Sentences with phrase «decreases in numbers»

Perhaps more importantly now, feral cat advocates define «success» without including decreases in numbers, focusing instead on the health of the cats themselves... In a large area like Hillsborough County, TNR will not work, even if there were no other health concerns.

«We've seen an increase in class size, decreases in the numbers of teaching assistants in the classroom, decreases in the number of assistant principals and in the number of school counselors and social workers and nurses, and all of those support the classrooms.»

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

We believe that rising costs - which may have increased up to 18 percent in some countries - will lead to a decrease in the number of international adoptions.

As consumers become more comfortable with shopping online, there will be continued decreases in the number of people who abandon their cart.

In the five years to 2000 — 01, the number of small businesses in Australia's state and territory capital cities increased by 6.4 per cent to 945,320, and only Hobart recorded a decrease in the number of small businesses.

The downsizing is largely due to a decrease in the number of shares sold by stockholders.

Except as expressly provided in the Plan, no Participant shall have any rights by reason of any subdivision or consolidation of shares of stock of any class, the payment of any dividend, any increase or decrease in the number of shares of stock of any class or any dissolution, liquidation, merger or consolidation of Alphabet or any other corporation.

Rogers followed with 9.6 percent and only 437 complaints, which is a dramatic 65 percent decrease in the number of complaints over the same period last year.

Nevertheless, that percentage decrease in number of accidents remains impressive, especially considering that Tesla's autopilot system only uses basic algorithms alongside a limited suite of sensors.

While many areas of the United States of seen decreases in the number of new businesses created each year, St. Louis has grown and thrived with business creation growing 18 % from 2012 to 2013 alone!

Despite a decrease in the number of uninsured Americans, medical costs still account for a significant portion of the bankruptcies in this country.

The Information Technology -LRB--8) and Consumer Discretionary -LRB--5) have also seen the largest decreases in the number of companies issuing positive EPS guidance for the quarter relative to their five - year averages.

Dampening the impact of these factors were higher personal income tax revenues, up 13.6 % (reflecting in part the timing of receipts), and lower employment insurance benefits, down 10.7 % (reflecting a decrease in the number of unemployed).

This represents a 26 % year - over-year decrease in the number of female - led companies that raised an A in the Bay Area compared with 2014.

And why the convention is decreasing in the number of converts — 4 straight years in a row now.

It may be that the ecumenical attitude and mentality now officially adopted by the Church will lead to a decrease in the number of conversions, at least temporarily, or lead in some cases to indifference in regard to the denominational question.

He lamented, in 2009, the significant decrease in the number of Catholic faculty and the fact that the University's increased focus on research to maintain its status among elite universities was weakening the quality of undergraduate education.

This form of the family is decreasing in number primarily because more wives and mothers are joining the labor force.

Expect a major decrease in your numbers in the next 10 years.

... a dramatic decrease in the numbers going to church in Ireland....

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

When we returned to the U.S. after this term of service, I could not sympathize with the church people who were quite concerned about the significant decrease in the number of UMC missionaries on the field.

At present, the best available data indicate that the worldwide impact of religious switching alone, absent any other factors, would be a relatively small increase in the number of Muslims, a substantial increase in the number of unaffiliated people, and a substantial decrease in the number of Christians in coming decades.

Additionally, there is a decrease in the number of livestock operations.

Something I haven't seen discussed and have been wondering, is if what should be an increase in fair catches will result in a decrease in the number of sequences that go scoring play + PAT, commercial, kickoff, commercial, offensive drive?

They will also see a big decrease in the number of people that will watch in the stadium.

While athletics remains at No. 2 behind swimming, new figures show a decrease in the number of athletes competing

According to Dr. Thomas Haverbush, a Michigan orthopedic surgeon, a training program developed at the University of Vermont Medical School designed to prevent ACL injuries in skiers led to a 69 % decrease in the number of knee injuries among ski patrol personnel and instructors who received the training compared with those who did not.

A significant decrease in the number of wet diapers a baby has per day, especially if it's not resolved with increasing their breastmilk or formula intake.

That «30 % increase in HB» corresponds to a 0.2 % decrease in the number of hospital births.

Depending upon the demand, the glands and milk ducts increase and decrease in number.

With anywhere from a 40 % — 50 % divorce rate (depending on who you talk to) and a 23 % decrease in numbers of those marrying from 1960 to today, it's obvious that lifestyle trends are shifting away from «forever after» unions.

Pediatrician: It's been a number of years that the American Academy of Pediatrics has been recommending the back to sleep campaign and we saw a dramatic decrease in the number of babies who had crib death.

Iron deficiency anaemia occurs when the body does not have enough iron, and this leads to a decrease in the number of red blood cells in the body.

Indeed, although net migration is negative among British nationals, recent increases in net migration tallies have been attributed largely to decreases in the number of British citizens emigrating.

The National Road Safety Commission of Ghana has announced a 17.5 % decrease in the number of reported road accidents from January to November 2015 as compared to statistics from the same period in 2014.

In July 2010, figures published by the Home Office showed that experiments on animals in the UK had fallen by 1 % to just over 3.6 million, with a 10 % decrease in the number of toxicology tests carried out on animals.

The constitution minister was under pressure over voter registration, with fears that there could be a 20 % decrease in the number of registered voters as a result of the transition from the current system.

A decrease in the number of students buying school lunches and an increase in the amount of food that is being wasted has pushed one Onondaga County school to opt out of the federal program for its high school students.

So this announcement should only result in decreasing in the number of Russian troops in Syria, which seems quite natural after the successful campaign of 2017.

Similarly there has been a decrease in the number of looked after children placed for adoption.

Home Office figures released today showed a decrease in the number of Asbos issued, but also revealed an increase in breaches of the orders from 47 per cent in 2000 - 2005 to 49 per cent in 2006.

The UK has seen greater decreases in the number of women dying from breast cancer than many other European countries over this period, though this is partly because death rates were relatively high in the 1980s.

A new Child Protective Services report shows a significant decrease in the number of open cases in Erie County.

Environmental Advocate's David Gahl says years of budget cuts at the state Department of Environmental Conservation, known as the DEC, has led to a one third reduction of staff, and an even greater decrease in the number of inspections of potential polluters.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Wednesday said it recorded a decrease in the number of registered candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations in...

Police commissioner Bill Bratton for the first time called the recent decrease in the number of arrests and summonses by city officers «a pretty widespread work stoppage,» in an interview on NPR's «All Thing Considered.»

The Foundation says that the report is not all bad news, citing a recent decrease in the number of children attaining fewer than 5 GCSEs.

«You see sort of a retrenchment in the City Council where black women and women overall have lost seats, have given up seats to their male counterparts and so then numbers that we've had in the past in the New York City Council have diminished a bit, but that means that we have to build a pipeline,» Clarke said, referring to the decrease in the number of women in the Council after last year's elections.