Sentences with phrase «declines over the past few years»

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 years, ratings for the show have declined, particularly from its 2006 heyday when it raked in 36 million viewers for its finale.

I've written before (more than once, I'm afraid) about the dispiriting decline of Pixar over the past few years.

Over the course of the past few years major publishers have consistently reported that ebook sales have been declining steadily.

The only flag is the declining rate of dividend growth over the past few years.

>> OLD - SCHOOL PENSIONS STILL ON DECLINE Consulting firm Towers Watson says the number of providing defined - benefit pensions continues to fall, although fewer companies moved away from such plans last year than in any other year over the past decade.

Feline veterinary visits have declined nearly 50 % over the past few years due largely to the fact that cats become very stressed during their appointments.

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

This review pertains to Xbox One version, the PS4 version can be found over here Over the past few years, the Call of Duty franchise has been declining in popularover here Over the past few years, the Call of Duty franchise has been declining in popularOver the past few years, the Call of Duty franchise has been declining in popularity.

Quake Live has seen a decline in popularity over the past few years due to the release and update of many of the other games on this list, but it still has a strong following and player base that should provide some fun for both novice and experienced multiplayer fps gamers.

We recently experienced a mass fish die off with thousands of dead fish washing up on our beaches because of the hot water, and the giant Australian cuttlefish, which breeds in the gulf waters near Adelaide, has undergone a catastrophic 90 % decline in numbers over the past few years because the waters are too warm for them to breed.

... climate change is hitting home in more ways than the heat wave we experienced this summer... the giant Australian cuttlefish, which breeds in the gulf waters near Adelaide, has undergone a catastrophic 90 % decline in numbers over the past few years because the waters are too warm for them to breed.»

In any case, its like arguing that the US$ is higher today than it was a week ago and therefore the relative decline we've seen in the US$ over the past few years is definitely over

The partial recovery of a few whale populations over the past 30 years can not be responsible for the decline in fisheries worldwide.

Coal, which is in wide use for power generation in China, has always been cheaper than renewables, but the 40 - 60 percent decline in coal prices over the past few years hasn't dented growth in China's renewable energy business, he noted.

The primary reason for the declining rate trend shown over the past few years is that more M&A matters are being assigned to firms outside of the «Largest 50.»

Sirer noted that an immediate block size increase or on - chain scaling would not drastically impact CPU and disk requirements, considering that the cost for CPU and disk space has declined significantly over the past few years.

«Over the past 15 years, efforts to tackle declining marriage rates and increasing divorce rates among low - income couples in the USA have been guided by assumptions about why there are fewer low - income marriages and why a higher percentage fail.»

Mentioned in a number of Muskoka Watershed Council lectures over the past few years, calcium decline in Muskoka Lakes and in particular, the consequences of timber harvesting on lake calcium levels have been hinted at as a potential direct cause of declining health of our lakes in Muskoka.

Rent growth in Chicago has been relatively stable over the past year - some other large cities have seen more substantial increases; in contrast, rents in a few cities have actually declined.