The phrase "a limited decline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a decrease that is not extensive or significant in nature.
Example: "The company experienced a limited decline in sales over the last quarter, which was not alarming to the management."
Alternatives: "a slight decrease" or "a minor drop".
Even though the United States has seen a limited decline in its prison population in recent years, it remains four times larger than in 1980.
The crisis reversed only partly this trend, with the negative labour demand shock leading to huge job destruction and a limited decline in the growth of the working-age population.
Following storage at the laboratory bench (temperatures between 15 22 °C and unknown RH) cabbage seeds showed no or, at most, a limited decline in tocopherol levels.
While the difference from the non-risk group in the SAI schools is relatively low, the disparity from the control community is statistically significant, which indicates that overall the model was successful in supporting a limited decline in absenteeism.
In other words, in contrast with the analysis reported in [ 22], the data for the northern and central European aurochs appeared inconsistent with a population expansion: a demographic model with either population size stability or a very limited decline seems more compatible with the genetic variation pattern.
As shown in Fig. 7d, the photocatalytic activity of N-ZnO/g-C3N4 exhibits an extremely limited decline.
An investor is betting on a further yet limited decline for retailing stocks ahead of expiration in 10 days time, buying 27,000 put options at the $37.00 strike while selling exactly twice that amount at the $36 strike.
With aging, mean running time showed only limited decline of 0.2% per year.
Consequently, in the last two decades, neonatal mortality has shown limited decline globally and in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) [ 1, 9].
Furthermore preliminary data suggest that there may be only limited decline in neurocognitive functions after local posterior fossa irradiation [ 3, 11].
However, whether the relatively small increase of mean BMI or the limited decline in mean FT4 level observed in our study is responsible for the marked decline of SHBG is questionable.
