"continued to decelerate" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a gradual decrease in speed or progress that has been ongoing. Example: Despite implementing new strategies, the company's profits continued to decelerate over the course of the year.
As the plane lost altitude, it continued to decelerate.
As unemployment came down, wage growth continued to decelerate, dropping below 2 percent.
Mr. Paulson said he and his colleagues first began examining the 2001 experience before Christmas, drawing lessons for a contingency proposal if the economy continued to decelerate.
After partial crystallization of water, the remaining fraction of liquid water continued to decelerate its rotational reorientation on further cooling.
If these trends continue, rural wage growth can continue to decelerate, further moderating inflationary pressures".
"The economy continues to decelerate nicely, yet corporate earnings are still in decent shape".
Finer and finer particles are deposited as the turbidity current continues to decelerate down the fan.
"These data really do indicate an economy that continues to decelerate rapidly," said Richard B. Berner, the chief United States economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
Analysts at Canaccord Genuity said: Today's trading update confirmed that in the first 16 weeks of the current fiscal year revenue growth in UK bus remained sluggish while divisional rail revenue growth continues to decelerate.
While there has been increased speculation among analysts about whether a recession might develop next year if the economy continues to decelerate, relatively few economists have predicted an end to what earlier this year became the longest business expansion on record.
"I expect growth to continue to slow down a bit more in the fourth quarter as energy-saving and property-tightening measures take hold and exports continue to decelerate," said Wang Tao, China economist at UBS in Beijing.
