Sentence examples for contraction began from inspiring English sources

That contraction began in the summer of 1990 and ended in March 1991, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

In the current and past two recessions, interest rates never got very high and the Fed actually began to lower them before the contraction began.

These issues have confronted borrowers since the mortgage market's contraction began a few years ago, but buyers and mortgage professionals say they have grown more problematic as more people try to capitalize on low home prices and mortgage rates.

The contraction began in the final three months of 2011 and the economy did not start growing again until this summer, when output was boosted by Olympic ticket sales.

Widespread continental ice sheets had developed in Gondwana to the point that their expansion and contraction began to drive the rise and fall of sea level, producing cyclic depositions that characterize the later part of the Carboniferous.

By the end of the century, the family's expansion had ceased and a contraction began, as the next generations dribbled away the property, whole bazaars sold to feed some whimsy, expending old gold on elaborate hospitality, and subjecting themselves to the ministrations of sharper, hungrier men, whom they could not be bothered to oppose.

However, by the time the numbers of OVA-specific CD8+ T cells peak and contraction begins, the expression of these apoptotic mediators is reduced to baseline levels.

Periods of ventral abdominal contraction begin only during periods of anterograde heart contraction and end immediately following a heartbeat directional reversal, suggesting that ventral abdominal contractions function to propel extracardiac hemolymph in the retrograde direction.

In embryos of the frog Xenopus tropicalis, muscle contraction begins even while sarcomerogenesis is ongoing.

Wound contraction begins a week post wounding at the fibroblastic stage with the wound area undergoing shrinkage [ 36, 37].

Shortly afterwards, when hinge contraction begins, the shape of the dumpy ov1 mutant wing blade begins to differ from wild type (WT).