Collocations with decline

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cognitive decline
A penetrating head injury in young adulthood exacerbates cognitive decline in later years.
continued decline
These events occurred against the backdrop of the continued decline of agriculture's importance in the macro economy.
continuing decline
Although their beneficial effects are sustained relative to placebo, there is continuing decline in patients receiving anti-dementia therapy.
continuous decline
The continuous decline in precious-metal content was the safety valve that made possible the stability of prices expressed in trade coins.
corresponding decline
It is no accident that the decay of the grand-opera tradition leads to a corresponding decline in the tragic.
demographic decline
Demographic decline from disease made any colonisation policy look puny.
dramatic decline
This change of host is manifested as a dramatic decline in numbers of aphids on a plant.
drastic decline
From 1997 moving forward working capital levels have seen drastic decline especially in 2000.
economic decline
Both countries are emerging, to varying degrees, from years of civil strife and economic decline (or collapse).
eventual decline
Explanations for the eventual decline of up-country traders and porterage must therefore be sought through analysis of change in the early colonial political economy.
general decline
However, despite the general decline of very, both very and really exhibit a comparable state of diffusion across the speech community.
gradual decline
The improvement in working people's incomes was matched by a gradual decline in the degree of impoverishment amongst the retired population.
inevitable decline
There would be no catastrophic collapse, just slow, inevitable decline.
inexorable decline
The prevailing view then was that ' the family ' was in inexorable decline; unexpectedly, however, new forms of familial solidarity emerged (pp. 158-70).
irreversible decline
With some complexities, these seemed to cause a rapid and irreversible decline in light sensitivity.
long-term decline
The onset of the long-term decline in mortality also varied according to the age of the child.
marked decline
This change is manifest in the fact that during the 1980s there was a marked decline in the relative level of government funding of universities.
observed decline
Therefore, the precise role of non-genetic heterogeneity in influencing the observed decline in genetic variance is an important and open question.
precipitous decline
After decades of precipitous decline, the downtown area shows signs of renewal.
progressive decline
A progressive decline in health status with advancing age is inevitable and must contribute to the stepped fall in the overall scores.
rapid decline
This stance, however, did not save it from rapid decline.
relative decline
Compared with their monopoly-sector counterparts, moreover, open-sector professionals and managers experience relative decline in income levels from 1988 to 1995.
secular decline
The first, comprising women born between 1920 and 1935, showed no secular decline in menarcheal age and no significant change in stature.
serious decline
And during the nineteenth century there was also a serious decline in public security, though exactly when and where this became acute is hotly debated.
severe decline
For pulp, the differences were significant in the periods of severe decline in fruiting or of increasing fruiting.
sharp decline
Introduction of whole-cell pertussis vaccine in the 1940s led to a sharp decline in the incidence of the disease in the developed world.
sign of decline
The present mussel population profiles indicate a low proportion of juveniles which is a sure sign of decline.
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