Sentences with phrase «more gradual declines»

In just 2019, total property tax collections will fall by about a half billion dollars — with more gradual declines in the following years.

The recent sharp, decade - long rise in biology majors, for example, was preceded by an even longer but more gradual decline, whereas mathematics and computer science have been on a roller - coaster ride that features a PC - driven peak in the mid-1980s and a recent resurgence.

However, in support of the argument that children affect a couple's relationship, Doss et al. (2009) conducted an eight year study in which they found that couples who had children had a more sudden decline in their relationship satisfaction following the birth of their first child which persisted through the study, as compared to couples who had not yet had children who showed a more gradual decline in their relationship satisfaction.

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We believe that the winding down of industry production will be gradual initially, and much more rapid by 2018, reaching a decline of perhaps 25 percent by 2020.

I guess without «drugs» the age curve is more of a cliff than a gradual decline.

More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, which is characterized by gradual memory loss and cognitive decline.

These declines are more gradual and less explicit than the catastrophic die - offs that have become increasingly common after major droughts in the West and other regions, but the long - term impacts can be severe.

Its proponents point out successes in protecting individual species like the scimitar oryx (above) and the Togo slippery frog, a decline in deforestation rates in the Amazon, the gradual transformation of our energy system and more (see «Is positive thinking the way to save the planet?

Incidentally, as I see it, your reconstruction of Manns data showing the 15th century to be warmer than now is even more damming than Manns original construct, as it indicates a gradual decline in global temperatures until 1850, before human influence reversed that trend.

Do you believe, this is what I believe and I could be wrong and you have more experience in this than I do so I'm testing my hypothesis with an expert, that as you add these toxins, like if you were to say on an average day someone with no toxins doesn't ever drop a word for their memory but on a day or a week or when their mercury levels hit one out of 10, maybe they drop one word today, and when they're five out of 10, they drop four words a day, there's a gradual decline in cognitive performance or physical performance before we hit the «Oh my god I feel crappy all the time, I have chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and I'm a zombie?»

As the availability of adipose tissue declines the likelihood of muscle loss increases, thus it may be best to pursue a more gradual approach to weight loss towards the end of the preparation diet compared to the beginning to avoid LBM loss.

The rectus femoris remains more active than these single - joint knee extensors, with gradual rise and decline.

I don't know if it's because I'm getting older, but I found the story of Dick Diver's gradual decline to be even more compelling than Fitzgerald's earlier novel.

It's a slow - acting virus that can, over several years, cause a gradual decline in the immune system, making the cat more vulnerable to a variety of infections.

A diver sees a gradual decrease in temperature as he descends through the convective zone, and then a more abrupt decline in temperatures below it.

Interestingly, projecting into the future, we are in a peak now and can expect a gradual decline until around 2037, followed by a gradual rise for around 30 years, then a more rapid decline.

By contrast, a plateau implies a gradual decline in such additions, a pattern more consistent with how the world petroleum industry will work over the next several decades.

One specific aspect of the customer concerns that, over the term of the outsourcing relationship, its pricing will become uncompetitive, is the cumulative impact of gradual year - over-year declines in market price: although initially the customer's pricing may have been ahead of the market, after six or more years of small declines in the market price, the customer's pricing may be significantly above market.

It's more of a gradual decline when it comes to the correlation between car insurance rates and age.

Even with gradual improvement moving forward, they are projected to decline about 3 percent for the year to just over 4.9 million, but should trend up to more than 5.2 million in 2015.