Many now complain about falling standards.
He said, however, that theatres were to blame for falling standards, not the public.
The falling standards had implications for higher education, the authors argued.
Whether the results are up or down, someone somewhere detects falling standards.
Perhaps the "falling standards blah blah ritual humiliation blah" bores have been proven right.
But falling standards and conditions in the state system remain a concern.
The empire's poverty was reflected in dilapidated buildings and falling standards of luxury.
Their complaints sound much like those anywhere: falling standards, growing indiscipline, violence and so on.
Thanks to falling standards in education, we can probably expect more of this sort of thing.
"David Cameron's schools policy has left our schools too open and too exposed to risk and falling standards.
Rates of perinatal mortality doubled from 1992 to 2000, a rise that is in part attributed to falling standards of medical care.
