1.   And if that happens for a sustained period, the differences can become substantial.

2.   Blinder is reluctant to let the economy enter a sustained period of what he considers unnecessarily weak economic growth and rising unemployment.

3.   Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer said today that there is no danger of deflation -- a sustained period of a falling price level -- occurring in Germany.

4.   Bundesbank President Tietmeyer said there is no danger of deflation -- a sustained period of a falling price level --occurring in Germany.

5.   But as the latest wave of controversy hits, the Lottery is suffering from its first sustained period of sagging revenues.

6.   But Donald Fine, chief market analyst at Chase Asset Management, said the bond market could not get away from economic fundamentals for any sustained period of time.

7.   Christmas is the ultimate display of this ethos, the longest sustained period of open pandering to our addiction.

8.   Critics worry that a sustained period of low investment returns could undermine some of the weaker plans.

9.   For once, there might be reason to believe in a sustained period of good fortune.

10.   He lived as a hermit, toyed with his interviewers and refused to embrace any literary or political doctrine for any sustained period.