decrease in frequency
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used when the rate of something becomes lower (intransitive)
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- Since the upgrade, user complaints have decreased in frequency.
- After therapy began, her migraines gradually decreased in frequency.
- In winter, power outages in this region tend to decrease in frequency.
- By late autumn, sightings had decreased in frequency compared with spring.
- As the team fixed the bug, the crashes were decreasing in frequency week by week.
- During off-peak hours, trains decrease in frequency and run every 20 minutes.
- Once regulations tightened, safety violations quickly decreased in frequency.
- In recent years, extreme incidents seem to be decreasing in frequency globally.
- Have these incidents decreased in frequency since the new policy?
- If the exercises are effective, flare-ups should decrease in frequency over time.