Sentence examples for were starting to bite from inspiring English sources

By now I'd been on the road three months and the loneliness and isolation were starting to bite.

For one thing, the bank's existing clients were starting to bite off a little bit more of their available credit line, he said.

Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Geithner insisted that those sanctions were starting to bite, pointing to Iran's strained economy and its trouble conducting business internationally.

Dr Nick Scriven, the president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said that while an "NHS winter crisis" had not begun at the start of January, winter pressures were starting to bite.

The financial crisis is starting to bite, too.

Meanwhile, the economics are starting to bite at home.

And now the inevitable injuries are starting to bite.

But we have neglected problems below the surface, and now they are starting to bite.

"They are starting to bite and starting to weaken growth," Mr. Zandi said.

Now that sanctions are starting to bite, enthusiasm for war and isolation is diminishing fast.

Other trade and banking embargoes being pressed by America outside the Security Council are starting to bite.