Sentences with phrase «become less common»

For the birth cohorts in focus here, i.e. 1924 — 1949 and 1966 — 1991 respectively, it has indeed become less common for children from dissolved families to experience severe dissension in their childhood family.

That means the stereotypic military scene of an angry sergeant chewing out a young private could become less common.

As digitalisation technologies (AI, big data, online platforms and computers that communicate with each other) grow in prevalence in the workplace, low - skilled jobs will become less common.

Once nearly ubiquitous in high - end handsets, infrared sensors have become less common in recent years — presumably as Wi - Fi and Bluetooth have steadily supplanted invisible light as a means of commandeering TVs and home appliances.

There's no need for an SSD optimization program, as unfortunate as that will be to the bottom - line of disk defragmentation companies trying to diversify their businesses as traditional mechanical hard drives become less common.

Speeding tickets and other driving violations will become less common because police officers will have no reason to pull over an autonomous car... except for that driverless Google car that got pulled over for going too slow.

However, the industry seems to have stabilized in recent years as steep rate hikes have become less common.

With the advent of same - sex marriage in March 2014 (but not in Northern Ireland), civil partnerships may become less common, and the law on dissolution is anyway very similar to that for divorce.

While some scholars believe class actions will become less common in the United States (see Robert H. Klonoff, The Decline of Class Actions), several European countries have recently adopted laws permitting class actions or expanding the availability of collective lawsuits.

Agricultural land use has become less common over time, declining from 63 percent in 1949 to 52 percent in 2012 (the latest data available).

As winters have warmed, and heavy snowfall has become less common, the brown owls have been better able to blend in with their environment.

As oil prices rise, this will become less common.

Cold spells can still occur, but overall, they will become less common and less cold.

At the same time, routine storm events — that winter pattern of cold Pacific low - pressure systems every two weeks or so — are expected to become less common.

If drought stress were causing the erosion of that signal, you would expect wide rings to become less common.

As pensions become less common, many American workers are saving for retirement with individual or employer - sponsored retirement accounts, such as Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA) and 401 (k) s. However, many people don't, or can't, put enough money into these accounts to fund their retirement.

In general, influenza infections have become less common in recent years with the exception of a small number of shelters and communities in which illness has become endemic.

Furthermore, with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, such policies may become less common or disappear entirely.

Interest - free purchase offers have also become less common.

These joint ventures have become less common since customers started shopping for these services themselves.

g) Dividends become less common.

Two - thirds of our franchisees also felt that bidding wars will become less common in major markets, such as Toronto and Vancouver — which is great news if you're in one of Canada's hot markets.

Dividends become less common.

«Well, perhaps if this becomes the new norm, enormous advances will become less common and there will be more money to go around for the less known authors»

Maybe tablets will diminish the netbook market and netbooks will become the less common device.

Over the last several decades, marriage has become less common than before the age of technology and social media.

Middle - class, mixed - income neighborhoods have become less common as more neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and concentrated affluence have developed.

The interviews become less common, and when they do appear, they feel more like unnecessary interludes to the plot.

is starting to become less common.

«Depression would become less common if we were all to stop using diet margarines and went over to using olive oil.»

At the same time, the PDO — driven by ENSO warming in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean — has become less common.

Like sheep and cows, the two crickets don't mix — but in the past few decades, as both cows and sheep have become less common in the English countryside and pastures have become overgrown, both types of cricket have suffered.

For her PhD, Viglietti studied the fossil - rich sediments present in the Karoo, deposited during the tectonic events that created the Gondwanides, and found that the vertebrate animals in the area started to either go extinct or become less common much earlier than what was previously thought.

In recent years, buoy - based measurements, thought to be more accurate as buoy sensors are in direct contact with the ocean surface, have grown in frequency, while ship - based measurements have become less common.

For example, it predicts that maternal deaths associated with pregnancy and childbirth will become less common, as will infant mortality and deaths from nutritional causes.

Such nasty surprises could soon become less common for people like me — by giving our hearts their very own IP addresses.

The climate, of course, continues to vary around the increased averages, and extremes have changed consistently with these averages — frost days and cold days and nights have become less common, while heat waves and warm days and nights have become more common.

Whatever the USDA decides, potatoes won't disappear from school lunches, although they might become less common, Daniel said,

Smalling himself started his career at lowly Maidstone United, and although legends such as John Barnes, Ian Wright, and Stuart Pearce also started in non league tiers, the practice of the country's biggest clubs looking beyond the top couple of flights has become less common since the advent of the Premier League in 1992.

Plastic products used for packaging will eventually become less common as new technologies and growing industrialization are shifting to more advanced and sophisticated means of packaging.

Now if say the weather becomes warmer, then thick coats would become a negative trait and would hurt the wolf's ability to survive and reproduce, thus thicker coats would become less common.

Once considered a very popular method to piggybacking on the success of a better, established mutual fund, the strategy has become less common in recent years.

These connections have now become less common, as technology has allowed us to focus on relationships less.

With many modern - day workers changing careers as casually and quickly as if they were swapping smart phones, it's become less common for people to accumulate the hours to reach the rarified air of mastery.

Such dynastic arrangements are becoming less common all the time, however.

Some employers offer 401k plans and pensions, though the latter are becoming less common.

That claim is becoming less common and will possibly disappear in another generation.)

Surely you know what, say, James Q. Wilson has written about how strong marriages help children succeed in life, and how good marriages are becoming less common among the poor.

This is becoming less common since it was shown that cerebral palsy isn't necessarily an intra-partum event, but generally a live baby with brief breathing issues who might need a short NICU stay is seen as a better outcome than either death or hypoxic damage.

Sometimes called gastroesophageal reflux (GER), the condition is rarely serious and becomes less common as a baby gets older.