Sentence examples for rare decline from inspiring English sources

This week, the company reported a rare decline in quarterly revenues.

China's official reserves recorded a rare decline in the final quarter of 2011.

This was a 26 percent increase from the previous year, which was preceded by a rare decline in 2008.

The National Science Foundation reported recently that spending on research and development suffered "a rare decline" in 2009.

Toyota's sales were down 2.8percentt in August, a rare decline for the Japanese automaker, which has overtaken G.M. to become the world's largest.

THE advertising for Sprite, the popular lemon-lime soft drink sold by the Coca-Cola Company, is being revised significantly for the first time in almost seven years, following a rare decline in the brand's sales and market share.

We recognize that this definition represents a gross simplification as rare, declining, phylogenetically distinct, and functionally important species are generally perceived as having a higher conservation value [26].

He told BBC News: "Both species are quite widespread, but are designated as rare or declining, having apparently declined significantly (over the past three decades).

Johnson & Johnson posted a rare yearly decline in sales and gave a disappointing 2010 profit forecast.

(BLOOMBERG NEWS) Wendy's Posts a Profit Despite a Rare Sales Decline Wendy's International, the restaurant chain, reported a fourth-quarter profit after selling real estate and said sales fell for the first time in six years.

Rare officials declined to be interviewed for this article.