The extreme poverty rate has declined significantly between 1999 and 2010.

In contrast, deaths due to lung cancer have declined significantly among men.

The port's use and traffic declined significantly, causing a decline in the city's economy.

Africa is the only continent in which food production has declined significantly over the past two decades.

The proportion of hungry people in developing countries has declined significantly from 23.2 in 1990 92 to 14.9 today.

Sulfate aerosols have declined significantly since 1970 with the Clean Air Act in the United States and similar policies in Europe.

In all of these cities, CO2 emissions declined sharply and congestion was significantly reduced, with Singapore experiencing an immediate 45 drop in traffic.

The number of children living in families receiving Income Support in the province has declined significantly, from 25,000 in 2000 to 20,200 in 2003.

Indeed, the accident rate in built up areas has declined significantly over recent years, while three fourths of fatal accidents now occur in the countryside.

As a trend, voluntary contributions to the UNITAR General Fund have significantly declined over the period from 1965 to 2004 (see annexes II and III).

The overall trade weighted value of the renminbi has thus declined significantly, particularly relative to the currencies of the emerging market countries with which Chinese producers compete.

CHICAGO It is well known that manufacturing employment has declined significantly in the United States, owing to the rise of manufacturing in developing countries like Mexico and China.

Over the past decades, the shares of the industrial and services sectors in the region's total GDP have increased significantly, while the share of the agricultural sector has declined.

But, as the rift between Khamenei and Ahmadinejad has grown, support for the president has declined significantly, with even state run media referring to Ahmadinejad s loyalists as a deviation circle.

There would appear to be a need to enhance international cooperation in this area, especially in those regions where requests for mutual legal assistance had significantly declined (see figure IX).

He stressed that one of the most important lessons to come out of Afghanistan in 2005 was that, in every region where cultivation had declined significantly, alternative development had been available.

Yet it clearly has German influence within the European Central Bank has declined significantly the German finance minister will not become head of the Eurogroup and now we have the Brussels disaster!

The latest available data, from 2002, indicate that the country has done well in reducing global malnutrition (in underweight children under five years of age), although the pace of the reduction declined significantly after 1995.

He declined my proposal.

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Sami's health has sharply declined.

The market declined by 97 .

The victim declined to press charges.

Vlissingen declined during the 18th century.

On the contrary, ODA has declined.

Similarly, the Euro VIX, a popular measure of expectations of euro volatility, has fallen significantly. The cost of buying protection against fluctuations in the euro dollar exchange rate declined last month to its lowest level in nearly five years.

The use of torture had declined sharply.

For two years, sea levels have declined.

It was of little comfort to observe that such attitudes had hardened at a time when global refugee numbers had declined significantly the number of people of concern to UNHCR now stood at 17 million, down 10 million since the mid 1990s.

The Fed declined to regulate these dubious practices.

According to the Financial Times, he laughingly declined.

The number of social assistance recipients has declined.

Meanwhile, the US share of global output has declined.

Civilisation declined to attend the UN s anti Israel festival.

Aid has increased significantly.

Instead, the index declined three times more steeply than others.

and transition economies, while FDI into developed countries declined further.

The number of civilian jobs declined from 44,062 to 43,415.

The figure for males declined slightly from 1.0 to 0.91 .

These declined owing to the crisis of the mid 1990s.

While Japan s overall current account surplus declined significantly, from 3.7 of GDP in 1985 to 2.7 in 1988, the overall US current account deficit only fell from 2.8 of GDP to 2.4 , because Japanese companies started investing in production facilities in Southeast Asia for export to the US.

In fact, in the Olympics, India s record has declined over time.

By the early 17th century moreover, Venetian power had declined considerably.

Japan s overseas aid declined by 44 when that country hit hard times.

As rates of economic growth have declined, this has meant growing unemployment.