Sentences with phrase «points decreased while»

Although «3» was still the most common margin of victory, the number of games decided by seven points decreased while the number of games decided by six points increased.

Not exact matches

The future new orders index decreased 3 points, while the future shipments index decreased 8 points.

The first two points are limited in the impact they demonstrate: The Temple study showed no decrease in DUI deaths on weekends, when the cost of UberX rides tends to rise with demand - based pricing, while the data from Seattle is only from that one city.

While my workload at my job won't be decreasing anytime soon, I've gotten to a point where I've adapted and can manage it better without needing to work so many hours so I'll be returning to blogging and interacting with fellow members of the DGI / early retirement community online in the coming weeks.

As shown in the chart, maintaining an open secured card account for two years was associated with a 24 - point increase in median credit score, while being charged off by the lender was associated with a 60 - point decrease in median credit score.

While EPS decreases should give every investor some pause, the company explains itself by pointing to significant catastrophe losses (hurricanes etc).

We should point out here that because of the high prebiotic fiber content in chicory root (the all - natural sweetener used in ChocoPerfection chocolate), eating ChocoPerfection will actually stimulate the growth of beneficial bacteria in the colon and decrease your hunger levels while also satisfying your sweet tooth.

Cigarettes came to mind (although I know there are situations when formula is the healthiest option available which is never true of cigarettes) in that they have decreased tremendously in popularity to the point that I think most educated people consider you a «bad» parent if you smoke around your kids or while pregnant.

Some little ones decide to self - wean at some point during Mom's pregnancy, either because of the decreased milk supply or the changes in taste, while others never miss a breastfeeding beat.

The debt ceiling debacle down in Washington has taken a toll on consumer confidence here in New York, causing it to drop 1.9 points in July, while the nation's confidence decreased 7.8 points, according to a new Siena poll.

In contrast to clinical manifestation, the concussed players demonstrated a significant blood flow decrease at eight days relative to 24 hours post-injury, while the non-concussed players had no change in cerebral blood flow between the two time points.

But, on average, it produced just a one percentage point change in the proportion of news in a feed that challenged users» beliefs, while individuals» own choices of what to click on resulted in a four percentage point decrease in the proportion of challenging content.

Along the way, signals from important features in our visual field — strong outlines, faces, bright points of light — increase the firing of some neurons, while less important features decrease the firing of others.

Cruz points out that, since 2009, NASA funding for Earth sciences has seen a 41 percent increase, while funding for exploration and space operations has seen a 7.6 percent decrease.

When you move further away from the anchor point the intensity decreases while coming closer to the anchor point increases it.

Their LDL cholesterol levels dropped by 10 points (the control group dropped just 1/2 point) and their triglycerides dropped by incredible 23 points (while the control group's decreased only by 5).

The purpose of all the background information was to drive home a point - pure water alone can be detrimental to long term performance, as athletes require other nutrients to function, while too much sugar or salt in the digestive system will slow water absorption and result in a similar performance decrease, along with severe GI distress.

'» Another group of researchers agrees, writing in Dermatology Research and Practice that there are two theories for aging: the first «focuses on reduced cellular lifespan, decreased responsiveness and functionality, and dysfunctional immune responses,» while the second «points towards environmental damages, focusing on DNA damage, inflammation and free radical formation.»

Another way around not talking during my workout is not to make eye contact with others while I'm training and to not have much down time between exercises, which leads me to my next point... Decrease your rest period between sets.

Access to first class technology is crucial at this turning point in our students» careers but meeting those requirements while adhering to ever decreasing budgets can be a challenge.»

While pass rates in the first college - level course («gateway» course) in each subject decreased modestly (from 75 to 73 percent in English composition, and from 65 to 58 percent in math), because more students attempted these gateway courses the overall percentage of students successfully completing them rose markedly (by 7 percentage points in English and 4 percentage points in math), with larger increases for black students.

Always - D schools made no statistically significant gains on the FCAT or Stanford - 9 reading tests, while sometimes - D schools experienced a decrease of 1.1 points on the FCAT and no significant change on the Stanford - 9 reading test.

The decrease in the number of days spent in suspension might have shifted past some «tipping point» beyond which more presence in the classroom leads to higher grades, while leaving the white students less affected.

During this time, the Hispanic status dropout rate decreased by 18.6 percentage points, while the Black and White status dropout rates decreased by 6.6 and 2.4 percentage points, respectively.

