Sentence examples for as a steep from inspiring English sources

He describes the transition as a "steep learning curve".

Since then, Sandberg has been on what she herself would almost certainly describe as a steep learning curve.

Instead, the slope of activity begins as a steep curve that gradually flattens out as time goes by, until the "set" signal is given.

Writing fiction, I soon realized, required not so much a steep learning curve of mastering plot and pacing, character and narrative drive, as a steep unlearning curve.

It is shown that wave overtopping at a vertical wall may also be approximately modelled by representing the wall as a steep bed slope.

The average cost to lease a building for a child-care center is $18 a foot, which he described as a steep price.

The Pahroc Range is very interesting, towering several thousand feet above the Pahroc Plains as a steep-sided mesa, forested with Pinus monophylla and Juniperus.

From a relatively low watershed and pass to Glen Etive at an elevation of 1,011 feet (308 metres), Glencoe runs west for about 5 miles (8 km) as a steep-sided, glacier-scoured trough about one-half mile (800 metres) wide, bounded by towering mountains with elevations of 3,000 feet (900 metres) or more, before turning northwest as a broader glen opening into the valley of Loch Leven.

Neglect history was associated with higher prenatal levels of anxiety, as well as a steeper decline in anxiety symptoms over time.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — H. J. Heinz, one of the world's largest food companies, said Tuesday that its third-quarter profit edged slightly lower as a steeper tax rate and rising commodity costs offset sales growth fueled by increased marketing and higher prices.

It might therefore stand out in seismic or magnetotelluric inversions as a steep-sided region of slow shear-wave speed or higher electrical conductivity.