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• After they had lain hove-to for 14 hours, the wind slackened, the seas became less violent, and the small flotilla got under way again.

• In the evening the wind slackened, out of the southeast; by around 8 o'clock it fell calm.

• Thus, cultivation slackened, and the farms were ruined.

• But it is evident that in the primary wheat producing districts, mechanization commenced as early as the 1850s, slackened off in the 1860s and took off again in the 1870s.

• It would have been more helpful to his own community if statements he has made—some of them outrageous—had slackened rather than increased the tension.

• As this has now slackened-off, the arrears are being rapidly overcome.

• If at any time they had shown fright at aerial attack or had slackened in their production, no armed forces would have been successful.

• So far from the rate of improvement in our education having slackened, it has clearly accelerated.

• It is, therefore, perfectly clear that the drive to improve the trade balance cannot be slackened and, indeed, must be intensified.

• Yes, the rate of decline in optimism may have slackened slightly, but declining it still is.

• As these have slackened, contractions and redundancies have increased.

• Even if the rate of traffic growth has slackened in the last few years, the trend would still appear to me to be encouraging.

• If our birthrate became steady, or even slackened off, which is by no means impossible, the reverse process might be expected to take place.

• The demand for coal has slackened because industry switched to gas at a time when it was half the price of coal.

• It is obvious that skill differentials have slackened.