Global Witness says trends in the number and average size of oil discoveries has been in decline since 1965.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Australia and New Zealand's relations with and their small South Pacific neighbor,Fiji, have been in decline since an army coup in December 2006.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Indeed,volatile food prices, population growth, low agricultural productivity and the potentially devastating effects of climate change make it a particularly daunting challenge. The IFAD president says over the past 30 years, agricultural productivity in developing countries has been stagnant or in decline. He blames it on years of under-investment.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

"Certainly the good news is that the rate of deaths of children under five years of age continued to decline in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

During this time the United States was in an economic decline known as the Great Depression.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

It was during the economic decline in the United States called the Great Depression.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

"The expected decline in world hunger in two thousand ten is primarily the result of better access to food as the global economy recovers, and food prices remain below their peak level of mid-two thousand eight."

VOA: special.2010.09.21

There has been good news in recent weeks for investors who watched stock markets decline sharply amid the global financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Nwanze says the decline was as much as a third in Africa and two-thirds in Asia and Latin America.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Mr.Medvedev told a meeting of government ministers in Moscow the global economic crisis has caused a sharp decline in Russian federal revenues.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

(SAYING:mortality rates in the United States) About 40 percent of the decrease for men resulted from the decline in lung cancer death.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

It led to a rapid decline in foreign direct investment in Georgia and a rapid decline in growth, reinforced,of course, by the economic crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Even after a decade-long decline in illegal logging,Ritter says, there's still a long way to go.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Some believe that population is stable in contrast to the eastern portion of the stock which is continuing to decline at probably lower population levels."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

But PNC Financial Services senior economist Stuart Hoffman agrees with the president that last week's decline in applications does not yet mean substantial job growth.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

"For years,there was a decline in teen pregnancy, I believe between 1991 and about 2005,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

In fact, the decline has been remarkably consistent. This month we lost 663,000 jobs.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Their findings confirmed an overall decline in gastric cancer, with one exception.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Public Opinion polls show that a majority of Americans favor health care reform, but several recent surveys also show a decline in approval for the way President Obama is handling the issue.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21