Sentence examples for trough by from inspiring English sources

13 11 3 PIGS AT THE TROUGH, by Arianna Huffington.

GDP fell from peak to trough by 15%.

We stayed at the Inn at Whitewell, which also appears in The Trip – why am I telling you this? – and is bang, smack in the Bowland's sublime Trough, by the river Hodder.

Although stock prices and earnings move up and down violently, dividends have been more reliable, typically falling from the peak of a cycle to its trough by only one-tenth in real terms.

Wall Street's declining confidence in the chain's ability to please shoppers has been reflected in its stock price, which has plunged from a February high of $53.75 a share to around $28. Recently, however, there have been signs that the retailer is beginning to climb out of its trough by veering from its all-khaki-all-the-time formula, and courting current fashion.

Americans have tended to focus on the role of lobbyists and political corruption ("Pigs at the Trough", by Arianna Huffington, cited earlier; "Government's End", by Jonathan Rauch, a columnist for the National Journal and formerly a writer for The Economist), or on the relationship between "Wealth and Democracy" (Kevin Phillips, a distinguished political writer).

There are no scraggy bushes or even footprints; it curves up into huge peaks, carved into troughs by the wind.

Expectations are such that teachers can only manage their duties by backloading work, smoothing out the peaks and troughs by working through weekends and holidays.

One thing I miss from my time living in London is the ability to celebrate life's triumphs (or commiserate its occasional troughs) by having delicious food delivered to your door.

At the moment we have some of the best and worst education in the world; to try to eliminate the troughs by abolishing the peaks is not common sense.

If Wall Street were ultimately downsized peak-to-trough by 50%, I think Wall Street would be a lot more profitable.