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The phrase "area has declined" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a decrease or reduction in a specific area, such as population, economic activity, or environmental conditions.
Example: "Over the past decade, the area has declined significantly in terms of both population and economic opportunities."
Alternatives: "region has decreased" or "zone has diminished".
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The downtown area has declined steadily.
Current spending in this critical area has declined 95% from its level two decades ago.
Since the 15th century the importance of the area has declined.
The police say crime in the area has declined by 50 percent since the group moved in.
Since 1969, the number of farms in the area has declined by 60percentt, while strawberry production has all but vanished.
However, Lake Urmia's surface area has declined by some 90percentt since the 1970s, to roughly 230 square miles (600 square km), from the damming of the rivers that flow into the lake.
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On Thursday, a Federal Reserve survey found that manufacturing in the Philadelphia area had declined last month.
The discussants consumed bushmeat regularly, and agreed that mammal diversity in the area had declined due to noise from mining operations and hunting within FRs.
The bimodal pore structure of the mesoporous CeO2 was also retained after WGS experiments although the effective surface area had declined by nearly 20% following the 300 h test in sour syngas.
When it reported earnings on Friday, Cablevision, which mostly serves subscribers in the New York metropolitan area, said it believed that the number of occupied homes in its service area had declined in the last 12 months, putting additional pressure on the company.
In what may be the most telling sign yet that the real estate market here has shifted downward, median prices of homes in several parts of the Washington area have declined when compared with the same time last year.
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