The phrase "a partial decline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is a decrease or reduction that is not complete or total.
Example: "The company experienced a partial decline in sales this quarter, but overall performance remained stable."
Alternatives: "a slight decrease" or "a moderate drop".
A Pearson chi-square was used to assess possible differences in level of participation (full, partial, decline) across experimental condition (1, 2, 3) for all 216 patients approached for participation in this study.
BITS First Solar Can't Accept Part of U.S. Loan | The solar panel manufacturer said it would have to decline a partial $1.93 billion loan guarantee from the Department of Energy because it couldn't fulfill the necessary requirements in time for the Sept. 30 deadline.
Burbank students won't be seeing three more cops on campus next year, as the Burbank City Council on Tuesday voted to decline a partial grant — which came with a steep local match — to fund the three school resource officer positions for three years.
Our results provide additional support for the hypothesis that nutritional stress [ 37] is a partial explanation for population declines such as these.
The north German port city of Bremerhaven has staged a partial revival, after decades of decline following the collapse of the shipbuilding and fishing industries in the 1970s and 1980s.
The issue, though, and a partial reason for the 23percentt decline in Apple shares over the past year, is whether Samsung-made Android devices are starting to eat into, or at least slow, Apple's share of the high-end handset market.
This may provide at least a partial explanation for the precipitous decline noted for C. d. media on beaches with heavy pedestrian or vehicular traffic [18].
While the timing suggests at least a partial role of HCV infection in such declines, these declines do not appear related to the degree of HCV viremia.
AstraZeneca, which has been under something of a cloud recently, has been lifted by renewed hopes for its blood thinning drug Brilinta, helping the FTSE 100 mount a partial recovery after two days of decline.
It arrives amid a shift in the offline book-selling business, which, after years of decline, has made a partial comeback.
