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[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- in decline
- 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian[1]:
- The L-shaped shopping parade, which had once wooed custom away from the small shops down the hill, was on the slide, left stranded by changes in consumer habits.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 280:
- Yvonne was on the slide.