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I found this sentence in a book: "Binnen drei Jahren gingen 44 Prozent aller US-amerikanischen Banken pleite und verringerte sich der US-Export auf ein Viertel." My question is about "verringerte sich der US-Export auf ein Viertel." Does that mean that US exports afterwards were only 25% of what they were before? That sounds a bit strange to an English speaker, since we'd normally specify "reduced to a quarter of what they were before" instead of "reduced to a quarter."

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I found this sentence in a book: "Binnen drei Jahren gingen 44 Prozent aller US-amerikanischen Banken pleite und verringerte sich der US-Export auf ein Viertel." My question is about "verringerte sich der US-Export auf ein Viertel." Does that mean that US exports afterwards were only 25% of what they were before? That sounds a bit strange to an English speaker, since we'd normally specify "reduced to a quarter of what they were before" instead of "reduced to a quarter."
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