I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a decline/drop in standards
▪ There has been a general decline in standards of literacy among undergraduates.
a declining industry (=one that is doing badly)
▪ Coal and steel are declining industries in Britain.
a dramatic fall/drop/decline
▪ Between these years there was a dramatic fall in youth employment.
a fall/decline/drop in exports
▪ There has been a decline in exports and an increase in oil prices.
a number falls/drops/goes down/decreases/declines
▪ The number of new houses being built is falling steadily.
a population falls/declines/decreases
▪ The population in many rural areas has continued to fall.
a rapid decline/deterioration
▪ These parasites cause a rapid decline in the health of the fish.
a steady decline
▪ The result has been a steady decline in membership.
an industry declines (=becomes less successful)
▪ The shipping industry declined after World War II.
exports fall/decline/drop
▪ Exports of gas and oil continued to fall while imports of raw materials have risen.
lament the lack/absence/decline etc of sth
▪ Steiner lamented the lack of public interest in the issue.
progressive decline/reduction/increase etc
▪ the progressive increase in population
reverse a decline
▪ His policies had reversed the decline in the economy.
standards fall/slip/decline
▪ School inspectors say that educational standards have fallen.
stem the growth/rise/decline etc
▪ an attempt to stem the decline in profits
sth's popularity declines
▪ As fashions changed, their popularity declined.
the decline of an empire (=the gradual decrease in an empire's power)
▪ The next two hundred years saw the gradual decline of the Roman empire.
turn down/refuse/reject/decline an offer (=say no to it)
▪ She declined the offer of a lift.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ It was the biggest decline since a 101. 52-point drop on Dec. 19.
▪ Bonds peaked in January, and suffered a big decline since then.
▪ Intuit Inc. posted the biggest decline, falling 15 percent after the stock was downgraded by an analyst.
▪ It also was the biggest monthly decline in unemployment.
▪ Premysis Communications Inc. posted the biggest decline for the index, falling 3 1 / 2 to 41 1 / 2.
▪ Their biggest decline under coach Barry Switzer has been in pass defense.
dramatic
▪ In fact, it has led to a dramatic decline in votes for the two main parties, Likud and Labour.
▪ Experts call the insecticides a major advance and say Phoenix-area residents can expect a dramatic decline in the whitefly population this fall.
▪ Recent opinion polls had shown a dramatic decline in public support for the union, as it had become identified with government policy.
▪ That increase ended a dramatic decline from 2. 7 million metric tons in May 1994.
▪ This recorded a dramatic decline in the total number of poor, largely due to the implementation of the Beveridge Report in 1948.
economic
▪ The importance of this role is likely to be greater in times of economic decline.
▪ But some economists said they feared productivity might taper off dramatically this year as economic growth declines.
▪ In the context of the debate about the curriculum, economic decline and supposedly falling educational standards were important elements.
▪ Now, however, the great Latin cities fell prey to widespread depopulation, economic decline, and physical decay.
▪ It has presided over our economic decline for decades and even now is failing to reverse it.
▪ Despite the urgent need to halt economic decline, neither has a clearly defined policy.
further
▪ Their deteriorating physical and mental health offers only the prospect of further decline and the ultimate sentence of old age - death.
▪ A further decline in real wages, benefits, and working conditions.
▪ The continuing fighting in 1990 had meant a further decline in the country's food supply.
▪ Further change reinforced by acceleration of women's real wage growth led to a further decline after 1970.
▪ He fears a further decline in peasant confidence in the Bolsheviks.
▪ Repeated use is perceived as necessary in order to survive, yet at the same time it contributes to further decline.
▪ Relaxation or withdrawal of treatment before mid-childhood has been associated with a further decline in intellectual ability.
▪ He will want to avoid a further decline for fear that import price rises will push up inflation.
general
▪ Superimposed upon this will be a general decline in performance due to loss of sleep and fatigue.
▪ Hence, the investor is partially shielded from the full force of any general market decline.
▪ National statistics show there has been a general decline in Britain's urban population.
▪ There was muttering too in the universities about a general decline in standards of literacy and numeracy among undergraduates.
▪ I'd prefer to speak about a general decline in capacity.
▪ There was a general decline in performance as the weight of letter increased!
▪ A less noticeable but ultimately more crucial problem was a general decline in profitability.
gradual
▪ General cargo continued to flow through the port but there was a gradual decline in dock activity.
