Sentence examples for been contracting since from inspiring English sources
That sanguine attitude looks increasingly wrong.Investment in Europe has been contracting since the middle of 2000, and Europe's bank-dominated financial system may be exacerbating the post-bubble hangover.
The former shadow home secretary said the economy, which has been contracting since the start of the year, was in the "11th hour, if not the 59th minute".
The report from the New York division of the National Association of Purchasing Management, a trade group, suggests that while the economy has been contracting since November, business managers recently became more optimistic about the outlook for the rest of the year.
Coming in third is Brazilian beauty Adriana Lima, who still models for Victoria's Secret and is its longest-tenured Angel (she's been contracted since 2000).
It has been contracting since the end of 2011.
The unemployment rate was at its highest since the Great Depression, consumer confidence was at a record low, and net assets of equity mutual funds had been contracting since 1970 and stood at $35 billion compared with $2.3 trillion today.
Graph: Econoday The factory sector has been contracting since October 2014, but has recently shown signs of strength.
They note that container traffic to Europe has stalled after double-digit growth earlier this year, and that it has been contracting to America since 2007.
Westchester has been contracting private companies since the 1970's to run about 60 lines in the county and a commuter bus service into New York.
Britain privatised its water firms in 1989 and French municipalities have been contracting out water services since the 19th century.
If the Copenhagen interpretation is correct, however, the typical observation will be that the universe is contracting, since in that case the probability is very large that universe A is the only universe around.Dr Page's model of the initial wave function of the universe is, as he would be the first to admit, far too simplistic.
