Sentences with phrase «increased over the past decade»

What is more, despite the increase over the past decade, household debt is still at a relatively low level in China.

«While falling oil prices have hurt Alberta revenues, uncontrolled spending increases over the past decade have significantly weakened the province's financial position,» study co-author Steve Lafleur said in a news release.

In a draft report, the Productivity Commission says that education spending has substantially increased over the past decade but student achievement has shown little improvement, and in some areas has declined.

The speed, power, and intensity displayed by female athletes have dramatically increased over the past decade.

Hotel occupancy rates in Niagara Falls, as well as the total number of room nights booked, have been gradually increasing over the past decade, according to data from industry consultant STR.

He says steep property tax increases over the past decades have driven people from the state.

More troubling, advertising to kids has actually increased over the past decade.

Deaths from pulmonary hypertension have increased over the past decade, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

What's increased over the past decade is the use and development of digital and online games.

More than 200 bodies a year turn up in the Sonoran, a number that has increased over the past decade as immigrants avoid urban areas and attempt to reach the United States by more remote routes, often through Arizona.

As participation in high - demand sports such as basketball and soccer has increased over the past decade, so has the number of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in teens and young adults.

Portion sizes have increased over the past decade, be careful you don't accidentally overeat by filling your plate with food, restaurants often serve up larger portions so only eat what you need.

There has been a gradual increase over the past decade in the percentage of districts offering pay incentives for shortage areas (see Figure 4), but recent evidence (see work by Katharine Strunk with Jason Grissom, Tammy Kolbe, and Dara Zeehandelaar) shows that few districts are truly strategic in matching incentives to staffing needs, and as a consequence, school systems continue to struggle to fill teaching slots in math and science.

Total spending by all levels of government on education will hit a record $ 493.3 billion this school year, a 50 percent increase over the past decade after adjustment for inflation, according to the U.S. Education Department's annual back - to - school forecast.

A recent survey by Pew Research Center found that most college presidents (55 percent) believe plagiarism has increased over the past decade.

I look at New York City, the nation's largest school district, where both charter and co-located schools have increased over the past decade.

In 2005, leading hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel (MIT) published an analysis showing that the power of Atlantic hurricanes has strongly increased over the past decades, in step with temperature.

The OHC increase over the past decade is also statistically significant (Nuccitelli et al. in preparation).

There has nonetheless been a sizable increase over the past decade in the percentage of Americans who agree that «most scientists believe that global warming is occurring,» from 48 % in 1997 to 65 % this year.

Despite a trend toward warmer winters, the risk of frost and freeze damage continues, and has paradoxically increased over the past decade (see also Ch.

Tree mortality has been observed to increase over the past decades in many regions, but the causes of this increase are not well understood, and we know even less about long - term changes in growth and recruitment rates.

Shark finning has increased over the past decade due to the increasing demand for shark fins (for shark fin soup and traditional cures), improved fishing technology, and improved market economics.

Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas have been increasing over the past decades, causing Earth to get hotter and hotter.

Motorcyclists fatalities have increased over the past decade.

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But over the past few decades the burdens on medical practices have drastically increased.

«While much attention has been paid to the surge in popularity of Canada's natural resources over the past decade, Canadian companies have been quietly and steadily increasing their international sales of services,» wrote the Conference Board's Jacqueline Palladini.

Thanks to sports» increasing value over the past two decades, Teachers» was able to parlay a $ 50 - million investment in 1994 for a 49 % stake in the Maple Leafs and Maple Leaf Gardens, one of the biggest, most profitable sports companies in the world, selling its stake for $ 1.32 billion.

It doesn't seem like much, but a succession of such increases over the past four decades has given Canada some of the highest prices in the world for cheese, yogurt and other products made from industrial milk.

Steadily increasing demand for timber - made goods is one reason why the sector has produced strong returns over the past two decades.

Like many employers, van Dam has seen annual double - digit increases in health insurance premiums over most of the past decade.

The increases in crop yields seen over the past few decades are starting to slow, and the world's population is still rocketing up.

NPR social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam reports in a segment aired Wednesday that the odds of a publicly traded company going under have increased significantly over the past several decades.

This unit has seen revenues increase from $ 2 million to $ 20 million a year over the past decade.

With a roughly 536 % increase in revenues over the past decade, you could say that Westech Industrial is on fire — although that would probably be at odds with the company's long - standing expertise in industrial flame arresters.

The search for authenticity has led organic food sales to more than triple over the past decade and increase 11 % last year alone to $ 35.9 billion, according to the Organic Trade Association.

But three years — the legal cask - aging requirement for Canadian rye — is a long time to wait for a product in whisky - thirsty Ontario, which has seen a 264 % increase in sales over the past decade.

According to a Gallup poll, 74 % of employees feel that they are missing out on company news and information, which is shocking considering how hard human resource teams have worked to increase employee engagement over the past several decades.

The rising cost of living may be partly to blame, particularly in the spending categories, like health care, that have increased the most over the past decade.

This is because international trade has increased rapidly over the past few decades as the world economy has become more developed and globalized — notwithstanding the flattening of the global trade - to - GDP ratio over the past few years.

Over the past decade, China's economic activities in Europe have been steadily increasing.

The increase in the flexibility and resilience of the U.S. economy over the past two decades has a lot to do with the increased openness of the U.S. economy.

Female board representation at the S&P 500 has not increased significantly over the past decade and, at 18.7 %, pales in comparison to the figures in most of Europe.

But [the increase in commodity prices] is just the beginning of the story, accounting for about one - half of the appreciation of our currency over the past decade.

Then the rapid development of computer technology, combined with a handful of regulatory changes, enabled dozens of alternative trading venues to sprout up over the past two decades, increasing competition for volume and driving down the exchanges» profits, ultimately pushing the NYSE — one of the most enduring symbols of American capitalism — towards increasing irrelevancy.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

Over the past decade, an increasing proportion of households in Canada have become highly indebted relative to their income.

On the other hand, the earlier increases in dwelling prices were very large, and even with the latest data showing declines, a big cumulative rise in wealth has occurred over the past decade, most of which has not been tapped.

Again, getting back to Olive Garden, I mean obviously it's been discussed just the absolute average check of the brand, that the increases that have been taken in pricing over the past decade even to your own admission did begin to make you expensive relative to maybe what customers wanted to pay relative to the peers.

Over the past decade, the number of knowledge workers in Columbus grew by about 34 percent, with the share of knowledge workers increasing from 22 percent to 26 percent.

Over the past decade, «post-rent wages,» or wages left after deducting median rent costs, decreased for service workers -LRB--7 percent) and blue - collar workers -LRB--5 percent), while only knowledge workers saw an increase (6 percent).