▪ The underlying assumption is that gradual hormonal decline is bad because some physical functions decline at the same time.
▪ The gradual decline and progressively more severe consequences are not predictable.
▪ Instead, we will see a gradual decline of direct supervision as teams mature.
▪ The gradual decline of the latter adversely affected the congregation.
▪ I have seen the gradual decline.
▪ Because tuberculosis affects women more than men, the gradual decline of that disease benefited female survival.
▪ In contrast, there has been a gradual decline in local authority provision.
industrial
▪ Sunderland is in the Northern region which has endured industrial decline for much of the twentieth century.
▪ They came to roost in the late 1960s in the form of industrial decline and regional decay.
large
▪ Agriculture is an extensive activity with dispersed employment, but this sector has seen the largest decline.
▪ The two largest declines came in engineering and general and administrative expenses.
▪ The largest declines were in textiles, tobacco, chemicals, rubber, paper and food.
▪ February crude dropped 88 cents to $ 18. 79 a barrel, the largest decline since March 28, 1994.
▪ Killer whales had also suffered a large decline in numbers.
▪ Intuit Inc. shares posted the largest decline in the index, falling almost 17 percent this week.
▪ The catalyst for this rebound in prices: large declines in stockpiles of the metal registered with New York Mercantile Exchange warehouses.
long
▪ Significantly, both escaped the long pre-Reformation decline of saints generally.
▪ Expensive state subsidies cushioned but could not reverse Yucatan's long decline.
▪ A department devoted to organizing new unions had already been set up to reverse the long decline in membership.
▪ Total employed labour on farms fell by six percent continuing the long term trend decline.
▪ The outbreak of the Second World War marked the turning point in Midland's fortunes and the start of a long decline.
▪ The agricultural labour force continued its long term decline to just under 27,000, nearly two percent fewer than in 1991.
▪ Since then there has been a long decline.
▪ Yet this final dissolution was the culmination of a long decline.
overall
▪ Indeed, the overall declines in civic engagement are somewhat greater among housewives than among employed women.
▪ Manufacturers say the overall decline in car sales could have serious consequences for the motor industry as a whole.
▪ The overall and accelerating decline in the manufacturing sector and its sub-groups from the mid 1960s stands out.
progressive
▪ The disease does not go away if one ignores it: progressive decline is inexorable.
▪ The result is a progressive decline in physical abilities.
▪ The progressive decline in the course of addictive disease follows similar patterns in differing individual sufferers.
rapid
▪ This results, even in steady state, in a rapid decline in serum concentrations.
▪ Other factors besides family planning account for such rapid declines.
▪ That's quite a rapid decline.
▪ Then competition with Mission Valley shopping centers and suburban residential growth prompted a rapid decline.
▪ Her husband was told to expect that she would have a fairly rapid decline and would probably die within eighteen months.
▪ Through their research the class know that no railway will mean rapid decline.
▪ Then they began their mysterious and rapid decline.
recent
▪ As a consequence the recent decline in public spending on services, such as education, has gone virtually unchecked.
▪ Supplies of natural gas are tight, with prices rising as growing demand bumped up against recent production declines.
▪ A recent decline in the numbers occurring is apparent.
▪ The recent price declines they say have been fueled by them unwinding those bets.
▪ Despite the recent decline in interest, there were several radio telescopes set to receive the signal when it came.
▪ Indeed, the recent decline in spatial mobility means that daily life is increasingly limited to relatively small regions.
▪ Unfortunately, there are reasons for pessimism and the recent declines in infectious disease mortality rates may reverse.
relative
▪ This amounts to a relative frequency decline of over 50%.
▪ This label reflects the apparent concentration of power in executives and the relative decline of legislatures' powers.
▪ But relative decline is used as an indicator by some; and output can be used as a measure rather than employment.
▪ An empirical test of the relative decline of legislative power is especially difficult.
▪ Explanation of Britain's relative economic decline in the third quarter of the twentieth century remains elusive.
▪ First of all, are we talking of relative or absolute decline?
▪ A decline in the national importance of industry must also, however, induce relative decline in industrial regions.
serious
▪ With bigger fish in serious decline, mackerel, sardines and anchovies are now the main targets.
▪ In the last two islands, it is in serious decline, with only 500 left in all of Java.
▪ The combination of so many factors contributed to a serious decline in the contracts on offer.
