Sentence examples for mediocre period from inspiring English sources

Historically, a great 12 months in the stock market has usually been followed by a mediocre period — an average 3 percent decline since 1940 in the United States, according to Deutsche Bank.

Lagarde warned that monetary policy would not be enough to prevent the emergence of "the new mediocre": a prolonged period of weak global growth.

Although it featured the on-court heroics of all-star guard Nate ("Tiny") Archibald at the beginning of its 13-season tenure in Kansas City, the team was mostly mediocre during this period, qualifying for the play-offs five times and advancing past its first play-off series just once, a surprising run to the 1981 conference finals after a 40 42 regular season.

An education bill will target "coasting" schools that have shown a "prolonged period of mediocre performance".

The few war poems that did appear in print in that period are mediocre efforts at best.

The bill also creates a new offence, as it were, of a "coasting" school, and will define exactly what a coasting school is: one with a prolonged period of mediocre performance and insufficient pupil progress.

EARLY in the Great Depression, people were concerned that, as one observer put it in 1931, we may "pass through a long period of mediocre business activity like that of the 1890s".

If we are right in our view, then we are in for a multi-year period of mediocre economic growth in the U.S. and stock valuations are no longer the special bargain they were back in March.

The global economy risks getting stuck in a "new mediocre" -- a prolonged period of slow growth and feeble job creation.

Maybe this title nods to our currently unhinged relationship with pollution and climate change, or maybe it's highlighting that we're finally bursting through that seasonal transition period from mediocre March to flower-sprouting April.

The fund's long-term outperformance "has been lumpy, with long periods of mediocre performance," Mr. Thomas said.