Sentence examples for on a taper from inspiring English sources

With employment growth steady but not break-neck, unemployment high, and inflation and wage growth very low, it is hard to imagine the Fed pulling the trigger on a taper in December.

The patient was set on a taper.

Lethal ischemia was produced by occluding the left coronary artery with a 7 0 silk suture on a taper BV-1 needle (Ethicon) for 30 min.

One can be made by welding a 1½ inch nut on the end of a 30 inch long piece of 1 inch steel tubing, and grinding the flats on a taper down to 1¼ inch.

Rip two pieces of sound 2 inch (5cm) thick lumber on a taper from about 1 1/4 inches to 2 inches (3cm to 5cm) and around 4 feet (1.2 meters) long.

26 28 For patients on methadone or buprenorphine, we defined "planned discharge" on the basis of a tapering dose towards the end of the prescribing period with last prescription being for methadone 10 mg or less or buprenorphine 4 mg or less.

The concession halves duty for breweries producing under 50,000 litres a year and reduces tax on a tapering scale for larger ones brewing up to 300,000.

Following methylprednisolone sodium succinate administration, the patient's stools began decreasing and she was discharged on a tapering dose of oral prednisone 60 mg daily for one week, with a 20 mg decrease scheduled one week later.

They are among the most modern looking of animals eight fins on a tapered cylinder, a Bauhaus fish yet their form is prehistoric.

They are among the most modern looking of animals — eight fins on a tapered cylinder, a Bauhaus fish — yet their form is prehistoric.

Forsyth invented the "scent bottle" type of lock mechanism, so called because rotating on a tapered steel plug at about the location of a flintlock touchhole was a powder-filled container that looked like a perfume bottle.