'increases and declines' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that fluctuates, rising and falling over time. For example, "The population of the city has seen increases and declines over the years due to economic changes."
Statisticians at Ned Davis Research, an investment firm in Venice, Fla., have gone back to 1927, studying how stock prices have reacted to earnings increases and declines.
He has charted a pattern over the last 44 years in which his sales trends tended to precede the overall industry's increases and declines.
Maharashtra and Punjab, respectively, have recorded both increases and declines since adopting Bt.
James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University, points out that previous patterns in crime increases and declines suggest that an uptick in violent crime is both inevitable and overdue.
The increases and declines of these AP2yfp proteins mostly showed significantly steeper gradients than the corresponding post-thymidine mRNA profiles, reflecting possible mechanisms that act post-transcriptionally as well as the much tighter intravacuolar growth synchrony (relative synchrony windows; thymidine model ∼2 h versus intravacuole 10-20 min).
We assessed whether warfarin use increases and declines, respectively, across stages of increasing stroke and bleeding risk.
Corporate profits and stocks soar because of declining commodity prices, weak wage increases and declining real interest rates.
Cyclical properties like railroads, even with monthly car loadings down 18%, are benefiting from lower cost diesel fuel, contractual rate increases and declining labor expense.
In most reported cases, however, the EEG does not show the usual temporal evolution with progressive increase and declines in the frequency and amplitude of rhythmic, repetitive epileptiform activity typical of ictal EEGs in epilepsy [29, 30].
The intensity of Br-RNA labelling per focus increases progressively, and declines exponentially (t1/2 ~ 45 min) during a 'chase'chase
"We've seen several waves, with the number of cases increasing and then declining and increasing and declining again," she said.
