Sentence examples for small contraction from inspiring English sources

That indicates a small contraction again, but a little bit better than April (49.6).

And notwithstanding the new plan, to be carried out in the next fiscal year, a number of economists are also expecting a small contraction then, too.

Expanding and nonshrinking cements expand slightly on hydration, thus offsetting the small contraction that occurs when fresh concrete dries for the first time.

Photograph: Frederik Ducrozet of Credit Agricole 7.50am GMT The small contraction in France, and the slowing growth in Germany, shows that the euro area economy remains weak despite dragging itself out of recession in the summer.

The first is a small contraction wave of the stomach wall that originates in the upper part of the stomach and slowly moves down over the organ toward the pyloric sphincter.

Greece was already in recession when the deal was reached, but the projections assumed that this downturn would end soon — that there would be only a small contraction in 2011, and that by 2012 Greece would be recovering.

The shear-thinning polymer solution (HASE-type associative polymer) shows a reduction in epd below the Newtonian curve for small contraction-ratios (due to shear-thinning).

In contrast, the same Z-DNA-forming CG repeat in Escherichia coli resulted in only small contractions or expansions within the repeat.

However, small contractions may anyhow have proportionally greater impact in diseased artery with luminal narrowing.

So excluding the Olympic and Jubilee effects, growth seems to have been broadly flat, as it has for some time, showing either small amounts of growth or small contractions.

This is mirrored by force generation, where hypoxia in the absence of pre-constriction produced very small contractions of only 3 4% the size of that caused by 80 mM K+PSS, and yet in the presence of 5 µM PGF2α which produces contractions of 10 15% of K+PSS, hypoxia caused additional sustained contractions of up to 30% of K+PSS.