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There wasn't such a big decline in enrolments after all.

Cheque use is on the decline among personal bank customers.

Beer sales are in decline.

There's been a radical decline in the incidence of syphilis.

The greater reliability of food supplies was a factor in the decline of urban death rates.

Following a decline to a relatively low population level in the 1930s, raccoons began to prosper following their 1943 breeding season.

Before about 1975, 90 percent of the moths were dark, but since then there has been a steep decline in melanic forms, and in 1989 only 29.6 percent of the moths caught were melanic.

This period was followed by a time of decline in the Maori population and a societal transition to smaller, less numerous settlements.

The apparent decline fits the pattern expected as a consequence of the Maori's overexploitation of moa.

For these reasons, it is hard to determine the likelihood that introduced disease organisms were a cause of the decline of moa, but they are potentially significant.

I thought the Permian Extinction was caused by a decline in sea water oxygen levels.

The transition between the Ming and Qing dynasties (the seventeenth century) may have seen a decline, but from 1741 to 1851 the annual figures rose steadily and spectacularly, perhaps beginning with 143 million and ending with 432 million.

Many prehistorians believe that farming may have emerged in dependently in several different areas of the world when small communities, driven by increasing population and a decline in available food resources, began to plant seeds in the ground in an effort to guarantee their survival.

The article mentioned that populations of predators and their prey might go up rapidly and then decline all of a sudden.

Like you said, a rapid population growth is often followed by a sudden decline.

In the forest areas where extra acorns had been dropped, the gypsy moth population soon went into a significant decline.

So depleting the number of lobsters, for example, means that we are adding to the threat of coral decline.

Lower birth rates, low juvenile survivorship, and low growth rates follow, so there is a corresponding decline in hare abundance.

This facility was then in its third decade of production and was beginning to show signs of decline, perhaps because of over development.

The reduced level of photosynthesis led to a massive decline in plant life of all kinds, and this caused massive starvation first of herbivores and subsequently of carnivores.

The first is the habituation-dishabituation technique, in which a single stimulus is presented repeatedly to the infant until there is a measurable decline (habituation) in whatever attending behavior is being observed.

That should help us determine how to prevent further decline in the population.

Despite significant numbers being harvested and having suffered occasional declines, typically because of disease, the raccoon has consistently maintained high population levels.

The first signs of economic decline became visible.

The economy is in decline.

The shipbuilding industry has fallen into decline.

Now it's long been thought that during the PostClassic period, Mayan civilization was in decline.

As I said, most people considered the Postclassic period as a time of decline that came after the so-called golden era.

This decline can be seen clearly in the changes that affected Venetian shipping and trade.

The number of staff has declined from 217,000 to 114,000.

The population has declined dramatically.

Rewards are declining.

Standards are declining.

Urban death rates remained high, particularly in the lower-class slums, but they began to decline rapidly.

Your brain's ability to absorb information starts to decline after about the first hour.

Translocation clearly has a role in the recovery of species that have substantially declined and is the most likely method by which many sedentary species can recover all or part of their former range.

Once the hare population has declined, it takes two to three year for the quantity of twigs to recover.

A contemporary of Shakespeare (1564- observed that the productivity of Italian shipping had declined, compared with that of the British, because of conservatism and loss of expertise.

After the canal went into operation, the cost per mile of transporting a ton of freight from Buffalo to New York City declined from nearly 20 cents to less than 1 cent.

Um…we…there’s some indications to suggest that the population of the Nightcap Oak has not declined over the last. er…you know, many hundreds of years.

No doubt the numbers of deer declined still further.

Yes. Well, like in the 1970s, when it was already clear the North American cod population was declining dramatically, the US and Canada declared a 200-mile exclusive economic zone in the waters around Cape Cod.

We've gone over where coral reefs are usually formed – along the edges of shallow ocean banks in tropical or subtropical regions, and the fact that they are declining at an alarming rate.

In places, the water table is declining at a rate of a meter a year, necessitating the periodic deepening of wells and the use of ever-more-powerful pumps.

He offered the boys some coffee. They declined politely.

The band declined to comment on the story.

No Vulcan has ever declined admission to this Academy.

Her health declined rapidly after her stroke.

Venetian shipping had started to decline from about 1530-before the entry into the Mediterranean of large volumes of Dutch and British shipping-and was clearly outclassed by the end of the century.

The philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), who lived at a time when the city-state system was declining, believed that a political entity of 100,000 simply would not be able to govern itself.

Presently she fell into a decline and died.

I politely declined his invitation.

Lorna had declined the offer of antidepressants.

This vast plateau gently declines towards the ancient city of Balkh.