Sentence examples for colder winter from inspiring English sources

With tensions high in the Middle East and projections for a colder winter than last year's, the risks of being dependent on petroleum imports have never been more glaring.

Greenhouse gas emissions in 2011 fell to record lows, 21% down on 1990 levels, largely due to warm weather reducing the use of gas – but more recent data has revealed that emissions rose again by 3.5% in 2012, due to a colder winter and more use of coal for electricity.

Improved British Gas profits last year were the result of a slightly colder winter and lower costs, said Conn, who insisted "we passed on the impact of falling commodity prices to customers".

Centrica said the rise was mostly down to the increased consumption by householders amid a colder winter.

"One [private forecasting] organisation went for a colder winter than normal a few weeks ago... and the first period was actually quite mild".

A report issued yesterday by a trade group representing natural gas producers and marketers predicted that a strengthening economy and a colder winter combined with falling natural gas output could lead to steeper prices.

Rising global energy prices and an expected colder winter this year accounted for the estimated increases, the energy agency said in its yearly winter price forecast.

These opossums accumulate a thick layer of fat under the skin of the body and tail in the fall and become inactive during the colder winter months.

A visit to a Luncheon Club or the delivery of a meal provides the regular friendly human contact that we all need, and the vital wellbeing and safety checks that vulnerable older people require, particularly in the colder winter months.

Philadelphia is likely to be five degrees colder this winter.

"I thought it was definitely going to be colder today.