The phrase "a marginal fall" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small or slight decrease in a particular context, such as economics, statistics, or other quantitative measures.
Example: "The report indicated a marginal fall in sales compared to the previous quarter."
Alternatives: "a slight decline" or "a minor decrease."
There are also 2.5 million pensioners living in poverty, which represents a marginal fall of 200,000 since 1998.
The company, which also owns Kingsmill bread, Patak's pickles and other food brands, said it expected a marginal fall in earnings per share for the year that ends in August.
Based on figures compiled by the Guardian from 108 local authorities on national offer day, nearly 87% of more than 600,000 parents were offered their first choice of primary school for their children – a marginal fall compared with 2014 despite a pronounced increase in the numbers applying.
Mirroring the trends recorded for both output and new orders, rising staffing numbers at service providers more than offset a marginal fall in headcounts at Scottish manufacturers.
Figures from the Ucas admissions service showed a 10% fall in applications from England - but there was only a marginal fall in the most disadvantaged areas.
Both rs4112788 and rs4085613 remained significantly associated with a marginal fall in significance attributable to the smaller sample size.
It is a classic marginal, falling to Margaret Thatcher in 1983 and to Labour in the 1997 landslide.
The dip is the likely explanation for the marginal fall in the unemployment rate.
Rather, the marginal fall-number-specific rate ratios indicate that subjects in the intervention group will have fewer events overall.
The coalition government tried to do that: by bringing forward a reverse auction of green energy contracts in February it claimed to have driven down wholesale prices, saving over £100m a year.Yet this was a marginal saving; and falling coal and gas prices have made Mr Davey's insistence that the renewables splurge will one day appear good value seem wishful.
After 1999 there was a marginal, but not significant fall in the suicide rates in Norway, Sweden and Denmark (P = 0.055 when testing for a trend using a Poisson regression model adjusting for country differences. Trends are still not significant when using an autoregressive model for each country).
