Ireland and Finland grew, despite fiscal cuts, because the exchange rate fell sharply, boosting exports.

As a result, levels of import penetration actually fell, quite sharply, in virtually every country.

After an initial inflationary surge, American economic growth fell off sharply in the 1970 s.

That proportion subsequently fell sharply, and the same decline could later be seen in industrial employment.

Not surprisingly, survey measures of consumer sentiment fell sharply and consumer spending remained almost flat from month to month.

Indeed, at the peak of the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, gold prices fell sharply a few times.

Markets peaked in 2007, and then fell sharply in many of these places with the onset of the global financial crisis.

The pound initially fell sharply, and then recovered, while long term government borrowing rates have risen by around 30 basis points.

The 20 69 rates, fell sharply between 1995 and 1999, then stabilized between 1999 and 2001 at 1.5 per 100,000 women.

Official statistics for 2009 are likely to show that migrants remittances fell sharply, as the global recession severely eroded job opportunities abroad.

The stock market dropped sharply. Home prices fell 40 , completely wiping out the equity of one third of all homeowners with mortgages.

But cotton prices fell sharply by 24.1 per cent, because of a large imbalance between supply and demand on the world market.

Yields on Spanish and Italian bonds, which had risen to unsustainable heights over fears of a eurozone breakup, fell sharply after the announcement.

Export values declined by 6.1 per cent as unit export values remained unchanged and the volume of exports fell sharply by 6 per cent.

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When the Argentine economy imploded in 2001, citizens lost their jobs and firms lost their access to credit, causing domestic demand to collapse. Output fell sharply.

Leverage is down sharply.

Then pull back sharply.

After the global financial crisis erupted in the last quarter of 2008, interest rates in Brazil fell sharply, credit expanded quickly, and fiscal policy shifted from neutral to strongly expansionary.

Sami's health has sharply declined.

I looked at Jeeves sharply.

In other words, if your trust in the market and in the way it is regulated fell sharply, you were less likely to deposit money in banks or invest in stocks.

Incoming orders in manufacturing, the most important indicator in the official statistics, fell more sharply in the first two quarters of 2008 than at any time since the beginning of 1993.

National debt, too, has risen sharply.

Peace keeping costs have risen sharply.

Now look here! he said sharply.

But a sharply lower dollar would, at the same time, mean sharply higher inflation, requiring it to tighten policy.

The use of torture had declined sharply.

NAIROBI Renewable energy triggers sharply polarized views.

The goals of media usage diverge sharply.

The interdependence of States is sharply increasing.

Sami fell.

He fell.

Someone fell...

They fell.

You fell?

Night fell...

He fell.

A Mihrab fell as if the Jami' (Qibli Masjid) fell.

Almost everywhere else veered sharply to the right.

Finally, the euro could fall sharply in value.

Overall, arms transfers to them have fallen sharply.

I don't want a governess, said Mary sharply.

At the international level, expenditure (in current prices) on operational activities financed by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) fell marginally in 1991 and 1992 and sharply in 1993, from 172 million to 128 million. 32

The tree fell as if the dome of the rock fell.