This can be reduced to negligible proportions by further development of standardized definitions and statements.

Coldly, a part of his mind reduced the fears to normal proportions.

This had dramatically reduced the clinic's population to manageable proportions.

The problem was finally solved - or at least reduced to manageable proportions - by dumping the ship's atmosphere.

They cut down the ordinary meaning of the words and reduce them to reasonable proportions.

In charting development within the group two samples of boys have been used to reduce the task to manageable proportions.

Nearly everything was reduced to numbers and proportions.

"Carlos" is reduced to human proportions and in the compression a truly frightening man comes into focus.

There were several brain cases distended like bladders to a huge size, with the face mask reduced to quite small proportions.