Sentence examples for is likely to contract from inspiring English sources

Maybe the southern edge of the sagebrush is likely to contract.

The Greek economy is likely to contract by at least 5.3% this year.

A reading below 50 is considered a sign that the economy is likely to contract.

Biomarkers are physiological road signs that can tell doctors whether a person has a disease or injury, or is likely to contract a particular ailment.

And over the next 40 years the entire working population is likely to contract by more than 20%, which will put great pressure on the pensions system.

It shrank 4.5 percent last year, and is likely to contract by an additional 3 percent, according to Greece's Central Bank.

Making matters harder for NOR vendors like Spansion, tech research firm iSuppli says that overall handset sales are likely to contract this year.

Exports are likely to contract this year, as OECD economies weaken and demand for information-technology products falls.

But they warned that the economy was likely to contract 3.25 percent this year after falling 1.5 percent in 2011.

Consumers who buy genetic tests in hopes of seeing what diseases they are likely to contract may be misled, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Most have paid a few hundred dollars for tests on only a few genes, to see if they are likely to contract a specific disease.