Because sales of cars and light trucks made in North America declined 13.6 percent in late February, many analysts concluded that evidence of a recovering automotive market remains slight.
这个我觉得有点类似og12-74 74.A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump into the Great Lakes. 主句当中使用的是reduced一般过去式,自治区被允许投放的磷酸盐的量减少发生在agreement颁布以后,所以从句的时态应该用are allowed表明这个结果到现在还存在着,或者用were allowed表明这个结果在这个句子之前已经停止作用了
Because sales of cars and light trucks made in North America declined 13.6 percent in late February, many analysts concluded that evidence of a recovering automotive market remains slight.