Sentence examples for can lag behind from inspiring English sources
There are no cost-of-living adjustments, so payments can lag behind wages.
A hedge fund that eschews an overinflated sector can lag behind its rivals, and lose its major clients.
You can lag behind the group a little, but when your hour is up you're expected to leave the garden.
"The Board of Education data and school report cards on every school in the district can lag behind by a year.
In some countries, property tax revenues can lag behind the growth of national income when the tax assessments fail to reflect changes in the general level of prices.
It is known as "flexibility", under which countries that wish to integrate more would be allowed to do so, while others can lag behind.
In the European perspective, can they afford to lag behind?
The ethnic shifts could presage altered economic and political patterns, though financial and voting power can lag decades behind a rise in raw numbers.
Where America lags behind, we can select the best practices in those leading countries that can be adopted here.
"If we show a herd of zebras, and one zebra has a bad leg and lags behind, you can see that immediately," says Dr. Rosling, whose video clip from the BBC on health and wealth statistics has been viewed more than four million times on YouTube.
