This relative decline may, indeed, continue, but it will do so at a much reduced rate.

We did not know, continued Crosland, how our relative decline had taken place.

The period of the last years is one of relative decline in struggles and trade union activity.

And the Administration seems to have recognized a demographic fact: the relative decline in the number of white men.

Right, then so as a result the textiles would be a and relative decline to the rest of the economy.

Everything seemed to point to the relative decline of Europe as a force in the world...

Perhaps for this reason, the 1980s also coincided with a period of relative academic and pastoral decline.

Despite this, interest in the subject in most of Europe seems to be on a relative decline.

The rise of computer use is one of the reasons said to have led to a relative decline in board games.

By the turn of the 20th century, Britain's economic fortunes were in relative decline.