▪ During that time, however, civilised inter-state standards went into serious decline.
▪ Aside from Tarantino, the decade also brings a serious decline in repertory programming and opportunities for importing foreign films.
▪ A serious decline of leadership in local affairs compounds the difficulty.
▪ Yet elsewhere in the country there has been a serious decline in the amount of sport in schools.
sharp
▪ The measures are designed to halt the sharp decline in shark populations caused by overfishing in recent years.
▪ February gasoline suffered a sharper decline, down 1. 83 cents at 58. 65 cents a gallon.
▪ This led to an especially sharp decline during the 1960s, from over half a million to well under 300,000.
▪ But most of all, it implies a sharp decline in domestic investment.
▪ In the 1720s the use of walnut went into sharp decline and it was replaced by mahogany.
▪ The evidence pointed to a sharp decline in guerrilla prowess.
▪ The sharp decline was blamed on fears over the falling yen and over-valued stock prices on the Tokyo stock exchange.
▪ Their desperate attempts to cut expenditure in any way they could led to a sharp decline in print quality.
significant
▪ There was a significant decline in concentrations of sulphates in rainwater at 26 of 33 sites monitored from 1980 to 1991.
▪ A significant fertility decline has also been recorded, most of it attained before the enactment of the one-child policy.
▪ In the national context this is a good record, and shows no significant decline from the 1960s.
▪ However, if there would be a significant decline in her income stream, you would want to make much greater adjustments.
▪ Yet the seventies saw a very significant decline in long-term debenture financing.
▪ Lizards which lost two thirds or more of the length of their tails showed a significant decline in dominance.
▪ This was much higher than pre-war figures, and there seemed little prospect, on existing policies, of any significant decline.
slow
▪ Against all reason they felt it could turn his slow decline around like a Lourdes' miracle.
▪ Some patients experience a slow decline in their health as the effectiveness of the drugs gradually decreases.
▪ Instead the planners condemned many villages to long, slow, lingering decline.
▪ The growth of a taste for retrospective nostalgia accompanied the slow decline of traditional faith.
▪ In both men and women muscle mass peaks between ages 30 and 35 and then begins a slow decline.
▪ Ever since then his popularity here has continued a slow, steady decline.
steady
▪ This trend reflects a steady decline in the teenage marriage rate since 1970.
▪ Television has contributed to the steady decline of solemnity in the courtroom.
▪ Smoking is on a steady decline among both men and women - but men pack up at a faster rate than women.
▪ Despite increases in yield per acre, that has led to a steady decline in the amount of dates harvested.
▪ When Lord Leverhulme abandoned Lewis, the crofting villages seemed doomed to a steady decline and eventual extinction.
▪ The study also notes a steady decline in the number of college students taking political science courses or enrolling in law schools.
▪ From the post-war years until the mid-1960s it had experienced steady decline.
▪ This suggests that schizophrenics are facing a slow but steady neurodegenerative decline over time, the researchers said.
steep
▪ Early in 1982, before El Chichón erupted, a steep decline in temperature set in.
▪ Their steep decline has given grim satisfaction to their legions of detractors.
▪ London shares dropped sharply, dragged down by steep declines on Wall Street Tuesday and in early dealings yesterday.
▪ And the new geography of this steeper decline can be picked out from Table 2.2.
▪ More recently there has been a steep decline in the support for political union.
terminal
▪ Mrs Holloway says that she's sad that a once great industry now seems to be in terminal decline.
▪ Beyond electoral matters, there was growing belief that, for long-term sociological and historical reasons, Labour was in terminal decline.
▪ Those are not the statistics of an industry in terminal decline.
▪ But it does happen, and I venture to suggest should happen wherever there is apparently terminal decline.
▪ This is more than can be said for the ever-decreasing Daily Mirror and Daily Express, both in terminal decline.
▪ That third-world economy with a super-power arsenal could be in terminal decline.
▪ After appearing to be in terminal decline the monarchy is back in business.
▪ It is important to emphasise that older people should not be regarded enmasse as ill, frail or in terminal decline.
urban
▪ It is these negative characteristics which, it has been argued, lie behind the problems of urban decline.
▪ The need now was for urban policies that matched the new challenges posed by the economics of urban growth and decline.
▪ It refers to urban decline and work on rural and coastal areas.
▪ One influential argument about urban decline has been put forward by Fothergill and Gudgin and their associates.
