Sentence examples for been weak for more from inspiring English sources

Demand there has been weak for more than a decade.

Spending on information technology by corporations has been weak for more than a year.

Even before Sept. 11, the market for leveraged loans, as financings by banks to less-established companies are known, had been weak for more than a year.

Though international air travel has been weak for more than a year because of the global recession, industry officials say they believe it will improve in 2010, especially in Asia, which was hit hard by the economic decline.

While the U.S. economy has been weak for more than a year, it was limping along tolerably well until September, when the failure of Lehman Brothers, the resultant freezing up of the credit markets, and the failure of Congress to pass the first version of the TARP sent it into shock.

Chinese imports have been weak for more than a year.

"The Chinese didn't participate in the industrial revolution, and as a result we were weak for more than 100 years," says Shih, a 53-year-old graduate of Taiwan's prestigious National Chiao Tung University, where he studied electronic engineering.

Results also revealed that participants' familiarity with recruiting organizations moderated the effects of these Web site characteristics on several dimensions of organizational image such that effects were weaker for more familiar organizations.

Moreover, we assume that the positive effect of item difficulty on test-taking disengagement is weaker for more able test-takers because the relative item difficulty is lower for them.

Trust was weaker for more avoidantly attached APs (β = −.16, p = .03).03

Economists expressed no alarm about the results, which have repeatedly been weak for January in recent years, suggesting more than the usual imprecision in the way the Commerce Department adjusts the data for recurring seasonal swings.