Sentence examples for collections down from inspiring English sources

— It is no secret that these are hard times for cities, with tax collections down, state aid dwindling, unemployment high and foreclosures pitting many blocks.

An as-yet-unanalyzed series of collections down to 600 m holds the promise of understanding the mesopelagic realm in this region.

News reports citing North Dakota's budget director said as of November, state tax revenues since July are $152m below forecast, with sales tax collections and corporate income tax collections down.

With tax collections down by $2.7 billion in the fiscal year that ended June 30 and still dropping, lawmakers may have no choice but to make further cuts in the $27 billion budget approved this month.

Joe Glaser, who for 30 years has operated Glaser Instruments, a well-known guitar repair shop here, said, "All of our most prominent guitar-player artists have their collections down there and quite a number of guitars, and these are drowned".

The crème de la crème of Manhattan society will gather at this high-profile fundraiser for Aids research, dressed in gowns by the likes of Badgeley Mischka, Vera Wang, Tory Burch and Ralph Lauren – all of whom will be sending their autumn/winter 2013 collections down the runway.

Ms. Philo has good instincts, a real devil-may-care streak, and they showed in the collection — down to the squashy, fold-over clutch bags and new twisted leather cuffs.

"Once you have the collection down, you always need money".

As the collections wound down on Sunday, other designers strained to break out of a mold.

There were some great blasts of energy as the French collections wound down.

Specifically, they said sales tax collections were down 12percentt from collections a year earlier, and income tax collections declined about 15percentt from a year ago.