But last year, increasing gas prices and decreasing sales forced the company to seek billions of dollars in government aid in an attempt to avoid failure.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

Just to get you oriented, this is energy decreasing from zero to progressively negative numbers.

只是为了让你们多了解些这方面的东西，在这里能量,从0开始逐渐递减到负数。

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Its efforts, they say, have led cartels to battle each other for decreasing profits.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

They will be decreasing in size and frequency, but at this point they're still large enough to be of concern in hampering the rescue efforts."

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

European incentive programs threatened to spin out of control when solar module prices dropped - decreasing producers' costs - while the rates utilities had to pay to buy that power stayed high.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

"There are a host of efficiencies that can be gained without increasing our personnel or our budget, but rather decreasing the amount of money that's spent on unnecessary things in order to fund some of the critical initiatives that we've all talked about,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.20