secular decline

collocation in English

meaningsofsecularanddecline

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secular
adjective
uk
/ˈsek.jə.lər/us
/ˈsek.jə.lɚ/
not having any connection ...
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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 ofsecularanddeclinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The first, comprising women born between 1920 and 1935, showed noseculardeclinein menarcheal age and no significant change in stature.
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In addition to theseculardeclinein mortality, the data show that individual voyages continued to experience great variation in their rates of mortality.
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As evidence, agrarians pointed both to theseculardeclinein the price of live cattle and the concomitant rise in the price of dressed beef.
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In reassessing the reasons for theseculardeclinein both fertility and infant mortality, scholars have argued the critical importance of attitudes.
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If one views theseculardeclinein fertility as resulting from a single process affecting a nation as a whole, then national boundaries create borderlands.
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First, income disparities across groups with different educational endowments have been falling, suggesting aseculardeclinein average returns to schooling.
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Aseculardeclinein the tendency to remarry was also found in many of these studies.
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Does it reflect aseculardeclinein food grains availability over the past years in per capita terms?
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The patterns of spending which emerge and the timing of the investment are discussed, and the relationship between sanitary investment and elements of theseculardeclineof mortality are considered.
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It boils down to what the economists call theseculardeclineof the value of the £.
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The problem is that these two afflictions ofseculardeclineand inflation call for conflicting remedies.
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We must recognise that, after more than 40 years ofseculardeclinein the share of rail traffic, the policy of privatisation reversed the trend.
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There is one other aspect of the statistics leading to theseculardeclinethat has gone on for 14 or 15 years.
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I think it reasonable to expect that there is likely to be aseculardeclinein most of these sectors in the years ahead.
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That is a reversal of 40 years ofseculardeclinein the share of journeys taken for both private and freight purposes.
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It is no use trying to prop up a declining industry which is in aseculardecline.
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Could they reverse rapidly theseculardeclinein industrial profits?
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Some say that this is aseculardeclinewhich has been going on for a century.
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Beer drinking is experiencing aseculardecline, which cannot be attributed solely to the habit of buying drink abroad or from illegal sources.
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