Sentences with phrase «falling at a rate»

Ministers will formally respond to the Hooper report alongside publication of Thursday's bill and point out that Royal Mail business is falling at a rate of 8 % a year.

Snow accumulation predictions have been increased to 10 to 20 inches, with snow falling at rates of up 3 inches per hour at times.

Cuomo added that the snow is falling at a rate of about 4 inches per hour, which makes it difficult for plows to keep up with snow - clearing operations.

Then the silica rain — which falls at a rate 10 times higher than rainfall in a hurricane on Earth today — would collect onto the moon, helping it grow.

Meanwhile, we pop a pastry into our mouth and chew with lower teeth performing all the motion, rising and falling at the rate of an inch a second.

It is falling at a rate of about 4 inches per hours.

The snow was falling at a rate of about 2 inch an hour and about 6 inches snow on the road and I could drive this vwhicle at 55 - 60 MPH with excellent visibility, road grip, stabiltiy and braking.

The snow seems to be falling at a rate of several inches per minute.

Sea ice minimum levels are falling at the rate of 14 % a decade in the Arctic, and polar bears have been feeling the loss.

Dry convection will tend to create an adiabatic temperature profile in which the temperature falls at a rate of 9.8 °C per kilometer.»]

A recent report by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WGBU) assessed what it would take to have a good chance of remaining within the 2ºC guardrail.25 The study concluded that even a delay in the peaking year to 2015 means that global emissions must fall at a rate close to 5 per cent per annum.

Energy intensity added 16 MMmt of CO2 emissions, falling at a rate of 1.4 %, compared with the higher 2005 — 15 annual average decline of 1.7 % per year.

And now that temperatures have been falling for the last seven years and falling at a rate of about 0.4 degrees Celsius per century according to the Hadley Center's records, or per decade I should say, the overall effect is that there has been no increase in the long - run warming rate over the past 300 years.

If they continue to fall at that rate through 2020, to hit the SB 32 goal, they must fall 4.97 percent a year between 2020 and 2030 and then 5.34 percent a year through 2050.

Since 1980, the ice season in Hudson Bay has fallen at a rate of about one day a year, forcing polar bears to spent more time on dry land rather than hunting seals — their main source of food — on sea ice.

It first became apparent in the 1940 singularity when the temperature fell at the rate of -0.15 C / decade despite rising CO2 (see my theoretical model underlined above).

C (or methane hydrates / clathrates, in case that isn't considered geologic)-RRB-, Halting all marine photosynthesis and letting respiration / decay continue at the same rate (it would actually decay over time as less organic C would be available) would result in an O2 decrease at a rate of about 0.011 % per year, but it could only fall at that rate for about 3 weeks, with a total O2 decrease of about 0.000675 % (relative to total O2, and not counting organic C burial, which wouldn't make a big difference); Halting all land photosynthesis and letting respirationd / decay proceed at the same rate would cause O2 to fall about 0.027 % per year for about 19 years, with a total drop of about 0.52 %.

You said, «Halting all marine photosynthesis and letting respiration / decay continue at the same rate (it would actually decay over time as less organic C would be available) would result in an O2 decrease at a rate of about 0.011 % per year, but it could only fall at that rate for about 3 weeks, with a total O2 decrease of about 0.000675 %»

The most recent Federal Reserve Payments Study, results of which were released in April 2011, revealed that the number of checks written each year was falling at a rate of almost 6 percent a year, while electronic payments volume was rising at more than 9 percent a year.

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Many people believe that leadership is even more vital for small businesses because small companies can fall apart at a much faster rate without effective leadership.

And if you look at Bonobos» daily conversion rate, the percentage of visitors who buy something, you see that on August 11, it fell to about 1.8 percent.

However, income tax expenses at the firm fell 21.3 percent, primarily driven by lower U.S. corporate income tax rate, while underwriting gains rose 22.3 percent to $ 258 million.

«At multiple levels, the tax rate is going to fall,» Steffen said.

The trend for years has been falling rates — until the end of 2017, at least.

Specifically, there are concerns about what might happen should the tide turn in the bond markets when 30 years of falling interest rates reverses at a time when the Federal Reserve is preparing to tighten monetary policy by forcing rates higher.

