Sentence examples for decline in proportion from inspiring English sources

British cultivation of the hairy upper lip was inspired, he suggests, by Indian ideals of virility, and would decline in proportion with the empire's reach: Harold Macmillan was "the last British prime minister to sport a moustache".

In 1907 China signed the Ten Years' Agreement with India, whereby China agreed to forbid native cultivation and consumption of opium on the understanding that the export of Indian opium would decline in proportion and cease completely in 10 years.

For natural inertial control, a WTG's active power output is changed following a frequency decline, in proportion to ROCOF or frequency deviation or both, in order to emulate the inertial response of a conventional synchronous generator [36, 45, 46, 47, 48].

The decline in proportion of patients culturing M.tb may reflect either efficacious antitubercular treatment, inability of the patient to expectorate sputa for culture, or difficulty obtaining a non-pulmonary specimen for culture.

Even with the most sensitive molecular methodologies, yield was shown to be strongly related to the time since onset of symptoms [9], [14], with a 3-fold decline in proportion positive within 3 to 5 days after onset of symptoms for both RT-PCR and culture procedures.

This decline in proportion of extra-pair offspring with clutch size may be a general pattern within bird species.

Thus, data suggest that a continual input of hatchery-produced fish resulted in a proportional increase in hatchery/wild hybrid individuals and a related decline in proportions of wild ancestry in the naturally spawning population.

Greater decline in proportions of diester-P and teichoic acids were found in the silt than in the clay size separates, which may be attributed to stabilization of microbially derived organic P structures by closer association with clay minerals and/or sesquioxides.

In a few sites there has been an increase in the numbers of slides examined over the past few years, due to an improvement in capacity, which could potentially magnify the recent decline in proportions positive at those sites.

The Baltic German population, which had never made up more than 10 percent of the total, declined in proportion and importance.

Appetite declines in proportion to altitude, and despite the draining rigours of a day's march, Fetaeli and his boys regularly carried full plates and bowls away from our trestle table.