Sentence examples for decline in the first from inspiring English sources

But working-age households saw their real income decline in the first decade of this century.

"In fact I'm quite skeptical of it myself when you see the % decline in the first year of production".

That follows a 7.8percentt rate of decline in the first three months of 2001 and a drop of 3.5percentt in the fourth quarter of last year.

Mr. Whitman, Whirlpool's chief executive, said he expected the appliance industry's sales to decline in the first half of 2001 but to recover thereafter.

The underlying pre-tax profit decline in the first half was 10% to £277m with like-for-like sales 1% weaker.

This is a deterioration compared to the decline in the first six months of the year, when ad revenues fell by 10.8%, with the publisher blaming the Olympics.

The Labor Department said Wednesday that the increase in productivity in the second quarter followed a 0.5 percent decline in the first quarter, less than first estimated.

Even in the stricken corporate and investment banking area, revenue rose by 7% in the second quarter, after a 1% decline in the first quarter.

But the new figures show a decline in the first quarter of 2008, and only a small gain in the second quarter, when the Bush administration's stimulus package of tax rebate checks caused a brief spurt in consumer spending.

Prices paid for G.M. vehicles dropped 2percentt in the second quarter on top of a 1.5percentt decline in the first quarter, Mr. Ballew said.

According to Thomson Financial, analysts are bracing for a 25percentt decline in corporate profits in the fourth quarter of 2007 and an 8percentt decline in the first quarter this year.