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Free sign upThe phrase "a decay of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a gradual decline or deterioration of something, such as a system, structure, or condition.
Example: "The study highlighted a decay of trust within the community over the past few years."
Alternatives: "a decline in" or "a deterioration of".
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The novel ends in a decay of writing, but not because Lively's own writing is any less precise.
The rhetorical Presidency, Tulis warned, was leading to "a greater mutability of policy, an erosion of the processes of deliberation, and a decay of political discourse".
Observing the change, the American writer Michael Goldfarb has described the defining feature of London's globalised age as transience – a decay of that visceral allegiance that makes life in a big city tolerable as a shared experience.
First, there's a "decay of novelty".
A Te0 layer is formed which leads to a decay of the photocurrent.
A decay of 80% and more for some of the substances could be observed.
In μ-PCD measurement, a decay of excess carrier density is measured after stopping a laser irradiation.
Approximation of their low q upturn with an exponential decay results in a decay of −3 at 25 °C accounted for inter-cluster correlations which changed to a decay of −1.1 at 55 °C and 77 °C.
A decay of the Bragg peak intensity after isothermal annealing was also observed in [Fe86N14/57Fe86N14]10 multilayers in NR.
In the context of declining conventional funerals, customers were perceived to be liable to a decay of values consistent with the "disposal mentality".
A phenomenological model of the collective attention on Digg describes the distribution of final votes for promoted stories through a decay of interest in news articles [21].
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