Sentences with phrase «rate than in previous years»

I do think, however, that it is significant (short term, not a firm trend) that CO2, as measured at MLO, has been increasing at a smaller rate than in previous years despite the fact that overall anthropogenic CO2 output is not decreasing and, furthermore, that the short term trend of the absolute increase is also down which indicates a greater rate of absorption of CO2 than in previous years — which to me would indicate an ongoing cooling of the oceans as per the theory that a cooling ocean absorbs more CO2 while a warming ocean releases more CO2.

Though it continues to grow smaller, it appears to be doing so at a slower rate than in previous years.

Run 15 will produce higher collision rates than in previous years, thanks to a number of machine upgrades at RHIC.

H.H. Backer's decision to adopt a new midweek schedule ensures that attendees will be able to book hotel rooms at significantly lower rates than in previous years.

One surprise: Despite the common perception that contractors are hungry for work and therefore willing to wheel and deal, the average national cost of every project surveyed has gone up, though at a slower rate than in the previous year.

Not exact matches

While the high level of existing debt means rate hikes will have a stronger impact in cooling demand than they did in previous years, it is still too soon to know just how much of an effect the bank's three rate hikes have had, Poloz said.

The city still needs to work on hiring of new employees, however, as respondents rated this factor lower in 2015 than in the previous two years.

In fact, the rate of greenhouse gas emissions have increased globally more in the past 20 years than it has in the previous 100 yearIn fact, the rate of greenhouse gas emissions have increased globally more in the past 20 years than it has in the previous 100 yearin the past 20 years than it has in the previous 100 yearin the previous 100 years.

While there is a strong correlation between growth in gross domestic investment and growth in real GDP, the slope of that relationship is only about 0.2, meaning that even if the growth rate of real gross domestic investment was driven from the recent growth trend of zero all the way back to the previous post-war growth rate of 3.5 %, the overall impact on real GDP growth would only be about 0.7 % annually, placing the level of U.S. real GDP about 2.8 % higher 4 years from today than it would otherwise be.

With low money and credit growth persisting, inflation below target and growth slower than in previous years I now expect the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee to keep interest rates unchanged during this year.

After repeated episodes stretching back to 2013 when the Fed had failed to deliver predicted rate rises, market participants were now faced with a specific warning from Fed Chair Yellen that policy accommodation would be removed more quickly than in previous years.

In contrast, prices rose over the year to the March quarter in Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Hobart, albeit at a slower rate than in the previous few yearIn contrast, prices rose over the year to the March quarter in Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Hobart, albeit at a slower rate than in the previous few yearin Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Hobart, albeit at a slower rate than in the previous few yearin the previous few years.

While there is a seasonal pattern in auction clearances, such that they tend to decline over the second half of the year, the fall in clearance rates in November and December 2003 was noticeably greater than in the previous two years (Graph 31).

The reality is that utility rates have increased, there was additional baby - related laundry, and we used the air conditioners more in the summer of 2007 than we had in previous years.

The property - tax cap for counties, towns and other local governments will rise 1.84 percent next year, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced — a mildly higher rate of growth than in previous years.

E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a business - backed think tank, testified that there was no other state pushing for an increase so large, and said that the minimum hourly rate would climb from $ 9 to $ 15 in six years — a faster rate than previous hikes.

The deceleration in rising temperatures during this 15 - year period is sometimes referred to as a «pause» or «hiatus» in global warming, and has raised questions about why the rate of surface warming on Earth has been markedly slower than in previous decades.

Twitter provided a more sensitive warning signal for syphilis rates in US counties than the previous year's disease levels

For many of the matchmakers» clients with whom I spoke, Internet dating had curdled (last year, the online dating business grew at a much slower rate than it had in the previous two years.)

The enrollment growth rate of Bay Area charter schools peaked in 2012 - 2013, with more than 18 percent additional students enrolled than in the previous year.

New schools continue to open each year, but the rate slowed considerably from its peak in 2012 — 13, when more than 18 percent additional students enrolled compared to the previous year.

Measures of teachers» value added in previous years are an even better predictor of future gains in students» achievement than are principal ratings.

We do find, for example, that the average achievement gains in a teacher's classroom in 2002 — 03 is a modestly stronger predictor of the principal's rating than the gains in any previous year.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

The graduation rate, which has risen 1.7 percentage points from the previous year and more than 7 percentage points in the past decade, has reached its highest point since the late 1970s.

Ed Week looks at Common Core testing this year: «States face big drops in proficiency rates if the new tests are, as expected, tougher than the previous ones.»

Adding an additional year of data to its analysis and switching to «a broader definition of special needs students than we did in the previous report... yields results that are quite different from our previous findings regarding the relative attrition rates of students with special needs.»

