Sentences with phrase «rather slow rate»

Credit card debt is expensive, and it seems to be paid down at a rather slow rate.

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«Business cycles do not succumb to age alone but rather to a confluence of factors like falling corporate profit margins, slowing productivity growth, and a sharp rise in real policy rates into positive territory.»

If labor mobility in China slows dramatically, growth rates in different parts of the country would diverge even more than they have already, rather than converge.

The common habit of using the Bible by concentrating on one verse at a time (which may or may not be a complete sentence) is at best a very slow, plodding way to get at the author's main points, rather like playing dominoes or checkers at the rate of one or two moves per day or per week, and at worst a fragmentation and distortion.

The coalition's messaging on this immediately before and after the 2010 election was powerful and effective (basically, «Brace yourself»), but since then it has been more focussed on trumpeting «how clever we are for reducing the deficit», rather than explaining sufficiently that it was simply slowing the rate of overall debt increase.

The Rent Stabilization Association advocates a slow turnover of stabilized apartments to market - rate, rather than a wholesale switch, Strasburg said.

However, this breadth rather than depth approach has arguably only served to slow the rate of technological development and dampen demand as consumers remain unsure which technology to invest in.

Even a child knows that trees absorb carbon in the atmosphere, and as these wildfires continue to increase in frequency, so too will the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere reduce at a slower rate, or rather, increase at a faster rate.

The current «urban myth» in the fitness world is that cardio will actually cause your RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate, also know as BMR or Basil Metabolic Rate) to slow down, resulting in weight gain rather Read More

So, it's not that you are a minute per mile slower, but rather that your fat burning engine can only produce energy at a rate that allows you to run at a speed that is one minute per mile slower.

Strength - speed work is rather specific - high repetition low weight, high weight slow speed, and so forth do little to improve rate of power production.

This was expanded by the Wachowski's and visual effects supervisor John Gaeta so that rather than being frozen in time the scene moved at a very slow rate.

Designed to be small and economical, thefirst Minimaximized passenger and luggage space in a package just 10 feet long.While it was undersized and rather slow (engine output was rated atjust 34 hp), a light chassis with 10 - inch wheels pushed to the furthestcorners of the vehicle did offer one benefit - go kart - like handling.

I for one, would almost rather see a Touareg Hybrid that's slower, but with a combined fuel economy rating closer to 35 mpg.

Do bear in mind that the Kindle app for Android was not designed for devices that features grayscale displays and slow screen refresh rates, so it is rather surprising to hear on how the Icarus Illumina HD handled the app decently.

Although they grow their dividends and earnings each year, the rate of growth is usually rather slow ranging between 2 % to maybe as high as 6 % or 7 %.

But rather than a sharp decline, you're more likely to see slower rates of price appreciation and home sales, says McKellar.

Others would rather inflate mortgage rates to slow price increases, or raise minimum down payments required.

Several steps can be taken to prevent GDV or its recurrence, including: Avoiding strenuous exercise by the dog after eating and drinking Slowing the dog's rate of food consumption Feeding frequent small portions to the dog rather than infrequent larger portions

Horses tend to have rather slow heart rates at rest with rates of 16 - 40 beats per minute considered normal however during strenuous exercise (e.g. during a race) their heart rate can reach up to 180 beats per minute.

The frame rate drops were only minor, and tended to slow movements down rather than making the game unplayable.

Grim Dawn + Interesting multi-class skill point system (same basic setup as Titan Quest) + High loot drop rate + Well designed loot + Improved Combat from Titan Quest (which was rather slow paced & bland ala Path of Exile)- Not finished yet

(More specifically, you've read it as supporting a * lag * in response, without considering that perhaps (given the physics of a high mass / high specific heat system like the oceans) what is really implied is, rather, a slow * rate * of response — but one which nevertheless «starts» immediately.)

However, the tide - gauge literature data shows the current, rather slow but steady as opposed to accelerating, rate started in 1850, long before CO2 warming could have been the cause.

The effects of cooling are rather academic at this point, since the world isn't cooling, the hypothetical long minimum hasn't happened as yet, and the solar scientists are not predicting that the world will cool if that occurs, only that the rate of warming will slow, slightly.

Rather, it is whether sequestration increases linearly... i.e., whether it continues to increase at the same rate or whether it eventually starts to slow down.

This seems surprising to me since this ubiquitous enzyme accelerates the CO2 + H2O = H2CO3 exchange reaction by about 7 (seven) powers of ten above it's, rather slow, uncatalyzed rate.

The fact that air movements are mainly near horizontal rather than vertical slows down the adiabatic lapse rate considerably thus keeping the air molecules closer together for longer — It is also likely that temperatures would be cooler without Water Vapour.

The charging speed on the E.LUMEN itself is rather slow, with the micro USB delivering electricity to the internal battery at 5V,.55 A (for a full charge time of 6 hours), but the USB port offers a fairly standard 5V, 1A charging rate, and could be useful to revive a dying phone battery.

Using North American and North Atlantic atmospheric reanalyses (models forced with observations rather than a spin - up) from 1979 - 2010, they found that Arctic amplification — the faster rate at which the Arctic warms, compared to the rest of the world — makes the jet stream slower and wavier.

A better question is does AGW slow the rate at which cold, dense, brines flow into the bottom of the oceans, and as a supplementary, is apparent warming due to the normal polar downwelling brines being less dense than normal and are being injected at 700 - 2000m rather than lower down.

«The Committee recommends fresh evidence regarding real - world investment behaviours and a slower first review, requiring a decision of the full expert panel rather than just the Lord Chancellor, and involving mandatory consideration about whether to move to a mixed - rate methodology rather than the present single rate approach.

But, the work rates would still be slow, taking several days to complete the job rather than hours when compared to an AAI.

Arabena and Moodie note that «despite all the research and the medical interventions spanning decades, improvements — where they occur — are incremental and trend up at a slower rate than for non-Indigenous Australians».2 In many reviews, concerns have been expressed about the overemphasis on descriptive research rather than research evaluating interventions in Indigenous health.1,3 - 6

Rather than the slow pace of rate hikes so far that has kept interest income at a low level, increase rates by a half or three - quarters of a percentage point in one shot.