marked decline
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmarkedanddecline
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marked
adjective
uk/mɑːkt/us/mɑːrkt/
A marked change or difference in behaviour or in a situation is very obvious ...
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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 ofmarkedanddeclinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This change is manifest in the fact that during the 1980s there was amarkeddeclinein the relative level of government funding of universities.
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The second group, women born between 1935 and 1949, showed amarkeddeclinein menarcheal age, with again no significant change in stature.
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There was amarkeddeclinein the number of studies devoted to this area beginning about the mid-1980s.
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Among men, the skilled manual group showed amarkeddeclinein income from private pensions relative to professionals and managers.
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More severe ultrastructural damage accompanied by amarkeddeclinein viability was reported at lower dehydration temperatures.
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Second, for longer durations, there has been amarkeddeclinein family size with the reductions varying from 8 to 17%.
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Both treatments showed amarkeddeclinein leaf concentration at subsequent sampling dates.
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During growth periods, the quantitative difference between direct and viable counts showed amarkeddecline.
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There was also amarkeddeclinein support for privatisation across the board.
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Famine occurred in 1943 because for a large section of population there was amarkeddeclinein exchange entitlement to rice.
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One firm conclusion to emerge from these intensive labours is that the early eighteenth century witnessed amarkeddeclinein the number of cases coming before the central courts.
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Within the group there is amarkeddeclinein the use of withdrawal with increasing length of education and a corresponding increase in the use of the diaphragm.
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Among persons becoming disabled, themarkeddeclinein income from employment was partially replaced by benefit income (and, to a lesser extent, personal and occupational pension income).
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Deutsch registered also amarkeddeclinein the perception of military threats and of a danger of nuclear war between 1953 and 1963.
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Rather, the region's countries are engaged on a variety of distinct paths, only some of which include amarkeddeclinein the quality of political and civic rights.
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The species has suffered amarkeddecline, is greatly overfished and is threatened by over-exploitation for international trade.
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This is one reason why there has been amarkeddeclinein the haulage of goods by railway.
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That shows that there has been amarkeddeclineeven in housing association starts.
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