In fact, since the First World War, and more than ever since the Second, the influence of the Anglo-American in politics, social customs, literature, and American life had vastly declined.
The big basking sharks and great whites upon which he built his living and legend have vastly declined in number, amid the post- Jaws" post- Jaws of shark-fishing and the increase in commercial boats hauling them in to sell their fins to Asian markets.
After the invasion of Russia in 1812, the number of French troops in Spain vastly declined as Napoleon needed reinforcements to conserve his strategic position in Europe.
Since the number of qualified buyers has vastly declined during the past year of credit tightening, that means deflated housing prices for years to come, with too few buyers for too many houses.
The volume of children's programming has ballooned sixfold since 1998, when digital television began, while overall investment has declined, meaning vastly more repeats, more imported programmes, the dominant US-owned digital channels overrun by cartoons, and the BBC in pole position as the surviving grand patron of original British production.
Although crime rates have gently declined in recent years, they remain vastly higher than in the United States or Europe, with an average of 43 people murdered every day.
This decision is a moral victory for Exxon, which declined to cravenly accept a punitive fine that vastly exceeded the $287 million in actual damages assessed for the 1989 oil spill in Prince William Sound.
"Even though the police vastly increased traffic enforcement, the number of complaints from citizens actually declined," said Dr. Sherman, the director of the Fels Center of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.
The film was budgeted at $4.5 million, but went "vastly over budget … enough to deplete our marketing budget," though he declined to say what it ultimately cost.
Gradually, though, as this country has continued its drift, a more skeptical view has begun to gain ground: Japan is returning to its rightful place in the world, that of a middling country of vastly diminished and still declining importance in world affairs.
Ma declined to criticize Groupon too much (he said they're a Tencent partner), but he said that in general it's proven that the Chinese market is vastly different compared to America and elsewhere.
