"The prices of the assets might have declined".
Had Baghdad's surroundings been thickly forested, Hulagu might have declined to invade.
Figures released Wednesday reinforced expectations that output might have declined again.
The findings showed that duck-billed hadrosaurs and horned ceratopsids, two groups of large-bodied, bulk-feeding plant eaters (meaning they ate just about anything and everything) might have declined in diversity at this time.
McCarthy might have declined to travel to Winfrey's couch, but there he was, talking to her on camera, and talking to Winfrey about the subjects that most interested her.
Some people might have declined to answer because of privacy concerns, but there seems little doubt that a sizable percentage of patients today do not belong to organized faiths.
When asked whether Ray and Bollinger fit better in his offensive system than the 40-year-old Testaverde would, Hackett said Testaverde's play might have declined since the 2001 season, when he led the Jets to a playoff berth.
You might have declined to live there out of concern for your safety or because you don't want to be disturbed late at night by boozy, shamefaced young men.
The slow breakdown of deep oil that Dr. Camilli's group found had a silver lining: it meant that the bacteria trying to eat the oil did not appear to have consumed an excessive amount of oxygen in the vicinity of the spill, alleviating concerns that the oxygen might have declined so much that it threatened sea life.
Mr. Kagann acknowledged that median wages for the city's low-wage workers might have declined over the last decade, as has been the case in much of the nation, but he said many of those workers moved to higher-paying jobs.
Therefore, the non-monetary benefit of a reorganization might have declined due to the reform.
