Sentence examples for sharp year from inspiring English sources

Over Silicon Valley's 40-year storied history such pessimism has proven wrong time and again, but last cycle, after a sharp year and a half rebound from the fall 2002 post Internet-bubble collapse lows, the critics gained their point.

Exports fell 16 percent in 2009, sapped by the global credit crunch, and Mr. Yao said any sharp year-on-year growth in the first half of 2010 would simply reflect the low comparison base of last year.

Southwest border apprehensions have been spiking recently, with sharp year-over-year increases for the months of March and April, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Inside the gym, Roger Mayweather, uncle and trainer, said he last saw his nephew this sharp years ago, before he regularly took long layoffs between fights.

Much of the anticipated sharp year-over-year decline in profits is linked to the company's continued offers of zero-percent financing, which have eaten into profits.

7. In many agro-ecological zones of Africa, water control practices are essential to increase food production and avoid sharp year-to-year fluctuations.

The intrepid young nationalists we groomed were left exposed at war's sharp edge, year after year.

Consumer spending suffered its sharpest year-on-year drop since World War II, according to Italy's leading business association.

Teach for America has had the sharpest year-to-year increase in applicants in its 12-year history.

The British Beer and Pub Association published figures last week showing UK consumption suffered the sharpest year-on-year decline since 1948 during 2009.

And in the 12 weeks between late August and late November, first-time unemployment claims increased by more than 40percentt over the same period the year before, the sharpest year-over-year increase since February 2002.