Sentence examples for lagging cost from inspiring English sources

Many analysts point to a lagging cost structure and the high cost of rebates and interest-free financing deals as chief troubles.

This precludes examination of time effects on cost e.g. lagged cost or lagged coverage and leads to a possible bias in results.

"Our prices continue to lag our cost increases," the spokesman, David Winder, said.

But the government instead measures rental prices for the Consumer Price Index, and those have lagged home costs, making overall inflation seem lower than it really is.

Because employers don't have to raise wages to get workers, wages are lagging behind the cost of living.

With the purchasing power of many middle-class households lagging behind the cost of living, there was an urgent demand for credit.

Indeed, with the hike in VAT to 20%, tax credit cuts and earnings lagging behind the cost of living the average voter might not notice anything at all.

Although any tax increase is a drag on an economic recovery that has been lagging, the overall cost of the increases to motorists in both states is projected to be modest.

This is due to reactive power available in lagging power factor DG. Cost of energy losses, cost of PDG and cost of QDG are also shown in Tables 5 and 6.

And many such operators are contending with thin margins made worse by a lagging economy, high commodity costs and soaring energy costs, according to the group.

In tandem with lagging library budgets, the cost of providing access to all the journal articles (not including books and historical research materials) needed by a researcher has risen by 300% above inflation since 1986.