▪ Very similar debates arose in the discussion of urban decline.
▪ Too often regional issues are neglected in an attempt to understand and to moderate urban decline.
■ NOUN
fertility
▪ These differentials give us important clues about the motivation and causes of the fertility decline.
▪ A significant fertility decline has also been recorded, most of it attained before the enactment of the one-child policy.
▪ In his latest book on fertility decline, J.A. Banks dismisses the argument that fertility control results from economically rational behaviour.
▪ Research compiled by the Population Council indicates that abortion has contributed to without being indispensable to, fertility declines in every region.
▪ Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain.
▪ But in most the pace of fertility decline has diminished since the early l980s.
▪ Legal abortion Legal abortion in Britain since 1967 came too late to explain the beginning of fertility decline.
▪ These are tempting explanations for fertility decline.
forest
▪ No longer was it to look for signs of forest decline, it was to investigate a link between pollution and forest decline.
▪ The conundrums surrounding forest decline were many.
▪ By the mid-1980s well over a hundred hypotheses had been put forward to explain the forest decline.
population
▪ After a century of population decline, only 4,000 of Britain's estimated 25,000 pairs of barn owls live in the wild.
▪ As mentioned in the previous section, there are sound reasons for the slowdown in big-city population decline.
▪ The post-war concern about population decline and the high infant mortality rate contributed to the introduction of the Midwives Act 1902.
▪ Almost every hare during a population decline is killed by a predator and the few survivors suffer much stress.
■ VERB
cause
▪ The losses which the decline in consumer demand initially entails will cause a decline in the demand for resources in that industry.
▪ They say they can not prove the liberalisation of trade and capital flows has caused the decline in progress.
▪ Arguments about what caused the decline in mortality shift between eighteenth- and later nineteenth-century changes.
continue
▪ Despite the continuing decline in the workforce there has not been a corresponding reduction in the number of tractors found on farms.
▪ Cities that neglected economic development or failed to provide effective programs would experience continued decline.
▪ Second, pressure on older workers to leave the workforce early may continue despite the decline in the number of young workers.
▪ What links them is the continuing decline of values in this country.
contribute
▪ From the 1840s child and young adult mortality contributed most of the decline.
▪ Television has contributed to the steady decline of solemnity in the courtroom.
▪ Repeated use is perceived as necessary in order to survive, yet at the same time it contributes to further decline.
▪ Glow-of-Television Connections Television often gets blamed for contributing to the decline of family life.
▪ It has contributed to the decline in direct portfolio investment as opposed to indirect investment through tax exempt institutions.
▪ The Salmon and Trout Association believe that the use of driftnets is contributing to the decline.
▪ Institutionally cultivated individual career strategies for organizational dominance contribute to organizational decline.
▪ Farm shops may also have contributed to this decline in the local store.
experience
▪ Rural areas did experience employment decline.
▪ Some patients experience a slow decline in their health as the effectiveness of the drugs gradually decreases.
▪ From the post-war years until the mid-1960s it had experienced steady decline.
▪ When a business experiences such a decline of market share, alarms go off.
▪ Students were experiencing a sense of decline, both in terms of material and social positions, a form of downward social mobility.
▪ Growth mutual funds experienced a similar decline.
▪ One further aspect needs to be mentioned for churches which have experienced prolonged decline.
▪ If you are here to find out if we are experiencing maple decline, the answer is yes.
explain
▪ We recognize that a collection of factors explain the decline of the Liberal party 1906-24.
▪ But how does that explain Sara's terrible decline?
▪ There may be other ways of explaining the decline of the Liberal party in this period.
▪ On balance contestability has increased, partly explaining the decline in profitability.
▪ How do you explain the decline of the Liberal party?
▪ By the mid-1980s well over a hundred hypotheses had been put forward to explain the forest decline.
fall
▪ Sheep numbers fell but the decline was small.
follow
▪ This was followed by a decline and then a second smaller peak in serum transaminase activities.
▪ That surge followed a decline from a high of 193 since 1991.
▪ But this success was followed by a decline in the vitality of this civilization.
▪ Branch membership also remained steady, following a period of decline since the immediate post-war years.
lead
▪ Moreover, it will lead to a decline in the ratio of surplus-value to the capital that is advanced.
▪ In Wellington, stocks ended lower, with forestry issues leading the decline, as recent overseas interest dropped off.
