Sentences with phrase «fairly steady increases»

There is no basis I know of for arguing that the gradual and fairly steady increases in atmospheric CO2 levels would bring about the ENSO fluctuations in the vast Central Pacific Ocean.

Independent Schools Tasmania executive director Tony Crehan told News Corp the new deal would deliver «fairly steady increases in funding for all Tasmanian students for the next 10 years».

For those who don't want to dig through the old posts, it's been a fairly steady increase in sales and earnings over the last 24 months, though there's definitely a cyclical aspect too (new release months, especially for full - length novels, are the highest earning months with the month before a new release typically being lowest).

Either we must be looking at a fairly steady increase over 44,000 years, putting the start of the warming well before the start of the industrial revolution, or we must be looking at an absurd spike in the last century that is not reflected in any temperature records.

The AGW presentation obscures the 3 - 5 ENSO cycle and emphasizes what appears to be a fairly steady increase in temperatures from the 1970s on that makes the presumed influence of rising CO2 more plausible.

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The good news is, despite earlier predictions that the Fed rate increase would drive interest rates higher, they have actually remained fairly steady and some loan rates have actually come back down.

While his job performance rating is fairly steady, an increasing number of registered voters told Siena they would prefer to elect someone else in 2014: 41 percent this month, compared with 36 percent last month.

«However, bone mineral content and density increase as we grow, then decline at a fairly steady rate once we reach adulthood — making it a potentially useful way of assessing age,» Ross says.

Looking at the percentage of graduates taking benchmark tests such as the SAT and ACT and overall scores over time, scores on the ACT College and Career Readiness Benchmark have on the whole either held fairly steady or increased slightly since 2009, even as the percentage of graduates taking the ACT exam has continued to rise (in 2005, approximately 40 percent of graduates took the ACT, rising to approximately 59 percent in 2015).

Coker included several graphs in his post that demonstrated a fairly steady price for ebooks through Smashwords after the switch to the agency model, indicating that it did not cause the price increase that critics feared.

However, the index had positive cumulative returns (2.64 % and 63.66 %) during the other two tightening cycles, during which rate increases were fairly steady over time.

«From the start of the game through the end of 2008, both our rate of data churn and data growth were fairly steady and corresponded roughly to increases in staffing and team productivity.

And thankfully, the team had enough forsight to make the challenges fairly easy to complete, despite the steady increase in difficulty.

Sea ice extent increased at a fairly steady rate throughout the month, staying slightly above the levels observed in December 2007.

That has been a fairly steady rate and if the Greenland contribution is increasing, with the total being static, then some other element must have been reduced.

Although it's possible that stronger winds in the Southern Ocean over the past few decades may have caused the increase, satellite - based studies showing that transport has remained fairly steady during this time suggest that improved measurement tools, not increased wind, are responsible for the discrepancy.

Let's assume it is fairly constant — so it doesn't increase the heat in the atmosphere merely maintains it at a steady state.

The CO2 increase has been fairly steady at 2 ppm / yr, but an addition 1 ppm outgassed in 97/98 and the increase was only 1 ppm the next year.

If you blank out the spike, there is no longer much evidence of a plateau, just a steady increase at a fairly constant rate, with a bit of variability superimposed on top.

It is interesting that laptop prices continue to fall at a fairly steady rate, which in part is helping increase the number of students who can afford to arrive at school with a laptop.