- future perfect of decrease.
Example Sentences
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Accounting for both openings and closures, Starbucks’ store count will have decreased by about 1% at the end of fiscal year 2025, Niccol said.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025
This worker-to-beneficiary ratio currently stands at around 3-to-1; by 2040, it will have decreased to 2-to-1.
From Slate • Oct. 2, 2013
They'll want to buy more things because their preference for holding cash will have decreased.
From Economist • Jul. 26, 2012
Moreover, when we are as near to him as that, the light and heat of the Sun's rays will have decreased sixty or seventy per cent.
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth
In the first twenty-nine miles of this distance, the soundings will have decreased to nearly 30 fathoms, and the ship's place should be then abreast of the North-East end of King Island, distant ten miles.
