Sentence examples for has been drifting lower from inspiring English sources
Although the market slipped slightly yesterday and has been drifting lower since mid-June, an overall climb of 14.9percentt in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index for the three months ended yesterday was the eighth-best quarterly performance since World War II.
Nationwide, the price of a gallon of regular gasoline has been drifting lower by about half a cent a day over the last month, and energy analysts say that trend should continue over the next few weeks, in at least some states.
The uncertainty has also affected NatWest's share price, which has been drifting lower this week as its prospects of survival improved hardly a vote of confidence in management.Investors still look likely to vote against NatWest as Jupiter and Standard Life, two fund managers, have already declared.
Sugar prices have been drifting lower after record crops in Brazil and the EU, the two biggest exporters.
Attendance and membership have been drifting lower ever since the baby boomers, joining churches as they began to generate families, started to wander away again.
But while the general market has been drifting — mostly lower — stocks of leading cigarette manufacturers moved against the prevailing current.
Moreover, the economy has been drifting into a recession, analysts are lowering more earnings estimates and sentiment for a decline in interest rates does not appear to have moved the Federal Reserve.
Those happy days in which acquiring a house seemed a sure bet have now ended and even the boost of a quarter-point rate cut from the Bank of England on April 10th is unlikely to bring them back.Prices, which had been drifting slowly lower over the winter, have started falling more rapidly and dropped 2.5% in March, according to Halifax, part of HBOS and the country's biggest mortgage lender.
