The phrase "a clear downward" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a noticeable or distinct decrease in something, such as performance, trends, or measurements.
Example: "The report indicated a clear downward trend in sales over the last quarter."
Alternatives: "a distinct decline" or "a noticeable drop".
"If you look at what's happening to total crime in Cambridgeshire, it's been on a clear downward trend".
Most importantly, both headline and core indicators exhibit a clear downward trend since the summer of 2012.Deflation is bad for several well-known reasons (just ask Japan).
That was a slight bounce up from its midmonth preliminary figure of 87.8, but analysts cautioned that sentiment remained on a clear downward trend.
Left unsaid was what would constitute substantial improvement, though it is generally assumed that the Fed is looking for an unemployment rate of 7 percent along with a clear downward trend, versus the current level of 8.1 percent.
"Because of normal variability in how a person feels on the day of their clinic visit," the authors wrote, "and because the clinic visits are typically spaced many months or even years apart, it may take years to identify a clear downward trend in cognitive or motor measures that indicate the early stages of Alzheimer's disease".
The VM shows a clear downward trend for hacking.
At site 6, first motions were clearly upward (compressional) for all cluster-A events; at site 7, no cluster-A events showed upward, and some of them showed clear downward first motions; and at site 1, there were both upward and downward (dilatational) first motions.
It shows a clear, significant downward trend for mean levels of acrylamide from 2002, when acrylamide was first discovered in food, to 2011, suggesting that the "Toolbox" approach co-ordinated by FoodDrinkEurope has been effective.
Analysis of variance was applied to the data and showed a clear, significant downward trend for mean levels of acrylamide, from 763 ± 91.1 ng g−1 (parts per billion) in 2002 to 358 ± 2.5 ng g−1 in 2011; this was a decrease of 53% ± 13.5%.
Since 1900, around 50% of the commodities show clear downward relative price slopes.
""The trend in growth and inflation is clear; downward pressure on growth and uptrend on inflation into the near term," he said.
