progressive decline

collocation in English

meaningsofprogressiveanddecline

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progressive
adjective
uk
/prəˈɡres.ɪv/us
/prəˈɡres.ɪv/
developing or ...
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decline
noun[S or U]
uk
/dɪˈklaɪn/us
/dɪˈklaɪn/
when something becomes less in amount, importance, quality, ...
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(Definition ofprogressiveanddeclinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Aprogressivedeclinein health status with advancing age is inevitable and must contribute to the stepped fall in the overall scores.
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At times, recovery of visual function continued over subsequent testing sessions by aprogressivedeclinein the size of the scotoma.
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Cereal yields showed large year-to-year variations but little indication of aprogressivedecline.
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Legume rotation-induced increases in cereal yields can be attributed to absolute increases in rotation cereals rather than to aprogressivedeclinein continuous cereals.
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It is a true but a very unpleasant fact that after the last war there was aprogressivedeclinein our merchant fleet.
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A regrettable feature of the situation to-day is that this is part of aprogressivedecline.
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That is a very remarkable list of figures, showing a steep andprogressivedeclinein the number of births per thousand of the population.
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We have now successfully arrested that trend, and after six or seven years ofprogressivedeclinethe figures are beginning to increase once more.
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The reduction in expenditure in real terms during the period reflects a substantial andprogressivedeclinein pupil numbers.
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There is no doubt that there has been aprogressivedeclinein the share of manufacturing industry in the total activity of the economy.
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These are the latest available figures and show how theprogressivedeclinein the cost of housing construction is going on.
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Arising out of all delays has hung the spectre of aprogressivedeclinein administration, and also the lamentable increase in civil strife.
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What is more, there is aprogressivedecline.
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In fact, in the last 10 years there has been a steady,progressivedecline, in the number of machine tools in use.
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There has been aprogressivedeclinein the area of horticultural land, from 305,000 hectares in 1977 to 268,000 hectares in 1980.
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The history of housing since the war has been one of a continual andprogressivedeclinein that kind of accommodation.
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Instead of a great increase in the general standard of well-being there is aprogressivedecline.
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