Sentences with phrase «rates during the past few years»

The Chester Upland district has seen a decline in truancy rates during the past few years — average attendance is now about 80 %.

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The employment rate for 25 - 54 year old men fell during the recession, recovered somewhat, but has been flat over the past few years.

There are a few hundred microlenders throughout the United States and while they often charge slightly higher interest rates for loans than banks, they've helped 250,000 - 300,000 small businesses each year and lent more than $ 2 billion nationwide during the past 10 years, according to the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), the trade association for microlenders.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

Furthermore, in California, we have moved the needle on graduation rates and moved towards closing the achievement gaps during the past few years using increased funding and community - based approaches to education finance.

During the past few years, record numbers of Americans have refinanced their home mortgages as a result of historically low interest rates.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

In the late 1980s, whale watching became popular outside the Ogasawara islands south east of Tokyo where they claim to have a 90 % success rates for watching humpback whales by boats during the past few years.

Australia is a country that has done quite well during all of the economic turmoil seen around the world over the past few years, but the amazing thing is that their car insurance rates have remained quite low when compared to the other four countries on this list.

Unemployment among veterans has been steadily improving for the past few years after reaching rates of nearly 15 percent during the most recent recession.

Hedgehog numbers have been falling at an astonishing rate in urban areas during the past few years so instead of owning one as an unusual pet, why not create a hedgehog habitat in your garden * instead?