Sentences with phrase «far smaller increases»

Spending in these areas will rise by 0.4 per cent in real terms, far smaller increases than they enjoyed under the last government.

Although the NHS budget is being protected in the spending review, the far smaller increases in funding over the next four years have raised concerns that the Health Service will nonetheless come under pressure to reorganise.

It looks like we will have much better GPUs, as they have improved significantly in the last seven years, while the target HD resolution has shifted upwards from 720p and 1080p - a far smaller increase.

The charts I mention below show that the ocean temperature rise is following, in a delayed and muted manner, the trend of the land surface in the so far small increase in median temperatures, with an obvious trend linked to Human Population.

For comparison, sulfur hexafluoride is associated with a far smaller increased radiative forcing term of 0.002 W / m2, along with 0.001 W / m2 for perfluoroethane.

Not exact matches

«A lot of new jobs are generated by small and midsize businesses, and if the interest rate increases dramatically, it could slow investment to this sector,» Cooley says, adding that the increase in interest rates is also likely to further strengthen the dollar.

Small - company performance is strong so far in 2017, with increases in the first three months of 10.4 percent in net profit margin (compared with 8.5 percent for this period in 2016); 11.9 percent in sales (compared with 7.1 percent in 2016); and 15.6 percent in the EBITDA margin (compared with 14.3 percent in 2016).

Small said the use of blockchain could increase efficiency and transparency in the sharing of data and that customer feedback has been positive so far.

Adding to the tension, McCarthy learned that Hastings had given him a far smaller annual pay increase than Ted Sarandos, Netflix's chief of content acquisition.

Second, with emerging market interest rates already high, further increases will be smaller, limiting the threat to the bond prices, which move inversely to rates.

We also note with concern that the new small business payroll tax comes on top of previously announced minimum wage increase (of 34 % over four years), an increase in the general corporate tax rate of 9.1 %, a 14 % increase to the personal income tax rate of most «skilled professionals», and a previously scheduled increase in the BC carbon tax of 16 %, moving up a further $ 5 to $ 35 per tonne of GHGs emitted.

take a small amount of financing either through a government grant program, a loan, or by selling an ownership interest in the technology to a third party; do this in order to further develop the technology and increase the likelihood of a successful licensing outcome (or to maximize the value of a licensing deal)

According to a 2016 report by Econsult, «between August 2013 and March 2016, the number of kitchen incubators increased by more than 50 %» So far the shared commercial kitchen industry, much like the early years of coworking, mostly consists of small, independent operators.

It's more likely, in my view, that investors have simply been getting closer to their «tipping point,» and that small further increases from here may have disproportionately large effects.

Although the increased cost to employers at 1.5 per cent of payrolls is itself quite small, several factors further diminish any possible impact on hiring and employment.

The further down the income ladder you go, the smaller the income increase.

The ECB's latest set of macroeconomic projections reflected the economic backdrop, containing increased forecasts for growth in the next two years but a relatively small predicted uptick in inflation in 2018, and further out a headline rate of only 1.7 % by 2020.

In the Strategic Growth Fund, that puts us in the position of being fully hedged, but with a small speculative call option position that I would expect to increase toward 2 % of assets if the market pulls back somewhat further without a significant deterioration in market internals.

The increase in the quarter reflected a further small rise in world commodity prices and other goods export prices, coupled with gains in the services terms of trade.

In its fourth quarter earnings report Samsung hoped extend this lead further and «benefit from cryptocurrency demand increase» for its semiconductors, though as a spokesman told the Bell, «It is in the beginning stage so the proportion of profit from the overall foundry business is small yet.

@Kearns = > Anti-semetic hate crimes far outweigh those against Muslim Americans, even after 9/11 Jewish Americans suffered a larger increase in religious hate crimes against them than the small increase Muslim / Muslim - appearing Americans

Darwinian evolution, on the other hand, proceeded stepwise, in very small increments, each successive step conferring slightly more survival advantage and thus increasing the chances of survival and reproduction for the organism, ensuring that the advantage is passed on and further increased by future increments.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

Adding the reward of a small prize at the end of a good week or month may further increase a child's motivation.

