rapid decline
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrapidanddecline
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rapid
adjective
uk/ˈræp.ɪd/us/ˈræp.ɪd/
fast ...
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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 ofrapidanddeclinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This stance, however, did not save it fromrapiddecline.
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Or is it because of therapiddeclineof early-ripening wheat?
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This argument is supported by data which demonstrate that urban centres + and particularly larger ones + experienced a morerapiddeclinein mortality than rural areas.
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Two economic changes, however, led to therapiddeclineof the partisan press.
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For two or three years it attracted large numbers of adherents, but in 1908 was suppressed by the colonial administration and went intorapiddecline.
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This process of privatization becomes very expensive and less relevant in lands that experience arapiddeclinein productivity as they are more continuously cultivated.
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Egg excretion actually peaked at week 7 following primary infection, followed by arapiddecline.
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Paradoxically therapiddeclineof fertility has meant that a rising and now high proportion of all sons are only and eldest sons.
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Rapiddeclinein soil organic matter is a matter of serious concern for many agro-ecosystems.
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However, this manoeuvre was unable to keep pace with therapiddeclineof state socialism.
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But it was also the beginning of a period ofrapiddecline.
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Needless to say, there was arapiddeclinein the medical reports of ' cause of death unknown and unspecified '.*!
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As discussed above, the year 1946 marked the beginning of arapiddeclinein judicial independence.
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Indeed, it was in the aftermath of the presidential election that the student movement began itsrapiddecline.
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The year 1960 marked at once the high point of the labour movement and the beginning of itsrapiddecline.
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Because conch is the second largest species caught and exported, thisrapiddeclinein harvest significantly undermines fish export earnings and fisherman income.
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There was then arapiddeclineuntil by 1974 they had all but disappeared.
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Lizards within these two guilds overlap very little with other species in the assemblage causing therapiddeclinein observed overlaps seen by rank four.
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