Sentence examples for was in sharp decline from inspiring English sources

As the 1960s gave way to the 70s, variety was in sharp decline.

The influence of the Churches was in sharp decline; the impact of cretinising consumerist television was steadily growing.

In particular, the group said, the rise in unemployment in October to 5.4percentt from 4.9percentt in September provided compelling evidence that employment was in sharp decline.

TV stars who had little more than celebrity to offer were imported, while variety, from which panto had drawn so many of its stalwarts, was in sharp decline.

He seems to have loved the pictures he bought, collecting, for example, the paintings of Carlo Maratta almost obsessively, even though the 17th-century Italian's ranking was in sharp decline and now he's almost forgotten.

The commission found that home ownership was in sharp decline among the young as house prices rise, with the proportion of those aged under 44 owning their own home having fallen by 17% in the space of 10 years.

Now they are in sharp decline.

The marshes, too, are in sharp decline.

The economy, which had been booming, is in sharp decline.

Meanwhile, private-sector jobs were in sharp decline — an eight-per-cent drop since 1985.

Recently, virtually every relevant Bledsoe metric has been in sharp decline.