Sentences with phrase «on a downward trend for»

«The number of active listings [across the state] has been on a downward trend for the past 20 months and has shown no signs of improvement.

Statistics Canada's estimate for MFP in the mining, oil and gas extraction sector has been on a downward trend for decades.

Overall, school maintenance and operations (M&O) budgets have been on a downward trend for quite some time, helping contribute to the current education infrastructure crisis.

In fact, if you look at the prices, it has been on a downward trend for the most part of 2018.

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Environmental advocates have lately been arguing the numbers don't really add up for more pipelines, based on slower growth in Asia and worldwide trends bending the curve downward on oil demand.

These plans were started years ago, but as Mr Richter often remarks the downward trend in brick and mortar retail has been going on for quite a while.

For many years now indexed bond yields have been on a downward trend.

With revenue trending downward for several years running, General Mills is focused on stabilizing the top line, and management hopes that buying into a whole new industry will do the trick.

Cross-border volume growth is on a downward trend, as evidenced by a 19 % increase last month compared to 21 % for all of the first quarter, according to the company's earnings results.

This was a reset year for Nick Saban's program, one we'll either look back on as the beginning of a downward trend or a simple blip.

We don't need the best or fancy for our kids, but our school is rated, based on the standardized tests taken in grade 3 and 6, as a 2/10 (or, put another way, out of 3037 schools in our province, our local school is currently sitting at 2986/3037 with a continuing downward trend.

Speaking on education in the West, the Governor noted that the downward trend in education should be worrisome due to the role of education in development and bringing enlightenment to the human mind, platform for leadership recruitment and the means for character building and good citizenship.

Many U.S. scientists had hoped to ride out the steady decline in federal funding for biomedical research, but it's continuing on a downward trend with no end in sight.

We have been testing these features through August on some web - sites, and have seen a very good positive trend, and the conversion rates increased, regardless of the seasonal industry downward trend for August.

Issues with school funding and student achievement dropped North Carolina to 40th in the country in a new report card on public education, continuing a downward trend in the rankings for the Tar Heel state.

McCabe said the best - case scenario is for current levels of production to stay where they are; the APMA's Steve Rodgers told the Windsor Star Canada's downward production trend could be reversed if unions work with automakers on lowering cost, improving productivity and building in innovation.

-- There was (for a time) downward pressure on prices in electronic books in 2010 - 2011, but this trend has pretty well faded and now reversed (except at the high levels of pricing, meaning books above $ 15.99 still find a ton of resistance).

Investors shouldn't count on the markets bouncing back any time soon, as there is evidence that stock markets have be trending downward for a long time.

It seems as if federal student loans are on a downward trend now, with students only taking out $ 96 billion in federal loans for the preliminary estimate of the 2013 - 2014 school year.

The downward trend in production has been going on for several years, both because of asset sales and because of capital expenditure constraints.

Though the MSA unemployment rate is slightly above the national average, it is on the downward trend from previous months, painting a positive portrait for the city's future.

I'm holding off on my ps4 upgrade because solid state prices are still on a downward trend, and I think a 1 TB SSD will be the right option for me about a year from now.

«When Nintendo consoles start on the downward trend, they need only unleash games like Mario Kart and The Legend of Zelda which stay in the top ten charts for years, something no other game publisher has ever managed to achieve.»

For starters, some would argue that Resident Evil has been on a bit of a downward trend since the beloved fourth installation in the main series, with side projects like the recently released, yet basically forgotten, Umbrella Corps doing little to build up the series» image.

After over a year of sideways and downward movement from late 2015 through early 2017, the most recent NASA report shows that over the past year an acceleration in sea level rise has become visible on the NASA graph, even with just a quick glance (then again, while the long term trend is consistently upward, the annual trend is so variable, that it's likely foolish on my part to suggest a change in trend based on the most recent periods of increase which have only been occurring for less than 12 months).

The section on external drivers dismisses all candidates for which data is available (solar irradiance, indices for AO and PDO, volcanoes, etc.) as being the cause of the downward trend leaving only atmospheric CO2 concentration as a plausible explanatory variable.

Now, I would rather very kindly suggest that for 25 < N < 35 (very roughly speaking, as it depends on the actual series of change points and p value used), what currently looks like a downward ending trend (small N and / or N / 2 problem) for N = 16 would continue upwards until the chosen p value was met and again descend close to p = 1 at the end point window (if, and a very big IF, anything like the current hiatus (IPCC AR5 uses that word like 53 times (Greg Laden even counted them for me)-RRB- period were to continue for another ~ 15 years).

Either stick to trend lines with some semblence of an above 50 % confidence interval on a timespan that itself covers at least a 95 % CI (this isn't so hard; it's only 17 years), or compare enough trend lines of the length you choose to establish a 95 % CI for the whole (for 5 years, you'll need about 60 years) and then apply Bayesian analysis to determine how likely it is you've found the pause you claim given the downward trends you see.

If you choose two points on a rising trendline, you can use them to create the misleading impression that the trend is downward (click the thumbnail for an illustrative animation):

Nor can anybody insisting on a distinct 1945 - 1970 trend consistently insist on a requirement of statistical significance for both the upward and downward trends for the 1940s spike.

After a one - year uptick in deforestation, forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon resumed its downward trend, falling 18 percent for the 12 months ended July 31, 2014... A combination of law enforcement, government policies, new protected areas, forest monitoring, pressure from environmental groups, and private sector commitments — including a moratorium on deforestation for soy production, which was unexpectedly renewed for another 18 months in late November — are credited for the decline.

According to the data from the city, which can be viewed here on a handy interactive map, fatalities and injuries for 2014 are trending slightly downward compared to 2013.

Figure 2: Enterprise Legal Management Trends Report Macro Trend: IP Litigation partner rates for the «Largest 50» firms are trending downward Based on rolling 12 - month totals ending December 31 for years 2011 to 2014

As high quantities of stolen autos can have a negative effect on automobile insurance costs, this downward trend bodes well for the future.

As high numbers of stolen automobiles can have a negative impact on car insurance rates, this downward trend bodes well for the future.

I know I've been talking for months about the fact that term life insurance seems to have finally hit the skids on it's nearly 15 year downward trend in prices.

The trend line, moving averages and price structure for Dash reveals that it has been on a clear downward trend.

In Scotland, for example, within two years of reform the divorce rate reverted to the pre-reform level and then continued on a downward trend, and with a reduction in the number of divorces based on fault.

This drop comes on the heels of a RealtyTrac report that foreclosure activity in the Mahoning Valley decreased in April which could account for this long awaited downward absorption rate trend, if in fact, it will last.

The LIRA for the third quarter of this year estimated that owners» spending on home improvements will decline at an annual rate of 12 percent by the second quarter of 2009, continuing a two - year downward trend.