"modestly declined" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to politely or humbly refuse or reject something. Example: She was offered a promotion, but she modestly declined, saying she was happy with her current job.
While racial segregation has modestly declined in recent decades, the latest data reveal that approximately 60 percent of blacks or whites in metropolitan areas across the United States would have to relocate to achieve racial integration.
Fortunately, the mortality and morbidity have modestly declined and CRC has become a preventable disease if pre-neoplastic lesions can be detected with modern screening methods (Lieberman, 2009).
In addition, C-peptide AUC modestly declined after salsalate treatment, but the difference was not significant when compared with placebo treatment.
The ratios of phospho-PDGFRα/PDGFRα and phospho-PDGFRβ/PDGFRβ modestly declined following treatment with RTX; statistical significance was reached only for phospho-PDGFRβ/PDGFRβ (mean ± SEM at baseline vs. 6 months, respectively: phospho-PDGFRα/PDGFRα ratio, 0.92 ± 0.017 vs. 0.87 ± 0.02, P = 0.09; and phospho-PDGFRβ/PDGFRβ ratio, 0.93 ± 0.009 vs. 0.89 ± 0.019, P = 0.04).
By many important measures, the business is essentially flat or modestly declining.
Mecom said it benefitted from being able to increase cover and subscription prices to "offset modestly declining volumes [of sales]".
In recent months, the two indexes have diverged, with the adjusted numbers showing the market was modestly improving and the unadjusted numbers showing it was modestly declining.
Mr. Parsons said he stood by the company's projections for a single-digit percentage increase in revenue in the third quarter and flat or modestly declining cash flow.
Dr. Eloundou-Enyegue worries that Africa's modestly declining birthrates reflect relatively rich, educated people reducing to invest in raising "quality" children, while poor people continue to have many offspring, strengthening divisions between haves and have-nots.
She wonders why he was so much more fortunate, modestly declining to mention her own role and thereby deflecting attention from the movie's curious moral, which is that the best hope for a poor black child in America is to have rich white parents.
Rhines: The largest companies in the semiconductor industry have only had modestly declining market share almost throughout the history of the industry.
