Example sentences of "been declining in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swordfish is a great delicacy in Europe , and has been traditionally caught on longlines , although catch rates have been declining in recent years . |
| 2 | Cricket in Australia had been declining in popularity for some years , not helped by an abject England team two seasons before , and the excitement that West Indies generated by their enterprising play was unbounded , culminating in a vast ticker-tape send-off when the tour was over . |
| 3 | The smaller , darker mountain type with black points and mucosae is very like the Piedmont of northwest Italy and is ideal for extensive systems , but it has been declining in numbers over the last 50 years and by 1980 was down to about 35,000 . |
| 4 | In further and higher education , the gap has also been declining in recent years . |
| 5 | National " net " wastage figures have been declining in recent years so that although learner intakes have declined from 30,000 to 18,000 between 1981 – 87 , the total qualified workforce increased from 212,000 to 239,000 ( Grocott 1989 ) . |
| 6 | Barn owls have been declining in Britain for years as hedges where their food lives are ripped out . |