Sentence examples for shrinking activity from inspiring English sources
A reading below 50 points to shrinking activity.
Readings below 50 point to shrinking activity but the pace of contraction is at least slowing.
An index of manufacturing published on May 1st fell to 50.5 in April, suggesting industry is barely growing (a score below 50 indicates shrinking activity).In this section Lonesome highway Dial M for muddle Heathrow's woes The bottom line Smart on crime Stirring sterling Travels with a salesman ReprintsYet a currency need only look relatively good to attract buyers.
In both cases a reading below 50 points to shrinking activity, hence the rise in the indices means only that the pace of decline is slowing.Orders received by American factories declined by 0.9% in March, after rising by 0.7% in February.Industrial production in Brazil rose for the third month in a row in March.
A reading below 50 indicates shrinking activity.
The administration's proposal for a major reshuffling of how the government spends some $3 billion annually in STEM education funds would have given more money to, and elevated the role of, the Department of Education and NSF, while shrinking activities at mission agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NASA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAAA).
Reports this week showed shrinking manufacturing activity and sluggish retail sales.
The widely watched Institute for Supply Management survey fell in October to depths last seen 26 years ago, reflecting shrinking industrial activity and suggesting weakening demand for goods as the economy slows.
Index levels below 50 indicate shrinking factory activity; readings above 50 signal a rise.Britain's beleaguered manufacturers also brought long-awaited optimistic news.
Recent polls show a total rejection of the political class, but little desire to scrap the free-market reforms of the 1990's to return to the unwieldy government programs of the 1980's that produced hyperinflation and shrinking economic activity.
A small upward revision in figures for the first quarter, from a slight contraction to slight growth in gross domestic product, means that conditions in Japan do not yet meet the usual technical definition of a recession, two successive quarters of shrinking economic activity.
