Sentence examples for grave decline from inspiring English sources
The phrase "grave decline" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a significant or serious decrease in quality, quantity, or condition. Example: "The company has experienced a grave decline in sales over the past year, prompting concerns about its future."
A sailor named Andy Chase wrote to me from the deck of a tanker, describing the grave decline of the U.S. Merchant Marine and detailing its present and historical importance.
A grave decline was already clear by the release of Small Talk (1974), though that was nothing next to abject albums like Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'm Back (1976) and Back on the Right Track (1979).
In language departments in UK universities we are painfully aware that there has been, as the report states, a: "grave decline in the numbers studying modern languages beyond the age of 16".
Having promised to root out corruption when he was first elected in 2004, and despite the jailing of many officials for graft, Mr Yudhoyono's administration, particularly in its second term, has been swamped by it.Some say decentralisation has caused a grave decline in the rule of law.
While arguing against same sex marriage in Missouri, the conservative defendant argued that all children would experience "substantial risks" if gays could marry because it would diminish the value of heterosexual marriage, supposedly resulting in a grave decline in straight couples marrying.
At their most belligerent, they will boycott a supermarket where the sign at the express checkout reads "Ten items or less", and will allege that the failure to distinguish between "less" and "fewer" is a symptom of grave social decline.
"In truth, we are in grave danger of declining as a nation.
The only acceptable excuses for a subsequent decline are grave illness or other situation of equal magnitude.
An army spokesman called it "a very grave attack," but he declined to say if it meant that yet sterner Israeli reprisals were in store.
This integration is all the more necessary today since, as a result of a selfish search for well-being, Europe is experiencing the grave problem of a declining birth rate.
If substantiated, the declines raise grave concerns about the adequacy of parks and point to the need for a radical review of conservation policies.
