1.   The Decline was in part due to a sharp drop in gasoline prices.

2.   The failure of the project was due in part to his lack of leadership.

3.   The new departure was in part due to the constitutional evolution of federalism achieved during the New Deal.

4.   The reduction of the deficit is due in part to financial legerdemain that masks the true costs of running the government.

5.   Without doubt a great deal of my enjoyable working life has been due in part to being lucky enough to work with.

6.   These inconsistencies may be in part due to the heterogenous nature of patients who are diagnosed as suggering from irritable bowel syndrome.

7.   Reserves of water, forests, rangelands and soil were all under threat, in part due to their being accorded too low an economic value.

8.   Of course the absence of any such response to these sentences in the original version might have been due in part to their location in the story.

9.   An arms race in space was avoided during the Cold War due in part to the assumption that the Kremlin would compete with and nullify American moves.

10.   Analysts said the comparatively strong Nasdaq performance also was due in part to the fact that tech stocks have posted smaller recent gains than the blue chips.