Sentences with phrase «declines in recent years due»

Competition from Institutions and Individuals — The available pool of attractive - rate notes has declined in recent years due to increased involvement by institutional and retail investors.

Beck notes that the offshore banking sector has declined in recent years due, in part, to «added pressure on tax evasion and increased competition.»

Not exact matches

Year - ended inflation slowed further to 1.5 per cent in the June quarter, partly due to the appreciation of the New Zealand dollar and the recent decline in oil prices.

The volume of ice divergence has doubled since 2000 due to a more mobile ice cover as multiyear ice has declined, which can explain the drastic ice reduction in the Arctic Ocean in recent years.

However, this is not due to increased rate of academisation in primary schools, as growth in the proportion of schools becoming academies has been steadily falling across both phases in recent years, but the decline in growth in the secondary sector has been steeper.

Recordkeeping fees for jumbo plans have declined significantly in recent years due to increased technological efficiency, competition, and increased attention to fees by sponsors of other plans such that fees that may have been reasonable at one time may have become excessive based on current market conditions.

Bonds have done better, due to the substantial decline in yields in recent years.

In recent years, Maine lobstermen have reported record lobster catches, which researchers believe may be related to warmer water temperatures in the south that force lobsters north as well as fewer predators in the Gulf, like cod, which have been in decline due to overfishinIn recent years, Maine lobstermen have reported record lobster catches, which researchers believe may be related to warmer water temperatures in the south that force lobsters north as well as fewer predators in the Gulf, like cod, which have been in decline due to overfishinin the south that force lobsters north as well as fewer predators in the Gulf, like cod, which have been in decline due to overfishinin the Gulf, like cod, which have been in decline due to overfishinin decline due to overfishing.

The suggestion that recent warming is anthropogenic due to divergence from a simple 60/20 year curve fit over a mere 100 years ignores prior divergence from both competing models of distantly past temperature, one being a hockey stick that shows a slow decline instead of incline prior 1850 and the other showing two similar «non-cyclical» spikes in the Roman and medieval periods.

Due to the way in which these various cycles have been relative constant over the last 35 million years, the earth has settled into a relatively recent cycle of approximately 100,000 year long declining climates and ice ages, and brief 12,000 - 18,000 year long warm spells we call inter-glacial periods like our current Holocene.