Example sentences of "[verb] been a decline " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major demographic change occurring in recent decades within the cities has been a decline in absolute population levels ( Redfern , 1982 ; Champion , Coombes and Openshaw , 1983 ) . |
| 2 | Further , there has been a decline of about 72 per cent . |
| 3 | A few years ago this was extremely popular , but since the initial boom in feline birth pills there has been a decline in interest in favour of the more drastic method of neutering . |
| 4 | There was growth here between 1966 and 1976 , but since 1976 there has been a decline of more than 10% in total employment in these sectors . |
| 5 | Subsequently , with the cuts in public expenditure , there has been a decline in the overall growth of public service jobs . |
| 6 | During the 1980s population growth has been very uneven ; in the most general terms there has been a decline of population in the less prosperous North and gains in the prosperous South . |
| 7 | Since then , however , there has been a decline in numbers and in 1981–2 enrolments totalled some 5,400 . |
| 8 | If not , is he saying that there has been a decline in other forms of homelessness ? |
| 9 | Issues such as whether there has been a decline in the proportion of ‘ good ’ jobs , ie those which are highly skilled , stimulating , well-paid and secure and with good opportunities for career progression , and whether there has been an increase in ‘ bad ’ jobs , ie those which require low skill , are boring , poorly-paid , insecure with limited opportunity for career advancement , will be addressed . |
| 10 | This has occurred when there has been a decline in antral tumours . |
| 11 | ‘ Over the last several decades , there has been a decline , no question about it , in the confidence people have in British institutions , ’ he reports . |
| 12 | In the case of ITV and BBC1 there has been a decline in numbers . |
| 13 | There also appears to have been a decline in the output of feminist writings on art , but Abrams will be releasing American Beauties : women in Art and Literature edited by Charles Sullivan ( £25 , $29.95 ) , which includes paintings , sculptures , drawings and other works of art from the National Museum of American Art , part of the Smithsonian Institution . |
| 14 | During the mid-1980s there had been a decline of organized violence inspired by the PLO but an increase in individual acts , a register of growing popular frustration at the situation and , in retrospect , a register of the growing internal pressures . |
| 15 | Indeed , if anything , there had been a decline in the number of obstacles to building new houses . |
| 16 | These indicated that of those questioned , 73.8% of secondary schools and 43. 1% of primary schools believed that there had been a decline in the quantity of choral singing provided in schools . |
| 17 | Even if , however there had been a decline in the personal savings ratio , it would have been difficult to attribute it to taxation rates . |
| 18 | If there had been a decline , it could be blamed on social factors : ‘ We have witnessed a diminishing of collectivist morality because of the promotion of this nonsensical notion of the individual . |
| 19 | Right , there 's been a decline , if you think back to our , that marketing we did in agricultural transformation process , one of the results of that model , was that the prices of agricultural goods relative to manufactures would fall over time right . |
| 20 | We now in manufacturing where there 's been a decline in employment since the nineteen sixties , we now have four million workers in manufacturing producing more than seven million produced fifteen years ago . |