Sentence examples for period of flat from inspiring English sources

Business executives have maintained for years that a period of flat or declining home prices would be needed to encourage long-term economic growth.

Its aging population is placing huge strains on generous social welfare and pension programs and pumping up sovereign debt in an extended period of flat growth.

Timed to coincide with peak consumption of frozen vegetables, the new campaign comes during a period of flat growth for the category.

But if the experience of the last 20 years is any guide, the prospect for the economy isn't V-shaped, it's L-ish: rather than springing back, we'll have a prolonged period of flat or at best slowly improving performance.

Though indirect effects offset some of this, the effect is still greater than an earlier estimate by the United Nations Environment Programme of 0.3-0.6W/m 0.3-0.6W/m makes the recent period of flat temperatures even more puzzling.

James Wilsdon, professor of science and democracy, University of Sussex and chair, Campaign for Social Science, says: "As we head into the next spending review, there is of course real nervousness about the potential damage that will be caused by an extended period of flat cash research funding, or worse.

"An extended period of flat-to-down stock prices would turn this trend around," he added.

Now that figure is approaching the one million level, with a rise of 270,000 since 2009, a period marked by a deep slump, brief recovery and a prolonged period of flat-lining.

But right now I think that we are in for a period of flat-ish returns over the next year or two, and certainly we have a very volatile stock market.

Nancy L. Zimpher, the chancellor of the 64-campus SUNY system, has argued that periods of flat tuition, followed by sharp increases, are unfair to students, who have no way to predict the cost of their educations.

Dividends can help get you through periods of flat returns in stocks.