Sentences with phrase «fast as the population»

The consumption of spices in the United States has exploded almost three times as fast as the population over the past several decades, data from the USDA reveals.

Yet SymphonyIRI data show unit sales of disposable diapers fell 9 % in the 52 weeks ended Aug. 7, three times as fast as the population of infants.

Water use has grown twice as fast as population over the past century.

Expectations for Denver students / schools are a mile high and increasing almost as fast as the population.

The number of surgeries are up and the number of animals euthanized is not growing as fast as the population.

In short, the threat of wildfires encroaching on urban areas is growing just as fast as the population (by almost 50 % in the decade spanning from 1991 to 2001).

Not exact matches

Largely as a result of the country's one - child policy, instituted in the 1970s, China's population is aging fast.

The competitive nature of these populations and ultimately countries meant that while each was always vulnerable as societies they progresses much better and faster than the autocracies of China and Turkey.

Last year, the figure was 333,000, of which 184,000 came from the E.U. Even if you accept, as most do, that immigration has expanded the tax base and kept the price of both food and services down, the influx — for which there is no end in sight — is changing the face of the country too fast for the population to stomach, and the E.U.'s rules on free movement of labor are an easy target.

As companies grapple with how to transform and innovate better and faster, the population of leaders guiding these decisions is changing dramatically.

The country has the world's third - largest economy, yet this may change over the next few decades as its population — the fastest aging in the world — plummets from 126 million in 2015 to 87 million in 2060.

That score came as L.A. home prices surged 15.9 percent in two years — No. 32 biggest gain; per - capita homebuilding of 6 houses per 10,000 population was fourth slowest nationally; and business output rose 4.9 percent last year, No. 51 fastest.

As one of the fastest - growing states by population in recent years, Arizona has seen an explosion of home construction.

At one time more than a tenth of the Egyptian population, Coptic Christians have been getting out as fast as they can.

Just as Thomas Malthus had shown how population had the capacity to increase faster than the food supply, so this computer - based report concluded that world order would collapse if population growth, industrial expansion, increased pollution and the depletion of natural resources were to continue at current rates.

Church attendance is reported as increasing at a faster rate than the population.

including England and France... as muslim population keeps on increasing faster than any other race.

The AG's U.S. division grew more than twice as fast as the American population in 2012 (1.8 percent vs. 0.7 percent), gaining almost 54,000 adherents to now number nearly 3.1 million worshipers at more than 12,700 churches (up 127 from 2011).

If political redistribution reaches a certain level, it must either send the economy into a downward spin (wealth being redistributed faster than it is produced) or dismantle democracy (to prevent those whose wealth is to be redistributed» a population which, as redistribution expands, will be very much larger than the richest group» from resisting).

And these children are the same people who as adults will be called upon to make enormous sacrifices to support China's growing ranks of the elderly — for not only is China graying, it is doing it faster than any population in history.

The National Association of Retail Grocers of Australia recently highlighted that Australia's food and grocery industry is «at a crossroads» as population - driven demand grows faster than food production, pointing to challenges ahead for sustainable development.1 Water is one of the most significant and increasingly scarce resources that producers need to meet this demand.

As a single dad, Wilson is part of one of the fastest - growing segments of Minnesota's population.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

AXA and Jumia view Africa as a fast - developing market for financial services and insurance products, benefitting from strong fundamentals such as low penetration rates, rise in middle class, urbanization, as well as the youth of its population.

According to the Ministry of Justice, the prison population had not grown as fast as previously projected, with a prison population in January 2011 of 82,991 and a useable operational capacity of 87,936.

New York will lose two congressional representatives, because the state's population is not growing as fast as the rest of the nation.

Labour believes health will be a key electoral issue as voters start to worry less about the economy and more about the NHS as it begins to suffer from the coalition's structural shakeup, declining staff morale after years of frozen pay and a budget not increasing fast enough to cope with the ageing population.

