Sentences with phrase «largest estimated decline»

I could only got full access to the first of your links, but judging from the abstracts of the others, it provides the largest estimated decline so I'll deal mostly with it.

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China is the world's largest sheep meat producer with a flock estimated at nearly 140 million in 2011, but output has been declining as farmable land shrinks due to urbanisation.

However, the decline in GDP growth was much larger at 4pp (to -1.1 % y / y from 3.1 % prior to the increase in the VAT), implying significant downside risk to our estimates.»

CNH Industrial's fiscal first - half revenue decline of 22 % -LRB--11 % in constant currency) was larger than we estimated, as revenues dropped across segments.

Buffalo police officials declined to comment Friday but, in the past, have noted that a large quantity of heroin, estimated at more than 100 bags, was recovered from the scene after Hernandez - Rossy was shot.

He declined to name a price for mPower, but said it would be «under the $ 5,000 per megawatt» price that the industry has estimated for large reactors.

But Barnett used models to estimate numbers before large - scale fishing began — revealing the stark long - term decline.

Though now in a slow decline, the large installed base of dedicated e-readers (estimated at roughly 50 million in the U.S., and perhaps double that number worldwide) remains a top source for ebook purchases and reading.

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With an estimated 50 % of Android tablets shipped last year featuring a 7inch display, the threat of larger screen smartphones is a clear factor in the decline of tablet sales.

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Of particular interest is the possibility of a large population decline prior to whaling, as such a decline could explain the ∼ 5-fold difference between genetic estimates of prior abundance and estimates based on historical records.

This graph shows a temperature decline of 0.73 °F ahrenheit -LRB--0.4 °C) for 2000 - 2009 in the U.S. To get a perspective on how large a decline this is: the IPCC estimates that the temperature increase for the whole of the 20th century was 1.1 °F, or 0.6 °C.

In a paper for Energy Policy, Leon Hirth estimated that the economic value of wind and solar would decline significantly as they become a larger part of electricity supply.

e.g. See: Global Oil Depletion: An assessment of the evidence for a near - term peak in global oil production UK Energy Research Centre 2009 Table 3.5 Estimates of production - weighted aggregate decline rates for samples of large post-peak fields (% / year) IEA 5.1 % / year Hook 5.5 % / year CERA 5.8 % / year

There is growing concern over the decline of fisheries and the overall health of the ocean: scientists estimate that 90 % of stocks are fished at or beyond sustainable limits, habitats like coral reefs are threatened by ocean acidification, and large areas of ocean and coastlines are polluted.

Large margins of error in polar bear population estimates means the conservation status threshold of a 30 % decline (real or predicted) used by the US Endangered Species Act and the IUCN Red List is probably not valid for this species.

We find that this decline has caused 6.4 ± 0.9 W / m2 of radiative heating since 1979, considerably larger than expectations from models and recent less direct estimates.