The phrase "a mild decline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a slight decrease in something, such as sales, performance, or interest.
Example: "The company experienced a mild decline in profits this quarter compared to the previous one."
Alternatives: "a slight decrease" or "a gentle drop."
The report found that real wages had shown "a mild decline" since the recession began, of 0.6 percent.
Such complexities are one reason Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill has dismissed repeated pleas from industry lobbyists to encourage a mild decline in the dollar.
A mild decline in prices in a few euro-zone countries can be managed, economists say, but it will add to the risks of deflation.
The slowdown is becoming evident in falling retail sales, weaker job growth, a decline in industrial production, a drop in home construction permits and a mild decline in freight traffic.
The category the government calls "electronic shopping and mail order retailers" — labeled Internet retailers in the accompanying charts — suffered only a mild decline during the recession, and soon resumed its growth.
PCs had a mixed second quarter in 2014, with data showing either a 0.1percentt gain, or a mild decline.
Its partner in the alliance, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has suffered a milder decline, to 5.1 million in 1998 from 5.2 million in 1987, the year that three Lutheran denominations merged to form the current church.
In summary, GDM is associated with a milder decline in plasma concentrations of osteocalcin during the 24th 28th gestational weeks.
They show a similar trend but as to be expected a milder decline as they are not related to a single centre.
After a historically bad year for personal computers, market analysts are expecting a more mild decline in this calendar year, and a stabilization over the 300 million yearly unit mark.
Indeed, the present data showed a certain mild decline of source activities in several sources including the left operculo-insular cortex that would fit the adaptation of the cortical responses seen in previous study [47].