«In fact, she's already called for higher taxes on individuals and small businesses; she supports an energy plan that would increase our electricity costs; she promises a single - payer health care system that would further destroy our health care and economy; and she wants to force federal gun restrictions that would take away the Second Amendment rights of law - abiding citizens.»

While the FSB welcomes the Government's regulatory reform programme so far, FSB figures show that in the last year four in 10 small firms saw the cost of complying with regulation increase and six in 10 said the cost of complying with regulation costs more than # 1,000 a year.

He believes a further increase in the minimum wage would hurt small businesses and result in job losses.

«It shows you how far this governor has gone to increase labor costs on small businesses,» Durant said.

If the county executive would start by proposing a modest increase in county property taxes — a small portion of the average homeowners» tax bill — it might obviate the need for further borrowing and show real dedication to closing that budget gap and replenishing the Drinking Water Protection Program.

Part of this could be used to increase the bank's lending to small businesses, which has disappointed ministers so far.

And then, increasing support for smaller parties, from our first Green MP in Brighton to Respect's revival in Bradford, create a myriad of further challenges to the national leadership sought by David Cameron and Ed Miliband.

They say further delay in fracking is only hurting the state's small business community, which could see increased sales in hotels, restaurants and other service industries if the gas drilling begins, and they lament what they say has become a «hostile and extreme opposition».

A further four saw smaller increases, while seven committees received less coverage.

Table 2: Index numbers show that fourteen committees more than doubled their press mentions between 2008 and 2012 (orange cells), a further four saw smaller increases (white cells) and seven received less coverage (blue cells)

This year, with new laws in place that increase transparency and a far lower profile election, a far smaller number of independent expenditures, or IEs, have been spent, mostly slipping under the broader radar of political watchers.

It's also worth noting that the small chance of getting in now will be even smaller next time if, as seems likely, the proportion of women is increased further before the next election in two years: although the parliamentary party settled on a quota of 31.5 % women, there was in fact a majority (of 139 to 107) for at least 40 %.

Further spending reductions are called for but unlikely; the Legislature and Paterson had enough trouble «cutting» the budget down to a small increase over last year.

While these compounds did not reduce the amount of protein aggregates, they were found to reduce the protein's toxicity and to increase the stability of amyloid fibrils — a finding that lends further evidence to the theory that smaller assemblies of amyloid - beta known as oligomers, and not the fibrils themselves, are the toxic agents responsible for Alzheimer's symptoms.

Nanostructures toward the outside of the shell (A) are smaller than those on the inside of the shell (B and C, moving farther inward), perhaps conferring increased sturdiness to the outer, protective part of the shell.

Although Congress and the White House agreed in 2002 to double the budget of the National Science Foundation over five years, annual budget increases so far are too small to meet that goal.

«For instance, when components are smaller, it means the signals they transmit don't need to go as far, which increases their operating speed.

Yin, an expert on creating nanomaterials, is now working to create smaller metal sulfide particles with more surface area to further increase co-catalyst performance.

He says the benefits of reducing pollution from traffic in cities will far exceed the risks of small increases in lead releases.

The report, which came out in January and with which Boslough otherwise fully agrees, reveals that the scientific inventory of Earth - threatening space objects (asteroids and comets), especially the smaller ones that are most likely to impact our planet, is far from complete and unlikely to improve significantly without a greatly increased funds for NEO search programs.

And Kepler's scientific prowess would only have increased with time because the longer it stared at that patch, the higher the likelihood that it would identify smaller planets farther away from their home stars» searing rays — and thus, under potentially more «Earth - like» conditions.

The increase in sensitivity will enable us to characterize several new centaurs as small as 20 km in size at a distance of 10 AU and larger ones further away.

These findings further suggest reduced exposure to high levels of ozone in parts of North America and Europe, but increased exposure to moderate to high ozone levels at a small proportion of urban locations, although many sites in these two regions have non-significant trends.

«As we develop the technique further we will be able to study wind flows in increasing detail and make weather maps of smaller planets,» co-author Peter Wheatley from the University of Warwick's Astrophysics Group, explained, in the statement.

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The K2 mission allows us to increase the number of small, red stars by a factor of 20 for further study.»