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Studies show this may decrease the rate of property crime by up to 50% in the local area.

Priority must be given to anything that can help decrease the rate of this much too common cancer.

The hospital has managed to decrease the rate of illness in recent months, the report said.

Doses less than 0.5 mg should not be used as this may further decrease the rate.

This decreases the rate of decline, but will not change the well's total production significantly.

Burn prevention programs have significantly decreased rates of serious burns.

"If you want to decrease the rate, you have to be able to measure it," he said.

The result is important since it decreases the rate of bladder filling during the night and allows us to sleep longer.

The use of the equipment decreases the rate of biopsies by up to 40 percent, he said.

Research shows that these disease-modifying drugs can decrease the rate of relapses by about 30%.