The phrase "a decline back" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a return to a previous state of decline, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "After a brief period of growth, the company experienced a decline back to its previous sales figures."
Alternatives: "a return to decline" or "a regression back".
Peri-arteriolar pO2 in tumours increased within the first 5 min of breathing either hyperoxic gas, followed by a decline back toward values seen with air-breathing.
The administration of thrombin in the absence of extracellular calcium (figure 1) induced a sharp elevation in calcium levels and a decline back to basal levels, which in the case of the two higher doses, 0.3 and 1 U, reached even values well below the baseline.
Bulls would like to see persistent put activity or at least a huge decline in call activity on the VIX coincident with a VIX decline back below its 40-week moving average.
The upshot was a large accumulation of long positioning at the October 115 line that indicates a slow decline back below the $115 line into the autumn.
Currently, there is a sign that recent stagnation in fertility level (2009-2010) and slight decline of TFR to 1.42 in 2011 could be replaced by a stronger decline back to lowest-low level.
Such a model (where synthesis is zero order with respect to β-alanine availability, and is opposed by a first-order decline back to the pre-supplementation state) predicts that a steady-state plateau will eventually be reached with any dose where the rate of synthesis in muscle matches the rate of decay.
Earnings per share have risen in four of the past five years, with the only dip being a minor $0.08 decline back in 2005.
Doug Conant brought Campbell Soup, whose stock price had suffered a steep three-year decline, back to life by focusing on a business everyone thought was dying: condensed soup.
Like the NFL, Nascar can't trace its decline back to a single source.
The pulse can be thought of as a kind of rogue wave of electromagnetic radiation zipping through space so that if you made a graph of the pulse's intensity, it would start at zero, smoothly climb to a single peak, and then decline back toward zero.
As a matter of fact, the dollar decline back then was the most severe since the establishment of the Breton Woods Treaty.
