Sentence examples for quarters of contraction from inspiring English sources

Technically, a recession is two consecutive quarters of contraction.

A recession follows two consecutive quarters of contraction.

That ends a run of seven quarters of contraction.

Two consecutive quarters of contraction constitute a recession.

Spain has had four consecutive quarters of contraction.

Many people consider a recession to consist of two consecutive quarters of contraction.

A technical recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of contraction.

A recession is defined as two or more consecutive quarters of contraction.

It only takes two successive quarters of contraction to constitute a technical recession.

Two or more consecutive quarters of contraction mean the economy is officially in recession.

Many economists are already saying that the economy will need another dollop of spending lest it risk repeating the two-quarters-of-growth, two-quarters-of-contraction pattern of 1999.