Example sentences of "decline in [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In southern Sweden , reduced calcium in acidified soils is believed to have caused a decline in terrestrial mollusc numbers and species in the past few decades . |
| 2 | Smithers & Co , an investment research boutique , calls the current decline in Japanese business investment the natural consequence of Japan 's ‘ other bubble ’ . |
| 3 | This decline in cyclic AMP content has been found previously in HGT-1 cells stimulated with histamine at 37°C , and can be explained by a decrease in adenylate cyclase activity associated with desensitisation of the histamine receptor . |
| 4 | The table below shows the decline in personal share ownership between 1963 and 1981 . |
| 5 | These developments within the Cambridge Board were undoubtedly related to the concurrent measurable , irreversible decline in traditional university extension courses provided by the Board of Extra-Mural Studies on a national scale and which by 1939 had reached the point at which there were only five Cambridge university extension centres beyond East Anglia . |
| 6 | This week 's report from the General Household Survey shows that the decline in traditional family life is accelerating . |
| 7 | The increasing productivity of agriculture through the use of modern industrial methods has also led to a decline in traditional job opportunities in the countryside , and the government is keen to encourage more general diversification in the rural economy . |
| 8 | Darlington Borough Council 's transport manager Alan Docherty said councils were generally concerned about the decline in provincial rail services , particularly the reduction in trains . |
| 9 | A second factor in the South and East was the decline in rural manufacturing employment , in particular the loss of hand spinning in cottage households . |
| 10 | All of these different methods however produce significant measures of mobility deprivation in rural areas , and since neither the conventional nor innovative approaches to public transport have been shown to do more than ameliorate or delay the decline in rural transport provision , many authors have called either for some of the options in Figure 6. 1b or for a ‘ total approach ’ to the problem . |
| 11 | A 1.3% decline in European car sales worsened a slip in Renault 's market share from 10.4% to 9.9% . |
| 12 | Indeed , withdrawal was undoubtedly the main method by which the decline in working class fertility was achieved , and it continued to be as common a method of birth control as the sheath in post-World War II Britain . |
| 13 | After Hitler 's invasion of Russia , however , which also meant a slackening of air attacks upon Britain , the decline in individual party membership was stemmed and a gradual revival took place . |
| 14 | The Financial Times Actuaries World Index showed an overall decline in international share prices of 19.5 per cent in the year ending Oct. 26 , 1990 , compared to a decline of 5.2 per cent in the year ending July 27 , 1990 , just prior to the start of the Gulf Crisis . |
| 15 | There was also a decline in real air transport cost . |
| 16 | Yet the seventies saw a very significant decline in long-term debenture financing . |
| 17 | Early evidence indicates a marked shift over the 1970s to monetised finance in the form of capital leasing by manufacturing industry from financial institutions with a corresponding decline in primary capital markets [ Rybczynski , 1982 ] . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | John Hartland , marketing director of the Ford vehicle leasing arm of Forward Trust , Midland Bank 's finance house , says : ‘ Ford , as a manufacturer , is using subsidised interest rates to Ford Credit in a big way , to combat its decline in overall market share . |
| 20 | In a few cases , there was a decline in quantitative HIV culture from plasma ( but not from peripheral blood mononuclear cells ) . |
| 21 | In a review article of the findings of Marxist , Keynesian and monetarist scholars , Burgess and Webb concluded in 1974 that , first , ‘ there has been a marked and persistent decline in pre-tax profit shares since the mid-1950s . |
| 22 | Such a decline would lead to a decline in total money wages being paid out and hence a decline in the demand for consumption goods . |
| 23 | The greater bamboo lemur lives in the Madagascan rainforest and has been affected by the decline in giant bamboo stems which are now used up by human settlements . |
| 24 | An interesting speculation is that the decline in H pylori infection over the past few decades would account at least in part for the reported decline in duodenal ulcer disease in Western populations . |
| 25 | This has been brought about by two main factors : the sale of council houses and a decline in public sector investment in housing . |
| 26 | In pre-election meetings , voters raised concerns about unemployment , living standards , the decline in public health care and education , law and order , and the fight against corruption . |
| 27 | The sharp fall in share prices in 1990 and the more protracted decline in commercial property prices could have exerted an influence , since such movements reduce the value of corporate collateral , possibly making distress borrowing more difficult . |
| 28 | The following years saw a decline in local music production so far as commercial recording was concerned . |
| 29 | In contrast , there has been a gradual decline in local authority provision . |
| 30 | Thus the decline in local authority housing budgets has a specific and disproportionately disadvantageous effect upon disabled people , which can only be obscured by regarding disabled people as ‘ normal ’ . |