Sentence examples for brief decline from inspiring English sources

It has become routine to set new emissions records each year, although the global economic crisis led to a brief decline in 2009.

Santillana del Mar was founded in the 9th century but hit its stride in the 12th and 13th, then went into a brief decline before being wrested from the power of the Church.

Taiwan and Turkey are the only countries that have completely recovered from a double-digit fall in G.D.P. Some countries managed to escape a downturn or, at worst, had only a small and brief decline.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record last year, upending the notion that the brief decline during the recession might persist through the recovery.

With this in mind, know that there was once a large hawk who roosted on the ledge of a Fifth Avenue co-op building, whose shareholders had lately seen their assets increase in value thanks to the economic recovery that followed the brief decline in real-estate prices caused by the 2008 crash.

Stirring stuff, but before the president throws his cap in the air and an emptied vodka glass into the fireplace, he may like to flick through the pages of The New Nobility, which charts the brief decline followed by the resolute resurrection of the KGB as a primary political force in the country.

Mr. Brief declined to comment.

It was obvious that there would be brief declines when those programs expired.

The pace of pay cuts is likely to accelerate, senior bankers say.The biggest reason for the cutbacks is that after decades of growth in revenues (punctuated by brief declines), the investment-banking industry is facing a structural downturn.

The number of undergraduate degrees granted has risen almost as steadily as graduate enrollment, with some brief declines following 9/11 and fluctuations in small fields.

While in most advanced economies, housing prices contracted for a prolonged period both during and after the crisis, in emerging markets, housing prices suffered brief declines, recovered quickly and have kept rising since.