Sleeping long and well at night can stave off an afternoon slump, but a power nap has been found to have equal effect.

Oh, that afternoon slump, when you get stuck in a lethargic stare at the walls?

Taking a proper break will help avoid the afternoon slump and, in turn, curb your caffeine craving, so you can get a better night's sleep.

There's always an afternoon slump, usually between 3 and 4 o'clock.

And there's no doubt most of us feel a cuppa gives us a kick-start when the afternoon slump hits.

Data earlier this month signalled a deep slump in economic activity.

The negotiations come amid a deep slump in the gold industry.

He had a promising baseball career before injuries, deep slumps, and frequent trades forced his premature retirement.

It adds that if governments fail to take more decisive action to clean up banks, the global slump will deepen.

The global slump clearly has not affected this market.

It was $100 last year before a global slump that saw pump prices fall.

Diploma fell 11p to 98p after warning that a global slump in demand for its industrial seals and the weak pound would hit first-half profits.

Fears of a global slump are growing.

The oil slump has reduced fuel and heating bills.

Talks over the $2.6billion it owes a consortium of banks have been a long-running feature of the oil slump.

The oil slump that began in 2014 knocked prices from their lofty $100-a-barrel perch for a long time to come.

But when the price of oil slumped to below $10 a barrel, there was a swift end to the excesses.

The profit slump adds to the difficulties of the debt-saddled company.

One shareholder argued that investors should have been warned earlier about the company's profit slump.

It comes after a 25 per cent net profit slump in the first half of the year.

Second quarter profits slumped 52 per cent to $4.2 billion - its smallest quarterly profit since 2009 - compared with $8.8 billion in 2014.

Profits slumped by 55 per cent last month.

Shares slumped 17 per cent initially, closing down 12 per cent.

Shares slumped 6 per cent to 243.2p as analysts warned the company had overpaid to land the 13-year contract.

Shares slumped 11 per cent - or 7.25p - to 59.25.

Shares slumped to a five-year low, closing down by 2.1p, or 3.2 per cent, at 63.2p.

Shares slumped on the news, closing down 45.13 at 483.87.

Having recorded under various names since 1993, they were in no danger of sophomore slump.

People talk about the sophomore slump.

I don't think it's a sophomore slump.

He seems to be having a sophomore slump.

Then he went into a sophomore slump in 1983.

Meanwhile, two prominent hedge funds suffered a slump in profits last year amid difficult trading conditions.

Its move will provide a fillip to the stock exchange, which has suffered a slump in listings this year.

The construction industry also suffered a slump in activity and the services sector, which accounts for three quarters of the economy, remained flat.

He then suffered a slump in form, however, and has played only sporadically on either tour since 2008.

However, the team suffered a slump in form compared to the previous season and finished in 13th place.