Eighth - graders» proficiency in reading decreased 1 percentage point to 39 percent, while math proficiency improved 1 percentage point to 42 percent.

In the area of Collective Responsibility, a component of the Collaborative Teachers essential, Pasteur improved 13 points in just one year while the district's overall performance decreased by one point.

While enrollment numbers for Hispanics are increasing, enrollment numbers for other races and ethnicities has decreased over the last four years, according to data points graphed from USU's Office of Analysis, Assessment and Accreditation.

While valve float can occur at these extreme engine speeds, more than likely there will not be any valve to piston contact due to the fact the engine speed will decrease as soon as this point is reached.

This system can use TSR data to adjust the set point and can automatically increase or decrease the vehicle's maximum speed while the accelerator pedal is pressed.

All you have to do is push the stalk on the left - hand side of the steering column up or down, doing so to the point of resistance increases or decreases speed by 1 mph, while pushing past the point of resistance lets you increase or decreases speed up to 5 mph.

At the same time, the typical FICO credit score of successful VA applicants actually decreased by a few points, while their average debt - to - income ratios (DTI) increased.

For some consumers six hard inquiries in a one year period could drop scores as much as 20 - 40 points while others may have a minimal decrease.

CNN Money estimates that a home foreclosure can decrease consumer credit scores by 85 to 160 points, while filing bankruptcy creates worse results by reducing credit scores by 130 to 240 points.

While this is not a plus for retailers, it's definitely a great opportunity for you because as demand decreases, so do price points.

The effective rate also dropped, while points decreased from 0.49 to 0.48 for 80 % LTV, including the origination fee.

I did the second graph in order to make the point that nations with fertility below 1.76 in 2010 tended to increase their fertility, while those above 1.76 tended to decrease it.

The percentage of FHA refinances increased to 22 percent in November, up from 21 percent in October, while VA refinances decreased slightly to 30 percent, down a percentage point from the month prior.

Changes in Chewing or Eating Habits — An increase in consumption may be a sign of diabetes or hyperthyroidism while a decrease may point to dental problems or even cancer.

Domestic passenger traffic in Brazil decreased 11.0 per cent, while capacity decreased by 8.6 per cent, with load factors falling 2.3 points to 84.4 per cent as a result.

Given the recent news that the Chase Sapphire Preferred Visa's sign - up bonus will be decreasing, I finally FINALLY got some members of my family to sign up for one while the 50K bonus Ultimate Rewards points are still available.

And while IHG tries to downplay the increases by noting 151 hotels are decreasing the amount of points required, many of the hotels are in Turkey, India and other less popular vacation spots in Asia.

Normal difficulty provides enough of a challenge, although the major differences between each difficulty level being a certain increase in the amount of damage you receive from every enemy, while the damage you deal to enemies is vastly decreased to such a point that you may have to even double or treble the number of times you shoot or make contact with your sword before having the same effect during the insane difficulty level in comparison to the easy difficulty level and in some cases; there are even a greater quantity of enemies to contend with.

The main plot point will have players traversing Gamindustri and completing quests in an attempt to increase CPU shares, while at the same time decreasing Arfoire's shares and her dominance over the realm.

But Sony is also eliminating some of the perks of membership without offering anything new in return, decreasing the value of the membership while presumably maintaining the current price point, which is a sure - fire way to upset your consumer base.

While we don't know where the specific lines are that would turn the manageable into the catastrophic, and we don't know the sensitivity of the climate to CO2 emissions with precision, the basic relationship between CO2 emissions and risk point suggest that decreasing CO2 emissions is a viable risk management tool.

While stating that «other intervention points are clearly needed» and that implementing just these four proposals «would not be trivial, they indicate that a multipronged, integrated approach can decrease the amount of (reactive nitrogen) lost to the environment.»

Actually my guess would be that by 2075 new technologies like inertial confinement fusion will have decreased CO2 emissions to the point where nature is drawing down more than we emit, so that CO2 will decrease for a while, starting well before 2100.

«The overarching point we make in the paper is that while gas has contributed to some extent to the decrease in emissions, the main driver during the years of the recession is we consumed less stuff,» Davis explained.

While there is a dam storage equation that has such deceptive simplicity and suggests that storage in a dam decreases the downstream flood peak — this works up to a certain point where the storage is effectively full.

«Neutralize» has a very different meaning as «neutral» represents a single point, while acidity is a variable whose value can always be increased or decreased.