Sentences with phrase «fairly small increase»

«The message is that even fairly small increases in temperature appear to be having fairly significant impacts on species» distribution and richness.»

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And while the study had a fairly small respondent pool — surveying 300 male and female Americans aged between 18 and 35 that snack regularly — it highlights that consumers are looking to increase the convenience of their eating habits.
And fairly small shifts in headline voting intention (particularly an increase in support for the Liberal Democrats) could change the result under A.V. significantly, given their advantage in second and third preferences.
The crossover still manages to improve upon its previous fuel economy figures, although the increase is fairly small: the all - wheel - drive model sees the most significant increase with a combined rating of 22 mpg, up from 19 mpg.
Given that in relative terms, the 4MATIC system adds a fairly small amount to the sticker price on three of these cars ($ 1,125 on the C350, $ 3,000 on the E350, $ 2,500 on the CLS550 and standard on the S - Class diesel), along with the increase in weight, is it worth it?
But with great small caps like SoupMan, Labor Smart, Quadrant 4 System increasing revenues and others that are undervalued such as High Performance Beverage, Mondial Ventures, Octagon 88, and Americas Petrogas, investors willing to do the research should do well over the long term when the market eventually fairly prices the stocks.
The range of situations where having bonds in your portfolio will actually increase your returns is fairly small.
While these increases are often fairly small, in some cases they can be nearly half a percent higher than what you'd pay for the same loan in a different state.
Two of the best ways to increase your credit score — fairly quickly — include having errors removed from your credit report, and paying off a past due balance, or a large number of smaller ones.
Since this food packs a ton of micronutrients into a fairly small amount of macronutrients (calories), your dog is able to boost their vitamin intake without greatly increasing the amount of calories they are consuming.
Similarly to Geometry Wars, multipliers are increased by collecting small green voxels and the grace period between collecting a voxel and the multiplier resetting is fairly unforgiving.
In press briefings and interviews I contributed to, I mostly focused on two issues — that 2014 was indeed the warmest year in those records (though by a small amount), and the continuing long - term trends in temperature which, since they are predominantly driven by increases in greenhouse gases, are going to continue and hence produce (on a fairly regular basis) continuing record years.
It leaves only a fairly small amount of warming attributable to CO2 emissions and therefore indicates a low sensitivity to increased atmospheric CO2.
Considering the vostok Ice core the equilibruim CO2 level is a fairly linear function of temperature (9.8 ppm / K) I agree that the pre-industrial equilibrium of 280 ppm should now be 287 ppm, but that increase is still small compared to the anthropogenic signal of 93 ppm.
If there has been only a fairly small change in ocean heat flux over the last century and the ratio of global increase in surface temperature to increase in forcing is low (as the evidence certainly suggests), then it follows that climate sensitivity is low — perhaps of the order of 1.5 C.
My point, of course, is that, by defining the GW problem purely in terms of very small increases in anthropogenic CO2, the pro-AGW faction suggests a fairly simple solution.
Dr Meier:» There are increasing trends in Antarctic sea ice extent, but they are fairly small and there is so much variability in the Antarctic sea ice from year to year that is difficult to ascribe any significance to the trends — they could simply be an artifact of natural variability»
Changing a girl's name from something fairly feminine, like «Sue» (which is less masculine than the mean female voter's name), to a more gender - ambiguous name, like «Kelly,» increases her probability of becoming a judge by roughly 5 %.16 This effect may appear small, but it is highly nonlinear in nominal masculinity; changing a girl's name from «Sue» to a predominantly male name, like «Cameron» (75 % of those named «Cameron» in South Carolina's voting population are male), increases her probability of becoming a judge by a factor of 3 (roughly).
Even a small percentage increase in pay will probably be more than enough to purchase a fairly large term life insurance policy.
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