Sentence examples for smaller decline in from inspiring English sources

Lowe's reported a smaller decline in first-quarter earnings than analysts had expected on Monday, ahead of Home Depot's report on Tuesday.

Falling on a holiday for government agencies and many companies, the storm probably caused a smaller decline in hours worked and production than the Northeast's last large snowfall, in January 1996.

Maybe Fed efforts to reduce inflation volatility flattened the Phillips Curve (by encouraging the introduction of wage rigidities), so that a given drop in output translated into a much smaller decline in inflation.

The Gannett Company, publisher of USA Today and other newspapers, said on Monday that it earned a profit in the fourth quarter, helped by a drop in one-time costs and a smaller decline in ad sales.

J.C. Penney closed 0.78 percent higher to $7.77 after the struggling retailer reported a smaller decline in same-store sales for September compared with August and said it was seeing positive signs in many areas of its business.

Another national index, maintained by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, showed a smaller decline in prices in 2011, and says prices hit bottom last February, before rising a little late in the year.

That could explain the smaller declines in shares of those chains.

Dell reported a 12 percent decline in consumer revenue, and smaller declines in both business and government sales.

There have also been smaller declines in Wales and Northern Ireland.

The news also caused smaller declines in the shares of Google and IAC/InterActiveCorp, the parent of Ask.com.com

Magnitude of change in discharge is conditioned by PET method; larger increases or smaller declines in discharge result from methods producing the smallest PET increases.