31.   The decline in real earnings of all industrial workers is reflected in the growth of overtime in every industry.

32.   A recent survey carried out by Labour Research shows that out of two thousand workplaces studied, there was a marked decline in unionization.

33.   Yet the seventies saw a very significant decline in long-term debenture financing.

34.   That policy collapsed in the face of determined financial opposition to the growth of public-sector borrowing and a precipitous decline in the exchange rate.

35.   The decline in earnings reflected the more difficult trading environment experienced by our downstream oil and chemicals businesses.

36.   The decline in trade unionism is particularly significant here.

37.   The decline in revenue from traditional farming means that farmers must diversify.

38.   A reversible process would be one in which changes in X cause an increase in Y and a reversal in X produces a decline in Y.

39.   The most evident change as the eighteenth century progressed was the relative decline in the importance of Europe.

40.   Furthermore, such changes were being accompanied by a decline in mutualistic support between associates and kin.