Sentence examples for has rather declined from inspiring English sources

The number of maternal deaths has rather declined slowly in some SSA countries, with current trends indicating that Africa will not meet the target of reducing maternal deaths by 75percentt by the year 2015.

Ciel has rather short hair.

He has also declined, rather conspicuously, to endorse Johnson, who finds himself in the strange position this week: he is arguing Paul's case more strenuously than Paul himself.

So, while we may see higher oil and gasoline prices, consumption of oil products has declined rather dramatically over the last 10 years and imports of oil have been reduced significantly.

By a 3-to-1 margin, according to a Washington Post poll, the public now believes that the level of ethics and honesty in the government has declined rather than risen under Mr. Bush.

Meanwhile, the rate of job openings as a percentage of total employment has declined rather sharply from 3.4% in January 2001 to 2.4% in May, the last month for which data from the BLS is available.

Amazon's remarkable growth has occurred even though its "core" business of books has been declining - rather dramatically - the last decade.

The species is usually not uncommon, but is rather rare and has perhaps declined in northeast Argentina, and is very poorly known in Colombia.

Oil imports have declined rather dramatically.

Rabobank cites 39% of wineries surveyed that focus on DtC indicated sales have declined rather than increased as one might expect.

After 15 years of war, the intellectual acumen of the IC seems to have declined rather than increased.