Sentences with phrase «even declined in recent years»

After increasing for decades, VMT per capita slowed in the late 1990s and even declined in recent years.

In many states, teacher pay has stagnated or even declined in recent years.

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Even Atlantic Canada, which has battled declining enrolment in recent years, saw its undergraduate numbers rise by 1.5 %.

And despite recent declines in oil prices, the federal deficit will be eliminated in 2015 - 16 and possibly even one year earlier.

The EU's pollsters have discovered a «striking» decline in acceptance of GM foods over recent years even though Europeans are expressing support for other uses of biotechnology.

Pushing past even 2 % on a sustained basis will require the avoidance of any recession in the years ahead, along with a continued decline in the unemployment rate below 4.1 %, or an acceleration of productivity growth beyond anything we've observed in recent decades.

Even so, this rate remains 1.9 percentage points under the previous cyclical low early in 1994, reflecting the trend decline in bond yields over recent years.

Trading market volume has declined, even as outstanding corporate debt has increased in recent years.

As is clear, the sums involved are considerable, even if they pale by comparison to how much revenue some parts of the industry has lost in recent years (US newspapers have seen their total revenue decline by more than $ 20 billion since 2000).

Even among scientists, there used to be a great deal of activism, but this activism declined in recent years.

«Even though spearings by Maasai have declined in recent years, it's still obvious that fear of them is high.

Most institutions responding to the survey expect the number of students seeking postgraduate study in England to plateau or even decline as a result of the high undergraduate fees introduced in recent years and increasing global competitiveness.

Despite a growing number of efforts to reduce childhood obesity in recent years — and even some data showing declines — new data shows the rates of overweight or obese children continue to rise in the U.S., with severe obesity increasing significantly.

The numbers are even more impressive given the funding challenges facing the district in recent years, where rising teacher pension costs and declining state support have forced endless borrowing, budget cuts and layoffs, escalating tensions with the local teachers union.

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s true even if the budget remains the same, rather than declining, as many have in recent years.

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In some communities, feline intake and euthanasia have actually increased in recent years even as canine euthanasia declineIn some communities, feline intake and euthanasia have actually increased in recent years even as canine euthanasia declinein recent years even as canine euthanasia declines.

However, in recent years the trends for dogs and cats have diverged in many communities, with canine euthanasia continuing to decline but feline euthanasia holding steady or even rising in many areas [9, 10, 11].

But Thompson pointed out that the population of the region has declined dramatically in recent years, as has corporate giving, and that even the estimated $ 40 million the Rockwells alone might realize would not fill the hole the museum had dug itself into.

Emissions from field production in recent years have fallen even more, declining «40.4 percent from 2006 to 2012,» according to EPA.

The administration declined to join the Kyoto treaty on climate change, even though last year Mr. Bush accepted findings by a panel of American experts that human activity had caused most of the global warming in recent decades.

So my answer to the first question is that yes, we have seen a plateau or even a decline in the surface temperature recent years, I don't think anyone is actually disputing this, but that Rose cherry picked his start date to make it look as if it has lasted longer than is actually the case.

The same can be said about how we do not know precisely how warm the globe will get in 25, 50, 100, or 150 years, dynamics do change; the 1990's was the height of recent population explosion, and even though the global population is rising steadily, the incline has decreases a bit; China, India, japan have issues with pollution, overcrowding, exponential GDP growth or decline, respectively.

If it declines in the face of rising CO2 concentrations even as little as.1 c -.2 c over the most recent 30 year trend (1980 - 2010), AGW theory will be proven wrong, solar will be in play to a much greater extent.

And in case you're wondering what happened after 2008, the figures for 2009 — 2013 are continuing to decline even further, with deaths per year down to under 25,000 for this most recent period.

«While the Eastern District of Texas may not be the rocket docket it once was, and even though the size of jury verdicts has generally declined in recent years, the Eastern District of Texas still boasts an environment that is very friendly towards plaintiffs,» VanHoutan said.