However, since the 1980s, the economic importance of the forest has been declining.

Coffee remains an important export, but its importance has declined in the last 50 years.

This importance has declined since the closure of the station in 1969.

By the 1970s the importance of this had declined and the town suffered economic depression.

However, its relevance and importance have been declining for years.

Since then, the importance of this place has been steadily declining.

But over the past century the river's importance as a transportation route has declined.

The importance of the hundred courts declined from the 17th century.

As a result, the importance of public parks in the Iranian community declined.

From the 1990s, its importance declined gradually until it was closed in 2004.