Sentences with phrase «been in decline for»

Sony Mobile has been in decline for the past few years and with the latest Xperia Z3 + offering very little new, we look at what's next for the manufacturer.

«[I] t is important to be clear that a reduction in the number of contracted providers does not necessarily impact on client access... Numbers of providers have been in decline for some time in most areas of legal aid.

It is based on the concept that iron is a critical nutrient for primary ocean productivity, and oceanic iron deposition has been in decline for decades.

And mining jobs have been in decline for decades as automated equipment increasingly unearths coal, doing the work that once required pick axes and mules.

Coal has been in decline for quite a while.

EM Smith fails to mention that the NH Late spring / Early Summer snow cover has been in decline for some time and there is absolutely no way any return to glacial or even LIA conditions could occur until this trend starts to go the other way:

Earth's temperature has not been in decline for the past 10 years.

Detroit, once the epitome of our nation's industrial wealth and might, has been in decline for almost a half - century.

Historically, the owners often report that their rabbits have been in decline for a few days — usually eating less and producing fewer and smaller stools.

Fur farming's an increasingly specialized (& unsubsidized) activity, the number of fur farms has been in decline for the past 3 decades (only stabilizing in the last couple of years), and farmers continue to face an uncertain & potentially expensive future of regulation (& animal rights activism).

The company has been in decline for years and management have been cutting away dead wood.

Their yogurt business has been in a decline for sometime and losing market share to smaller companies.

PC sales — which ultimately drive Windows licenses — have been in decline for years.

General Motors has been in decline for three straight decades.

More importantly, it's great to see Volkswagen making a strong committal to the D - segment saloon market — a sector that has been in decline for the last half - decade.

Test match cricket has been in decline for years and this is a move in the right direction.

The güiña has been in decline for many years, with its population estimated to be fewer than 10,000 individuals, and it has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1996.

Their numbers have been in decline for decades and things are getting worse.

Although the incidence of appendicitis in the United States has been in decline for many years, the condition still affects approximately seven percent of Americans annually.

West coast salmon runs have been in decline for decades, stemming largely from the damming of rivers and the pollution throughout the fish's extensive range from freshwater mountain streams to deep offshore ocean currents.

Across the globe, voter turnout has been in decline for decades.

In this case, the root cause of the «problem» of increasing tax credit spend — namely, the fact that real wages have been in decline for over six years — is ignored and instead the consequences are being tackled in an incredibly short - termist way.

Some relationships have been in decline for decades and finally lose all their juice.

Hearts sank and fans were left cursing Van Gaal for having sent James Wilson on loan and for having relied upon Wayne Rooney, a player who tends to have one bad injury a year and who had been in decline for some time, to lead the line, and cursing our bad luck for Will Keane's injury a few days earlier.

The calls are rightly so justified as we have been in decline for a while now.

Arsenal has been in a decline for a very long time & the signs were always there.

Carbonated soft drink volumes have been in decline for years and, in a recent report, broker JPMorgan said volumes could keep falling until at least 2025.

CCA is still the market leader in carbonated soft drinks, which account for 66 per cent of the bottler's sales, but sparkling volumes have been in decline for years and JPMorgan believes volumes could keep falling until at least 2025.

Canada's relative position in the world has been in decline for some time.

Additionally, Valeant claimed its previous acquisitions were value creating when in fact the company's return on invested capital (ROIC) has been in decline for quite some time.

However, the household savings rate has been in decline for a generation.

Indeed, carbonated drink makers, including PepsiCo, Coca - Cola and Dr Pepper Snapple, have been trying to reduce their reliance on soda, whose sales industrywide have been in decline for years.

Hiring qualified people may also be a challenge, given that many of these industries have been in decline for the last decade.

«Upstate New York was in decline for decades,» she says in her ad.

That's why Buffalo was in decline for 40 or 50 years and we have to say to the world, «We made a mistake and we learned.»»

IDC reported that the tablet market is in decline for the second consecutive quarter in the first quarter of this year.

A 2016 survey of major publishers showed ebook sales were in decline for the first time on record, having shrunk 2.4 % over the previous year.

Worse still, perhaps, is the possibility that these «indicators» are presupposed to be in decline for no other reason than the truism «climate change is happening».

Deforestation in Amazonia has increased recently, after being in decline for the previous three years, to a rate of 434 square miles per month.

Not exact matches

Best Buy Co. said comparable store sales dipped 0.8 per cent for the nine weeks ended Jan. 4, but that was better than the 1.7 per cent decline in the prior - year period.

Further evidence of the decline can be seen in the decreasing rates of first - time patents since the 1980s, as well as increases in demand for professional licensing, which could further restrict new business opportunities by requiring expensive (and often unnecessary) credentials.

The market for PCs is shrinking — global demand dropped 11 percent in the last quarter alone — and Dell's market share has been on the decline for nearly a decade.

«Given that the decline in home prices had so much to do with the de-leveraging that was taking place on the consumer side,» a recent 10 % rise in the housing market «is a key reason for optimism about growth improving,» Marple said.

Only 36.12 % of employees using the program were male, with a decline in access for men 40 - 49 years of age.

In most cases there are two easy ways to tell when Facebook (fb) makes a meaningful change to the algorithm: One is that media companies start to moan about how their traffic from the giant social network has been declining rapidly for no apparent reason.

Any combination of economic explanations, from Target leaving Canada to Future Shop closing to the re-tooling of Chrysler's Windsor plant are in the wrong areas geographically and are too small to account for such substantial declines.

«This is great news for biotech firms which are based in China and want to tap more Chinese and Asian investors,» he said of Hong Kong's rule change, but declined to elaborate further about his firm's IPO plan.

Though Star Wars revenue declined slightly for Hasbro in 2016, the company said it is confident it will sell through inventory in the first half of 2017 as it ships more new products to retailers.

The airline said in its first - quarter earnings report it is bracing for a decline in bookings following the April engine blowout.

Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner admitted the decline in demand for dinosaur sales was a bit of a headwind in 2016, after the movie gave that company a boost last year.