Sentence examples for mild decline from inspiring English sources

And the shock generated by the Persian Gulf war contributed to the relatively mild decline of 1990-91.

The report found that real wages had shown "a mild decline" since the recession began, of 0.6 percent.

Such complexities are one reason Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill has dismissed repeated pleas from industry lobbyists to encourage a mild decline in the dollar.

A mild decline in prices in a few euro-zone countries can be managed, economists say, but it will add to the risks of deflation.

The slowdown is becoming evident in falling retail sales, weaker job growth, a decline in industrial production, a drop in home construction permits and a mild decline in freight traffic.

The category the government calls "electronic shopping and mail order retailers" — labeled Internet retailers in the accompanying charts — suffered only a mild decline during the recession, and soon resumed its growth.

From the day after Thanksgiving through Dec. 12, a handful of sectors posted only mild declines.

But being a 12-year veteran who has always played with great leverage, Freeney knows how to compensate for his mild declines.

Angus Campbell, head of sales at Capital Spreads, said: Today's mild declines still don't tell the whole story for equity investors who've remained undecided in the past few days as to whether the FTSE will be affected by the swingeing cuts proposed by the coalition government or whether it'll come out of this week largely unscathed.

Functional outcome measures are presented in Figure 3. Subject 10 had a long disease duration and maintained a steady ALSFRS-R score accompanied by mild declines in other functional measures, suggestive of a very slowly progressive form of ALS.

Outdoor advertising had a milder decline — because of the popularity of digital billboards, it fell just 1percentt.