Sentence examples for bis from inspiring English sources
The word "bis" is correct and usable in written English
It is an adverb meaning 'repeatedly' or 'once again.' For example, you could use it in a sentence like "We rehearsed the song bis in order to get it just right."
That the Bank of England is talking more and more about the possibility of increases in interest rates must be music to the ears of the BIS, generally known as "the central bankers' bank".
Prices for scarce commodities can't be allowed to clear markets, suggests the BIS.
Over the short- to medium-term, which is the central bank's arena, the story the BIS would like to tell falls apart amid complicating factors.
For example, the notional value of the CDS market is $36 trillion, says the BIS.
The size and risk of OTC derivative bets is best captured by their gross market value, says the BIS.
In 2003, they financed the equivalent of 50% of the current-account deficit according to American numbers and 80% according to the BIS.
The average term of emerging-market bonds has grown from just over seven years in 2000 to just under ten years in the first half of this year, according to Hyun Song Shin of the BIS.
The BIS also dances around a parallel, uncomfortable fact: that austerity within the euro-zone has often enough been associated with falling market confidence and not the other way around.
This is to be expected from any country's intelligence service, and previous BIS reports have noted similar activites.
The chief economist at the BIS in the runup to the crisis was Bill White, who issued many a perceptive warning about the unsustainability of asset-price inflation at the time.
America, the BIS' Exhibit C, reveals the weakness of the argument.