Rockland's median price for a home is $ 387,000; and while the mid-Hudson's population has risen nearly five percent, Rockland is growing faster than the entire region as a whole.»

This should lead to tremendous advances in time - domain astronomy: studying fast - changing phenomena as they occur — black holes being born, supernovas exploding — as well as locating potentially Earth - threatening asteroids and mapping the little - understood population of objects orbiting out beyond Neptune.

Fast population growth has littered our genomes with five times as many rare gene variants as would be expected.

Most of Britain's fast - declining populations of reptiles and amphibians, such as the great crested newt, live around small ponds that are unlikely to be listed, let alone protected, with the existing highly bureaucratic system of SSSI designation.

Spayed and neutered cats live longer so the population does not decrease as fast as it would otherwise.

As the world's population grows in number and affluence, the demands for both resources are increasing faster than ever.

If the pteropod shells «are dissolving as fast as the authors claim, the effects on individual physiology, behavior, and fitness, and hence on populations and food webs, are not easy to predict,» Lawson says.

The chemically enriched stars are moving twice as fast as the other population.

The problem is that we don't know how much damage the predators do during winter, when the lemming population grows fastest, as, unsurprisingly, researchers do most of their field studies in the summer.

If we take as the reference the values relating to men in order to compare both genders, as men are faster and have more stamina, we might be led to believe that women «don't give all they've got,» but «we are in no doubt that women do give the maximum; so if this is relativized to the actual values of the population being studied, the results would be different with respect to the physical demands involved in women's soccer,» points out Castellano.

«Fast population growth could create resource shortage problems, as well,» notes geographer David Zhang of the University of Hong Kong, who previously analyzed world history back to A.D. 1400 to find linkages between war and temperature change.

Meanwhile, as shown in Table 2 - 1, underrepresented minorities also are the fastest growing populations in science and engineering at the bachelor's and master's levels, as indicated by degrees awarded by four - year institutions.

As a result, a larger population will leave future generations at greater risk from climate - related damages, especially if policy does not respond to fast - growing populations.

A new way to make specific genes spread faster through insect populations has been developed, paving the way for novel methods of combating insect - borne diseases such as malaria.

These vents (also know as black smokers) expel minerals dissolved by water which bacteria use to in chemical reactions to produce energy and support ecosystems involving larger multi-cellular lifeforms that feed off of of the massive and fast - growing bacterial populations.

As the report notes, «Those groups that are most underrepresented in [science and engineering] are also the fastest growing in the general population.»

[58] Critical to contemporary agriculture, its annual demand is rising nearly twice as fast as the growth of the human population.

As livestock numbers in northern India grow, some of the snow leopard's main prey species populations are shrinking fast.

«We hope that other scientists will use these data to answer questions such as why, unlike humans, some plants do not deteriorate as they age, why some environments are better for agriculture than others, and how fast plant populations will move in response to climate change,» said Yvonne Buckley, professor of Zoology in Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences.

Subsequent to this, weight - loss trials within human populations 35 - 52 as well as some rodent trials 22, 27, 53, 54 have used an array of IER protocols which permit a small energy load to be consumed on the «fast» day, so that energy intake is partially but not completely restricted.

As mentioned, fast twitch fibers (the type that make the bulk of our muscle size) respond well to supplemental creatine in the athletic population.

I reckon we'll see fasting become much more popular over the next few years as the population turns away from the nonsense promoted by the governmental authorities and begins to judge for themselves what actually works.

In obese subjects, a modified 8 - 10 week alternate - day fasting regimen resulted in weight loss, reduced blood pressure and heart rate, and improved markers for cardiovascular health, such as decreased total cholesterol, decreased LDL and triglycerides, increased HDL concentrations and decreased oxidative stress and systemic inflammation, suggesting that alternate - day fasting might be a novel strategy for decreasing body weight and improving cardiovascular health in the obese population (64,68).