"percent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That decline, the third consecutive monthly drop, was worse than the 0.5 percent contraction that economists had forecast.
- Private economists foresee a 1 percent contraction in the Japanese economy this year.
- And economists noted that the comparable period in 1995 had been the worst in the crisis, with a nearly 10 percent contraction.
- The 25 percent contraction in the November trade deficit matched almost exactly the increase reported last month for October.
- It had previously predicted a 1 percent contraction.
- The Government had forecast a 15 percent contraction in the economy for 1998.
- After six years of decline, including an 11 percent contraction in 2002, the Argentine economy expanded 8.7 percent last year.
- "The Long Island economy can readily absorb even a 30 percent contraction of the current work force within its major defense firms," the report said.
- The Netherlands was an even bigger surprise, shrinking 0.3 percent, when analysts had expected an 0.1 percent contraction.
- The data now show two quarters of decline in 1980 - a sharp drop of 7.9 percent, followed by a 0.6 percent contraction.
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