Sentence examples for could only decline from inspiring English sources

The number of collectors was likely to grow, while supply could only decline, and inflation was certain.

By the time Betjeman died in May 1984 Larkin was only months from his own death, and could only decline the position when it was offered to him.

The present studies explored two different types of residual antigen – a live source that could replicate (BCG) or an inert protein that could only decline with time (Ag85B-TB10.4).

Nickel coating could not only decline diffusion activation energy but also increase diffusion driving force.

The Arab nations of his time could only progressively "decline" if not unified; these nations had various ailments – "feudalism, sectarianism, regionalism, intellectual reactionism".

Our results indicate that populations of E. veratrifolia in the EH could only offer a declining number of aphids to the larvae of its pollinators because the majority of these larvae hatched after the flowers opened.

Interfering tests indicated that water coverage could decline the sound absorption efficiency in all frequency ranges, while sand coverage only declined the low frequency absorption, but increased the high frequency absorption effect of the material.

She told me that she could only follow recipes and declined to try one of the brownies because it hadn't been made from a recipe.

All had been successful in their own ways, but without strong strategic support from Welsh government we could only slow down the decline in MFL and were powerless to reverse it.

William Gerrish, a spokesman for the state's health department, said he could only assume that "the facility declined significantly" since the earlier inspections.

We could only identify a statistically significant decline in the yield of patients preoperatively staged with PET-CT (Table  2).