Sentence examples for had really declined from inspiring English sources

A few commenters responded to my Sunday column by asking whether consumer spending had really declined all that much.

The ground seemed marvellous and the pitch very lush, but in the past 35 years it has really declined.

"Haggling has really declined in the last decade," said Mr. Okashita, whose family has owned his shop, Naniwa Denkishoukai, for 60 years.

As Edward Humphrey, digital director at the British Film Institute, explained to me recently, the retail-park multiplexes haven't really declined.

"What is significant and troublesome is that the casualty rate per month hasn't really declined," said Michael O'Hanlon, a military analyst at the Brookings Institution here.

But when you look past the anecdote and at the aggregate data, you can see that employment in brick-and-mortar retailers hasn't really declined much, and is near a historical high.

Since 1989 decline had really set in.

"It was felt that with last year's declines, the market had really discounted a lot of bad news.

What has really faced steady decline over the past half-century is manfacturing as a mass employers of medium- and low-skill workers.Can we expect this to change in future?

In other words, it is essential to understand whether uni- and multidimensional measures capture as frail individuals that have really a functional decline in the domains under study.

"Spending for capital equipment and software has really been in a decline," he said.