Sentences with phrase «by sharp decreases»

Some years showed large increases followed by sharp decreases.

However, the increase for boys in middle adolescence was followed by a sharp decrease in late adolescence.

Not exact matches

More than 75 percent of farmland sold in the District was purchased by farmers despite a slight decrease from a few years ago and sharp declines in U.S. farm income (Chart 4).

Food prices decreased 0.2 percent, led by sharp declines in pork, fresh fruit and dairy product costs.

I recommend starting with a sharp knife as this will increase the chances you'll be able to cut the pumpkin with minimal effort and it will decrease the chances you'll cut yourself by accident.

I recommend starting with a sharp knife as this will increase the chances you'll be able to cut the pumpkin with minimal effort and it will decrease the chances you'll cut yourself by accident.

In both reading and mathematics for 8th graders, 1973 through 1988 saw sharp decreases in the measured achievement gaps, closing by 21 and 22 points respectively.

Recent reports predict housing starts slowing to 180,000 a year by 2014, a sharp decrease from the current range of 220,000 today.

The sharp decrease in error since 2002 is due to the dramatic improvement of in situ sampling provided by the Argo array of autonomous profiling CTD floats, and the real - time reporting of Argo data made it possible to extend the estimate through 2005.

But by April 2006 there was a sharp reduction in productivity, coinciding with a decrease in soil moisture.

First comes news from the ABA's Law School Admissions Council that the number of applications to U.S. law schools dropped in 2006 by 7.6 %, the second straight annual decrease on top of a sharp deceleration in 2004 in the longstanding trend of rising admissions.

Certainly there is deep concern in the children law world because recently there has been a sharp decrease in the volume of applications made by LAs.

They began by comparing contraceptive use before and after Texas cut funding to Planned Parenthood and saw a «sharp decrease» in the use of long - acting reversible contraceptives in the counties that had been served by a Planned Parenthood, the study authors wrote.

In a study by Sharp et al [23], only boys showed a decrease on standardized tests of intellectual attainment (mainly on indexes of abstract intelligence, reasoning about opposites and analogies) and the «draw - a-child» task.