Sentences with phrase «percent over the previous decade»

During the 1990s the rate of wetlands loss in the U.S. declined by some 80 percent over previous decades.

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After taking advantage of a variety of special deductions, U.S. corporations paid an effective marginal tax rate of just 18.6 percent in 2012, a rate that went unchanged despite ups and downs in the economy over the previous decade, according to a Congressional Budget Office report.

Sonoma County Winery Development at Issue in Debate About Events: Sonoma County has approved more than 300 new wineries and tasting rooms in the past 16 years — a nearly 360 percent increase over the previous three decades — and many of those wineries have decided in recent years to boost business by offering an array of events, from wine - tasting dinners to weddings and harvest parties...

According to the report, the number of women trying to breastfeed — 76.9 percent in 2009, up from 74.6 percent in 2008 — is the largest annual increase over the previous decade.

2016 experienced the earliest melt, the latest onset of snow in autumn, and the longest snow - free season in 115 years of record - keeping — about 45 percent longer than the average over the previous four decades.

More than 70 percent of public school parents said that they believed the scores will likely be the same or higher than previous years» scores on the completely different California Standards Tests that students had been taking for over a decade.

The researchers write that in a comparison of nine Dutch breeding populations, they found that populations have declined by about 90 percent over the then previous two decades «in areas where the food for provisioning nestlings peaks early in the season and the birds are currently mistimed».