Sentence examples for spike last from inspiring English sources

They got a nice traffic spike last May after CNN integrated 'Mixx it' buttons in their articles, roughly doubling their number of unique monthly visitors to nearly 1 million, and it appears their new community building features aren't hurting them either.

We saw a really big spike last year, and they're still really selling.

Except for a painful "spike" last summer, these increases have so far been modest.

He noted a particular spike last fall, when the economy first faltered.

Still, while the price spike last week seemed auspicious for energy traders, they have played down the significance of Friday's activity.

The violence in the north started to spike last week, when Houthi fighters killed 11 soldiers and tribesmen fighting with the government in the Harf Sufyan area.

The ONS said the drop in wages follows a spike last year, when some employers who usually pay bonuses in March shifted them to April.

And given what we've been hearing, the Irish CDS story comes as something of a shock: Prices are down from a spike last summer, but still very high.

Meanwhile, the Chinese authorities have tried to rein in excessive lending, leading to a spike last week in interbank borrowing rates.

This, he said, would particularly benefit the more than 40 developing economies that spent more on imported oil than their entire export earnings, even before the spike last year in oil prices.

Defaults on common charges began to spike last fall, according to lawyers hired by increasingly jittery boards to file liens (the first step toward foreclosure) against owners in arrears.