Sentences with phrase «increasing number of drop»

There are buy - back programs where you can earn a little cash, and increasing number of drop off centers and recycling events where you can ditch the old stuff guilt - free for free.

For chronic or long - standing conditions always increase the number of drops slowly over a period of one or two weeks.

· A finding that black carbon particles increased the number of drops of water in clouds, while decreasing the size of those drops, a condition that can reduce or delay rain.

Not exact matches

Reliable housing market statistics are hard to come by, but a number of private surveys of home prices in various cities now suggest at least a halt to the 20 % annual increases, and in some cases precipitous drops.

The CD Howe Institute recommends increasing the number of quotas until prices drop closer to zero.

The drop was despite a 6 percent increase in the number of homes for sale.

There are any number of theories explaining the sudden drop in crude oil prices after two years of stability: America's increasing supply, the world's faltering demand, an undeclared price war being waged by Saudi Arabia, the rising U.S. dollar.

But in the last two years, the amount of money U.S. consumers spent at small businesses has dropped, while the number of shoppers has increased.

While the value of M&A deals globally increased 67 percent year - on - year in the first quarter of 2018, the number of deals dropped by 10 percent to 10,338, preliminary Thomson Reuters data show, reflecting how deals on average are getting bigger.

The competition for investor funds that is occurring due to the massive increase in the number of ICO offerings has caused many start - up companies to drop any pretense that they are releasing legitimate news.

Moving on to the latest employment report, released Friday, that showed a slight decrease in the unemployment rate widely attributed to a drop in the number of individuals looking for work, Gundlach said it was a bleed - off of the temporary increase in employment due to unseasonably warm weather.

While reducing its budget was not initially an objective, overall market research spend has dropped while the number of projects has increased.

Those numbers then increased over the following two weeks but dropped again in the first week of March.

«US Fleet Tracking was one of the best decisions I made in a long time... Our call volume has only dropped because our first - call efficiency numbers are increasing and the use of GPS has greatly improved our response time and calls per day.»

In the case of the S&P VIX Short Term Futures Inverse Daily Index, this would theoretically translate to increasing the number of VIX futures to short, while its benchmark is dropping.

Looking at the stock market as a whole, there's been a sharp drop in the number of individual stocks outperforming the S&P 500, while at the same time, an increasing proportion of those outperforming stocks have poor quality ranks (as rated by S&P).

Last month's month - on - month increase widened from September's 1.07 percent, though the number of cities with gains exceeding 1 percent dropped by five to 29, SouFun said.

Thirteen of the 20 cities had smaller year - over-year increases in February; in January only nine saw year - over-year numbers drop.

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.

Condo sales saw a moderate 3.2 per cent price increase compared to last year, to an average of $ 559,343, with the number of units sold dropping 26 per cent.

By his way of thinking, the most pressing problems include a dramatic drop in college and university endowments, an ever increasing number of graduate students and recent PhDs who will likely never secure full - time academic jobs, and a graying, backward - looking professoriate that refuses to get out of the way.

The number of seminarians has dropped to about 5,500 - hardly enough to replace the many who will soon retire, much less to keep up with the increasing size of the laity.

Despite our sample size dropping from 182 games to 75 games, the number of units won actually increases from +14.83 to +17.6 and the return on investment sky - rockets from 8.2 % to 23.5 %.

Or look at this way: an increase in the rate of homebirth from 0.5 % to 1 % would constitute a doubling of the number of patients for HB midwives (a 100 % increase), and a drop of 1 patient for every 190 for OBs (a 0.5 % decrease).

In 2007 Little League Baseball dropped its decades - old pitching rules - which limited pitchers age 12 and under to six innings per week and six innings per game, with the number of innings increasing for older age groups - in favor of rules based on pitch count.

Appearing at the park board meeting Tuesday night in the Blackhawk Community Center on Higgins Road, Charles Dyson, commissioner of girls soccer, said that while the number of Park District baseball fields has increased to 32 from 15 since 1982, the number of soccer fields has dropped to 3 from 6.

So my number one advice for moms who want to increase their milk supply is to have a good quality pump and pump after each feeding to get every last drop of milk out.

If you run into supply issues while exclusively breastfeeding, you will need to increase the number of pumping sessions per day and pump for 2 minutes after you see the last drop of milk.

It fears the number of children living in households whose income has dropped below the minimum income standard (MIS) will increase dramatically as a result of the effect of government policies.