Though the rebound in growth over the past couple of years has seen unemployment across the bloc fall, the jobless rate remains elevated at 8.5 percent.

He said that IEX found that the fill rate, or the percentage of trades executed at the quoted price, fell last year on NYSE.

The dollar / yen is likely to fall unless there are clearer signs of a rate hike by the Fed,» said Shinichiro Kadota, senior FX and rates strategist at Barclays Securities Japan.

Interest rates fell dramatically — the central bank rate has been essentially at zero since 1996 — so it cost nothing to borrow money.

Japan «s unemployment rate held steady in October as the availability of jobs improved and household spending fell at a slower pace, a tentative sign that a robust labor market is lending support to domestic demand.

«The general picture is little changed on last month, with the overall employment rate and that for women both at record highs, the inactivity rate at a joint record low and the unemployment rate falling to its lowest since early summer 1975,» Matt Hughes, a senior statistician at the ONS said.

This of course contrasts with the Labor Department's news yesterday that U.S. employers — of all sizes — added 120,000 jobs last month, and as a result the unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent, after a prolonged period at 9 percent.

The unemployment rate in Western Australia was unchanged at 6.1 per cent in September, however it disguised a fall in employment as the number of people working fell by over 9,000 during the month.

A recent analysis from Benjamin Tal of CIBC shows that, nationally, at least 25 occupations are experiencing both «rapidly rising wages and low or falling unemployment rates» — a combination of indicators that points to skills shortages.

Timmer: Yeah, so last August which was a key inflection point for the market — because at that point, nobody was expecting tax cuts anymore and the 10 - year Treasury had fallen to 2 %, and the bond market which of course is always pricing in the potential future, was pricing in only one more rate hike over the subsequent two years.

This partly reflects the fall back in the U.S. dollar on the back of rate hike delays, which has allowed commodity prices, notably oil, to rebound,» said Shane Oliver, head of Investment Strategy and chief economist at AMP Capital.

«If my effective tax rate would be 0.05 % falling to 0.005 %,» she said, «I would have felt that maybe I should have a second look at my tax bill.»

Its sales continued falling at double - digit rates in 2014, and its financial results came in even lower than analysts» expectations.

The unemployment rate fell, too, and is at its lowest since 1975.»

David Blanchflower, a former rate - setter at the Bank of England now at Dartmouth College, thinks unemployment could fall even further without inflation — probably as low as 3 %, and conceivably even lower.

America's unemployment rate fell to 7.8 % in September, while Gallup's U.S. Job Creation Index — which looks at the country's net job creation — is up 263 % since it bottomed out in April 2009.

Depending on which period you're looking at, I suppose you can pick out a recent episode in which employment rates in the U.S. increased more than in Canada, but the most striking thing to me in that graph is the much steeper fall in the U.S. employment rate.

At this rate, many people could be setting themselves up to fall short in retirement, Bankrate warns.

Meanwhile, North Dakota's GDP fell at an annualized rate of 1.2 % in Q2 2015, one of only four states with negative growth.

Despite indicators showing that the economy can in no way be growing at an annual rate of 7 % (for example, in the first seven months of this year, power consumption grew barely 1 % while rail freight fell 10 %), Chinese officials continue to insist, with a straight face, that growth is meeting the 7 % target.

British inflation fell to its lowest level in more than 12 years in November, coming in at half the Bank of England's two percent target and leaving it under no pressure to raise interest rates anytime soon.

May 3 - Avon Products Inc's quarterly results disappointed Wall Street, as the number of its door - to - door salespeople contributing to revenue fell at the worst rate in at least three years, driving the cosmetics maker's shares lower on Thursday.

But with the unemployment rate, at 6.2 percent, well below its recession - era peak of 10 percent, and inflation showing no signs of falling further, the Fed has begun to trim its monthly bond purchases, aiming to end them completely by October.

And what happened to us was that our salaries stagnated and fell while the cost of the things we couldn't do without went up at rates well beyond that of inflation for decades as the social safety was being pulled out from underneath us.

At the new rates, says Kennedy, «the business model falls apart.»