The phrase "a simple decline in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a straightforward decrease or reduction in a particular aspect, such as performance, numbers, or quality.
Example: "The report indicated a simple decline in sales over the last quarter."
Alternatives: "a slight decrease in" or "a modest drop in".
We need the before as well as the after, not because the vibrations go from good to bad, in a simple decline, but because chords of exhilaration and distress seem to have echoed around Wilson's head, like psalms in a cathedral, from way back.
Combining rich qualitative interviews and sharply presented data, he describes a divide in social capital, rather than a simple decline.
The effects of artificial night lighting may go beyond simple declines in moth populations, with potential changes in the composition of moth assemblages and in the nature and frequency of interspecies interactions between moths and other taxa; this justifies an ecological network approach to the problem (Fig. 2).
A simple exponential decline function is often used for modeling production decline in many academic and government energy supply analyses (EIA 2014; Cook and Wagener 2014; Weijermars 2013, 2014) with the following form: Q_{n} = Q_{1} (1 - r)^{n - 1}, (4 where Q 1 is the production in year 1 and decline factor r. The production in year n is given by Q n.
For all the happy talk of regeneration in the new century, it was difficult to come away without a keen sense of simple decline.
In general, there is a range of parameter space that permits persistence for a population below the Allee threshold in the nonspatial model with evolution (instead of simple decline to extinction).
Because intoxication only accounts for about 25percentt of all suicides and because intoxications are caused by many other substances than TCAs, a simple calculation shows that a 50percentt decline in the absolute sales figures of TCAs can only have a marginal effect on the overall suicide rates, if there is any at all.
Intriguing links between the activity of p53, mTOR, and senescence [ 49, 50], hint at a more complex explanation for the increase in the Emo phenotype in late life than a simple decrease in apoptosis due to the decline in levels of cep-1/p53 with age.
We may not be angels in comparison to our grandparents, but it is too simple to blame a particular demographic for a decline in the moral fabric of society.
The number of tariff bands was reduced, all customs service fees and charges on imports were eliminated, and tariff rates were further reduced, resulting in a decline in the simple average MFN tariff rate from 22% in 1998 to 13.3% in 2005 in the Manufacturing Sector (WDI 2013).
