51.   We must reduce the number of rules and regulations.

52.   We need to reduce the number of cars on the road.

53.   When governments reduce their numbers through layoffs, civil service employees with seniority can bump those with lesser seniority.

54.   Our aim was to reduce the number of accidents.

55.   There is a drive both to standardise components and to reduce the number of models on offer.

56.   Stricter speed limit enforcement has reduced the number of car accidents.

57.   The pots are transported carefully to reduce the number of breakages.

58.   As an illustration of the procedure, such a dialogue with the chief designer of a company produced an objective of reducing the number of drawing errors.

59.   Several authorities raised the number of special places and thus reduced the number of fee-payers.

60.   The assumption is that increasing arousal should reduce the number of peripheral cues used and thus impair performance on the subsidiary task while improving performance on a main task.