The phrase "a consistent decline in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a steady or ongoing decrease in a particular metric or phenomenon over time.
Example: "The report highlighted a consistent decline in sales over the past three quarters."
Alternatives: "a steady decrease in" or "a continual drop in".
Although each index (ML env, MLEFFCH env, and MLTECH env ) shows almost no change during the period of 1992 to 1999, when there is a consistent decline in ML all, ML env and MLTECH env substantially declined and consistently took values under unity after 2000, when ML all greatly improved (see Fig. 3).
Our results indicate an increase in inundated area and the number of persons affected contrasted by a consistent decline in flood fatalities for the period 1870 2016, with no significant trend in (normalized) financial losses.
A consistent decline in the proteolytic activity of the proteasome has been demonstrated with advancing age, implicating an important role for the proteasome in immune senescence, by studies that largely employed proteasome-enriched preparations from cell lysates.
A consistent decline in the ensemble mean of permafrost areas (− 0.33 million km2 decade− 1; p < 0.05) coincides with regional warming (0.4 °C decade− 1; p < 0.01), while more than 40% (9.6 million km2) of permafrost areas are vulnerable to degradation based on the 30-year PE record.
Despite a consistent decline in infant mortality over the last decade or so, these rates remain high in India.
Amid a consistent decline in energy prices in the past couple of years, it has been relatively easy for companies to stay within their energy budgets.
However, normalized to housekeeping genes, a consistent decline was noted in transcript levels of the suppressor genes, PTEN (P = 0.02, two-tailed t-test against theoretical ratio = 1.0), TSC1 and TSC2 (P = 0.03).
"I would put it at a little less than 5 percent, and it appears to be in a consistent decline," he said.
Since taking office, Governor McGreevey's poll numbers have been in a consistent decline, so much so that the most recent Quinnipiac University survey, made public on Sept. 25, showed that only 35percentt of the respondents approved of the governor's performance, and 52percentt disapproved.
"We literally had had a year and a half of consistent decline in lodging demand," Mr. Woodworth said.
Over the 16-year period studied (1996 2011), trends indicated a considerable decline in the number of induced abortions and a slow but consistent decline in the number of repeat abortions undergone in Estonia.
