The phrase "a gentle decline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a gradual decrease in something, such as a slope, a trend, or a level of intensity.
Example: "The path led us through a gentle decline, making the hike much easier on our legs."
Alternatives: "a gradual decrease" or "a soft drop".
The cocoa-leaf readers see a future of consolidation, limited innovation and a gentle decline in sales volume.
If they can, then the IOCs will be able to slip into a gentle decline but ultimately survive, albeit on a much smaller scale.
Instead, there will be "a soft market and a gentle decline in prices over the next year at least, possibly much longer than that".
At first, Thubron explains, the Silk Road had a "gentle decline," but then, in the mid-15th century, "as Central Asia splintered into belligerent Turkic and Mongol khanates, China closed itself away.
The planation that occurred following the creation of the Hercynian belt removed the ancient mountain chains, but the block was uplifted under the impact of the Alpine mountain-building movements, with a steep descent on the east and southeast, nearest the Alps, and a gentle decline under the later sediments of the Aquitaine Basin to the west and the Paris Basin to the north.
We've had fairly consistent declines in road casualties – big drops from 2007 to 2010, and then a gentle decline – but now the fear is that after the cutbacks that have taken place in road safety and expertise, the chickens are coming home to roost".
At first it seemed a fine wine that had gone into a long, gentle decline.
Nonethless, some statistics chart a slow, gentle decline in attendance at National Trust properties.
But in the final couple of months of the year, what at first was a fairly gentle decline morphed into something far worse than that experienced even by countries at the centre of the credit storm (see chart).In November the value of exports fell by 27% year on year.
Break and spend Gold and silver Market forces ReprintsBut after years of gentle decline, a movement is under way to try to save Britain's small towns, which are still the homes of much of the country's most attractive architecture, as well as its sense of the past.
AT THE start of the 1960s London's status as a financial centre was in gentle decline, reflecting Britain's waning importance in the global economy.
