowers and thereby reduce cross-pollination . |
| 6 | John Greig , the club 's public relations executive , said : ‘ We are far from satisfied with the security arrangements and greatly reduced number of tickets now on offer . |
| 7 | John Greig , the club 's public relations executive , said : ‘ We are far from satisfied with the security arrangements and greatly reduced number of tickets now on offer . |
| 8 | They alleviate market imperfections caused by a lack of information in the market for loans and therefore reduce information and search costs ( e.g. merchant banks ) . |
| 9 | However , it is likely that these various arrangements help to reduce the volatility of exchange rates and thus reduce uncertainty . |
| 10 | Asset backed bonds , usually secured against pools of illiquid loans , offer financial institutions a means of removing assets from their balance sheets and thus reducing capital requirements ; but such securitisation can also be seen as a tool which facilitates the separation of the loan origination and funding function of banks . |
| 11 | Weighting allows pre-judging of the relevance of any points and so reduces emphasis on suspect data . |
| 12 | Few canopy trees in Costa Rica are bird-pollinated and those that are , are visited by passerines such as orioles , which travel in groups : hummingbirds would turn trees into individual feeding territories and thus reduce pollination . |
| 13 | The aid was part of a package drawn up by the responsible EC Commissioner , Abel Matutes Juan , as part of the EC 's contribution to economic development in the region ( in particular by creating jobs and thus reducing emigration pressures ) and of its efforts to stimulate the political dialogue with Arab countries and Israel . |