Sentences with phrase «declines at a greater rate»

Since 2009, youth touch and tackle football participation has declined at a greater rate than all other sports other than court volleyball and wrestling.

Researchers found that sulfate concentration in rain and snow declined by more than 40 percent in the 2000s, and sulfate concentration in lakes declined at a greater rate from 2002 to 2010 than during the 1980s or 1990s.

Not exact matches

By way of comparison, our Great Recession saw a GDP decline of 5.4 % and an unemployment rate that peaked at 10 %.

Albert and other experts at CDC and in the field attribute the decline to a variety of factors, including lower rates of sexual activity, greater use of contraception, and a higher incidence of physicians educating and offering teen mothers long - term birth control methods such as IUDs and hormonal implants, which can prevent a second unintended pregnancy.

«If native species linearly decline at a rate similar to or greater than that of the past decade, then multiple extinctions are likely in the next decade,» the team writes.

These problems are one reason why the number of active editors on the English Wikipedia has been slowly declining since 2007, as has the rate at which editors are promoted to «admin» status, which brings greater power to police the encyclopedia.

Women experience rheumatoid arthritis at a rate three times greater than men, and also have more severe decline and increased disability, yet the sex - based differences in the condition remain poorly understood.

I've never heard someone say Google is lucky because they've managed to grow their sales at greater than 30 % per year over the past decade and Alcoa is unlucky because their sales have declined at an average rate of 1 % over the past decade.

It's also important to note if an index is advancing or declining at a much greater rate than another.

«If sea ice declines at the rates projected by the IPCC climate models, and continues to influence emperor penguins as it did in the second half of the 20th century in Terre Adélie, at least two - thirds of the colonies are projected to have declined by greater than 50 % from their current size by 2100,» Dr Jenouvrier said.

The gap at the end of the 70's is due to the step in temperature caused by the PDO phase shift and is known as the Great Pacific Climate Shift; but it is clear that the rate of increase is declining from the 90's to the noughties; the statement that the noughties is the warmest is therefore misleading; but what else is new with AGW.

Seawater data collected by a Hydrolab DataSonde (Hach Company, Loveland, CO) since 2000 show that the ocean at this site has undergone a sustained decline in pH over the past decade [2] at a rate that is an order of magnitude greater than expected based on model predictions [13] and the equilibrium response to rising atmospheric CO2 concentration.

If your job puts you at a higher risk — in other words there is a greater chance the insurance carrier may have to pay a death benefit claim — then your insurance rates may be higher or you may be declined altogether.

Findings from a recent randomized controlled trial25, 26 found that depressive symptoms declined at a significantly greater rate for intervention participants than usual care participants between baseline and one week, three months, and six months post-intervention, with the strongest effects found at six months post-intervention.