reduce

• reduce the number

  What are we really talking about when saying we would have to reduce the numbers of staff?

• reduce the amount

  Reducing the fraction of benefits which the manager receives will reduce the amount of effort put in, ceteris paribus.

• reduce the risk

  Advice is also available on injecting techniques and safer sex to reduce the risk of hepatitis or HIV.

• should reduce

  Object-oriented approaches should reduce this time dramatically, POSC says.

• help to reduce

  Learning effects may also help to reduce costs and thereby prices.

• able to reduce

  With the new, smaller board, they were able to reduce the support staff.

• attempt to reduce

  Domitian's decree was the first recorded attempt to reduce a European winelake.

• reduce the likelihood

  To use the term more widely may reduce the likelihood that the pupil will be encouraged to use any vision, however slight it may be.

• reduce the size

  Keys in all VSAM indexes are compressed, only the distinguishing parts of the keys being stored, in order to reduce the size of index entries.

• order to reduce

  In the same way, external stimuli become incorporated into dreams in order to reduce their arousing effect.

• reduce the level

  Even some Keynesians argued that higher rates or local taxes could reduce the level of private savings, thus boosting demand above the expected levels.

• also reduce

  Demonstrations also reduce risk because they prove the benefits of the product.

• reduce emissions

  The European Community (EC) has since agreed to stabilise or reduce emissions by 2000.

• likely to reduce

  Although slowing the traffic down it is unlikely to reduce the volume, and the pinch points will result in the tailback of vehicles waiting to get through.

• help reduce

  On July 4, 1989, the government, business leaders and the CTV signed an economic pact to help reduce inflation and combat recession.

• way to reduce

  The only sure way to reduce the danger is to reduce the world's store of uranium and plutonium.

• reduce the rate

  But the main interest is in trying to reduce the rate of first heart attacks among middle-aged men prone to CHD (men have maybe four times as many heart attacks as women).

• expect to reduce

• reduce speeds

  The narrowing on its own was unlikely however to reduce speeds significantly, so pinch points were placed at intervals of about 50m along the road.

• decide to reduce

• design to reduce

• reduce the need

  Such designs may include ‘simulation’— the modelling of a design and calculation of performance, for example to reduce the need to build experimental equipment.

• must reduce

  He must reduce himself to zero and have perfect control over all senses…’.

• use to reduce