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declining years /dɪˌklʌɪnɪŋ ˈjɪəz /plural noun1A person’s old age, especially when regarded as the time when health, vigour, and mental faculties deteriorate. 1.1The period leading up to the end of an enterprise or institution: the declining years of the Austro-Hungarian empire...- The Accord grew out of a period of industrial warfare, in the declining years of the Fraser government.
- How does this show, even in its declining years, still manage to rack up such an assortment of cute men and women previously unbeknownst to the world at large?
- In the opening pages of The Seduction of Place, his new book on the city, Anglo-American architect and historian Joseph Rykwert recounts his own formation during the declining years of the modernist movement.
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