Sentence examples for have been slack from inspiring English sources
But in Labour's second term, the economy grew more slowly and revenues have been slack.
More recent data, such as car sales, industrial-production figures and surveys of purchasing managers' intentions, have been slack.
Today business must have been slack.
For me, what should have been slack-jawed amazement was more like a feeling of crossness at having been conned.
(In 2005 the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences added a Hawaiian music category to its Grammy Awards, and many of the winners in the category have been slack-key musicians).
Even the slush-funders of the Watergate era would have been slack-jawed at the number of seven- and eight-figure checks pouring into groups with names like Crossroads and Americans for Prosperity.
Not that people have been slacking off.
"Good morning from snowy Netherlands," says Anand. "I must admit that I have been slacking off recently and not dutifully following the OBO.
People have been slacking off for centuries.
Critics say the commission has been slack in addressing drilling problems.
More than a year into a petista government, the pace of land transfers to peasants has been slack.
