11.   The study followed an FBI report last month that said major crime generally had declined for six successive years.

12.   This year, overall crime has declined in every borough, as well as in the subway system and in public housing.

13.   Though crime has declined dramatically in recent years, assaults, rapes and occasional murders are hardly unknown.

14.   True, crime was also declining under the previous commissioner, William Bratton, and the mayor deemed him expendable.

15.   Violent crime has been declining in New York City for several years, and at dramatic rates in the last two.

16.   Violent crime is declining, the squeegee guys are in hiding, and the lives of a lot of fare-beaters and graffiti vandals have been made miserable.

17.   While the population grows, crime is declining.

18.   Bush said violent crime is declining in the United States, but acknowledged that deep problems remain in the American public education system.

19.   Crime has declined recently, but the drug culture and lawlessness still rule many neighborhoods.

20.   However, several recent reports have suggested that violent crime is declining a bit, while economic crimes such as smuggling and embezzlement are still on the increase.