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The phrase "a decline of over" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a decrease in quantity, value, or performance that exceeds a certain amount.
Example: "The report indicated a decline of over 20% in sales compared to the previous quarter."
Alternatives: "a drop of more than" or "a decrease exceeding".
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Revenue from third-party alumina sales is expected to come in at close to $1 billion, which would be a decline of over 11.5% sequentially, driven by an 11.3% drop in price realization and lower shipments.
In a notable contrast to the rapid rise in yields that we saw in the Treasury bond market in June, yields on the 10-year Treasury are down to just 4.79% Friday, a decline of over 11 basis points on the day and roughly 50 basis points from their highs in June.
The city has experienced a decline of over 60% of its population since 1960.
Of the 54 countries, 14 experienced a decrease in height in recent birth cohorts, with 7 countries experiencing a decline of over 0.05 cm decrease per year.
Combine that with a decline of over 30% in the working-age population, and the result will be a spectacular jump in the dependency ratio, from 32% in 2005 to 67% by 2050.
The European arm of Greenpeace, a green pressure group, still denounces the technology and gloats about a decline of over a tenth in cultivation of GM crops in Europe last year.
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In contrast, the average income of Californians in each of the bottom four fifths of the distribution lost purchasing power and people in the bottom fifth, mostly nonwhite, have seen a wrenching decline of over 19%.
In a memory clinic, relatively few scores decline by more than 15% over 6 months, so a decline of 25% over 24 hours will never be mistaken for fluctuating dementia.
This is £5bn less – a decline of just over a fifth – than in the year to 31 March 2001, HMRC data shows.
Toyota estimated that it lost 20,000 sales in the last week of January, a decline of 16 percent over all, after it suspended sales and production of eight recalled models.
And home prices continued to fall sharply in July, for a decline of 16.3percentt over 12 months, according to the Standard & Poor 's/Case-Shillerindex of prices in 20 major cities.
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