Sentence examples for declined largely from inspiring English sources

The labor cost gap has declined largely because of mass layoffs in southern states, rather than productivity gains.

In general, employment in the banking sector has declined, largely because of the widespread computerization of transactions and this restructuring.

By the mid-1980s, PCP use declined, largely as a result of the increased popularity of crack cocaine.

Since the 1960s, Lawrence's critical reputation has declined, largely as a result of feminist criticism of his representations of women.

For the next 200 years the native population declined, largely as a result of European territorial encroachment and the diseases that the settlers brought.

The index declined largely because gas prices dropped 6 percent, and the price of home heating oil fell by the most in almost four years.

Then adjust for hours per worker, which have been declining, largely because of the recent rise of part-time employment.

The cost per click has been declining largely because advertisers pay less for mobile ads, and more people are using Google on their mobile devices and fewer on their desktop computers.

That is also when logging began to decline, largely as a result of Judge William Dwyer's landmark decision to protect huge swaths of spotted owl habitat in the Pacific Northwest from clear-cutting.

Leopard population declines largely occur in areas where leopards and people frequently interact.

About this time, the amount of trade handled by the Port of Lancaster was declining, largely owing to silting up of the River Lune.