Sentence examples for the sharpest downturn from inspiring English sources

The actors in "Friends", a comedy series, have each just signed up for another season on NBC for $1m an episode.Who would have thought that the media industry was in the middle of the sharpest downturn it can recall?

"The electronics makers have experienced the sharpest downturn in 20 years, so after such a precipitous decline, it's difficult to fall further," said Jean Pascal Rolandez, head of equity research at BNP Paribas Securities in Tokyo.

To them I offer the words last week of Joe Grice, the chief economist at the Office for National Statistics, who commented that it "remains the sharpest downturn and slowest recovery on record".

And with the economy facing what now seems sure to be the sharpest downturn since the 1930s, the financial system balky and the government facing towering budget deficits, economists and policy makers acknowledge that there is no playbook.

Instead, Slovakia's economy tied Latvia's for the sharpest downturn in the 27-member European Union during the first four months of the year, contracting 11.2percentt after years of strong economic growth.

The first health check of the economy since the 23 June vote, published a week ago, showed the sharpest downturn in activity since the peak of the financial crisis seven years ago.

Like its competitors, Total faces one of the sharpest downturns in the history of the oil business.

Like its competitors, Total now faces one of the sharpest downturns in the history of the oil business, with consumption collapsing and oil prices shedding 73percentt of their value since peaking in July.

Las Vegas Sands, meanwhile, has been struggling because of the sharp downturn on the Vegas strip.

The region is being hurt badly by the sharp downturn in America, its biggest export market.

"These hopes have been dashed by weakening world markets and the sharp downturn in key industries.