The phrase "a very small decline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a minor decrease in a particular context, such as statistics, sales, or performance metrics.
Example: "The report indicated a very small decline in customer satisfaction ratings over the past quarter."
Alternatives: "a slight decrease" or "a minimal drop."
A Street Cat Named Bob is another title experiencing a very small decline – down just 12% from its opening session.
This week, even Germany reported a very small decline in imports from July to August, although the three-month average did continue to rise.
Earlier this year, there were reports of the return of about 100,000 internally displaced people from camps inside Darfur to their home villages, but Guterres said there had been a very small decline in the number of Darfur refugees over the border in Chad.
For this period, we only have observations of top shares for 1958, 1959, 1961, when they show a very small decline, and for 1970, when income concentration seems to be considerably lower than in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Outside of the Gulf Stream, there was a small but significant increase in mean depth during the daytime, from 26 m at 0000 hr to 39 m at 1200 hr, with a very small decline in ambient temperature (Fig. 6).
Although this number reflects a very small decline (0.3%) relative to 2013, numbers of diagnoses of syphilis and gonorrhea rose substantially, by 33% (from 3,236 to 4,317) and 19% (from 29,419 to 34,958), respectively (2 ).
I think you could conceivably see us go from very small growth to a very, very small decline.
A: Very small quantities, and we stopped.
No adverse effects of PM10 were observed for these allergy-associated health outcomes in cross-sectional analyses of SCARPOL (Braun-Fahrländer et al. 1997), and they have shown only a very small average decline in our study population and stable prevalence over the last decade in Swiss adolescents (Braun-Fahrländer et al. 2004).
The research results from the MDCP till April 2005, confirmed that the Irrawaddy dolphin population inhabiting the Mekong River is very small, declining, and facing continuing threats.
Data for the PC market in the second quarter of this year showed either a very modest decline, 1.7percentt, or a small rise, 0.1percentt, in global PC shipments.
