It's likely that after 1991 we'll start to see a plateauing of cases and then a decrease, because the infection rate is already down."

Your partner is going to be just as into these exercises as you are; she may even be doing a little plateauing of her own.

His reign marks the plateauing of Ava's power.

At the same time, he said, "we see a bit of plateauing in terms of the backlog of transactions."

"There's a plateauing of prices," he said, "but until recently it seemed like prices were climbing monthly - Oakwood was so hot."

"We started hearing of a plateauing of growth in France," he said, speaking of his reading of recent subscriber growth numbers in that country.

By 1984 the first indications of the plateauing of the popularity of BMX was the flattening growth in memberships and the falling off of attendance of nationals.

Pacific Gas and Electric has been relying on an educational process, including lectures by Ms. Bardwick and articles in its newsletters, to convince employees that plateauing is a fact of life, not a measure of personal failure.

We can best test the proposition that physical limits (or right walls) cause the slowing and plateauing of improvements by comparing curves for athletes operating near the extremes in human capacity with performers who probably retain much room for further advance.