falling away

It’s a measure of the strength of Max's character that he has managed to handle this with such equanimity, especially as the team’s competitive form was falling away at the same time.

Bizzle remembers how efforts to suppress his music started falling away after top music magazine NME compared Pow! to Sex Pistols’ God Save the Queen.

Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland radio programme on Friday, election expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the campaign had been "fractious", after a period when the party had seen its support falling away.

Bass ordered pastrami on rye and took notes as Langer described the challenge of maintaining a business when customers have been falling away after decades of loyalty.

After falling away from the leading group, Wiffen admitted he considered dropping out of the race but making it to the end "showed a lot of will power".