In essence we had a dramatic decline in sales numbers, which is not a good thing.
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This is a dramatic decline: an 11.6 per cent drop from 139, 000 in 2007-08 to 123, 000.
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Great crested newts became a European Protected Species following a dramatic decline in their population across Europe.
While Bovino avoids speaking of the stock market, one could expect a dramatic decline in U.S. stock prices.
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It is that the epidemic of imprisonment seems to track the dramatic decline in crime over the same period.
This is a dramatic decline which has not really been explained adequately.
In addition, there has been a dramatic decline in the number of "coupon settlements, " where plaintiffs are individually awarded payment coupons by the defendant.
Russian dissident Boris Berezovsky was a former Kremlin power broker whose fortunes went into dramatic decline as Vladimir Putin established himself as Russian president.
Both sides' troops are, for the most part, remaining in their posts rather than patrolling, so there has been a dramatic decline in violence.
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But this is not enough, he argues, to reverse the dramatic decline in private consumption as a share of GDP over the past decade.
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Stores open more than 12 months saw sales grow 1%, below the 1.3% estimate and a dramatic decline from the 12.7% growth experienced a year ago.
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"There has been a dramatic decline in heath land in Brecknock due to land improvement schemes and intensive agriculture, " said Charles Morgan of Brecknock Wildlife Trust.
The past four years have witnessed the dramatic decline of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex and the uniquely skilled workforce that is responsible for maintaining our nuclear deterrent.
National Hurricane Center data show a dramatic decline in major hurricanes striking the United States during the past half century (see my recent column on this here).
We haven't had the same robust research agenda on gun violence over the last two decades, and so we are not seeing the same dramatic decline in deaths and injuries.
The sharp expansion of the monetary aggregates since the beginning of September was needed to offset the dramatic decline in velocity and the hoarding of reserves by the banking system.
Yields on short term debt have seen an even more dramatic decline, as the yields on the five-year T-Note have dropped from 1.84% in early July to a low of 1.12%.
This represents a dramatic decline for the cruise ship operator, as literally ever y estimate (in the Zacks Consensus) that has come out in the past two months has been down.
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Now, however, thanks to the dramatic decline in the cost of computer power, wireless devices are far cleverer, meaning that they can use spectrum more efficiently and are more tolerant of interference.
Jennifer Stewart, head of the Heritage Lottery Fund in Wales, said bats were essential to the ecosystem and their dramatic decline in numbers clearly demonstrated the urgent need to protect and understand them.
As AMR and its pilots once again engage in contract negotiations, the airline has made a good will gesture and operational performance has improved after a dramatic decline in September.
Recent years have witnessed a dramatic decline in both volume and extent, with the 2012 coverage - like the Southern Hemisphere - setting a "record" for the modern era at 3.41 million sq km.
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The researchers believe their findings could have important implications for the conservation of basking sharks, which have shown some signs of dramatic decline in the last half century and are listed as threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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The change in strategy comes as the yen's dramatic decline early this year has paused, suggesting the Japanese stock market may be less dependent on the direction of the currency and tied more closely to the strength of an economic recovery in Japan.
"Wales' dramatic educational decline suggests that Labour-Plaid's overly-centralised and bureaucratic management of schools is letting down a generation of pupils, parents and teachers, " he said.
Sales have even risen recently after a dramatic and lengthy decline.
All areas of the equity markets took big hits lately, punctuated by the dramatic 500 point decline of the DJIA on August 4 and an even larger loss of 600 points on August 8.
And so the answer to your question is of course it is not acceptable -- 8.8 percent, while it is the most dramatic and steep decline in the unemployment rate since 1984, it is certainly still too high.
Temperatures have been essentially flat since 1998, with the exception of another brief 2010 El Nino spike immediately followed by a dramatic 2011 La Nina decline.
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