Sentences with phrase «decline over the past few»

Additionally, the number of people who report having a close confidante in their lives has been declining over the past few decades.

May 2, 2018 • Food from the frozen aisle accounts for only about 6 percent of grocery store sales — and that percentage has seen some declines over the past few years.

However, both his appearances and quality of play have declined over the past few years, reaching its nadir this past season where he only made six appearances for Sevilla.

The BNP has been in a state of steady decline over the past few years, following the rise of other hard right and far right parties.

Because the western Atlantic breeding populations have been declining over the past few decades, the fishing quota for nations that fish this unit has been set considerably lower than the quota for eastern Atlantic tuna fishing.

May 2, 2018 • Food from the frozen aisle accounts for only about 6 percent of grocery store sales — and that percentage has seen some declines over the past few years.

While overall interest in the midsize sedan segment has declined over the past few years, Nissan feels that the 2019 Altima will be able to reinvigorate interest in midsize sedans.

Newspapers around the country have been in a steady decline over the past few years, a decline that arguably began with nightly news coverage as more and more households bought a television.

While spending spiked to 23.7 % of GDP in 2010 (the highest since 1946) due to the financial crisis, it otherwise gradually declined over the past few decades to about 19 % of GDP in the early 2000s.

There is nothing abnormal about the stock market's decline over the past few days.

Pfizer found it difficult to fill the void, which is why revenue has declined over the past few years.

«Pet bird ownership has been declining over the past few years,» says Goodman.

Our 12 year old Jack Russell Terrier's health has been declining over the past few months, what are our options for euthanization?

Nintendo's global president can not understand why the company's stock has declined over the past few days.

Many core and casual gamers now have a smartphone which can play games and these devices have enough casual and core content that the market for a dedicated handheld console has rapidly declined over the past few years.

«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).

More importantly, the SPM SREX fails to inform the public and policy makers that, as many readers of this blog probably know, empirical data show that deaths and death rates from extreme weather and climatic extremes have declined over the past few decades (Figure 1).

However, Yahoo China's business declined over the past few years, with both its number of users and market share dropping, which was largely attributed to its failure to localize, said Wang Jun, an analyst with the Internet consultancy Analysys International.

Reflecting a trend of marginal decline over the past few years, the nursing care occupancy rate was 88.3 % in 4Q10, down just 0.2 percentage points from 3Q10 and down a half percentage point from a year ago, when the occupancy rate was 88.8 % in 4Q09.

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Over the past few months, Paulson has bought 3.7 million nonvoting shares of Viacom, which he said on Tuesday has begun to show positive results under a plan overseen by Chief Executive Bob Bakish after years of declining advertising and viewership.

The latest release saw sales volume decline by 1.0 % between April and May, though there has been a great deal of volatility in this measure over the past few months, so it would not be surprising to see a reversal next month.

When it comes to Facebook, the agency tracks liking and sharing activity across the platform, and it says the data shows a «noticeable decline in engagement» with media content over the past few months.

As most of us know, viewership has declined for local news stations over the past few years.

While it looked like oil prices were recovering slightly in June, they slipped back down over the past few weeks, continuing a decline that started to over two years ago.

IBM's stock has taken a wild ride over the past few weeks ever since the legacy giant reported its thirteenth straight decline in quarterly revenue, but that doesn't seem to bother legendary CEO and investor Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway.

However, there has been a striking decline in the important social infrastructure of local communities over the past few decades.

There's been a lot of hand - wringing over the past few years about the declining rates of entrepreneurship in the United States.

Even as the economy marched back toward prosperity over the past few years, both the number of us donating and the amount we give have declined; analysis by the Fraser Institute pegged the drop at a total of $ 11.1 billion between 2006 and 2011.

As broad market conditions have been eroding over the past month, subscribers of The Wagner Daily newsletter who have been following the signals of our market timing system should be quite happy now because they would have been out of all long positions of individual stocks just a few days before last Friday's (October 19) big decline, thereby avoiding substantial losses and the pain that is now being felt by traditional «buy and hold» investors right now.

A turnaround in the cryptocurrency markets over the past ten days has many hoping that this is a sign of better things to come following a few months of significant declines.

Job growth has slowed over the past few months and GDP is growing at only 1.2 %, but there aren't the declines we usually see in recessions.

Figure 4 shows how Oclaro has offset China declines with growth in its Americas segment over the past few quarters.

The decline in coal consumption fits an overall pattern seen in China over the past few years, which suggests that China is running out of high quality coal.

As shown in Exhibit 5, forward real rates five years ahead have declined notably over the past few years.

The consumer electronics retailer filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday after a lengthy effort at reversing substantial declines in revenue over the past few years.

The division has posted weak sales over the past few quarters due in part to declines in U.S. soup sales.

In fact, in the S&P 500 Cumulative Advance - Decline Line seen below — a calculation of the number of stocks advancing less the number in decline — shows that, while cumulative breadth over the past few years has been flat (purple area), this year it has broken to all - timeDecline Line seen below — a calculation of the number of stocks advancing less the number in decline — shows that, while cumulative breadth over the past few years has been flat (purple area), this year it has broken to all - timedecline — shows that, while cumulative breadth over the past few years has been flat (purple area), this year it has broken to all - time highs.

Recent developments, including a further net decline in the exchange rate over the past few months, appear to have marginally increased the prospective inflation rate in the near term.

The decline in world interest rates over the past few years has seen the servicing burden of foreign debt fall to around the levels of the early 1980s.

Over the past few months there has been a marked increase in stories about the decline of the humanities in higher education.

The number of those who profess to be Christian has been declining steadily over the past few decades, and the numbers of those who say they regularly attend church has declined dramatically, to fewer that 10 % of those who profess Christianity or simply a belief in God.

But Mr Taylor said the decline in the Australian currency over the past few months has been a plus for the Taylors Wines business and brought some much - needed optimism to the industry.

Arsenal are a Big Big draw for potential managers and I would imagine quite a few will be very keen to restore OUR CLUB to where we should be.Wenger staying well past his due date has made the new managers job so much easier.Whoever takes over will only have to concentrate on bettering a declining league position with little or no immediate chance of winning one of the TWO major honours that have been beyond Wenger for years.

Fortunately, teen pregnancy has declined in the United States over the past few years.

And that's before accounting for some of the factors that the model doesn't consider: the disagreement in the polls, the unusual nature of Trump's candidacy and the demographic changes it is producing, Clinton's superior turnout operation, the possibility of «shy Trump» voters, the fact that the news cycle is still somewhat fluid headed into the final weekend, the declining response rates to polls, and the substantial number of high - profile polling misses around the world over the past few years.

But there is one statistic that rarely gets mentioned in feel - good budget presentations: While the tax levy has been relatively flat over the past few years, property values have declined.

At the same time, most other nondefense R&D funding agencies would increase only slightly or decline, and DOD would decline sharply, just as these agencies have over the past few years.

Over the past few decades, a small international clan of scientists, alarmed by the sudden decline of corals, have created underwater nurseries aimed at «replanting» corals to buttress wild populations.

Over the past few years, the ice on the Arctic Ocean in late summer — covers less area than it did 30 years ago; declined but then recovered to about the same area it had 30 years ago; or covers more area than it did 30 years ago.

Over the past few decades, researchers have noted declining sperm counts and quality in places such as Europe, Japan and the United States.