Sentence examples for margin declined from inspiring English sources

Operating margin declined to 10.4% from 11.3%.

Gross margin declined slightly to 31.3 percent in the quarter, from 31.6 percent a year earlier.

Still, the company's profit margin declined about 1percentt from last quarter.

"The operating margin declined due to increased marketing expenditure and lowered average selling price," Samsung said in a statement.

Gross margin declined slightly to 23.8percentt from 24.3percentt, mainly because Amazon lowered prices on some items, said Tom Szkutak, Amazon's chief finance officer.

The Senate, which had passed its own version by a healthy bipartisan margin, declined to take up the short-term House bill, and Congress left town in a stalemate.

Gross margins declined 0.8 percentage points to 27.5percentt.

Pro forma operating margins declined 6.1 percent as well.

Gross profit margins declined to 25.9percentt in the quarter, down from 28.9percentt a year ago.

Its margins declined for four quarters before rebounding in the fourth quarter.

Revenue increased 13 percent to $136.3 billion, but profit margins declined to 5.4 percent, from 6.1 percent in 2010.