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Examples of declined

declined

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Technical regulation and enforcement may have actually declined in effectiveness until recent reforms were implemented.
Then, the number of new cases declined quickly.
In many cases, these measures declined substantially with relatively small increases in genetic distance.
Yet, over time, these facilitating effects declined substantially.
From the 1930s to the 1950s the incidence of walking to work declined rapidly, but the use of buses and bicycles increased substantially.
In short, prices have declined the most in international calls and the least in local calls.
If they declined, families were offered a variety of other options, including telephone contact.
Interestingly, the number of students who felt that farming would not be their primary occupation had declined significantly since 1966.
In the 1960s, the labour force in agriculture declined significantly, whereas the total economically active population increased.
However, the number taking two or more languages has declined dramatically.
The parasitoids rapidly became firmly established and snout beetle populations declined dramatically.
He even offered her a piece of land, she says, which she declined because she was afraid it would cause trouble in the family.
The proportion of fatal patients admitted in the morning hours declined from 1976-1984 to 1985-2002, although the difference was not significant.
During the same period, the industry wages as well as profits declined by around the same percentage points.
As a result of the increasingly negative association between the two traits, the variance in wing area declined as selection proceeded.
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