Sentence examples for sizable decline from inspiring English sources

That's a sizable decline, during a year when many acquirers' stocks have actually risen after a deal.

It would take a sizable decline in consumption to get back to the levels of gasoline use only a generation ago.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decline in home prices in August attracted more buyers in some areas and led to a sizable decline in the number of unsold homes on the market, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday.

Vocabulary: sizable, decline, substantial, mortality, symbiotically, microscopic, algae, zooxanthellae, genetically, colony, calcium, carbonate, evict, extensive, oceanic, atmospheric, carbon dioxide Extension Activities: 1. Conduct a research project on international coral reef conservation, including the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

As shown in Table 1, there was a significant and sizable decline in the proportion of minority enrollees and graduates from more "advantaged" family backgrounds after Prop 209 went into effect.

Economics saw a small increase from 55.5percentto56.2percentcent -- which is due, in some ways, to decreasing the digital divide and lower denial rates for black people seeking mortgage loans, according to the report -- as did social justice, which went from 60.6percentto60.8percentcent partly because of a sizable decline in the black incarceration rate.

Because Facebook didn't pop as much as many had expected, other tech stocks were logging sizable declines.

The news that the United States economy had grown for the first time in a year electrified investors on Thursday, sending stocks up after four days of sizable declines.

AFTER rewarding investors with rich returns for the last seven years, real estate mutual funds reversed course in 2007, ending the year with sizable declines, as the sector succumbed to the turmoil in the credit markets.

Two other major sectors have shown sizable declines in weighting since 1991: consumer cyclicals and consumer staples.

During the past two big moves down in the NASDAQ, the Internet bubble pop of 2000-2001 and the global recession of 2008-2009 were both closely followed by sizable declines in venture funding.