▪ The frustrations of voters who feel they are not being represented has led to a decline in turn out.
▪ In capitalism booms lead to booms and declines feed upon declines.
▪ The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 23.89 points to 2752.13, with advancing issues leading declines by about eight to seven.
▪ Despite increases in yield per acre, that has led to a steady decline in the amount of dates harvested.
▪ In forestry, these chemicals can lead to a decline in water quality and to declines in aquatic fauna and flora.
report
▪ Seattle, with a 10 percent drop, was among the few reporting a decline in food requests.
▪ Only specialist food, furniture and carpet retailers reported a decline in sales from a year earlier.
▪ Instead of the record profits promised to investors, Kodak reported double-digit declines.
reverse
▪ It proposes tough penalties for industries which cause water pollution to help reverse the decline.
▪ Expensive state subsidies cushioned but could not reverse Yucatan's long decline.
▪ It is hoped that the multi-million pound facelift will reverse decades of decline for the shopping area in Liverpool city centre.
▪ A department devoted to organizing new unions had already been set up to reverse the long decline in membership.
▪ However, both the lack of growth and the failure to reverse the decline in work opportunities also carry serious political implications.
▪ The reforms are designed to reverse the drastic decline in the Party's support.
▪ Last year's return to democracy has scarcely begun to reverse the country's decline.
▪ How man is trying to reverse the decline.
show
▪ Subsidence claims showed marked decline, but theft claims continue to rise.
▪ In fact analysis of the records shows a steady decline since about 1956.
▪ An item from the recent corporate survey shows an 8 % decline in employee ratings of supervisor fairness and absence of favoritism.
▪ It shows the decline in economic activity by men over school leaving age from 88% in 1951 to 77% in 1981.
▪ But there has been no showing of a decline in savings for these purposes.
▪ They were, though, marginally the more inventive in a game that showed signs of decline from the early stages.
▪ The balsam fir, which had not shown much decline prior to 1986, also began to be diminished.
stem
▪ Across a range of industries, major innovations are implemented in attempts to stem the decline in profits.
▪ The company this year announced a reorganization aimed at stemming the profit decline.
▪ What is the best way of stemming this decline or, even better, of regenerating the economy?
▪ In order to stem the decline, it was suggested that the trade must change its image and recruit younger drinkers.
▪ The government requested international assistance to support the balance of payments and to stem the decline in international reserves.
suffer
▪ Their social position also appeared to suffer a decline as education entered a period of crisis.
▪ Bonds peaked in January, and suffered a big decline since then.
▪ Thereafter its fortunes suffered a steep decline.
▪ February gasoline suffered a sharper decline, down 1. 83 cents at 58. 65 cents a gallon.
▪ An area several times as large is suffering a decline in productivity as it is degraded by overuse.
▪ The individual producer or worker might, at any time, suffer a sudden decline in his fortunes.
▪ It too has suffered a long-term decline in the manufacturing industry combined with an accelerating boom in the service sector.
▪ The same regions that once benefited from growth in these industries have, subsequently, suffered economic decline and depression.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(in) terminal decline
▪ After appearing to be in terminal decline the monarchy is back in business.
▪ Beyond electoral matters, there was growing belief that, for long-term sociological and historical reasons, Labour was in terminal decline.
▪ But it does happen, and I venture to suggest should happen wherever there is apparently terminal decline.
▪ It is important to emphasise that older people should not be regarded enmasse as ill, frail or in terminal decline.
▪ Mrs Holloway says that she's sad that a once great industry now seems to be in terminal decline.
▪ That third-world economy with a super-power arsenal could be in terminal decline.
▪ This is more than can be said for the ever-decreasing Daily Mirror and Daily Express, both in terminal decline.
▪ Those are not the statistics of an industry in terminal decline.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Firms with large debts may not have the financial strength to survive a prolonged sales decline or a recession.
▪ Stock markets in Europe showed similar declines.
▪ We can expect a further decline in job vacancies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A decline in coal demand would benefit either the nuclear or gas industries.
▪ According to the police, however, there was a decline in the level of violence immediately following the signing of the accord.
▪ He said the decline is partly because retailers have lifted prices for mobile phones after cutting them earlier in 1995.
▪ Its final decline was brought about by a change in the public attitude to death.
▪ The fur industry is already seeing a major decline in sales.
▪ The reaction against Gothic continued despite its decline.
