The phrase "advantage declined" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where someone is indicating that they have chosen not to accept a benefit or opportunity.
Example: "Despite the offer of a promotion, she decided to let the advantage declined, preferring to focus on her current role."
Alternatives: "opportunity rejected" or "benefit declined".
Alan J. Brudner, a lawyer representing Well Advantage, declined to comment on the settlement, which is still subject to a federal judge's approval.
Expanding the use of instant replay could help in this regard (despite complaints that it interrupts the flow of play); as Wertheim and Moskowitz point out, when the N.F.L. brought the coach's challenge into the game the home-town advantage declined.
But the competitive transportation advantage declined with the construction of better roads around the country, and then with the onset of the silicon-based economy.
Again, TAB performed slightly worse than BayesB but better than all other BLUP-type methods in all cases, although its advantage declined with the decrease of heritability.
Yet the study also suggests that, if war cannot be avoided, the US might be best advised to strike first, before China gets any stronger and the current US military advantage declines further.
It has been demonstrated that global advantage declines with increasing sparsity of the stimuli (Martin, 1979).
Researchers also knew that such advantages declined with age, but no one had compared this decline between males and females.
But with every refinement of the placebo, the drug's advantage declines.
As travel has generally become easier and stadiums have become more homogenised, home advantage has declined – apart from in Africa.
Obama, again playing it safe and exploiting his financial advantage, later declined McCain's invitation to stage a series of 10 town-hall-style debates across the country.
The fitness advantage gradually declined through multiple generations but was still present in the BC3 and S4 generations as well as in the BC1S1 plants used in this study (relative growth rate = 1.7).
