decrease in number
Frequency: 7.010.3 per million words
to become fewer
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Examples (10)
- The population of native birds will continue to decrease in number if we don't protect their habitat.
- After the factory closed, the town's residents began to decrease in number.
- The available job opportunities have sharply decreased in number over the last year.
- As automation improves, we expect that manual labor roles will decrease in number.
- We are observing a trend of bookstores decreasing in number due to online competition.
- Why did the student enrollments decrease in number so suddenly this semester?
- If poaching continues, the elephant population could decrease in number to a critical level.
- It was noted that the complaints had started to decrease in number after the new policy was implemented.
- The study shows that certain insect species are decreasing in number at an alarming rate.
- The committee reported that attendees had decreased in number compared to the previous conference.