Sentence examples for average a decline from inspiring English sources

To find firms well suited for deflationary times, we looked for the following characteristics: a low debt ratio relative to the industry average; a decline in long-term debt over the last four quarters; and positive free cash flow (net income plus depreciation less capital expenditures) over the past 12 months.

Meanwhile the rest of us -- the bottom 93percentthathat's 111 million families) -- suffered on average a decline of $6,000 each.

Therefore, our projections for crop production growth may be too high in countries that are projected to expand rainfed cropland area but experience, on average, a decline in annual water availability (the lower right quadrant of the graphs in Figure 3 indicates countries with such a tradeoff).

Full-time male public sector workers' real earnings averaged a decline of 2.1% a year from 2010 to 2012, compared with a decline of 3.1% a year for their private sector counterparts.

But in 2000, that trend was reversed, and companies averaged a decline of 26percentthehe year after their split.

Excluding Williams (who did not play the season after his 1942 triple crown, because of military service), the 12 winners before Cabrera have averaged a decline of 14 home runs in the subsequent season.

These three averaged a decline of 70%.

Do not expect a 5,000-point 5,000-pointthe declinees industheal Average, but a Dowline in the value of technology companies, our subJones has a number of Industrial

The maximum loss averaged only a decline of 1.6percentt versus a maximum gain that averaged 20.9percentt.

This has produced on average a 31% decline in quoted spreads.

It, and other effects of the crisis, could cause GDP growth to drop to 2% a year from the 3% average, a dramatic decline.