Sentence examples for spike in activity from inspiring English sources

This sudden spike in activity — nabbing marijuana smugglers, suspected terrorists, vanloads of foreign prostitutes — gives the plot its momentum.

The biggest spike in activity occurred in the $5 million to $7 million range.

This is due to the unforecasted spike in activity levels and the complicated logistics rather than a design fault with record-keeping".

Another warning sign is a spike in activity, like a sudden burst of transactions in a formerly quiet account.

The latest data on existing home sales show a spike in activity and the best April performance since 2006.

Savills, the upmarket estate agent, said there was a spike in activity in its UK prime residential business before the stamp duty increase last month, but it had slowed since then in the run-up to the referendum.

The engineers also note that it has decided that taking averages of daily active users are a much better metric for how popular an app is — monthly active users can be "inflated" by spikes in activity, they write — that's one to remember for when you next refer to AppData try to measure the popularity of certain apps on Facebook in the future.

While most news sites handled the spikes in activity well, there were slowdowns and blackouts at some sites, including the publicly accessible United States military sites.

A few weeks in, they started seeing an influx of new users, paired with unusual spikes in activity, peaking between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Rather than equally spacing out the key frames, a tracker identifies specific frames with spikes in activity.

Usually the spikes in activity last for 12 to 16 hours, Vincent Hanna of anti-spam group Spamhaus told BBC News.