Sentence examples for a prolonged decline from inspiring English sources

"But what's new and different is that this may be a prolonged decline.

An initial burst of scholarship in the 1960s and 1970s was followed by a prolonged decline.

Those who predicted a dramatic death are more likely to witness a prolonged decline.

This is the first time since last October that Wall Street has experienced such a prolonged decline.

But in the last two decades, many of those tenants left, sending Crystal City into a prolonged decline and leaving it without a strong residential or commercial identity.

Factory jobs skidded by 31,000 last month, resuming a prolonged decline that was interrupted in February by a return to work of idled automobile workers.

"I would characterize the pattern in transactions as a V-shaped trend," he said, "indicating a rapid drop and quick recovery after this market trauma, as opposed to a U-shaped trend with a more prolonged decline and recovery period".

A more prolonged decline, some experts believe, could do much greater long-term damage to the market because it could devastate investors' psyches.

The term comes from stock markets and refers to a sequence of events where a stock sees a temporary and brief recovery after a severe and prolonged decline, followed by a return to that same decline.

Another set of economists think our Great Slump reflects a productivity/technology shock -- a sudden and prolonged decline in our capacity to produce output.

American Homestar, a maker of prefabricated homes, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy-court protection yesterday, citing a "severe and prolonged decline" in sales and its debts from a spate of acquisitions.