In fact, the company has had record sales and earnings for 25 consecutive quarters - including those that fell in the recessionary years of the early 1980's.

The most recent low, 2.1 percent, was set in the recessionary years of 1992 and 1993.

Contributing to sexual frustration, weddings dropped sharply during Brazil's recessionary years.

But these were recessionary years, when savings usually decline.

Those asset and property managers who spent the recessionary years keeping sinking buildings afloat are getting the highest pay of all.

Perhaps surprisingly though, their concern is not so much for those graduating this recessionary year, but for those who are now just freshmen and sophomores.

I am afraid I think that 2009 will be a total recessionary year.

But the growth is actually a recovery from several recessionary years.

Partying at the meeting in this recessionary year was almost as lavish as a church supper.

In the recessionary year 1991, more than 1.8 million people were granted permanent resident status - also the highest number in our history.