31.   Expectations for new orders and output for the next three months have weakened, and more manufacturers surveyed expect production will decline rather than rise.

32.   However, domestic production declined substantially because of a prolonged dry season, forcing the country to import rice again last year.

33.   In hilly, strongly acidic, and infertile uplands, food crop and agroforestry production is declining.

34.   June marked the sixth consecutive month that production has declined compared with a year earlier, the Japan Automobile Manufactures Association said.

35.   Middleton added that the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics expected South African production to decline again this year.

36.   Previous research that culled sperm count data from older studies concluded that sperm production is declining.

37.   Production declined at American factories and airlines and hotels struggled with a sharp drop-off in travel.

38.   Since then, his production has declined steadily.

39.   The directorate said oil production declined due to regular maintenance on some large offshore fields.

40.   The government has put aside billions in an oil fund earmarked for foreign investment as a cushion for the country when petroleum production eventually declines.