Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] decline " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother , she just entered a mysterious decline . |
| 2 | J. B. S. Haldane argued in 1938 , ‘ We may , I think , if the existing differences in fertility of social class continue , expect a slow decline of perhaps 1 or 2 per cent per generation in the mean intelligence quotient of the country ’ . |
| 3 | More unusual makes , such as Eastern-bloc cars , tend to suffer a steeper decline in value , fuelled by fears about cost and availability of spare parts . |
| 4 | SHARES in Strong & Fisher slumped 33p to 181p after the fashion leather group reported a sharp decline in full-year profits stemming from tough market conditions and labour shortages . |
| 5 | The Bank of Botswana reported a significant decline in revenue from the main exports of diamonds , copper-nickel and meat for the first quarter of 1990 . |
| 6 | Growth had appeared to be stalling in the US , Germany had reported a sharp decline in activity and output remained weak in Japan . |
| 7 | Authors Charles Ferguson and Charles Morris paint a dismal picture of the company 's record across-the-board since the 1970s and presage a painful decline leading to a disaster of enormous proportions that will drag down with it IBM stockholders , employees , suppliers , the US computer industry at large and the nation as a whole . |
| 8 | Secondly , the number of significant train accidents recorded in 1990 was the lowest on record and it is expected that the final figure for 1991 will show a further decline . |
| 9 | But , like so many other dairy breeds , the Guernsey suffered a sharp decline in the UK when Friesians became dominant . |
| 10 | Thereafter its fortunes suffered a steep decline . |
| 11 | Throughout a long history , Dent was the administrative , electoral and scholastic centre of a wide rural district but suffered a slow decline in importance with the founding and subsequent development of a large public school in neighbouring Sedbergh , pronounced Sedber . |
| 12 | The provincial evening papers suffered a steady decline , steepest in the later years . |
| 13 | Within a month Renate had lost her job ( ‘ the complaint was that the girl was too slow ’ ) and had suffered a sharp decline in health , having contracted chronic catarrh , nervous debility and eczema of the scalp ‘ which made her unable to summon up the courage to get a haircut after a hairdresser had been very rude to her on the subject ’ . |
| 14 | It too has suffered a long-term decline in the manufacturing industry combined with an accelerating boom in the service sector . |
| 15 | Killer whales had also suffered a large decline in numbers . |
| 16 | Two things caused a gradual decline in the number of Rottweilers . |
| 17 | Sample research also showed that the addition of special foods and milk to the diet of pregnant women caused a significant decline in the maternal mortality rate , which remained high until the mid-1930s . |
| 18 | New commissions for housing and offices show a marked decline over previous quarters . |
| 19 | Census returns also show a steady decline from a late 19th century peak where arguably there was gross overpopulation , a situation that was remedied by drastic reorganisation of tenure and agricultural use and emigration , ( Caird , 1979 ) . |
| 20 | Richard Ryder 's figures for 1987 are slightly higher at 3.6 million ( 1989 : 242 ) .2 UK Government statistics for 1988 and 1989 show a steady decline in the use of research animals since 1977 ( Highfield 1990 ) . |
| 21 | The 1974 Press Commission noted a relative decline in the proportion of news in the national dailies between 1947 and 1975 , but they attributed it to newsprint scarcity squeezing out features while rationing lasted . |
| 22 | Increased use of chemical pesticides is causing a steep decline in the numbers of song thrushes in Britain , according to a survey by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 23 | These past few years have seen a sharp decline in morality . |
| 24 | The 20th century has seen a steady decline to the present total of 31,801 ( 1981 census ) with particular areas showing local reversals e.g. Benbecula with the advent of the rocket range in South Uist . |
| 25 | Friends of the Earth Cleveland has seen a dramatic decline in numbers over the last decade but spokesman Mark Davidson said : ‘ We have several campaigns ongoing and we are active in the Cleveland Environmental Forum . ’ |
| 26 | From this date onwards to the reign of Henry VIII , the trend of exports continued to rise , although there were some years when one can see a temporary decline [ A.3 ] . |
| 27 | Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp warns that earnings per share for the third quarter to March 27 will be ‘ significantly below ’ consensus analysts ' expectations which have been in a range of $0.20 to $0.26 a share , as a direct result of severe price declines in the 3.5″ hard disk drive business : the company says it does not see a significant decline in unit demand and that demand from its key OEM customers is getting stronger and says it is comfortable with revised analyst estimates , in the $0.05 to $0.10 per share range ; ‘ To the best of our ability we will not participate ’ in the price wars , it said . |
| 28 | Otherwise we shall see a continuing decline over and above that which increased productivity would normally dictate . |
| 29 | The Hungarian economy faced a sharp decline in 1989 , although some improvement was visible towards mid-1990 . |
| 30 | ‘ The group 's retailing activities showed a satisfactory increase in sales from our department stores but margins were depressed and overall profitability showed a small decline , ’ he said . |