▪ The underlying assumption is that gradual hormonal decline is bad because some physical functions decline at the same time.
▪ Their biggest decline under coach Barry Switzer has been in pass defense.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ Sperm quantity has also declined, by about 25 percent.
▪ Doug Brown, counsel to the state auditor, also declined to discuss findings of the audit.
▪ The quality of science teaching has also declined relative to other subjects.
▪ A spokeswoman for Gingrich also declined comment.
▪ Spending on information technology has also declined, demonstrating that the computer industry is no longer recession-proof.
▪ Hatfield also declined to release the identities of the grand jurors.
▪ The broader market also declined for a second day, behind disappointing earnings from Motorola Inc.
▪ He also declined to answer a question about her future in the administration.
rapidly
▪ The schools building programme ceased in 1985, and at that time too teachers' real salaries began to decline rapidly.
▪ His health declined rapidly after treatment last summer.
▪ In the absence of soil conservation, the productivity of these lands w ill inevitably decline rapidly.
▪ Public concern over the popular cetacean has mounted as numbers have rapidly declined.
▪ Four years of drought and rapidly declining business had left all five branches of the Inyo County Bank severely weakened.
▪ The fertility rate of railway workers declined rapidly following the expansion of promotion hierarchies at the end of the century.
▪ Both food and fur animals declined rapidly.
sharply
▪ This teaching function, though, declined sharply after 1380 with the establishment of Durham College at Oxford.
▪ When retirement wealth is included, that share declines sharply from over 36 percent in 1929 to under 14 percent in 1976.
▪ Parts and accessories sales declined sharply, reversing an earlier trend.
▪ A Yankee Group study found that long-distance rates declined sharply from 1984 to 1991 as a result of new competition.
▪ The proportion of out-of-wedlock births has increased so much mainly because the number of births to married couples has sharply declined.
▪ But that is measured by the number of workers - which has declined sharply.
▪ Indeed, the Soviet Union continues to decline sharply in importance.
steadily
▪ Labour's problem is that its core constituency in the manual working class has steadily declined over the years.
▪ All the evidence shows that this declines steadily with increasing age.
▪ It is one of several hormones that hit peak levels in the bloodstream in early adulthood and then decline steadily.
▪ They are steadily declining in many rivers, and have vanished from others.
▪ It initially got so-so ratings and then steadily declined from there.
▪ Crowds during the decade declined steadily.
▪ Once blacks saw that voting seemed to have limited effectiveness, black political participation steadily declined from l968 through 1975.
■ NOUN
comment
▪ This time the press and the media were there and I declined to make any comment on the negotiations.
▪ Thursday said it had received a request for information, but declined further comment.
▪ Mr Nind this week declined to make any comment.
▪ A spokesman for Dean Witter declined comment.
▪ A spokesman in London also declined comment.
▪ Through a spokeswoman, Garcetti declined comment on the verdict.
company
▪ The revenue was never enough for this, and the Company began declining into bankruptcy much faster than before.
▪ Separately, shares in forestry companies declined amid forecasts of a steep fall in cellulose prices, analysts said.
▪ Craine says Rabbit has been in talks with various companies, but declined to comment any further.
▪ The Schaumburg, Illinois, company blamed the earnings decline on lower prices and slower sales.
▪ The stocks of several economically sensitive companies also declined.
▪ Tonight the Chanel Company declined to comment.
▪ The oil company declined to say how much more it might bump up prices to cover its costs.
court
▪ In this case there was no such evidence with the result that the court did not decline to hear the case.
▪ A Supreme Court spokeswoman declined comment.
▪ This fact provides another good reason why courts should decline to entertain polycentric disputes.
▪ The Court declined to confine the term to persons of Romany origin.
▪ In the hearing on December 18, the court declined to block the merger.
▪ The second defendant had notified the Ohio court it would decline to submit to the jurisdiction.
detail
▪ Mr Spicer declined to disclose details.
▪ He declined to discuss details of Airbus's bid.
▪ Isaacson declined to discuss details of financing a Quackenbush reelection campaign.
▪ But he declined to provide many details, citing competitive concerns.
▪ Mr Skubiszewski declined to go into detail, saying the agreement had yet to be accepted by both governments.
▪ He said the weekly is profitable, but declined to disclose details.
▪ The supervisor declined to provide further details.
