Sentence examples for began to tail from inspiring English sources

About eight hours later, the Japanese vessel Shonan Maru No. 2 began to tail us and stayed on our tail for three weeks.

Occupancy rates increased strongly in the first three quarters of last year, but began to tail off in the fourth, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

In 1971, Mr. Cohen released "Songs of Love and Hate," which contained the cryptic and frequently covered "Famous Blue Raincoat," but after that his production began to tail off, and his live performances became less frequent.

But some survivors also felt the French Communist Party had sacrificed the unit by refusing to smuggle vital Jewish combatants out of Paris after the French police began to tail them.

There was then a rapid recovery in 2010 before growth began to tail off last year; annual growth in 2011 was 5.6% (based on data from the Dutch CPB Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, which are well worth a look).

In 2012, cardiologist-runners Carl Lavie and James O'Keefe caused a stir when they released a research paper that found that while moderate running was clearly healthy, those health benefits began to tail off and possibly even reverse if you ran "excessively".

With the current El Niño weather event only now beginning to tail off, meteorologists believe that this year is destined to be the hottest on record, warmer even than 2015.

At 3.85 billion years ago, the heavy bombardment of giant meteors from the early solar system was only beginning to tail off.

Sir Harry Burns, Scotland's chief medical officer, said he hoped the number of new cases would begin to tail off over the weekend.

The company said cash-strapped parents were buying cheaper prams, buggies and car seats and clothing sales had begun to tail off.

This week the Book Trust has released research to launch its Time to Read campaign, showing that the frequency with which parents read to their children begins to tail off sharply at around the age of seven.