The signal-to-noise ratio decreased until the message slid over into incomprehensibility.

As the ratio of points to stops decreases, mail gets more expensive to deliver.

It was also noted that the hip-to-waist ratio had decreased in these models from 1970 to 1990.

As corporations grew and labor rates increased, the ratio of secretaries to employees decreased.

For 40% the ratio decreases to 3 to 1.

Thus the ratio decreases as a liquid becomes increasingly polymeric.

Thus, the ratio of the two values, , decreases with increasing temperature.

The ratio of people of working age to those either under 20 or over 65 will decrease to 1.2 in 2050 from about 1.5 today.

For mothers having babies after the first, this ratio consistently decreased with each additional baby from 1.06 towards 1.03.

Conversely, the ratio of Korean ownership decreased from 63.2 to 60.2 to 47.3 percent.