The person being punished had his or her money reduced by three units.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

And I'm going to show you an example in a 1 second, just to drive this home, but notice the characteristics. In the first two cases, the problem reduced by 1 at each step.

在前面两个例子里,每一部问题的规模缩小了,不管是迭代的还是递归的，这表明这个问题的复杂性可能是线性的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Now. You might look at that and say, well that's just a lot like what we had over here Right? We had some additive constant plus a simpler version of the same problem reduced in size by 1.

现在你可能会看着这个说，这很像我们以前做过的,对不对？我们用一些附加的常量,加上问题的另外一个规模缩小了1的,简化版本来代替这个问题本身。

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A second goal is for the number of malaria cases and deaths to be reduced by fifty percent or more from the number reported in two thousand.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

And they found that odors were reduced by eighteen percent.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

But wild populations have been reduced by too much harvesting.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Populations of wading birds have been reduced by ninety percent.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

"Brazil,Cameroon,and Indonesia have all reduced illegal logging significantly - one of our indicators suggest that the illegal logging in each of those countries may have been reduced by anywhere from half to three-quarters."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

The University of North Carolina School of Medicine conducted a study that shows that by training local birth attendants in a method promoted by the World Health Organization, the number of still births was reduced by about 30 percent.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

Congress reduced the surplus even more by approving money to build coastal defenses and to buy warships for the Navy.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

A recent study showed that RTS,S reduced clinical cases of malaria by fifty-three percent over an eight month follow-up period.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Scientists say an experimental vaccine reduced the risk of infection in human beings by thirty-one percent and was safe.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

Scientists say an experimental vaccine reduced the risk of infection in humans by thirty-one percent and was safe.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

But now,military officials say the area held by the Tamil Tigers has been reduced to just a few square kilometers of beachfront.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

They found that over a period of six years, planting three rows of trees reduced total dust and ammonia by more than half.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Women who used the tenofovir gel reduced their risk of HIV infection by thirty-nine percent.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

But,because of the economy, employers reduced the number of internships available by twenty-one percent.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

The gel reduced the rate of infection of herpes simplex-two by fifty-one percent.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

It also reduced cases of severe malaria by forty-nine percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

We reduced that cash by approximately ninety percent."

VOA: special.2009.10.30

"We have also reduced people's vulnerabilities by increasing civil service pay, by settling arrears,all of which have contributed to corruption,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

And with that innovation, she has reduced infant mortality by 50 percent already."

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

That force is scheduled to be reduced from nearly by next October,and to zero by the end of 2011, although Secretary Gates said Friday there could be a follow-on agreement for some U.S.troops to stay, particularly elements of the Air Force.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12