Sentence examples for to be steeper from inspiring English sources

After revisions, the nation's job losses in April and May turned out to be steeper than first thought.

Further south on the avenue, clerks, or rather, sales associates, at Prada and Fendi quietly conceded that they expected discounts to be steeper and to be offered earlier this year.

The 12-year-old group has long been a favorite of corporate donors, and declines in corporate donations tend to be steeper during hard times than do reductions in gifts from other sources.

On a subsequent test, in which the subjects viewed images of hills, the people with "big" secrets estimated the hills to be steeper than the "small" secret-keepers did.

There are more long mountain passes to climb in the Italian race; they tend to be steeper and, even more cruelly, the organisers like to save most of them for the final week.

The gradients in the characteristics for nano lubricants are found to be steeper.

In parts of Africa, cuts are expected to be steep.

The final tallies have yet to be made, but they are sure to be steep.

At the WACA the bounce tends to be steep and true.

The company's leaders believe that it is critical for the chief executive to be steeped in the company culture.

Shelves of such origin tend to be steep, deformed, and covered by a thin layer of erosional debris.