Sentences with phrase «increases by a few percent»

The average intensity of the storms that do occur increases by a few percent (Figure 6), in general agreement with previous studies using other relatively high resolution models, as well as with hurricane potential intensity theory (Emanuel 1987).

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It didn't help — a few months later, customer servcie complaints increased by about 5 percent, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index.

Productivity (tons mined per miner) increased by 350 percent, due partially to a shift from underground to surface mines, but largely from the introduction of highly mechanized systems like long wall mining that require far fewer miners.

By contrast, Latin America added fewer than 50,000 additional unemployed to the global number — or around 1 percent of the total increase in unemployment in 2013, the ILO noted.

A Mergermarket report has found that global M&A in the first half of 2017 increased by over 8 percent in value, despite there being fewer deals.

Just one additional hour of sleep a week increased wages by 1.5 percent over the course of a season and 4.9 percent over the course of a few years.

For 2015, the average premium for employer - sponsored family coverage for firms with fewer than 200 employees increased 5 percent to $ 16,625, according to the 2015 Employer Health Benefits Survey, put out by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Over the past few years, wages have increased by 2.5 percent to 3 percent annually; projections for the year to come are for increases of more than 3 percent.

Still, I did increase the Fund's call option purchases near the end of the week, and expect to add to that position toward 2 % of assets if the market clears its overbought condition by a decline of a few percent further (provided that we don't also observe a substantial deterioration of internal market action).

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that it could leave as many as 13 million fewer insured over the next 10 years, and increase premiums by an average 10 percent over the next decade.

The biggest coffee exporter in Africa is likely to increase its output by 5 percent next season since trees planted in Uganda in the past few

The number of cases of mead sold in the past few years increased by 103 percent and the average gross sales increased 130 percent, according to the American Mead Makers Association.

Combining the asylum - application data with projections of future warming, the researchers found that an increase of average global temperatures of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario in which carbon emissions flatten globally in the next few decades and then decline — would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.

After passage of the legislation and the USDA mandates it put in place 2012, the study found that students put more fruits and vegetables on their trays, as required, but consumed fewer of them and increased waste by approximately 35 percent.

Participating 4th - grade children who reported eating one or fewer servings of vegetables per day at the start of the study increased their vegetable intake by 40 percent.

In the roughly 40 percent of patients with this genotype, higher levels of proline (a neuromodulator that is increased by valproate), correlated with fewer negative symptoms.

Among the farmers Qaim studied, those who switched to the Bt cotton lost fewer plants and saw their profits increase by 50 percent.

The spike, she explains, was sudden, with major depressive episodes among teens increasing by 50 percent within those few years.

DPS enrollment has increased 25 percent since 2005, driven by population growth, residential development on a closed airport and military base, expanded preschool programs (available to most four - year - olds and a few three - year - olds), and students returning from neighboring districts.

No fewer than nineteen states have experienced a 200 percent increase in the number of English learners in the same period, according to a state report by the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA), a service of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA).

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

Indeed, Jackson and his colleagues found a few key benefits when school spending increased steadily, by 10 percent over the 12 years that a low - income child was in school:

Within just a few years, the addition of a Grab - and - Go offering to the breakfast program has increased the number of students participating by 27 percent.

The report also finds that more than half the states increased their high school graduation rates, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 23 percent since 2002, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

This figure dramatically increased by over four thousand percent a few years later, but demand for the electronic format has waned.

We've seen a similar report to this from a few months back where we saw BlackBerry's market share increase by 22.3 percent in the three month period ending in June 2011.

For instance, if you stop using the card and continue to pay it down month after month until it is eventually at a $ 0 balance or at least below 30 percent utilization, your score will very gradually increase by a few points here and there, assuming all of your other credit accounts are in good standing.

Simply by shifting existing debt around to reduce the utilization percentage on individual cards you can expect to increase the score by a few points or more — particularly when bringing all cards to below 50 percent — yet it's going to take an actual reduction in your overall debt to drop that combined utilization to where your score rises significantly.

Given that interest rates are currently pretty low, that means that over the course of your five - or 10 - year consolidation loan, your APR could increase significantly and negate the few percent in interest that you would have saved by refinancing.

A few retail cards also increased rates by a quarter of a percent this week.

The lifetime income account value increases each year by a predetermined amount (6 % for example) and costs a few basis points to the owner each year — perhaps 1/2 of one percent.

«If it's that much smaller, it means there are 20 percent fewer seats to give out, but they have just increased mileage from one partner alone by 15 percent.»

It adds that job losses would be minimal; the new carbon market would create new jobs; that the manufacturing sector will lose a few jobs; that household consumption will fall by only one percent at worst; that increases in energy costs would be modest; and that overall costs would be small enough to permit expansion of programs to offset the burden for low - income households.

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It fails even more badly when you consider that the incremental greenhouse effect drops off rapidly as the CO2 concentration increases, so that doubling the concentration increases the greenhouse effect by only a few percent, and doubling it again increases the effect by a few percent of that few percent.

A recent study suggests that climate change may cut coffee production by up to 50 percent in a few decades, which could lead to supply shortages and increased prices.

If this delay rises by a few percent due to increased CO2 levels then it is still only a short term delay.

By turning on «Stamina» mode and choosing to only let a few apps access data in the background, we increased our standby battery life from 6 hours to 1 day and 14 hours with 35 percent battery life.

However, they also have the potential to increase in value by several thousand percent in only a few months.

The original price of $ 1 per token increased by 400 percent in just a few days.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

That's not great news for renters, unfortunately, who have seen their fraction of incomes absorbed by housing costs increase from 25 percent to 30 percent in the space of just a few years.

Few people have the ability to replace 100 percent of their preretirement income, but by eliminating nonessential expenses and saving for monthly bills and emergencies, your likelihood of building a substantial nest egg is greatly increased.

Additional findings reported by NAHB show that few owners and renters of inadequate units also have problems with housing affordability (paying 30 percent or more of income for housing), so they represent a net increase in the count of Americans with housing problems.