▪ He declined to give details, citing agreements with courts to keep this information confidential for the time being.
invitation
▪ He declined three or four invitations to parties.
▪ Oh, she was tired and had taken to declining All invitations to feasts Due to the confusion Between cowboys and priests.
▪ There won't be any Labour representation at the dinner, because the town's Mayor has now declined his invitation.
▪ As he declined the invitation it is unnecessary to consider further what would have been the effect of such a joinder.
▪ Neil Kinnock has again declined an invitation to brief the media's industry hacks at the Labour party conference.
▪ I declined the invitation the only thoughts in my head were finding my bed to soothe away the aches and pains.
▪ John Betjeman and Ted Hughes had both declined my invitation to do this.
market
▪ And although our markets are declining we have increased our market share in all sectors.
▪ In the broader market, declining issues led advances 15-13 on volume of 675 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
▪ At the same time, the main import markets continued to decline.
▪ Another explanation was that the market has declined to a reasonable level.
number
▪ If the strategy was accepted, the report estimated that the number of poor could decline to 825 million by 2000.
▪ The number of declining stocks outpaced the number of advancing issues on the New York Stock Exchange by about 12 to 11.
▪ The numbers occurring have declined in recent years.
▪ In some countries the numbers are even declining.
▪ A number of older, declining central cities, particularly in the Northeast, fell into this group.
▪ Rhino numbers have declined by 90 percent since the 1970s as a result of being hunted for their horn.
▪ The number of declining stocks on the New York Stock Exchange outpaced advancing issues by 1, 160 to 1, 145.
offer
▪ Such inconvenience pre-disposes young and old alike to decline both the offer and acceptance of joint occupancy.
▪ Strangely, she declined my offer to send her a copy and said she would obtain one herself.
▪ Fenn declined the offer to buy with a bemused wave of his hand.
▪ Because he believes he can still play, Thompson declined the offer.
▪ Not surprisingly, the defendant declined this offer.
▪ Craig declined all job offers to coach or scout.
▪ I quickly declined his offer by shaking my head and putting my hands above my head in mock surrender.
▪ Citing security, officials have declined to offer specifics on how profiling would work.
official
▪ Federal Reserve officials declined to discuss Mr Greenspan's agenda yesterday.
▪ Army officials declined Wednesday to say which factors led to the decision.
▪ The official declined to name the nations or to provide an update on the nations' responses.
▪ Administration officials have declined comment on the number or names of the guests, citing privacy concerns.
▪ Tribal officials and attorneys declined to comment on the case.
▪ Raytheon officials declined to discuss any bidding for the Hughes unit.
▪ Pentagon officials declined to discuss their views and referred questions to the White House.
▪ The official declined to provide more details.
percent
▪ Between 1975 and 1984 total employment in the electronics sectors declined by 19 percent.
▪ Investment rebounded, up 0. 2 percent in the quarter from a 0. 3 percent decline in the second quarter.
▪ On Thursday, Bezeq declined 1 percent.
▪ The largest group, 30 percent, declined to list an asset for Clinton or said they were unsure.
▪ AnnTaylor continued to miss fashion trends and posted a 14 percent same-store sales decline.
population
▪ A third of wildcat populations had declined in recent years, and only 8 percent were increasing.
▪ Over the same period, in the meantime, the net worth of half of the population actually declined.
▪ The wintering population has declined considerably in recent years, but it is unlikely that breeding numbers have altered greatly since 1938.
▪ As the heat builds up, the nematode population declines.
▪ The rural population had declined from 38 percent in 1979 to 34 percent.
▪ And by 1921 the population of Moscow had declined by one half and that of Petrograd by two-thirds.
▪ The population is declining at the rate of 7 percent a year.
▪ The breeding population has declined in recent years.
price
▪ If the volatility of futures prices rises as delivery approaches, the correlation between spot and futures prices will tend to decline.
▪ He declined to comment on the purchase price.
▪ However throughout the 1980s prices have declined in a glutted market.
▪ But if prices decline, you stand to lose more as well.
▪ Stocks in Bogota fell 0. 92 percent, while prices in Medellin declined 0. 20 percent.
▪ Beef prices declined by about a quarter over the same period.
rate
▪ As death rates have declined the proportion of elderly classed as married has increased while the proportion widowed has decreased.
▪ The birth rate also continued to decline, though most slowly among the poorest.
▪ The teen birth rate has declined for all ethnicities.
