Sentence examples for slacken to from inspiring English sources

The setback to GDP will be less serious: growth will slacken to around 2%.

"When," said Proust, "we reflect upon the past in our daydreams and seek, in order to recapture it, to slacken, to suspend the perpetual motion by which we are borne along, gradually we see once more appear, side by side but entirely distinct from one another, the tints which in the course of our existence have been successively presented to us by a single name".

During this time the pace of fire was to slacken to one round per-gun per-minute, allowing the gun-crews a respite, before resuming full intensity as the barrage moved on.

Conversely, if a new method is offered in selected areas but few women find it attractive or continue using it, efforts may slacken to supply it throughout the country or to seek budgetary funds to purchase large quantities of it.

Our pace slackened to a crawl.

Mexico's industrial-production growth slackened to 1.0% in the 12 months to September.

In China industrial-production growth slackened to 14.7% in the year to October.

Russia's GDP growth slackened to 4.9% in the year to the first quarter.

Consumer-price inflation slackened to 36.1% in the 12 months to February.Turkey's recovery continues.

The rain slackened to drizzle and a sulfurous yellow light suffused the air.

Briefly, the violence slackened, to return in full force with his continued incarceration.