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• risk: A drug called warfarin is also commonly advised to reduce the risk of having a stroke.

• emission: The UK Energy White Paper sets a national target to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60 % by 2050.

• cost: How can I reduce the cost of solder by 60 % ?

• crime: This did reduce crime over the period of the Initiative.

• inequality: Government policies to reduce inequality must give you more power over your life.

Modifying Another Word

• significantly: Low protein diets during early pregnancy in rats were found to significantly reduce birth weight of pups.

Present participle complement

• wait: In other areas we are also making improvements and aim to reduce waiting times even further.

• gazump: The Government claim the HIPâs will reduce gazumping and reduce the number of sales that fall through.

• operate: Sound waste management practice by textiles manufacturing companies can significantly reduce operating costs.

• accord: The concentration in the body does not float down but reduces more rapidly according to the intake.

Preposition: by

• two-third: A truly encouraging performance on crime was delivered by the New York police between 1993 and 2001, where it was reduced by two-thirds.

• %: Village records show that typhoid is reduced by 90 % once there is access to clean potable water.

• percent: The original elephant seal population of about 93,000 to 110,000 animals was reduced by 70 percent as a result of these operations.