Sentence examples for consumption down from inspiring English sources
That puts the UK in 10th place in overall emissions from energy consumption, down from 7th place in 1992.
But with consumption down, we would have been in a far better position in this decade, when the growth of India and China pushed up demand for energy.
"People have driven the efficiency up and the power consumption down," says Peter Hopton, founder of Iceotope, a data centre cooling start-up based in the UK.
But even with consumption down from 30 million to 50 million gallons a day, officials said, the city still uses about 1.2 billion gallons a day.
Doing this and keeping track of it with an Owl electricity monitor helped to bring their consumption down by 20% in the first year alone, she says.
However, Britons have taken on much more debt that will eventually have to be repaid; this will weigh consumption down in the long run.
The payments from tobacco companies depend on their sales; if cigarette consumption goes down, the payments go down, too.
As the 2003 vintage matures in oak barrels, domestic consumption is down and overproduction is rampant.
Between 1981 and 1997, tobacco output declined by roughly 20% (cigarette consumption was down 24%).
Suggestions that sugar consumption is down, or dropping, could take some pressure off companies that make sugary foods, for example.
