The phrase "anticipated a decline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing expectations regarding a decrease in something, such as sales, performance, or economic indicators.
Example: "The analysts anticipated a decline in revenue for the upcoming quarter due to market conditions."
Alternatives: "expected a decrease" or "foreseen a drop".
At the height of the financial crisis, in March 2009, less than 8 percent of Americans expected their incomes to improve, while about 24 percent anticipated a decline.
BarCap analyst Rohith Chandra-Rajan said: After £100bn impairments charged by Lloyds and RBS over the four years 2008 to 2011 we had anticipated a decline in provisions in 2012.
Thus, the record reveals that the Board undertook an adequate "decisionmaking process". Turning to the reasonableness of the Board's actions in light of the then-existing circumstances, the Board anticipated a decline in the number of off-lease vehicles in 2011-12, and it appears, quite logically, to have wanted to sell OPENLANE before that decline had a material impact.
Erica Futterman of Rolling Stone was "pleasantly surprised", as she had anticipated a decline in quality from the previous episode, and Kevin Fallon of The Atlantic commented that apart from the Bieber jokes, "the rest of the episode was sharply written and loaded with self-referential jokes".
Although one exporter worried whether his children could continue the family business, another neither observed nor anticipated a decline in business (see below).
Writing in 1778 the physician Dimsdale anticipated a decline in smallpox mortality in London as a consequence of the spread of inoculation in the counties surrounding London and among 'such inferior persons as may be supposed to supply London'.
Medical authorities, however, regard the outbreak as having reached the culminating point, and anticipate a decline from now onwards.
It anticipates a decline in American forces as the "surge" in troops runs its course later this year or in early 2008.
Alboim anticipates a decline in the number of migrants from China, for example, and a rise in the number from English-speaking countries.
But the polls anticipate a decline in the Arab vote, putting one Arab party at risk of dropping below the Knesset threshold.
By April 2010, the Board was anticipating a decline in the number of vehicles coming off lease in 2011-12, and expected that this decline would significantly and negatively impact OPENLANE's business.
