Sentences with phrase «past dramatic drops»

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The dramatic drop in oil prices to $ 40 - 60 in the past four years after a decade of $ 100 per barrel oil has lessened consumer concerns about gasoline prices and boosted SUVs and truck sales.

Given the dramatic drop in prices over the past year, the Bank has spent a lot of time speaking with business leaders to try to gauge precisely how they will react.

Popular names from the past few years are suddenly seeing a dramatic drop in popularity.

If levels drop past that point on Jan. 1, 2016, something the government forecasts as a one - in - three chance, the federal government will declare a shortage and every state in the Colorado River basin — including Nevada — will face dramatic cuts in supply.

The team reported on arXiv.org on November 20 that IC 2497's heart is as bright as 50 billion to 100 billion suns, meaning it dropped in brightness by a factor of 50 in the past 100,000 years — a less dramatic drop than previously thought.

Satellite measurements show no dramatic drop in TSI over the past several years.

the policy has been watered down in the past 15 years because of outside pressure, including a major 2004 study by the Consortium on Chicago School Research that definitively showed the dramatic negative effects of retention — in particular, the far greater risk of eventually dropping out.

Mortgage lenders can reduce mortgage rates, add past due payments to mortgage balances, and extend mortgage terms, but unless you address dramatic drops in home prices, loan modifications are likely to fail.

One dramatic example that we've witnessed is the 18 percent drop in the number of young kittens entering the city's shelter system over the past two years — a clear indication of success.

The waters are home to some of the world's most dramatic coral walls and drop - offs, and the island has an exciting past with a history of pirates, suitable for exploring by mountain bike or kayak.

Comprising works by the class of MFA students who dropped out en masse from the USC Roski School of Art and Design this past May to protest the dramatic restructuring of their program by its new dean, «Recesses» was a contextually loaded event, and one in which at least two intersecting spheres of influence must be taken into consideration.

In the past two years the temperature drop is dramatic.

But a combination of new federal and state environmental policies and a glut of cheap natural gas (mostly from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking) have led to a dramatic shift during the past decade, with coal dropping from 50 percent to 32 percent of our electricity generation and gas increasing from 18 percent to 33 percent.

I'm not sure what took so long, but the dramatic drop in solar panel prices in the past few years surely helps to make such a project much more affordable and competitive.

Satellite measurements show no dramatic drop in TSI over the past several years.