declining proportion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdeclineandproportion
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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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proportion
noun
uk/prəˈpɔː.ʃən/us/prəˈpɔːr.ʃən/
the number or amount of a group or part of something when compared to ...
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(Definition ofdeclineandproportionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Contracts subject to pricing on the basis of cost plus percentage free profit are shown at line 5, and represent adecliningproportionof the total.
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A trend of adecliningproportionof pill users among the clinic patients is currently being observed.
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Cornwallis must have realized that a permanent, fixed rate of land-tax would make up adecliningproportionof the state's revenue income over time.
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However, although the absolute number is increasing, those people represent adecliningproportionof the growing number of students.
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Yet the working population continues to be adecliningproportion.
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Thedecliningproportionof the rents which go towards the cost of providing council houses is quite ridiculous.
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The number of higher paid employees without pension rights is a small anddecliningproportionof the working population.
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That report found that adecliningproportionof good projects was being undertaken.
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All the evidence shows that continuing to plan for adecliningproportionwill harm the economy.
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Contracts subject to pricing on the basis of cost plus percentage free profit are shown at line 5, and represent adecliningproportionof the total.
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It is encouraging to find that their inspections show adecliningproportionof children needing treatment—about 50 per cent today, compared with 70 per cent 20 years ago.
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Every advanced industrial country has found that manufacturing has shown adecliningproportionof employment because other sectors —services and so on—have tended to take up the slack.
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A significant butdecliningproportionof the area is still agricultural.
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