▪ Since early August, the rates have declined by 0.3 per cent.
▪ Turnover rates have declined, particularly for those employees considered by managers the best performers.
▪ The fertility rate of railway workers declined rapidly following the expansion of promotion hierarchies at the end of the century.
▪ Clinton and Riley predicted the student default rate will continue to decline as direct lending expands.
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▪ The Rosyth spokesman declined to say what it was worth.
▪ A NationsBank spokesman declined to say what title that person might hold.
▪ A government spokesman declined to comment upon reports linking the resignation with the Ursus bankruptcy.
▪ A spokesman for Limited declined to comment, noting that the company had just been served with a copy of the suit.
▪ A spokesman for Mr Berlusconi declined to confirm or deny the reports.
▪ Airline spokesmen declined to elaborate further Thursday.
▪ A spokesman for Bigge Crane declined to comment yesterday.
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▪ In further and higher education, the gap has also been declining in recent years.
▪ His health had been declining for several years.
▪ Numbers appear to have declined in recent years.
▪ Work in factories in their declining years?
▪ The numbers occurring have declined in recent years.
▪ S unemployment rate has declined in recent years, the rate for blacks and Hispanic people is considerably higher than for whites.
▪ Labour's problem is that its core constituency in the manual working class has steadily declined over the years.
▪ But the number of infected animals has been declining in recent years.
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▪ The revenue was never enough for this, and the Company began declining into bankruptcy much faster than before.
▪ Oil imports began to decline as domestic production began to increase.
▪ Bad today, the situation will get worse when in a few years the number of potential recruits begins to decline.
▪ By the close of 1955 polio began to decline.
▪ Usually of use after the most marked initial swelling and tenderness has begun to decline.
▪ As the 1960s ended and the wave of neo-oriental spirituality began to decline, the seekers began to look elsewhere.
▪ The schools building programme ceased in 1985, and at that time too teachers' real salaries began to decline rapidly.
▪ The Queretaro maquila project began in a declining economy, but ended in a crisis.
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▪ Indeed, the Soviet Union continues to decline sharply in importance.
▪ Several retailers continued to decline on weak sales.
▪ Oil consumption will continue to decline due to efficiency improvements and switching to cheaper, cleaner power supplies such as electricity and gas.
▪ Eggs Per capita egg consumption has continued to decline in the past decade.
▪ The West Midlands continued to decline as a manufacturing region throughout the period, for instance.
▪ Support for abortion rights, for example, continues to decline after peaking at 65 percent in 1990.
▪ It may increase slightly but if fertility continues to decline at the present rate that is unlikely.
▪ Clinton and Riley predicted the student default rate will continue to decline as direct lending expands.
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▪ Arms production declined in 1989 and was expected to continue declining.
▪ The ratio had been expected to decline only slightly from the preliminary 1. 14 reported for November.
▪ In any case, he added ominously, Moscow expected exit requests to decline in the future.
▪ Meanwhile, the number of F-22s the Air Force buys each year is expected to decline.
▪ Energy supply is expected to have declined 2 percent, he said.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A security officer at the factory, who declined to give his name, said he had seen two men leave the building.
▪ Computer sales declined 2.1 percent this year.
▪ Ed asked me to run the new division for them, but I declined.
▪ I asked Mr Hughes if he was satisfied with the jury's verdict but he declined to comment.
▪ Mr Casey regrets that he will have to decline your kind invitation owing to a prior engagement.
▪ Riker, a radio preacher, saw his popularity decline after World War II.
▪ The bishop was invited to attend the opening ceremony, but he declined.
▪ The pilot declined medical treatment after the accident.
▪ The Prime Minister was asked for his opinion but declined to comment.
▪ Water quality is declining due to too many dams and pumps.
▪ When asked to comment on details of the agreement, the President declined.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A State Department spokesman, also displaying a talent for diplomacy, declined to characterize the appointment as a promotion.
▪ Defence equipment's share of sales, if not yet profit, is declining.
▪ He declined to comment on the time frame for another discount rate cut.
▪ In the early 1970s some of these movements began to decline or were suppressed, but others continued to flourish.
▪ Sir Alfred's interest was declining and Louis Stanley, his brother-in-law, was playing a bigger part.
▪ The brokerage declined to give a forecast for the full year through March.
▪ The cultural and intellectual calibre of the clergy has since declined, while intolerance and aggressiveness are on the increase.