Following the emergence of the Australian Football League, the SANFL, WAFL and other state leagues rapidly declined to a secondary status.

BBSes rapidly declined in popularity thereafter, and were replaced by systems using the Internet for connectivity.

" With total world emissions from fossil fuels growing rapidly, the proportion of fossil-fuel emissions absorbed by the oceans since 2000 may have declined by as much as 10 %, indicating that over time the ocean will become " a less efficient sink of manmade carbon.

Charlotte became pregnant soon after the marriage but her health declined rapidly and according to Gaskell, she was attacked by " sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness.

Andropov's health declined rapidly during the tense summer and fall of 1983, and he became the first Soviet leader to miss the anniversary celebrations of the 1917 revolution that November.

The nation's petroleum reserves declined sharply during the early 1980s because of exploration failures and rapidly increasing domestic consumption.

Banana exports peaked in 1930, then declined rapidly.

After the fall of Jerusalem to Vespasian's armies in the Great Revolt of Judea in 70 CE, Jericho declined rapidly, and by 100 CE it was but a small Roman garrison town.

With players such as Tittle and Gifford approaching their mid 30s, the team declined rapidly, finishing 2 – 10 – 2 in 1964.

In rural areas, industrial and commercial activity has declined rapidly in recent years, leaving rural economies dependent on the government for support and subsistence.

The use of silver in photography has rapidly declined, due to the lower demand for consumer color film from the advent of digital technology ; since 2007, of the 907 million ounces of silver in supply, just 117. 6 million ounces ( 13 %) were consumed by the photographic sector, about 50 % of the amount used in photography in 1998.

The Liberal Party was one of the two dominant parties ( along with the Conservatives ) from its founding until the 1920s, when it rapidly declined and was supplanted on the left by the Labour Party, which was founded in 1900 and formed its first government in 1924.

As the Volga route declined by the end of the century, the Trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks rapidly overtook it in popularity.

With the onset of the Spanish Civil War, the form rapidly declined, and the last romantic zarzuelas to hold the stage were written in the 1950s.

Scientific publications regarding DID peaked in the mid-1990s then rapidly declined.

The results were found to be unusually distributed, with a very low level of publications in the 1980s followed by a significant rise that peaked in the mid-1990s and subsequently rapidly declined in the decade following.

In recent years, usage of Mon has declined rapidly, especially among the younger generation.

Petra declined rapidly under Roman rule, in large part from the revision of sea-based trade routes.

From the late 16th century, the Joseon dynasty faced foreign invasions, internal power struggle and rebellions, and it declined rapidly in the late 19th century.

In the 1350s, the Yuan Dynasty declined rapidly due to internal struggles, enabling King Gongmin to reform the Goryeo government.

By 1840 the fashion in Europe and Britain shifted away from the formerly very popular beaver felt hats and prices for furs rapidly declined and the trapping almost ceased.

Italian Neorealism rapidly declined in the early 1950s.

Nuuk began as a small fishing settlement with a harbor but as the economy developed rapidly during the 1970s and 1980s, the fishing industry in the capital declined.

Although very well developed during the 1960s and early 1970s, industrialisation declined rapidly with the decline of most Portuguese after independence.

Patel's health declined rapidly through the summer of 1950.

For example, Dürer offered his last portrait of Maximilian to his daughter, Margaret of Austria, but eventually traded the picture for some white cloth after Margaret disliked the portrait and declined to accept it.

State of origin games also declined in importance, especially after an increasing number of withdrawals by AFL players.

It is probable that the power of Aegina had steadily declined during the twenty years after Salamis, and that it had declined absolutely, as well as relatively, to that of Athens.

The town seems to have declined in importance after the middle of the 4th century BC.

Milk alkali syndrome declined in men after effective treatments were developed for peptic ulcer disease.

The high content of zinc in coinage and brass objects declined after the first century AD and it has been suggested that this reflects zinc loss during recycling and thus an interruption in the production of new brass.

In 1987, there was media speculation Clinton would enter the race after then-New York Governor Mario Cuomo declined to run and Democratic front-runner Gary Hart withdrew owing to revelations of marital infidelity.

In France he was considered as the restorer of the art, which had declined after the time of Louis XIV, and during the last twenty years of his life the French government commissiond him to undertake several works.

Immediately after the election the two groups reunited, though Lloyd George declined to play much of a formal role in his old party.

By the mid-19th century, Bayonne had declined somewhat with the centralisation of power to Paris and to the new département capital, non-Basque Pau, after the 1789 French Revolution, and with Wellington's bombardment.

Salmon populations declined dramatically after the establishment of canneries in 1867.

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the Hungarian population declined, while the German speaking population was forced or compelled to leave after World War II and similar fate was suffered by the Italian population.

However, Amnesty International declined to publicize this material ; the Secretary-General of the organization, Pierre Sane, said at the time in an internal communication that " what they do with the bodies after human rights violations are committed is not part of our mandate or concern ".

Interest in the Cottingley Fairies gradually declined after 1921.

Atkins continued performing in the 1990s, but his health declined after being diagnosed again with cancer in 1996.

Also, in the mid-1980s, psychologist Margaret Singer stopped being accepted as an expert witness after the APA declined to endorse the DIMPAC report.

She was later released and after returning to San Francisco spoke out against deprograming but declined to press legal charges against her parents.

52 % of all land was owned by large landowners before the law was passed ; this declined to 16 % after the law's passage.

The oyster fishing industry declined after 1902 when sewage polluted the oysters, which resulted in some people dying after eating oysters from Emsworth.

During his career as a director, he retained an early ambition to teach science, and after his career declined in the 1950s he made some educational TV films related to science subjects.

They found that the increase of scores of general intelligence stopped after the mid-1990s and declined in numerical reasoning sub-tests.

After experiencing GDP growth averaging nearly six percent a year in the late 1990s, economic growth declined considerably after 2001 as a result of a decline in the tourism industry following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and damages caused by several hurricanes.