Decreased

Examples

• The yield from both sources has considerably decreased. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• To these inventions might be added many others which have increased the efficiency and production of the business world and have decreased the labor and strain of domestic life. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The usual practice in forging is to continue it until the ingot is decreased to one-half its original thickness and is within two inches of the desired diameter of the finished work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Agriculture must have declined, and the population notably decreased through the plagues and distresses from which it had suffered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Decreased Cost of Electricity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But all this while, the cost of electricity has steadily decreased. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Their sufficiency decreased with knowledge, they wanted more. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As is usually the case in the prosecution of such enterprizes, the difficulties decreased on examination. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• All miners were equipped with either the Davy lamp or the Geordie lamp, as the other was called, and the mine fatalities from fire-damp immediately decreased. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• By blowing hard or gently, the number of vibrations of the reed is increased or decreased and hence the pitch is altered. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

Checked by Harriet