The phrase "a consistent decline of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a steady or ongoing decrease in a particular quantity or quality over time.
Example: "The report highlighted a consistent decline of customer satisfaction ratings over the past year."
Alternatives: "a steady decrease in" or "an ongoing reduction of".
In India, usage of OPs has also gradually been increasing with a consistent decline in application of organochlorines and currently makes up 27% of the total sales of pesticides [2 4].
The improvement in the clinical course and ultimate outcome of severe sepsis is paralleled by a consistent decline in serum levels of IL-6, PCT and CD14.
Globally, coronary heart disease (CHD), particularly acute myocardial infarction (AMI), is the leading cause of death and disability. 1 While there has been a consistent decline in the number of deaths from CHD in high-income countries, 2 deaths in low-income and middle-income countries continue to increase.
It marked, however, the beginning of a consistent decline in offensive production for the remainder of his NHL career.
He looked at hundreds of papers and forty-four meta-analyses (that is, statistical syntheses of related studies), and discovered a consistent decline effect over time, as many of the theories seemed to fade into irrelevance.
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.
Evening callouts to acute surgery showed a consistent decline, as did the frequency of weekend daytime on call requests.
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).
Although its incidence showed a reasonably consistent decline during the period of this study, it still constitutes a serious public health problem.