This year's principal vacancies, however, pale in comparison to previous years — particularly under city schools CEO Andres Alonso, when the district had a turnover rate of more than 90 percent, and more than 40 principals were being appointed in one summer, 15 in the week before school started.

Hence, the business in 2013 is forecast to outperform the previous year and the growth rate will be no less than 7 % of which can be calculated as 24,200 million Baht in terms of market value.

There was an 11 % rise in print ISBNs in 2016 from 2015, which is a lower rate of growth than the previous year's 34 % increase.

Past records of the companies were, and are, very good with most growing NAV (after adding back dividends) at compound rates during the previous five years of better than 10 % — in fact closer to 15 %.

The rating agency said the percentage of Alt - A loans that are 90 or more days delinquent in 2006 is 2.5 times higher than the previous year's figure and more than 4 times that of 2004.

Rates are much lower on these accounts than in previous years.

Regardless of what the rates might be in the future, the rate can go no higher than five percent above the initial rate and no more than one percent over the previous year's rate.

When P / E is 10 times greater than the 138 - year average, and 3 times its previous all - time peak, when interest rates are already zero, we are in totally uncharted waters.

Now again, if the website is accurate and true, then this is a only a slightly better redemption rate than previous rates, but the fact that the points don't fluctuate so dramatically will allow travelers to plan and organize trips throughout the year with a constant redemption value in mind, as opposed to having to check for rates for a specific date.

However, the rate of growth was slower in June than it was the previous month, when card spending grew by 4.9 percent compared to the previous year.

Conducted by Digi - Capital Global Games Investment, the review states that the run - rate for M&A's is 40 per cent higher than in 2011, the previous record year.

And the rate of warming from 1950 to the present is lower than the rate from 1950 to any previous year in the past half - century.

My understanding of the viewpoint of the majority of experts in related fields is that analysis shows that relative to 50 years ago, and the LIA, and the MWP, average global temperatures are warmer, and increasing in warmth at an anomalous rate than indicated by the data on previous time periods, including the MWP.

The rate of increase in carbon dioxide concentrations is 200 times faster than the previous extreme jump between 11,000 and 17,000 years ago, when levels rose 80 ppm over about 6,000 years.

«However, Fig. 15 and the associated uncertainties discussed in Section 3.4 show that long term estimates of time variable sea level acceleration in 203 year global reconstruction are significantly positive, which supports our previous finding (Jevrejeva et al., 2008a), that despite strong low frequency variability (larger than 60 years) the rate of sea level rise is increasing with time.»

«long term estimates of time variable sea level acceleration in 203 year global reconstruction are significantly positive, which supports our previous finding (Jevrejeva et al., 2008a), that despite strong low frequency variability (larger than 60 years) the rate of sea level rise is increasing with time.»

Tomlinson managed to beat «his own provisional world record for density: the ratio of falsehoods to words,» by cramming more climate denial into one piece than his previous effort earlier in the year which contained 18 errors in just 486 words, a rate of one error per 26 words.

For example, the melting of the Greenland ice sheet broke previous records in 2002, 2005, and 2007, and seasonal melting from 1996 to 2007 was above average compared with the 1973 - 2007 period.10, 11 The melting of the Greenland ice sheet contributed around 0.02 inch (0.6 millimeter) to global sea - level rise in 2005 — more than double the 1996 contribution.4 From 1993 to 2003 the average rate of sea - level rise increased to about 0.12 inches (3.1 millimeters) per year.12 That means that in 2005 Greenland could have contributed 19 percent of the average annual global sea level rise rate.

Take two ten - year periods, my preferred method, as seen in the SPM, and you get that the last decade was 0.15 C warmer than the previous, and that the last three decades have been getting warmer at a steady non-slowing rate.

What concerned me was that a casual reader viewing his 2002 - 2009 data might notice that CO2 increased less from 2008 to 2009 than in the few previous years, or that the 2006 - 2009 increase was less than the 2002 - 2005 increase, and might conclude that the recent rate of increase was at best linear (or worse) as he claimed.

The results will be a litmus test for whether the country's economic growth is becoming independent from its greenhouse gas emissions: a better - than - expected annual growth rate of 6.9 % marks the first time in seven years that China's economy is growing faster than the previous year.

Logue also pointed to a 2016 Pew Research Center study, which reported that 65 percent of Americans read a print book in the previous year, more than double the rate for e-books and quadruple the rate for audiobooks.

Some who qualify for the assigned risk plan may qualify for lower rates if within the previous 36 months, all licensed drivers in the household have had no accidents other than those in which a Pennsylvania car insurance company paid no more than $ 1,150 in claims; received no more than three moving violation «points»; had no driver's license suspensions or revocations; and have been licensed drivers for at least three years.