They declined in use from about the middle of the 6th century.

The population has declined by about 4,000 people since 1980.

Its market value has since declined to about $10.7 billion.

The population has been declining about 3% over the last 10 years.

By 1988 it was just 46.5 percent and had declined about 3 points from 1984 levels.

Its reported sales have declined about 40 percent since 2000, to less than $4 billion.

By the late 1920s, it had declined to about 50,000.

Their numbers have declined about 50 percent during the past decade, to 300.

The state's white population declined, too, by about 8 percent over the decade.

That number declined to 21% by 2009, or about 46 million adults.