Sentence examples for serious dips from inspiring English sources

So while some businesses managed to keep their heads just above water, others saw serious dips in profits in a summer that Marilou Halvorsen, the marketing director for Jenkinson's Boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach and for the Casino Pier and Waterworks in Seaside Heights, said was "not going to end up being a year we're going to remember".

Even when you have not suffered any serious dips in the course of writing your dissertation, the last bits of it may still become quite a challenge.

America is stuck in some ruts and has had some serious dips and shown some key economic, military and moral limits that have punctured its mystique.

But 14 of those were silver medals, which meant that the gold-medal count took a serious dip.

"The early 1990s was a great time for black cinema, but then there was a really serious dip.

After a serious dip in 2005 revenues, the Italian fashion industry posted a respectable (although not stellar) overall growth rate of 6percentt in 2006.

Maybe that's why, despite all the announcers' hopes of relevance, ratings took a serious dip from last year's Open final round, although McIlroy winning by a country mile didn't help either.

That debt also coincided with the emergence of new drugs, which gave many long-suffering patients a new lease on life and caused a serious dip in philanthropic giving to AIDS groups.

Figures from the UK's Committee for Climate Change suggest even a 1.6% fall in UK GDP - a serious dip - would result in a saving of just 200,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2009.

There is a serious dip in interest for 20 minutes after the interval, but then the show gallops to its fairytale conclusion like a throughbred that knows it can't be beaten.

US-Saudi ties suffered a serious dip after the 9/11 terrorist attacks exposed al-Qaida's Saudi background to ordinary Americans, but the military relationship is in good order.