Sentences with phrase «numbers rise slowly»

Still, their numbers rose slowly, and for decades the Pekingese remained a dog only for the wealthiest of owners.

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Thanks to a number of significant global initiatives, breastfeeding rates around the world have slowly risen over the last few decades.

The number of needles distributed free to American drug users is rising, but only slowly.

Sunspot numbers rise and fall with an ~ 11 - year period, slowly oscillating between Solar Max and Solar Min.

While numbers of BME headteachers in England are slowly growing — the percentage rose from 5.6 % in 2012 to 6.1 % in 2013 — the picture differs hugely regionally.

This is why, if you closely watch any Internet business» BBB ranking, it often slowly declines over time since the number of customers being calculated by the BBB stays constant (because they don't update their records as quickly as Internet businesses acquire more customers), while the number of complaints rises statistically in accordance with the actual number of customers.

From the days when critics insisted ebooks were a flash in the pan and publishers refused to invest in a technology that obviously wasn't going to pay off, to the years in between when numbers slowly trickled in that demonstrated a rise in popularity and wider adoption of digital reading, the concept of a book has made a quick evolution.

My numbers are slowly rising.

By making this number very negative in the past, but flat to positive in the future, one can have a forecast that rises slowly in the past but rapidly in the future.

As the overall number of jobs has declined, Hawaii's retail employment has risen steadily, albeit slowly, over the last five years.

The number will dip to 30.6 million in 2020, then inch slowly back towards 31 million through 2035, rising more quickly afterwards, according to an analysis of Census data by CA Student Living.

On the contrary, while homeownership may be slowly on the rise, experts predict the number of renter households is likely to continue to increase at a healthy clip, driving up the need for additional supply.

«The number of improving housing markets has risen for six consecutive months, and 36 states now have at least one metropolitan area on the list,» notes NAHB Chairman Bob Nielsen, a home builder from Reno, Nev. «This indicates that despite the many challenges that continue to drag on a housing recovery — including the tight lending environment for builders and buyers — improving conditions are slowly but surely spreading from one housing market to the next.»