Sentences with phrase «increase over the previous decade»

According to the report, the number of women trying to breastfeed — 76.9 percent in 2009, up from 74.6 percent in 2008 — is the largest annual increase over the previous decade.

And today, one in three babies are born via C, according to the most recent data — a 50 % increase over the previous decade.

Care at all to rationalize why there is an unexpected lack of correlation between CO2 increases and the global temperature increase over the previous decades?

Not exact matches

... We expect our business to exhibit the same pattern we delivered over the previous decade — increasing revenue that results in EPS and cash flow that grow even faster.»

The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.

Sonoma County Winery Development at Issue in Debate About Events: Sonoma County has approved more than 300 new wineries and tasting rooms in the past 16 years — a nearly 360 percent increase over the previous three decades — and many of those wineries have decided in recent years to boost business by offering an array of events, from wine - tasting dinners to weddings and harvest parties...

Breastfeeding rates had increased gradually over the previous decade, reaching around 75 % at 6 months by the mid-1990's.

However, the average surface temperature of the planet seems to have increased far more slowly over this period than it did over the previous decades.

Over the past five years, strandings in the Bay of Biscay have averaged 452 a year — a five-fold increase on the previous decade.

In addition, the technologically biased structural change that has been affecting the economy over the past several decades has increased entry level job requirements and made it more challenging for Millennials to get their careers off the ground compared to previous generations.

A few decades later, a paper by Guy Callendar in 1938 linked the increase in carbon dioxide concentration over the previous 50 years to rising temperatures.

As near as I can tell, what is particularly meaningful is comparing the trend over the decades when we have increased ACO2 emissions significantly to previous decades.

For the last 50 years, global temperature rose at an average rate of about 0.13 °C (around one - quarter degree Fahrenheit) per decade - almost twice as fast as the 0.07 °C per decade increase observed over the previous half - century.

Each year, over the course of the almost two decade study, the rate of ice loss has increased relative to previous years and ice mass was lost faster than the year before.