'declined focus' is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when a person or group is no longer focused on a particular task or goal. For example, "After the new policy was introduced, the team's focus declined, and they lost interest in the project."
In 1912 the Warsaw Scientific Society offered her the directorship of a new laboratory in Warsaw but she declined, focusing on the developing Radium Institute to be completed in August 1914, and on a new street named Rue Pierre-Curie.
In recent years, the declining focus on natural products has impacted the pipeline of NMEs from specific classes, and this trend is likely to continue without specific investment in the pursuit of natural products.
But the senator, who endorsed Clinton last month, declined to focus his anger towards her, saving it for Trump.
Health Education England (HEE) has responsibility for workforce planning but has so far declined to focus on dental nurses' training and development of an attractive and supported career structure.
As mortality rates have declined, the focus has shifted to decreasing morbidity and length of hospital stay for these high-risk infants.
As mortality rates have declined, the focus has shifted to decreasing morbidity and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes for these high-risk infants [ 2].
As the cost of sequencing DNA declined, the focus on sequencing single marker genes such as the 16S rRNA gene expanded to include shotgun metagenomic surveys, in which total DNA extracted from a sample is fragmented and sequenced.
Dobson's own organisation is in decline: Focus on the Family had to lay off a fifth of its workforce after the 2008 election.
The fundamentals underlying the future population decline focus on a relative increase in the gross death rate due to population aging, given a level of fertility and a scarce international migration.
