steady decline
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsteadyanddecline
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steady
adjective
uk/ˈsted.i/us/ˈsted.i/
happening in a smooth, gradual, and regular way, not suddenly ...
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decline
noun[S or U]
uk/dɪˈklaɪn/us/dɪˈklaɪn/
when something becomes less in amount, importance, quality, ...
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(Definition ofsteadyanddeclinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Secondly, fertility decline tended to accelerate about 5-10 years after both mortality indicators were insteadydecline.
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The reason for this is clear: beginning in the late 1950s, non-project foreign aid started asteadydecline.
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This could have resulted insteadydeclinein pheromone output or death of the insects observed at a relatively young age.
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The post-war era favoured a relative centralisation of this system, and asteadydeclineof the municipalities as social policy actors.
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Research now suggests that the march towards the end of life needs not be asteadydeclineas has often been assumed.
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Perhaps thesteadydeclineof hormone levels throughout this period triggers increased binge frequency.
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Figure 1 shows thesteadydeclinein this percentage of time in collection activities by age.
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In his view, this history was characterized by asteadydeclinefrom liberty into despotism.
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They had, for a while, represented an element of considerable public subsidy to parts of the private rented sector, but had not affected its onwardsteadydecline.
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For all 5-year groups of the reproductive span asteadydeclinein the live births is seen with the attainment of each successive higher level of education.
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Forward masking performance was stable across the age range, but backward masking showed asteadydecline.
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The same fact can be seen in the relatively slow decline of the survival probabilities for resignations, compared to thesteadydeclinefor those who eventually die in office. 50.
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Glutamate receptors show asteadydeclinepostnatally; this reduction is considered to be due to pruning of asymmetric synapses on pyramidal neurons containing these uptake sites.
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The rate of rejection of visa applications, the rate of exceeding the legal residence period and the number of asylum applications are insteadydecline.
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Driving experience alone cannot account for thatsteadydeclineover age.
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All three rates show asteadydeclinesince 1959, when they were 34, 37 and 39, respectively.
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That is quite true, but the improvement to which he refers by no means counteracts thesteadydeclinein the birthrate.
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There was asteadydecline, for example, in the cost of food all through the 19th century.
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In recent years there has been asteadydeclinein those taking part in union elections.
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