Sentence examples for decrease had from inspiring English sources

The report said business investment fell at a 6.2percentt annual rate; an 8.2percentt decrease had been forecast.

Most of the decrease had been in the past 30 years, and the rate of decline had accelerated in the past five years.

Instead of taking 100 swings at the height of his April slump, Teixeira now takes roughly 20 to 25, and he said the decrease had helped his bat speed.

Craig A. Anderson, a psychology professor at Iowa State University, said he, too, believed that some of the decrease had "to do with people probably hunkering down inside" during cold spells.

Although the production decrease had not been a significant story heretofore, he thought it likely that more attention in the industry would be paid to it after October 2, when SOCAR nominated volumes to be sold at Ceyhan for the coming month.

Again we included only those parameters where the increase or decrease had a significant influence.

The population decrease has accelerated with it.

The decrease has probably accelerated in the third quarter.

Yet, although application rates have decreased, thus far this decrease has not added to social inequality, because applications from poorer school-leavers have held up.

"A real wage decrease has occurred even when these companies can't find enough people to drive trucks.

The reason for this decrease has already been discussed earlier.