Decreased
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- By Season 5, while the occasional T&A scene still exists, the number of sex scenes noticably decreased as the show spent more time on storytelling.
Source: Coitus Ensues - Upon landing in the real world, she shows remarkably decreased maturity, possibly because the virtual world she spent her whole life in doesn't simulate hormones, and since she's a teenager now...yeah.
Source: Emotional Regression -
It spent several centuries as at least 300 states under one theoretical state, which decreased to around 20, both legally and in practice (though bound in an alliance), followed by a shrinking number until there were two left (as far as Germans of the time saw it).
Source: Balkanize Me
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