Sentence examples for margin which slipped from inspiring English sources

Selling more fresh produce and signing up more shoppers for its credit cards have reduced gross margin, which slipped to 30.4 percent from 31.3 percent in the quarter.

For instance, if Mr. Gore had won his home state, Tennessee, which slipped from his grasp by only a small margin, he would have enough electoral votes to be president.

Foremost in Mr. Polet's plans is raising to 70percentt Gucci's gross margins, which have slipped to 68percentt, and focusing on its historic made-in-Italy quality and skills.

Analysis of the width of the boundary layer in which slip effects are important, together with the sensitivity of the retentate and permeate flowrate equations to the slip parameter, showed that slip was not significant when considering averaged membrane properties.

If there are no such events, we compute the projected length that yields the theoretically-obtained slip-off at the largest d for which slip-off is obtained.

But the oil and gas division's operating margin has slipped from 15 percent to under 13 percent in the last couple of years.

Gross margin has slipped 4.5 percentage points (to 17.6%) since 1999 and remains under pressure as the prices of components rise.

Gross margin has slipped four-and-a-half percentage points (to 17.6%) since 1999 and remains under pressure as component prices rise.

The group, which operates three hospitals and 17 clinics in the United Arab Emirates, said underlying margins had slipped back due to wage inflation for staff and significant investment in its facilities and services.

To achieve that, though, Walmart's domestic profit margin slipped lower.

As sales slowed despite low prices (the gross margin slipped from 45.9% in 1996 to 35.6% in 1999), the company halved inventory in a bid to stay profitable.