slipped back

The price of a barrel of Brent crude, which had nudged $120, slipped back a bit this week.

Uncounted others have come for a few months and then slipped back to North Korea with food and money.

Ye smiles and closes his eyes with satisfaction and then quietly slipped back into a coma.

The bond market is still looking for the Fed to cut rates quite soon, even though the date has slipped back, and expects a series of cuts.

He slipped back in time, as he did so easily nowadays.

But, by late February, my enthusiasm faded and I slipped back into my old patterns, never following through on my good intentions.

He told them in advance not to pick him up so he must have slipped back to the theatre alone.

In the first half of this year it slipped back into a loss of $1. 3 billion, after three years of recovery.

Its spell as the world's biggest oil company by market capitalisation was a brief one; last week it slipped back behind ExxonMobil.

The yen has slipped back a bit but not enough to make good on losses.

In the UK , labour market data yesterday showed youth unemployment slipped back in the second quarter .

Even Britain, with a top credit rating and access to cheap borrowing, has just slipped back into recession.

"It was so slippery out that for every step I took ahead, I slipped back two. " he said.

Swansea climbed to second in February on the back of four successive wins but by mid-April they had slipped back to fifth, behind Reading.

But Jones broke new ground by saying publicly that the al-Qaida chief may have slipped back into Afghanistan.

He hastily blew out the light and slipped back into bed but remained apprehensive for a long time.

In the UK, confidence has slipped back since March, when eurozone debt was increasingly troubling markets.

The positions may have edged the other way in yesterday's trading after the Shanghai market slipped back.

At the time polls briefly showed support for independence rising to 50%, but that has slipped back.

When the cold war ended, peace and democracy prevailed and Central America slipped back into oblivion.

Though exports are recovering, Japan has slipped back into deflation.

Others slipped back into Afghanistan or headed west to Zhob and Quetta and onwards to Iran.

Having briefly touched $100, it slipped back to $93 during the recent market wobbles .

From there, she slipped back into Pakistan to rejoin the al-Qaeda chief in Abbottabad.

Suddenly Jack smiled and slipped back into his fatherly role.

Then the guerrillas slipped back into the jungle.

He came to the end of the pasture and slipped back under the gate.

At the start I felt I was lacking some temperature in my tyres and so I slipped back a little from my starting position.

The yen, having hit a 15-year high of Y85 to the dollar, obediently slipped back after his comments.

Globally and in China, consumer confidence slipped back by approximately 3 points. China continues to enjoy solid consumer confidence.

The index of temporary staff placements slipped back however to 57. 9 from 59. 0.

We have slipped back to a state of affairs that would be intolerable even in Naples

Inflation was stubbornly high in China last year but has slipped back towards 3 per cent, giving the central bank more scope to ease rates.

My table manners are atrocious -- in this respect I've slipped back hundreds of years;

In Tokyo today the dollar slipped back a little,