Among other findings, the report also revealed that while the total number of County residents on Medicaid has risen due to fuller implementation of the Affordable Care Act («ACA»), Erie County's portion of Medicaid costs is projected to drop by more than $ 6.4 million from 2013 due to the Act's implementation and the state's Medicaid cap, and is approximately $ 340,000 less than 2012; the biggest increase in Medicaid recipients was seen among whites age 18 - 64, while other demographics remained consistent; and that the number of persons on Medicaid continues to grow at an average rate of more than 4 % each year, a trend noted by the Medicaid Inspector General's office in his September 2013 report.

The audit showed continued spending on advertising did not lead to an increase in the number of companies who applied for the program, and the state continued spending millions of dollars on advertising even as monthly applications dropped off from roughly 5,300 in January 2014 to about 500 in June of 2014.

BRONX UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS AGAIN Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is praising new job numbers from the New York State Department of Labor, which show another drop in the borough's unemployment rate and a significant increase in the county's -LSB-...]

The co-chair of the Conservative Party, Baroness Warsi, has suggested that UKIP's increase in council candidates has coincided with a drop in the number of BNP candidates.

Figures released by the ONS just last week, showed a sharp increase in the number of people with long term illnesses and disabilities dropping out of the labour market altogether.

The increase in Cuomo's numbers — and the drop in support for Trump — come amid a series of stumbles for the new president during his first month in office and the Democratic governor's vocal opposition to a temporary ban on immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries and refugees.

There was a 23 % increase in the number of children eating vegetables in the pilot areas and an 18 % drop in those eating crisps.

Newsday reported last year that Nassau's Board of Elections has added 32 full - time positions since 2011 — a 25 percent increase — while the county's overall number of employees dropped by more than 1,000, about 12 percent.

Union leaders have accused de Blasio of not being sufficiently supportive of police, and have said the drop - off in enforcement activity was due to low morale, a large number of protests throughout the city, and increased safety precautions following the killing of two officers in Brooklyn on December 20.

The graphic shows that Project Cameron's reassurance strategy (most exemplified by «disarming» on tax and the NHS) has produced a significant drop in the number of people who would be «dismayed» at the prospect of a Tory government and a big increase in those who «wouldn't mind».

A number of states and the U.S. Geological Survey have issued reports in recent weeks highlighting sharp drops in regional water levels due to increased groundwater pumping.

* Correction, 20 February, 9:45 a.m.: This article has been updated to correct amount of temperature drop and rainfall increase, the years of the simulations, the number of WRCP models used, and results of the control simulations.

Claire Kremen, a conservation biologist at the University of California, Berkeley (and Harmon - Threatt's mentor), has shown that the diversity of pollinators drops with increasing distance from wild habitat, as does the number of visits by wild bees to flowering crops.

That slump, along with an 8 % drop in the number of new grants (see table, below), confirms predictions of tough times following the recent 5 - year doubling of NIH's budget if NIH received annual increases of less than 6 % (Science, 24 May 2002, p. 1401).

The scientists also observed that the chicks» droppings caused an increase in the appearance of flies and a reduction in the number of acarids.

Ainley says that the decline of this large, slow - growing, bottom - dwelling fish has knocked the Antarctic ecosystem out of whack and resulted in killer whales dropping in numbers, whereas silverfish have increased in abundance to compete with penguins and whales for crystal krill.

The building standards in particular would pose a «substantial obstacle»: «The dramatic drop in the number of clinics means fewer doctors, longer waiting times, and increased crowding,» the decision read.

In contrast, the above article points out that ``... Whereas the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic basin tend to drop (~ 50 %) during El Nino years, the number of typhoons tend to increase in the Pacific.»

Really bad numbers started at -3.8, then getting better 1 year later -3.6, 6 months later -3.5, it's slowly getting better so I'm increasing my steamed kale / organic, approx 2 cups a day, and using DK2 drops, lots of hiking up hills and stairs, and «core» exercises, tiny 1/4 coffee in morning, chocolate 1 time a week, also drink a glass of organic celery to start the morning and a smoothie with all organic blueberries, brocolli, flax seed, chai seed, and nettles all good mix with almond milk.

And in Japan, the cholesterol levels have increased during recent years, however the number of heart attacks has dropped.

In fact, other studies have found that around 35 % of the drop in the thermic effect of activity, or the number of calories you burn during exercise and movement, is due to an increase in muscular efficiency.