Sentence examples for a rate down from inspiring English sources

"Once you bring a rate down, if it goes back up, people will feel that.

"Once you bring a rate down, if it goes back up, people will feel that," Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb).

Last week Argentina announced its latest (half-yearly) count of unemployment: a rate down to 13.8% from 16.1% in May and 18.4% at its recessionary peak in 1995.

Only nine companies in the United States now receive the top, triple-A rating, down from 22 a decade ago and 58 in the late 1970's.

Consumers increased their spending at a 1.4percentt rate, down from a 1.5percentt growth rate estimated last month.

Wage pressures, as measured by unit labor costs, increased at a 3.3percentt rate, down from a 5.7percentt spike in the fourth quarter.

With his track record and public profile, Mr. Buffett is the epitome of the corporate "key man," as Fitch Ratings pointed out in knocking Berkshire's triple-A rating down a notch in March.

Exports grew at a 15.4percentt rate, down from the previous estimate of 16.2percentt.

On Tuesday, though, Italy sold five-year Treasury bonds at a 3.69 percent rate, down from 5.2 percent at the previous similar auction.

This year, China is expected to expand at a 9.4% rate, down from 11.9% in 2007.

Analysts expect that first-quarter growth will be about 2percentt at an annualized rate, down from the 3.8percentt posted in the final three months of 2003.