Sentence examples for serious declines from inspiring English sources

But there have been serious declines in natural pollinators in recent decades.

Studies have shown serious declines in the water levels of the Navajo aquifer after decades of massive pumping for coal slurry operations.

Europe is on the brink of a landmark ban on the world's most widely used insecticides, which have increasingly been linked to serious declines in bee numbers.

But the greater prairie chicken has suffered serious declines over its range, from North Dakota and Minnesota to Missouri and Oklahoma.

[C16.] Circulation Falls at Many Papers The newspaper industry reported its most serious declines in circulation in more than a decade.

Depression, in economics, major downswing in the business cycle that is characterized by sharply reduced industrial production, widespread unemployment, serious declines or cessations of growth in construction activity, and great reductions in international trade and capital movements.

Ody had been in serious decline for six months.

"This is a system in serious decline," he said.

But by 1994, a serious decline had set in.

The mainstream parties are in serious decline and so is the culture of orthodox party politics.

In fact, the study documents a serious decline in the job picture for young people.