The phrase "a decline in consumption" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes in the amount of goods or services consumed over a specific period.
Example: "The recent economic downturn has led to a significant decline in consumption across various sectors."
Alternatives: "a decrease in consumption" or "a drop in consumption."
A decline in consumption followed, and Venezuela's GDP contracted 2.9percentt in 2009.
With the economic downturn, there's been a decline in consumption in pubs and restaurants.
Mr. Paulsen says that the recent weakness in the prices of consumer stocks may be forecasting a decline in consumption itself in coming months.
The four-week annual demand was down 5.6 percent from last year because of a decline in consumption of gasoline, heating oil and other fuels.
So if a falling house price doesn't lead you to consume less (at any point in your lifetime), you do not suffer.It seems obvious that a decline in the value of your house would lead to a decline in consumption.
In a notable shift, the trend toward these so-called super-premium whiskies has led to a decline in consumption of what the industry politely terms "value" scotches.
The end of a construction boom, for example, led to a decline in resource consumption; use of construction minerals such as concrete fell by 70% in Ireland.
We have seen a decline in personal consumption expenditure of $150 billion since the first half of 2008.
The Tobacco Use Supplement of the nationally representative U.S. Current Population Survey (TUS-CPS) interviewed a longitudinal population for a study and noted that adopting a smoke-free home during the year was found to significantly increase smoking cessation and to lead to a decline in tobacco consumption for those at heavier consumption levels.
It is reasonable to conclude from this information that the Australian Paradox assertion is not supported by existing data, since it appears that per capita sugar consumption figures that show a decline in sugar consumption during the 1980s and 1990s do not include sugar contained in imported processed food products.
Criminologists have linked a declining rate in violent crime to several factors, including community policing, a healthy economy and a larger number of those responsible for a soaring rate of crime more than a decade ago now being in prison or dead, a decline in the consumption of alcohol and the decline in the crack wars.
