The phrase "minimal decline" is a valid phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which a decrease or reduction of something is minor. For example, "Despite the recent economic downturn, sales of the company's products showed only a minimal decline."
A minimal decline in selectivity was obtained over MgHZ-360, even when the reaction was tested for the longest time of 400 h.
That's a minimal decline of only 41% from opening weekend's $103.3 million.
The UN-IGME NMR trend remains higher than the trend from the UCT model but both show minimal decline over the past two decades (Fig. 3).
The national estimate of TFR showed a minimal decline from 5.7 in the periods 2003 and 2008 to 5.5 in 2013.
Marginal improvements were observed for pain (mean difference, MD = -0.54) and well-being (MD = 0.69), and a minimal decline occurred for relaxation (MD = -0.33).
Among 22 SSA countries only five were on track with the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4), while rest recorded a reversal or a minimal decline [ 2].
Two consecutive years of minimal declines indicate stabilizing holiday shopping trends.
Nonresponders have only minimal declines in viral titers, while relapsers have robust declines followed by a rebound in titers either during or after therapy.
Treatment failure occurs either by nonresponse (minimal declines in viral titer) or relapse (robust initial responses followed by rebounds of viral titers during or after therapy).
In such conditions the maximal permeate flux and the minimal flux decline has been observed.
With the current participation rates, the minimal detectable decline of Chlamydia prevalence may reach our defined significance levels at the regional level after the second screening round, but will probably not be significant between blocks of the stepped wedge design.
