Sentence examples for a slight deterioration from inspiring English sources

However, the survey also indicated a slight deterioration in profitability across the sector.

After a slight deterioration in the first Early Dynastic period, when brocade patterns or files of running animals were preferred, mythical scenes returned.

Kate Moy of Arbuthnot said: "While there has been a slight deterioration in the order book of Mouchel, which now stands at £1.7bn (versus £1.8bn at the end of November), the shocking figure is the decline in the pipeline of tenders and near-term opportunities which in late November stood at £2.6bn, but is now down at £2bn.

The leverage ratio at Bear Stearns rose from 26.0 in 2005 (meaning that total assets were 26 times the value of shareholders' equity) to 32.8 in 2007.Second, financial institutions were exposed to product leverage via complex instruments, such as CDOs, which needed only a slight deterioration in the value of underlying assets for losses to escalate rapidly.

The net balance of -3% was a slight deterioration on the -1% of the previous quarter.

The early group showed a slight deterioration in the POSSUM score (Table 3).

Two weeks after injection, in the MI+V animals, the morpho-functional properties of the left ventricle either remained unchanged or underwent a slight further deterioration (Table S2).

Based on the responses obtained, the questionnaire allowed the variables of personal finances, mental health and physical health to be scored on a scale of 1 to 6: excellent capacity, good capacity, slight deterioration, moderate deterioration, strong deterioration and total deterioration.

Despite the recent release of five people the United States considered political prisoners and a journalist, Mr. Kramer characterized the political situation in Belarus as "stagnant to slight deterioration" since the 2006 presidential elections, when the police arrested hundreds of people in several days of antigovernment protests.

Nor does the slight deterioration in the economic outlook seem like adequate justification for the shift.

The slight deterioration of the <531 > texture of CdTe NGs on ZnO NWs after CdCl2 heat treatment can be compared with the slight deterioration of the <111 > texture of polycrystalline CdTe thin films above a threshold annealing temperature[37, 56].