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The phrase "account for a declining proportion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the reasons or factors that contribute to a decrease in a specific percentage or share of something.
Example: "The study aims to account for a declining proportion of young voters in the recent elections."
Alternatives: "explain a decreasing share" or "justify a falling percentage".
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I take its essential feature to be that federal spending on entitlement and discretionary domestic programs, which has grown steadily as a proportion of our growing economy for the past eight decades, should account for a declining proportion of a growing economy over coming decades.
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Physical assembly accounts for a declining share of the value of finished goods.
This tells us that any explanation for the declining hires and separations rates will need to account for a decline in short-duration jobs.
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Shale gas – previously inaccessible because the exploitation of these resources requires technology only recently perfected – will account for a rising proportion of the growth in energy in the years to 2035, but its use will not cause a decline in greenhouse gases.
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Often, a small number of very vocal accounts account for a significant proportion of any given dataset.
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