The phrase "depth of decline" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe the extent or severity of a decrease in a particular context, such as economics, health, or performance.
Example: "The depth of decline in the economy was alarming, prompting immediate government intervention."
Alternatives: "extent of decrease" or "severity of downturn."
Meek's slide into the depths of decline was played out against a minatory pop climate.
The depth of that decline was a little misleading, because the second quarter was pumped up by the tax rebates from the stimulus package.
As a group, insiders failed to recognize the top of the bull market in October 2007, and didn't anticipate the depth of the decline that followed.
Melodiya, the Soviet Union's only record manufacturer, refused to release the group's songs as they had "plunged to the depth of musical decline" - so fans pressed bootlegs discs out of X-ray film.
In some parts of the country the housing bust has more or less come to an end, and prices are moving back up, but the depth of the decline associated with the popping housing bubble varied quite a bit across metropolitan areas.So what explains the divergences?
) Britain is not yet officially in recession (that technically takes two quarters of contraction), but observers said the depth of the decline suggested the country was already there.
A variety of read mapping and quality-weighting procedures were tested to determine the optimal parameters, which afforded ≥80% sensitivity of SNP detection and strong correlation with true SNP frequency at poolwide read depth of 40×, declining only slightly at read depths 20 40×.
The adjusted rate of change from the multilevel model showed that A1C for the frequent SMBG testers declined faster than that of their counterparts [0.67 × (1/time)] (P < 0.001), but the frequent SMBG testers did not attain the depth and sustainment of decline in A1C as that seen in the RT-CGM subjects.
Perhaps testament to the depths of that decline -- after his disastrous endorsement of Nixon in 1972, his seeming obsolescence during the disco years and his drumbeat of business failures -- was that he had agreed to let an utterly untested 25-year-old white kid like me shop a proposal for an authorized biography of him.
