Sentences with phrase «at an increasing rate since»

The sector has experienced eight consecutive months of declining sales — with only February showing positive sales growth — and traffic growth has trended down at an increasing rate since the beginning of 2015, according to TDn2K, which measures data based on weekly sales from nearly 26,000 restaurant units and 130 - plus brands representing $ 65 billion in annual revenue.

They found that banned chemicals, such as pesticides that have been linked with Parkinson's disease, have been pouring into the lake at an increasing rate since the 1990s (Environmental Science & Technology, DOI: 10.1021 / es901628x).

We've been adding carbon dioxide from fossil fuels to the atmosphere at increasing rates since the dawn of the Industrial Era, and the result has been a steady warming of the planet's surface.

Both ice sheets have been losing large amounts of ice at an increasing rate since 1992.

Adware and PUPs [potentially unwanted programs] are a much more significant problem that only began to be a real issue in 2013 and have been multiplying at an increasing rate since.»

Not exact matches

With exports now growing at their fastest pace since 2011, that should check off an important box for Poloz in deciding whether to increase interest rates.

Though wage growth is increasing at its fastest rate since 2009, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley expressed the same sentiment as Sanchez.

Gasoline prices accounted for about two - thirds of the increase in the CPI and also jumped at the highest rate since February.

Though the Fed has been in a slow rate - hiking pace since December 2015 — the December 2017 increase was the fifth in the current cycle — its benchmark funds rate remains targeted at just 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent.

The multiple birth rate's precipitous increase since 1980 looks pretty strange at first, but there's clear science behind it.

The number of employees at Goldman increased 11 % since 2012, when the bank's acceptance rate was also 3 % with 267,000 applicants, CEO Lloyd Blankfein said at the Credit Suisse Group conference.

For 2015, premiums increased at somewhat higher rates than they had in 2014, though at much lower rate than they have overall since 2010.

(We also took a just - for - fun look at all the ways the world had changed since the last time rates were increased.

The Fed left its key short - term rate at 1.5 per cent to 1.75 per cent — the level it set in March after its sixth increase since December 2015 — as it gradually tightens credit to control inflation against the backdrop of a tight labour market and a pickup in consumer prices.

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economic future.

Since the beginning of its current tightening cycle in June 2004, the federal funds rate has been increased from 1.0 per cent to 2.5 per cent in increments of 25 basis points at each Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting.

Regarding economic data, the positive tone that has been in place for several months continued, with third - quarter gross domestic product (GDP) figures coming in ahead of consensus estimates at an annualized rate of 3 %, marking the first increase of at least 3 % in consecutive quarters since 2014.

Since I wrote about BNCC.pk, a lot has changed with the company: the stock price has nearly quintupled, the assets and equity have both skyrocketed, and the company has been increasing earnings at unfathomable rates (year - over-year earnings growth was 505 %).

Is an increase from 2.6 % of GDP in 1981 to 3.1 % of GDP in 2012 unsustainable?  Yes, I suppose so, if this rate of increase continues for another few centuries. The same argument the CFIB makes for municipal spending could be made for corporate profits but far moreso. After adjusting for inflation, corporate profits have increased by 245 % since 1992, doubling as a share of GDP and growing at a rate of ten times Canadaâ $ ™ s cumulative population growth of just 23 % since 1992.

Since we last met, the Federal Reserve has increased interest rates twice and the policy rate in the United States now stands at 1 1/4 per cent.

Local government wages have also increased at a slower pace than the overall average (industrial aggregate) since 2000: by an annual average rate of 2.5 % compared to 2.9 % for the overall average.

Since 2010, average hourly wages have increased at a measly 2 % rate — after inflation, that's close to zero (see Exhibit A).

As Harvard Law's Brennan writes, «Since the holiday window, there has been a dramatic increase in the rate at which firms add to their stockpile of foreign earnings kept overseas.

In contrast, employment in NSW has been increasing more slowly than elsewhere since early 2003 and is presently growing at around trend rates.

The labour market remained firm in the March quarter, with employment posting further large increases and the unemployment rate remaining at its lowest level since the 1970s.

The CPI rose at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.5 % in February, the smallest increase since July 2016.

Since April, the Bank of Canada had been talking about a potential rate increase in the context of an «economic expansion» that failed to achieve the velocity that policy makers expected, keeping a lid on inflation, which the central bank is mandated to contain at an annual rate of about 2 per cent.

And what was begun then has accelerated at an ever - increasing rate since 1900.

