Sentence examples for a small spike from inspiring English sources

With the exception of a small spike in May, Polaroid's shares have declined steadily this year.

Nevertheless, even if the law does lead to a small spike in sales, it still sends out the right message.

Off the Rails wonders, however, whether the talent agency's site may soon be seeing a small spike in its audience.

The Port Authority police superintendent, Fred V. Morrone, acknowledged what he said was "a small spike" in grand larcenies and car thefts in the last year.

The pint-size mammal lives mostly in mountainous areas in the western United States and Canada, and even a small spike in its body temperature is fatal.

John Lewis had seen a small spike in sales in the previous week, apparently as customers braved the autumn chill out to buy warmer clothes and hot water bottles.

With more downloads overall, and a smaller spike in new device activations over Christmas 2013, a plateauing may be expected.

There was an initial spike at launch, then a lot of hype around the 10-million-user announcement, and then a smaller spike in September when it opened up to everyone.

For example, the rodents spent more time exploring narrow elevated walkways and wide-open spaces, which are scary to rodents, and they exhibited a smaller spike in stress hormone levels when the researchers put them in water.

A spike in the low-gradient, low-density area at negative λ 2 indicates stabilizing interactions like hydrogen bonds, a smaller spike and slightly negative λ 2 is the fingerprint of a weaker stabilizing interaction, and a spike associated with positive λ 2 indicates that no NCI is active.

Both strains possess co-localized pheromone-sensitive olfactory sensory neurons characterized by a larger amplitude action potential (spike) responding to the major pheromone component, and a smaller spike amplitude cell responding to the minor component, i.e. the opposite isomer.