Example sentences of "decline in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has also been a significant decline in the cult of the saints , and many of the practices which characterized the devotional revolution of the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 2 | With the steady decline in the Southern protestant population until recently , it was only possible to have government funds for such schools if these schools were reasonably economical . |
| 3 | With the drastic decline in the coalmining industry , numerous branches to mines have closed , some of them quite lengthy , such as the Cynheidre and Maerdy branches in South Wales . |
| 4 | It was a slowing down of the spread of forest decline in the late 1980s that first pointed the CEGB scientists towards climate as the cause . |
| 5 | In plant hire , the main profit earner , the larger-scale plant items are successful and profitable , but smaller ones are affected by the decline in the housing market . |
| 6 | SEARS ' thriving property activities have partly offset a disappointing performance in shoes , specialist retailing areas like Wallis and Horne and a dire time in housebuilding to limit the decline in the group 's half-year pre-tax profits to 10.4 per cent at £91.7m . |
| 7 | But the only others they put forward at their recent press conference were a graduate tax , rejected by the Government under its student loans proposals , or a decline in the quality of higher education . |
| 8 | This would lead to a decline in the volume of less essential traffic in urban and rural areas and bring an overall reduction in all its adverse effects , including its contribution , through carbon dioxide , to global warming — certain to be very high on the political agenda in the next few years . |
| 9 | He told the conference — which is considering future world political , economic , social , scientific and environmental trends — that with the relative decline in the economic importance of the United States and the diminishing military threat posed by the Soviet Union , the new civil super powers of the 1990s were likely to be Japan and Western Europe . |
| 10 | Dr Barry Bosworth , senior fellow at The Brooking Institution , Washington DC , warned that the decline in the US 's global economic hegemony , would lead to increased conflict between the major industrialised nations over trading issues and international financial relations . |
| 11 | CONSERVATIONISTS are concerned about the decline in the Scottish population of capercaillie , a bird of the old pine woods and the largest member of the grouse family . |
| 12 | Roy Dennis , North of Scotland officer for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , said there could be as few as 2,000 left in the highlands , an 80 per cent decline in the past 15 years . |
| 13 | Mr Murphy 's findings are borne out by new evidence of a decline in the use of legal aid . |
| 14 | The result of this on any significant scale would inevitably be a decline in the quality of the education we provide , and consequently of the graduates we produce . |
| 15 | His supporters , including some in the Yorkshire media , point out the difficulty in attracting sponsorship to an unsuccessful team and a slow decline in the membership figures . |
| 16 | Alongside his Chancellor , Callaghan emerged with more credibility in the international arena , especially through his pact with the West German Chancellor , Helmut Schmidt , and the partial decline in the reputation of the French President , Giscard d'Estaing . |
| 17 | Private polls in the constituencies conducted by Robert Worcester also suggested that in seventy marginal seats in England Labour would do badly , partly because a decline in the Liberal vote there was likely to assist the Conservatives . |
| 18 | In the seventies , after a rise in the birth-rate from the midfifties to the mid-sixties , creating a ‘ bulge ’ in the school and student population in the 1970s , there was a gradual decline in the birthrate in the seventies . |
| 19 | But many commentators saw only a decline in the desire to rear or look after children , a weakening of the cohesive effects of the family , and an associated diminution of the buoyancy of the stock in terms familiar at least since the Boer War . |
| 20 | So , perhaps less visibly , was a decline in the confidence , perhaps the very legitimacy , of the state and its instruments . |
| 21 | In part , it was part of a wider decline in the authority of national institutions from the monarchy to the police ; satire and culture criticism reflected the process and took it further . |
| 22 | The success of this approach was reflected in a threefold increase in marketed output from 1953 to 1962 in the areas where land reform had been implemented , without a matching decline in the productivity of food crops . |
| 23 | In most subjects there is also a temporary decline in the early hours of the afternoon — the ‘ post-lunch dip ’ . |
| 24 | Also , it is difficult to know how well Rank 's negotiating position would have held up after cinema admissions had started their precipitate decline in the mid-1950s . |
| 25 | A review of the poll says the panel 's decision to waive rules on which previously it insisted reflects a sense among experts of ‘ a precipitate decline in the importance of humanist classicism and … cultural literacy ’ . |
| 26 | It shows the decline in the percentage of the Gross Domestic Product devoted to Defence from 1946 onwards . |
| 27 | By the early 1970s the struggle was over , and the decline in the Chiefs of Staff 's activity and influence in national affairs was soon being reflected in the steady drop in the frequency of their meetings . |
| 28 | Some psychologists point to a decline in the mid-1980s and blame new-fangled teaching methods ; others insist that things have always been this bad . |
| 29 | Bond and share prices have rallied , discounting a full percentage-point decline in the official discount rate ( ODR ) , which now stands at 6% . |
| 30 | On pay , the bad old tradition of linking monthly wage rises to the government estimate of monthly inflation was preserved — with the difference that only half of March 's 80% decline in the value of pay-packets will be made up in April . |