Sentence examples for steep period from inspiring English sources

By 1975, when Mayor Richard J. Daley's twenty-year reign ended with his sudden death, the city entered a steep period of decline that would last for more than 20 years.

Samples were collected at the end of the steep period ("out of steep") and after three days in the germinator ("3d of germination").

But the steepest period of growth has been over the past decade, when the value of corporate medallions nearly quadrupled.

Politicians laud the measures, which aim to keep unemployed people nominally on someone's payroll, as a bridge over the steepest period of economic collapse.

During this steeping period, the barley may be drained and given air rests, or the steep may be forcibly aerated.

The artistic director will be Monica Huggett, an English violinist steeped in period performance.

On Thursday he performed on a modern piano but approached the work from the perspective of a musician steeped in period practice.

All this research has paid off in spades: the end result is a novel so steeped in period detail that the extracts lifted from original sources sit eloquently alongside the fictionalised account, the transition between the two being effortlessly smooth.

You can see – hear – why the Cribs like them so much from the tracks on their album The Strange Boys And Girls Club: it's real back-to-basics stuff, ranging from the infectiously sloppy to the impeccably tight, the whole thing so steeped in period crackle and bearing so much rough, raw, ragged charm it's like hearing the Stones at the Crawdaddy or the Beatles at the Cavern.

A major part of the biodegradation activity was located at the plume fringes and the slope of the electron-acceptor gradient was steeper during periods of active biodegradation.

In the age group 75 years and above, the rate of incidence increase was less steep in the period after 1993 for both Singapore and Sweden, despite increases in the overall age-specific incidence rates.