Sentences with phrase «decline over recent years»

It is worth taking the opportunity of a new kidney (coach) than continuing our steady decline over recent years i.e. celebrating / begging for our champions league participation medal.

They are aimed at combating recent trends in cigarette smoking, which has been in decline over recent years.

SAOT levels have declined over recent years, showing the non-warming period has very little to do with this.

Not exact matches

We referenced their numbers when we looked at the changing anatomy of U.S. oil imports, or when showing the decline in coal use over recent years.

Further, I showed that Pharma's IRR has followed a rapid and steady linear decline over 20 years, which is consistent with recent estimates from BCG and Deloitte, and can be fully explained by the Law of Diminishing Returns as a natural and unavoidable consequence of prioritizing a limited set of investment opportunities while each new drug raises the bar for the next.

The company's ROIC declined over the past several years, but it seems to have reached an inflection point, especially as global remittances look to reverse their recent downtrend in 2017.

The EU's pollsters have discovered a «striking» decline in acceptance of GM foods over recent years even though Europeans are expressing support for other uses of biotechnology.

While Facebook remains more than 10 % below a record set earlier this year, it has sharply rebounded from recent weakness, when a scandal over how it handled its user data pushed it into bear - market territory, or a decline of at least 20 % from a peak.

The most recent and thorough of these, by Lukasz Rachel and Thomas Smith at the Bank of England, concluded that for the industrial world, neutral real interest rates have declined by about 4.5 percentage points over the last 30 years and are likely to stay low in the future.

Further, FFIV's recent revenue growth has been modestly below expectations, which has led to a 3 % decline in consensus revenue expectations for FY17 and FY18 over the past year.

The main reason for the recent decline in inflation is the dampening effect from the exchange rate appreciation over the past two years.

The level of recorded employment has increased strongly over recent months, after declining earlier in the year.

Better conditions are also evident in the services sector; the Tertiary Activity Index has trended higher in recent months, despite a decline in November, and is 1.4 per cent higher over the year.

Even so, this rate remains 1.9 percentage points under the previous cyclical low early in 1994, reflecting the trend decline in bond yields over recent years.

The recent fall in new dwelling construction reflects a decline in the construction of new houses, while activity in the medium - density sector increased strongly over the first half of the year.

Looking at the actuarial funded ratio for state and local pension plans, the aggregate funded status of these plans has significantly declined over the last 15 years despite equities attaining all - time highs in recent periods.

In Whole Foods» most - recent quarter, sales rose a modest 6 % year over year, to $ 3.44 billion, but also translated to a 56 % decline in net income, to $ 56 million.

Of course, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod has suffered its own membership losses in recent years, experiencing a membership decline about half that of the ELCA over the same time period (down 12 percent, compared to the ELCA's 23 - percent drop).

Over five million manufacturing jobs were lost just during the eleven - year period following the turn of the millennium, which indicates that the decline has accelerated in recent years.

The important fact is that while recent news reports of declining marriage rates among young people 25 to 34 have focused on the recession as an explanation, marriage rates over the past thirty years have been declining, through boom and bust alike, especially among less - educated Americans.

This data is supported by the most recent National Nutrition Survey which found total sugar consumption had declined by 2 % over the last 16 years.

Cannabis use declined significantly over recent years, but not since 2010.

Slot revenue has declined in recent years from over $ 400 million amid intensifying competition from casino gambling in nearby states.

There have been substantial declines in smoking prevalence over the past half century in the United States, although the rate of this decline has decelerated in recent years among various groups.

Over recent years, the U.S. has seen a decline in the number of ophthalmologists who conduct ROP screening examinations.

Superior is also warming because of a decline in cloud cover over the Great Lakes in recent years; more heat from solar radiation hits the lakes, Lenters said at a limnology meeting in Honolulu in March.

A-C ranges from a luxury to a necessity to a literal lifesaver: a recent study (Alan Barreca et al., Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature - Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century) by American economists showed heat - related deaths in the U.S. dropped from roughly 3,600 per year to just 600 around 1960.

By comparing this historical data for 21 sites across England with recent pollinator records and land cover maps, they found that 85 % of sites had suffered declines in pollinator species richness of between 10 and 50 % over the past 80 - 100 years.

Deforestation has declined to record lows in recent years, and just over 50 % of Brazil's rainforest now falls under some form of protected status.

Total hurricane frequency is projected to decline, and over recent decades, there is no clear trend, but only year to year variations.

In recent years, the age when women have their first child has slowly increased, with the BFS highlighting how female fertility starts to decline from the late 20s as the number of eggs that women naturally have are progressively lost over time.

The recent extreme drought of 2012 across America's breadbasket has brought the seriousness of a shortage of water to a crescendo as the Kansas Geological Survey reported that average water levels dropped nearly a third of the total decline since 1996... over a period of only two years!

While there's no such a thing as «normal,» here are a few numbers to mull over: The average adult has sex 54 times a year, but that number is on the decline: Recent research out of San Diego State University found that on average, people had sex 16 fewer times between 2010 and 2014 than they did between 2000 and 2004.

A recent study of 43 different fruits and vegetables revealed that over the past 50 years there has been «reliable declines» in protein, vitamin, and mineral content.

Producer Akihiro Suzuki told MCV that the Warriors franchise has seen a «sales decline» over the years, but that recent spin - offs have reignited interest.

A recent survey based on statistics published by Ofqual revealed a fivefold decline in the number of pupils taking GCSEs in arts subjects over the past year, and entrants for A Levels in arts subjects dropped by 4,300.

The demand for vending machines to stock healthier snacks has grown considerably in recent months — a recent Mintel report shows that sales of potato crisps have declined to # 1.34 billion in 2015 while sales of popcorn are popping, rising by 169 per cent over the past five years to reach an estimated # 129 million in 2015.

Despite fiscal belt - tightening and the recent decline in the technology sector of the U.S. economy, states still made great strides over the past year in helping students get access to computers in schools.

Retention rates have declined slightly over the past 5 years: In the recent years -LRB-» 11 - 12 to» 15 - 16), teacher retention rate in OUSD has dropped a little more each year from 83 % to 79.5 %.

Although public expenditures have grown steadily over the long term, recent years saw annual declines in spending from a high point of $ 610 billion in 2007 — 08 to a low of $ 602 billion in 2011 — 12.

There's been an absolutely radical decline in my income over recent years,» said Peet.

There is a great deal of speculation at the moment over whether or not the Blackberry Tablet OS 2.0 update (now Blackberry Playbook OS) will be what makes the brand relevant again after their abrupt decline in recent years, and this would definitely be a good sign.

With the dollar close to par in the recent past, the number of Americans buying property in Whistler had been on the decline over the last five or six years — dropping to five per cent of all sales from a peak of 20 per cent.

Over recent years, global PC and laptop shipments have steadily declined.

The gradual decline in long - term interest rates over the last few years propelled many of the recent gains in real estate trusts and it's difficult to see how rates can go much lower than current levels.

A 3 % decline over several months is modest — it's a bad day for stocks — but bond investors have been so accustomed to steady gains in recent years that it's caused a lot of anxiety.

• Declining dividend growth trend over past 10 years, with two most recent increases (including this year's) at only about 2 %.

Saigas have experienced one of the fastest declines recorded for mammals in recent decades: a 95 percent decrease in population over the past 20 years.

Over recent years the American Express Platinum Card has spent most of its time in decline.

«Our acquisitions have been declining over the past few years, resulting in more pressure to secure funding from local private trusts and the NACF (both of which have been essential for recent purchases of work by artists such as Rachel Whiteread, Frank Auerbach and Richard Deacon).