Sentence examples for a long steady decline from inspiring English sources

Then came a long, steady decline.

World cotton prices began a long steady decline.

The coal industry in the United States has been in a long, steady decline for decades.

But the importance of St. Ann's has not shielded it from a long, steady decline that has reached perilous levels.

"Tourism is our replacement for industry," Mr. Bloomberg said, referring to a long, steady decline of the city's manufacturing base.

That was in 1994, during a time of drive-by shootings and youth-gang turf wars in a community undergoing a long, steady decline.

Recently I've seen it used in a documentary arguing for more thoughtful math instruction, a petition to promote teaching the "whole child," and an article in a popular online magazine that calls for the abolition of grades (following a reference to "America's long steady decline in education").

But management was able to impose those cuts in part because of a deeper historical force at play: the long, steady decline of union membership within the American labor force.

But other analysts suggest that this month's three-ring labor circus is a coincidental confluence of events that should be viewed as exceptions to the long, steady decline of militancy.

ATLANTA, June 10 (AP) — The long, steady decline in teenage smoking since the late 1990's appears to have come to a standstill.

They point to the decades-long, steady decline in the rate of traffic fatalities (deaths per billion passenger miles), a decline due in large part to safer cars, improved driver education and better medical technology.