Sentence examples for briefly declined from inspiring English sources

By the late seventies, however, the number of visitors to Las Vegas had plateaued, and even briefly declined.

The only time in recent years that the instance of profanity briefly declined, Ms. Kaye said, was in 1997, shortly after television ratings were put into place.

I briefly considered declining.

Like Laurence Burton, a member of the Blackfoot Indian Nation in Canada (below), they stayed behind long after the film crews disappeared, hoping to find work in the tourism industry that thrived briefly, and then declined as the economy soured.

The family's fortunes declined briefly after the Tokugawa campaigns of 1614 15 had destroyed Ōsaka Castle but revived when a member of the eighth generation established in Edo (now Tokyo) a lacquerware school that lasted over 300 years.

A man and a distraught-looking woman who briefly walked outside declined to talk, closing the door behind them.

"He didn't get the help he reAlly needed".

Ratings perked up briefly -- and then declined even further.

After discussing the matter briefly with reporters, Mr. Leahy declined requests for interviews, as did the two other board members, one of them nonpartisan, the other a Democrat.

As the textile industry declined - briefly revived by the demands of the first world war - the company could initially only afford to put in one Lancashire boiler, and could never afford to replace the 500-horsepower tandem compound steam engine.

We went back and forth briefly until I politely declined coffee, and suggested that finding someone in his life to talk to would be more fulfilling than a stranger on the Internet.