Example sentences of "begin to decline [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this growth rate should begin to decline around the turn of the century . |
| 2 | It may also bring to a head a number of crucial questions about spreading priorities — for example , defence versus social security spending — when the oil revenues begin to decline over the coming years . |
| 3 | Until the early 1960s temporary and seasonal labour was used to supplement the workforce , but thereafter the relative share of temporary labour employed in larger firms began to decline as the role of external subcontractors increased . |
| 4 | The fortunes of the human capital theory began to decline as the growth in the economies of the advanced industrial societies began to slow down or stagnate in the mid-1970s . |
| 5 | Particularly impressive was the way in which the South East 's population began to decline in the late 1960s , following its rapid growth in the 1950s and the early 1960s . |
| 6 | Thus the flow of this information began to decline in the 1890s reaching a trickle , mainly on peripheral issues , by 1914 and ceasing totally after 1918 . |
| 7 | Until the Ottoman empire began to decline in the late eighteenth century , Christian subjects in the Balkans were probably treated no worse than were the peasants of central Europe by their Christian feudal overlords . |
| 8 | The exception is the UK where taxation on corporate profits began to decline in the 1950s . |
| 9 | Provincial market towns , in 1922 as throughout the Soviet period , collected the first rural tide of those looking for work — peasant vagrants , demobilized soldiers , and in the case of the Smolensk area , flax-workers out of a job as their industry began to decline after the boom of the war years . |
| 10 | Dunlop cheese was produced on most Ayrshire farms right into the 20th century but began to decline after the Scottish Milk Marketing Board was set up in 1933 . |
| 11 | Turkish fortunes began to decline after the raising of the second siege of Vienna ( 1683 ) , and the Treaty of Karlovci ( Carlowitz ) in 1699 recorded the first major Ottoman defeat and the beginning of the slow retreat of the Turks from Europe . |
| 12 | Launching International Literacy Year 1990 , UNESCO Director General said that the absolute number of illiterates had begun to decline for the first time in history . |
| 13 | Excavations in its interior demonstrated extensive occupation , which had apparently begun to decline in the AD 70s , perhaps in the wake of increasing migration towards a more convenient centre on the road network . |