At first it seemed a fine wine that had gone into a long, gentle decline.

If our current, growth dependent capitalist system does not change radically, that gentle decline in population will indeed cause economic collapse.

Recent history has been a story of a gentle decline in West Ealing shopping and cultural facilities.

On a gentle decline (about 5-12 ), subtract 10 minutes per 1000 feet of descent.

His latest examination from Pakistan will reveal whether it was a temporary aberration or the start of a gentle decline.

Then it started downward, in a gentle, grassy decline.

And, four months after that, the President's political fortunes appeared to be coasting into a gentle but inexorable decline.

During the 1950s and 60s, the pier began a period of gentle decline.

Instead, there will be "a soft market and a gentle decline in prices over the next year at least, possibly much longer than that."

Toward the end of the afternoon, they topped the last rise, and the land began a long gentle decline.