Sentences with phrase «large decreases last»

The industrial segment posted the largest decrease last month, as its rate dropped 23 basis points to 5.31 %.

Not exact matches

The last time there was a larger decline was in April of 2017, when it saw a 1.8 % decrease in the month.

The largest total change continues to be that of the Cal - UNC matchup, which has decreased by another 2 points since last Monday.

Part of that decrease in scoring is due to the large number of rule changes implemented prior to last season's game.

On Monday, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan took the wraps off her 2017 budget, a $ 176 million spending plan that boasts a 2 percent decrease in spending from last year, which the mayor touts as the largest annual spending decrease in more than 15 years.

«Three years into his first term as Governor, he's the most popular elected official in Florida's history because of his outstanding career as a no - nonsense attorney general, a progressive education commissioner, and a fiscally conservative chief executive who last year led Florida to its largest property - tax decrease ever.

While the overlap during deglaciations is large (which makes it near impossible to make any estimates of relative forcings), during the start of the last ice age, there was no overlap: CO2 started to decrease (some 40 - 50 ppmv) when the temperature was already near it's minimum.

Seasonal decreases in land precipitation since the 1950s are the main cause for some of the drying trends, although large surface warming during the last two to three decades has also likely contributed to the drying.

What's so spectacular about WTF's brightness is that there is a single, smooth dip in brightness followed 700 days later by irregular but large decreases that lasted for 100 days before the brightness returned back to normal levels.

A recent study lasting decades suggests that when a large group practices Transcendental Meditation, there is decreased social violence.

Past Chrysler offerings, such as the last - generation 200, were sold to rental - car fleets in large volumes, decreasing the automaker's profitability.

The sales decrease was largely due to lower traffic, as well as the decline in coloring books and artist supplies — a reversal of last year's phenomenon — and the comparison to last year's best - selling album by Adele — the largest selling CD in our history — which combined accounted for approximately one third of the sales decline.

The decreasing affordability of higher education is eroding the last relatively secure path into the middle class, as more students take on larger amounts of debt to finance their higher educations, or forego it altogether.

Because this method relies on a single point in time (i.e., the last day of the contract), a large decline in the index prior to that point may decrease the interest.

That's not how it's explained on the BirdLife International website, where the «large and statistically significant decrease over the last 40 years in North America» is attributed to «widespread habitat fragmentation» and extensive hunting («over 20,000,000 individuals were recently being killed annually by hunters in the USA»).

Despite a 6.6 % increase over last year in pets surrendered by their owners and a nearly 4 % increase in the number of pets that arrived this year, we were still able to decrease euthanasia to a record low number while saving 9,459 pets — the largest number of dogs, cats and other pets saved in Kansas City's history.

This year it features 172 participants, a slight decrease from last year's 192, in an effort to reduce its numbers and provide larger booths for growing emerging galleries.

While the overlap during deglaciations is large (which makes it near impossible to make any estimates of relative forcings), during the start of the last ice age, there was no overlap: CO2 started to decrease (some 40 - 50 ppmv) when the temperature was already near it's minimum.

In commenting on their findings, the three researchers write that «the large number of stable glacier termini and glacier advances is influenced by positive glacier mass balances in the central Karakoram during the last decade,» citing Gardelle et al. (2012, 2013) and Kaab et al. (2012), which they indicate is «induced by increasing winter precipitation and decreasing summer temperatures since the 1960s,» citing Archer and Fowler (2004), Williams and Ferrigno (2010), Bolch et al. (2012), Yao et al. (2012) and Bocchiola and Diolaiuti (2013).

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

Seasonal decreases in land precipitation since the 1950s are the main cause for some of the drying trends, although large surface warming during the last two to three decades has also likely contributed to the drying.

Seawater pH has decreased by 0.07 - 0.08 U overall in the last 200 years — a figure that is subject to enormous error bars larger than that estimated trend.

Scientific confidence of the occurrence of climate change include, for example, that over at least the last 50 years there have been increases in the atmospheric concentration of CO2; increased nitrogen and soot (black carbon) deposition; changes in the surface heat and moisture fluxes over land; increases in lower tropospheric and upper ocean temperatures and ocean heat content; the elevation of sea level; and a large decrease in summer Arctic sea ice coverage and a modest increase in Antarctic sea ice coverage.

But even if the rest of the month is not quite cold enough to push the entire year into negative territory, the 2013 annual temperate will still be markedly colder than last year's record high, and will be the largest year - over-year decrease in the annual temperature on record, underscoring the «outlier» nature of the 2012 temperatures.

However, some sources suggest that there have been large decreases in water vapor in the upper troposphere in the last half - century:

Over the last year at the nation's largest 250 law firms, the number of female lawyers decreased by 2 percent, compared to an overall headcount loss of 4 percent.

Due in large part to its ongoing Organizational Review, the Society has reduced its net annual practising membership fee by $ 414, an 18.3 per cent decrease from last year's fee.Read More >

As for longevity, Asus claims the 300 - mAh battery in the smaller version will last two days in ambient mode, while the 400 - mAh battery on the larger model gets an additional half day of life on top of that (Of course, under heavy use, that time will likely decrease.)

In the last adjustment, mining difficulty fell by 5.43 % — the largest decrease in the last eighteen months.

Montana had the largest monthly purchase volume decrease of 7.1 percent, followed by the District of Columbia (down 3.1 percent from last month), and New Mexico (down 1.6 percent from last month).

After last month's decline, which NAR said was the largest since July 2010 at 22.5 %, existing - home sales are now 3.8 % below a year ago, which is the first year - over-year decrease since Sept. 2014.

Olsen attributed the decrease in large part to the easing of credit standards over the last few years, as well as a generally stronger set of applicants since the housing bubble burst.