@ED The only thing that is assumed to be at least more or less constant in evolutionary theory is the mutation rate of individual genes, and even that, since mutations are known, eg, to increase under higher radiation, is only true «on average, over the long run».

Since the middle of the eighteenth century, the West's population has more than quadrupled while real income per head increased at least fivefold — an even faster rate than today's population growth in the Third World.

Though we have maintained our overall points total and remain ahead of Cambridge, as other universities have improved and progressed at a faster rate with increased facilities, funding and staff support we have slipped to our lowest overall finish since the start of the competition.

It simply looks at the five most profitable NFL teams since 2003 and randomly selects point spreads that increase the win rate.

If we look at it in this light, then it is a public affair and since the divorce rates have been progressively on the increase, it has become a social problem.

Someone, probably, will say seriously, that it's ONLY the homebirth midwives who are respecting a woman's right to a vaginal breech, twin, or post dates birth at home, and HER right to the lower rate of intervention at home trumps the mythical rights of the baby, and that since it's the sisters in chains that are taking back a woman's right to physiologic birth where SHE wants it that IF there is an increased risk to the baby it's the mother's right to take that risk.

Labor induction has been increasing since the early 1990s, 1 and the rate is running at about 20 % for pregnancies at term.2, 3 Induction of labor compared with spontaneous labor is associated with adverse maternal outcomes, including at least a doubling in the caesarean delivery rate, 4,5 25 — 50 % increase in instrumental vaginal delivery rate, 3,5 higher postpartum hemorrhage rate, 5 and prolonged labor.5 Neonates born after induced labor are more likely to have low Apgar score and low umbilical cord blood pH. 5

«I obviously want the rates to stay the same — I have two sons in college,» said Yum, of Buffalo Grove, who discovered tennis eight years ago and has been playing twice a week since at the indoor courts at Forest View, 800 E. Falcon Drive, where indoor court fees will increase by $ 2 to $ 28 an hour during prime time hours.

A pretty good proxy would be to look at the maximal level of gun ownership since the 1960s or 1970s and to increase the existing ownership rate for people old enough to have lived then to that rate.

We found that not only had the tax warrant increased at a slower pace in Southold and Riverhead towns since 2012, it did so at a significant rate.

The tax cap, in place since 2012, is set at limiting levy increases to either 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower.

Flanagan appeared at a news conference held by a coalition of business groups and the fiscal watchdog the Empire Center, which released a report and website showing the regional and statewide savings from limiting local levy increases at 2 percent or the rate of inflation (Overall since the cap has been in place, the Empire Center says $ 7.6 million billion has been saved).

It was the third time since the financial crisis of 2008 that it raised rates, a reflection that unemployment is now at a healthier level and inflation is starting to increase.

In the current situation both Labour and the Coalition would cut deeply and dramatically, the gap between them at around 1 per cent of public expenditure per year is smaller than either would like to acknowledge and since Labour privately admit they would have needed to increase the rate of cutback originally envisaged by Alistair Darling in pre-election phase, it is probably smaller yet.

The mayor's new poll numbers represent a 14 point increase since September when his approval rating was at 44 percent.

«Since mayoral control of education came in, the graduation rate in New York City has increased by 50 percent in 13 years,» de Blasio said at a news conference in Albany.

McMahon says if you measure the tax rate since the 2008 recession, where school taxes increased at a lower rate, taxpayers still saved $ 1.3 billion since the cap took effect.

In northern Eurasia, the annual net sink rate increased from the 1960s to the 2000s, but since then, the rate at which carbon is sequestered by the region has leveled and even showed signs of weakening, said Michael Rawlins, an assistant professor in the University of Massachusetts» Department of Geosciences.

Violent street felonies increased at a rate slightly greater than violence in the control area; however, this increase was not statistically significant when examined in the context of the longer trend since 2004.

Lead author Dr Roel Brienen, from the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, said: «Tree mortality rates have increased by more than a third since the mid-1980s, and this is affecting the Amazon's capacity to store carbon.»

Although of course there are a number of caveats since mice can be cured from cancer at higher rates, they don't suffer from some of our diseases, they are sensitive to being handled (if grabbing them can shorten their lifespan through stress, the mouse version of standard human medical care may do the same), so I guess that increases in maximum lifespan are indeed the only reliable indicator that an intervention is impacting age - related mortality.

Overall, the global annual temperature has increased at an average rate of 0.07 °C (0.13 °F) per decade since 1880 and at an average rate of 0.17 °C (0.31 °F) per decade since 1970.»