| A diversity of customers helps business through the peaks and troughs throughout the year. |
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| A spokeswoman said there was only an ongoing review of operating requirements in the light of seasonal peaks and troughs in demand for chocolate. |
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| By not investing all the funds at once, the peaks and troughs of the stockmarket can be avoided. |
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| The plan would involve making 20 short-term posts permanent as well as taking on extra part-time staff to cope with peaks and troughs of demand. |
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| Our cultural peaks and troughs have followed the celebration or denigration of nature. |
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| Historically, we've had smaller peaks and troughs in production and our way of working gives us a lot of flexibility. |
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| How many peaks and troughs have you observed since you joined Credit Suisse? |
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| Targeted marketing campaigns try to distribute sales more evenly over the year and to limit peaks and troughs. |
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| Statistics for the site's usage not only give an insight into mass-market enthusiasms over the year, but also chart fascinating daily peaks and troughs. |
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| The key is that it helps to balance the peaks and troughs in demand. |
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| The with-profits version aims to smooth out stock market peaks and troughs by holding back some investment returns in good years to support payouts in bad years. |
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| We have to run effectively and deal with the peaks and troughs. |
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| Build in the flexibility to manage peaks and troughs in demand more effectively. |
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| These relationships have helped us work with our customers through the inevitable peaks and troughs that come with working with this sector. |
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| However, inherent to this system is a higher risk of peaks and troughs which makes it difficult to ensure an optimised use of resources. |
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| Our company has been through wars, financial crisis and lived through various peaks and troughs. |
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| The business risks, including absorbing the peaks and troughs in transport and repair activities, are then borne by a third party. |
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| Residential and commercial building cycled through similar peaks and troughs. |
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| The arrows on the chart in Figure 3.1 indicate the peaks and troughs for each curve. |
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| We can learn a great deal by comparing the peaks and troughs of different periods. |
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| The metaphor has the merit of making three ideas immediately comprehensible: in the first place, it is a complex process, with peaks and troughs, and links of causality and connections to be discovered. |
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| This produced a very smooth and well controlled plasma profile instead of the peaks and troughs obtained with the existing three-times-a-day immediate release dosage form. |
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| The arithmetic mean is assumed to provide a true representative average sidelobe gain for all sidelobe peaks and troughs falling within a given window. |
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| There are other impediments that limit the usefulness of this method, namely, special purchasers, different negotiating skills, and the distorting effects of the peaks and troughs of economic cycles. |
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| There are peaks and troughs linked to the way the hostage-taker is behaving. |
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| The best ideas are tested by their peaks and troughs. |
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| The first encoded a pure tone in a traditional radio wave with peaks and troughs lined up neatly in a single, two-dimensional plane. |
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| The German Presidency was one of peaks and troughs, and whilst we have recognised its successes, there were also serious shortcomings, failures and blunders. |
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| The population peaks and troughs significantly when the students come and go from the city. |
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| Voice calls over the Internet suffer due to the peaks and troughs of all Internet services, and that's because the Internet does not allow for the prioritisation of traffic. |
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| By being better prepared for these peaks and troughs in supply and demand, the CAFB is better placed to help feed the needy, not just food, but a balance diet. |
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| The number of cases of cholera has been increasing continually since 2004, whereas the epidemiological profile of bacillary dysentery shows peaks and troughs over the past five years. |
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| Nevertheless, it could take up to 30 years before peaks and troughs in the demographic profile level out enough to stabilize the military population. |
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| Expectations are such that teachers can only manage their duties by backloading work, smoothing out the peaks and troughs by working through weekends and holidays. |
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| An orderly and scheduled distribution of tasks among those ports saves public funding and better provides the port workers with sustainable employment without the unnecessary peaks and troughs. |
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| Like the military, the clergy has its peaks and troughs. |
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| They are a net consumer of energy but provide storage for any source of electricity, effectively smoothing peaks and troughs in electricity supply and demand. |
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