The institute said an exceptionally cold December and a continuing decline in domestic oil production were responsible for the January results.

A cold December resulted in a record 13.6 percent increase in energy prices, and food rose 2.1 percent.

We're meeting one forbiddingly cold December afternoon near Waterloo station.

They say that the valley was overtaken not on September but on cold December.

It proved to be the coldest December in many years, with endless snowstorms and hard ice.

It was a cold December, almost 30 years ago, when they saw the 200-year-old live oak that stole their hearts.

And that was how I left him, that cold December night.

It was a very snowy and cold December.

Danielle told her the local servants were saying they could not remember such a cold December, and she believed it.

During an abnormally cold December, many were without power for weeks.