Sentences with phrase «few small declines»

Save for a few small declines, equities have gone up, and up and up some more since the market trough.

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Population and economic activity has been flat to declining in rural areas and small towns, with very few exceptions.

A few years back, with traffic declining at its «anchor» department stores, the shopping center converted a Lord & Taylor into three separate, smaller shops.

But as the US reliance of foreign oil declines, fewer petrodollars should result in relatively smaller purchases of US bonds.

The labour market has seen considerably softer conditions, but there has been little decline in overall employment, and the rise in unemployment, to date, looks smaller than had been feared a few months ago.

William Dudley, president of the Fed's New York regional bank, on Thursday called the stock market's decline so far «small potatoes» relative to the outsize gains of the past few years.

It is hard for us to realize the psychological exhilaration of the overthrow of monarchy in that day when, except for a few small and declining republics, monarchy was universal.

In the 2013 testing, a small group of a few hundred students, mainly in Rockville Centre, declined to take the tests.

Over the past few decades, a small international clan of scientists, alarmed by the sudden decline of corals, have created underwater nurseries aimed at «replanting» corals to buttress wild populations.

Species: Panthera leo Habitat: Most of sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in the south and east, although numbers and ranges have declined rapidly in the last few decades — plus a small population in India

There are many reasons individuals can be predisposed to SIBO — motility disorders such as IBS - with a decline in small intestinal cleansing waves, a bout of food poisoning, small intestinal diverticula, autoimmune disease such as scleroderma that alters motility, diabetes, to name a few.

A cocktail party features glasses of wine held by men and women and a few of each drink from their glasses, a man at a party sips from a glass of whiskey and another man chugs from a bottle of clear liquor (the label is hidden), a man drinks expensive whiskey in his office and his living room, a man holds an open can of beer on a sidewalk, four men in the back of a pickup truck drink from beer cans as the vehicle is moving, a man drinks from a small bottle of whiskey in his living room (the scene cuts to him lying asleep on the floor with the empty bottle, two crushed beer cans, and a cigarette butt around him), a man at a party says that he is wasted (implying intoxication, no drugs are seen or mentioned), a man offers a worker a 6 - pack of beer to bring a shovel and help clean a bathroom (please see the Violence / Gore category for more details), a man offers another man a drink and he declines saying that he is high on life, and a man holds a can that could be beer.

Research has shown that beyond very small schools and school districts, there are few opportunities for economies of scale in education because most of the costs increase with enrollments and are not fixed costs that decline with additional clients.

Most colleges prorate tuition refunds on a sharply declining schedule, so after a few weeks you may receive only a small fraction of your tuition costs, or even nothing at all.

Historically, the owners often report that their rabbits have been in decline for a few days — usually eating less and producing fewer and smaller stools.

Consoles suffered a smaller decline than software — an 8.5 per cent contraction for the PS4, Xbox One, Wii U, Vita and 3DS against 16 per cent fewer games being sold.

Only a few of those 42 buildings were architectural gems, but collectively they added up to an idea that was bigger; to the city councillors, it represented the shame of the decline of Brantford as a major manufacturing centre; to the local activists it was a part of their collective memory; to me it represented everything that was wrong in the small town mindset that would let their downtown die for a Walmart or a Tim Horton drivethrough.

The lion is declining fast, but we still have a few reasonably large populations in Tanzania, South Africa and Botswana — so there's time to forestall the precariously small numbers that afflict tigers.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

As shown in the WRE paper (Nature v. 379, pp. 240 - 243), the differentials at the global - mean level are so small, at most a few tenths of a degree Celsius and a few cm in sea level rise and declining to minuscule amounts as the pathways approach the SAME target, that it is unlikely that an analysis of future climate data could even distinguish between the pathways.

In China, the # 1 reason for the reindeer population decline appears to be inbreeding, which isn't surprising since the total populat is split into small groups that have very few matin choices, and thus little genetic diversity.

The research firm IDC is predicting that larger tablets that can also be used as a notebook, such as Microsoft's Surface Pro 3, will increase in the next few years as sales of smaller tablets decline.

To date, the immediate and lasting positive effects of quality care on language, cognitive development, and school achievement have been confirmed by converging findings from large, reasonably representative longitudinal studies and smaller, randomized trials with long - term follow - ups.1, 2,9 - 13 Contributors to this knowledge base include meta - analytic reviews of interventions and large longitudinal studies conducted in several countries.1, 2,14,15 Comprehensive meta - analyses now establish that effects of early care decline, but do not disappear, and when initial effects are large, long - term effects remain substantial.1, 2 Null findings in cognitive and social domains in a few studies may reasonably be attributed to the limitations inherent to their designs, samples, and measures.

The few existing studies are consistent with research on general aggression and show a small declining tendency for both functions of aggression through childhood [18, 19] and into adolescence [20].