Since the early 1990s, the decline has slowed.

The decline of the stock market could slow charitable giving.

Since that point, the decline has slowed but not yet reversed.

Preliminary data for 1987 and 1988, however, show the decline is slowing.

It's still early to predict the final figure, but these latest stats show the decline in applications is slowing.

Experts have offered several explanations why the decline in the death rates has slowed.

"The decline in the infant mortality rate has slowed," the centers said.

If anything has happened since, it is that the decline has slowed.

But good news was also seen in manufacturing job losses, whose decline slowed to 5,000.

A decline in the sea otter population slowed trade in 1895.