The band Chumbawumba recorded a song named after the village, which described its painful decline following the 1984-85 miners' strike.

Proctor had been witness to the painful decline that began for her friend around the summer of 1996, just months before Rose's 100th birthday.

The Soviet state, marked throughout its brief but tumultuous history by great achievement and terrible suffering, died today after a long and painful decline.

In 1995, at age 10, Alora watched her mother's slow, painful decline and death.

Since January, California has added 29,000 jobs, a three-month spike in employment after a long, painful decline.

Like the others, she suffer-ing a lingering, painful decline until her death in November of 1995.

Both her intimate life and literary career followed an arc of rapid early rise and slow painful decline.

The years after Young Frankenstein are a tale of painful decline.

A month later, the two were openly feuding and the Knicks began a gradual, painful decline.

But it could reinforce the slow and painful decline of the eurozone and its sprawling banking system.