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The phrase "a general fall in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a widespread decrease in a particular metric or phenomenon, such as prices, temperatures, or performance levels.
Example: "There has been a general fall in consumer confidence over the past few months."
Alternatives: "a widespread decline in" or "a broad decrease in".
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This looks like a general fall in demand.
A general fall in consumer prices would make matters even worse.
Ordinarily, deflation -- a general fall in the level of prices -- is easy to fight.
At most, it would precipitate a general fall in wages — and that would make our situation worse, not better, because it would increase the burden of household debt.
Generations of school-leavers have been let down by successive education secretaries gurning inanely in front of meaningless exam result statistics while ignoring evidence which points to a general fall in educational standards.
And because the economy is not like an individual household — your spending is my income, my spending is your income — the result was a general fall in incomes and plunge in employment.
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Those include the strong yen and a slowing global economic recovery, along with persistent deflation — the general fall in prices that has weighed on Japan's economy over the last decade.
This has been contributed to largely by respiratory and, to a lesser extent numerically, by buccal cavity cancers and has occurred despite the general fall in numbers for liver cancer (Table 5).
But in an economy as depressed as the euro zone, where the unemployment rate is 11.5 per cent more than double the U.S. rate a general fall in prices can be disastrous.
Despite the general fall in tourism following the 11 September attacks, the atmosphere in Tunis seems optimistic and upbeat.
The Green Party's articulate Heather Finlay will hope to gain from the general fall in Lib Dem popularity and from what seems to be an energetic local campaign (the Greens have put more literature through my letterbox than anyone else).
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