Example sentences of "to reduce the [noun sg] of [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend the Minister of State will understand why there is reluctance to change a system that has served us well and to reduce the frequency of inspections from once every year to once every four years . |
| 2 | I suspect that most chemists will experience a twinge of alarm to hear that ammonium ferric hexacyanoferrate II is an approved feed additive in Norway for animals destined for human consumption and wonder why this expensive synthetic material is being studied in the UK as a way to reduce the transfer of caesium from feed to animal , rather than cheap , naturally occurring , widely available alternatives like bentonites or zeolites . |
| 3 | In a sense , such clearly defined ground rules are said to reduce the alienation of labour from management , and provide a secure base for corporate harmony . |
| 4 | In the same broadcast , Erman announced government proposals to cut armed forces numbers from an estimated 75,000 to 55,000 and to reduce the period of conscription from a year to six months , although in the current year the number of conscripts called up was expected to be doubled . |
| 5 | : To assess the use in semantic analysis of definitions extracted from the CED and re-indexed using the 18,800-lexicon , to reduce the ambiguity of output from a text recognition system . |
| 6 | Any covering will help to reduce the loss of nutrients from the soil but the advantage of growing crops such as mustard or rape is the improvement to soil structure when ploughed or dug into the soil in spring . |
| 7 | A preliminary round to be created to reduce the number of teams from the present 21 to 16 , consisting of the three nonfirst-class sides and seven first-class counties taken in alphabetical order of rotation . |
| 8 | Bearing in mind that 500,000 Nepalese soldiers served with the British forces in the two world wars , that no fewer than 50,000 were either killed or seriously wounded , that 13 won Victoria Crosses , that 13 British officers serving with the Gurkhas also won Victoria Crosses , and that under ’ Options for Change ’ we are proposing to reduce the number of Gurkhas from 8,000 to 2,500 , can my hon. Friend assure the House that the Foreign Office will take into account the reduction in what amounts to aid , currently provided through pay and pensions , in its future plans for aid to Nepal ? |
| 9 | A new National Council of Ministers was sworn in on Jan. 13 ; its predecessor had been dissolved on Jan. 3 following a decision to reduce the number of ministries from 25 to 16 as part of a rationalization of the civil service . |
| 10 | To apply that principle here : suppose the corporation proposed to reduce the number of taxicabs from 300 to 200 , it would be their duty to hear the taxicab owners ' association : because their members would be greatly affected . |
| 11 | Editor , — Gary P Bray makes several suggestions to reduce the number of deaths from paracetamol overdose . |