Sentence examples for war peak from inspiring English sources

Despite that the attack submarine fleet has been cut by almost half nationwide, from 104 to 57, the Naval Submarine Base in Groton is still the home port of more than 20 submarines, only a few less than its Cold War peak, making it the most active submarine port in the United States.

The stimulus money has already created more than 1,600 new jobs and helped retain more than 900 — a big help at a site whose work force had dwindled to about 11,000, less than half of what it was at its cold war peak.

As of 1998 the Clinton Administration had reduced the defense budget to about 60% of its Cold War peak.

Defense's share of U.S. spending has generally declined in recent decades, from Cold War peaks of 14.2% of GDP in 1953 and 69.5% of federal outlays in 1954 to 4.7% of GDP and 18.8% of federal outlays in 2011.

Membership is today down from a post-war peak of 500,000 to 250,000, though it is still the largest women's organisation in the UK.

Inner London as a whole has yet to overhaul its post-war peak, whereas Hillingdon and Barnet, which lie either side of Harrow, are booming.

The bill for the military is way too high, above cold-war peak levels, when this country had a superpower adversary.

At the last count, in December, Iraq was producing only 2.1m barrels a day; the pre-war peak was 2.5m.In this section Is the surge beginning to work?

Furthermore, the share of American earnings paid out as dividends has declined from a post-war peak of almost two-thirds to about one-third in 2007, with many firms preferring stock buybacks (which have now ground to a halt).

The soaring price of oil, along with a mild improvement in production to just above its pre-war peak, mean that the government has more cash to spend than it is has had since the first Gulf war of 1991.In this section Is it turning the corner?

More than a century of increasingly powerful and sophisticated machines were obviously a part of that story, as was the rising amount of fossil-fuel energy available to drive them.But in the 1970s America's growth in real output per person dropped from its post-second-world-war peak of over 3% a year to just over 2% a year.