Sentence examples for second straight monthly from inspiring English sources

Orders excluding transportation fell 0.4 percent, the second straight monthly decline.

Industrywide sales fell an estimated 1.4percentt last month, the second straight monthly decrease.

The second straight monthly increase in the manufacturing index showed that activity was starting to grow again after struggling through most of 2012.

The attraction of the S.& P. stocks overshadowed a decline reported by the Commerce Department in United States factory orders for April, the second straight monthly decline.

Traders seemed to shrug off yet more bad news on the country's flagging exports, which dropped a record 26.7% in November, leading to a second straight monthly trade deficit 223.4 billion yen ($2.49 billion).

The agency reported last week that the state unemployment rate in August rose to 8.9%, the second straight monthly increase.

It marked the sixth straight monthly increase.

Manufacturers added 4,000 jobs last month, the fourth straight monthly increase.

Spending on single-family homes rose 1.5 percent, the fourth straight monthly gain; spending on apartment construction was up 2.8 percent, the ninth straight monthly gain.

In Germany, the IFO Institute saw the fourth straight monthly rise in business confidence.

Construction activity, for example, dropped 1 percent in July, the Commerce Department said Wednesday, the third straight monthly decline.