The phrase "a decline in average" is not entirely correct as it lacks specificity; it would be better as "a decline in the average" or "a decline in average values." You can use it when discussing statistical trends or changes in data over time, particularly in contexts like economics, health, or performance metrics.
Example: "There has been a noticeable decline in the average temperature over the past decade."
Alternatives: "a drop in the average" or "a decrease in average values."
The NCVA similarly shows a decline in average deal size from $96 million a year ago, to $58 million.
He points to a decline in average required down payments.
Britain is heading for a fifth year of falling living standards, with official figures showing a decline in average earnings growth last year from 1.7%to1.4%4%.
It shows a decline in average Sunday attendance to a sorry 1.08m of the 25m people baptised into the Church of England.
Timothy Lenton, a climate scientist at the University of Exeter, argues that such pollution could trigger wider instability in the monsoon.Yet a decline in average rainfall may not be the main worry.
Just two months ago, it told investors it had not seen "a measurable impact" from low-carbohydrate diets, but it also reported a decline in average weekly sales per store, sending the stock down 10percentt in a day, to $34.22 a share.
Holding the index back in April were weaker consumer confidence and a decline in the average hours worked at American factories.
The Pill and a decline in the average number of children, together with later marriage and childbearing, have made it easier for married women to join the workforce.
It suggests a decline in the average income of families in the middle -- the ever-changing group comprising the 60percentt of all people who at any given time fall in the center of the income spectrum.
At the other end of the consumer market, a decline in the average price of its handsets has caused concern among analysts that R.I.M. may become mired in a price war for inexpensive handsets.
In India, over the decade between 1999 and 2010, there was a decline in the average number of months for which all casual laborers were without work despite looking for it.
