Sentence examples for startling decline from inspiring English sources

For a player in the prime of his career, it is a stark and startling decline.

But given the startling decline in shark populations, many sports anglers are now practicing catch-and-release fishing.

By 2030 Russia's population will be 20 percent smaller, and some E.U. populations also face a startling decline.

The startling decline in wild Scottish salmon is being blamed on pollution and interbreeding between wild and farmed salmon.

For a player in the prime of his career (Teixeira is 31), it is a stark and startling decline, and Teixeira acknowledged that it did bother him.

Greece's startling decline, from aspiring European power capable of hosting an Olympics to a bankrupt state flirting with anarchy, has left few winners.

Derbhle Crotty follows this with a coldly calculating Bolingbroke, whose enthronement releases a savage temper and signals a startling physical decline.

So startling has their decline in form been since lifting the Webb Ellis Trophy at the Telstra Stadium in 2003 that such a suggestion seems ludicrous but Wilkinson insists there is little to choose between the world's top sides and believes England can come good when it matters.

In its brutality and apparent randomness, the killing of Ms. Watkins was the kind of homicide that had become increasingly startling with the declines in reported crime in New York City.

A decline so startling might suggest that predicting the market by watching American election patterns is not a practice to, er, put a lot of stock in.

British collecting in this field is in steep decline in startling contrast with the strength of the English trade, which is about to demonstrate its continuing pre-eminence on the international scene.