Sentences with phrase «relatively small decline»

While a relatively small decline, it is in sharp contrast with the annual average growth of 4.2 % for the last decade.

The government claimed that securing a budget allocation for STI in 2010 of $ 297.3 million — a relatively small decline over the 2009 figure — is a victory and validation of its policy to place science at the heart of its economic policy and drive to create a «knowledge economy.»

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But as the US reliance of foreign oil declines, fewer petrodollars should result in relatively smaller purchases of US bonds.

This is an incredibly large number and that is why even the relatively small percentage decline in prices last year has put the entire economy at risk.

Despite a small decline in May, consumer confidence for the first five months of 2015 has been at a higher average level than at any time since May 2004.2 A relatively low unemployment rate and moderate inflation have helped maintain consumers» upbeat mood.

While the overall milk market is in decline, the relatively small whole milk sub-category has seen a stronger performance in recent years, with volume and value increases in 2015.

Putting the ANZOS research findings into context, the same dietary survey used for the study (2007 Kids Eat, Kids Play) found that beverages including sugar - sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks contributed a relatively small and declining proportion of total energy intake amongst Australian children:

o Total beverage category (non-alcoholic, non-dairy) was a relatively small contributor to total energy intake in children and has declined from 7.4 % in 1995 to 5.4 % in 2007

The last survey of children's diet, nutrition and physical activity (2007 Kids Eat, Kids Play) found that beverages including soft drinks contributed a relatively small and declining proportion of total energy intake amongst Australian children:

Current estimates show that it has declined to less than 10 percent of its original range, and mostly consists of isolated and relatively small patches of land.

While the risk reduction is relatively small, 10 %, COPD is a common and life - threatening condition in which a decline in lung function can be slowed down but not reversed.

There's also the fact that A24 is still a young, relatively small company in a rapidly changing industry that is faced with steadily declining revenues.

Australia was one of a small number of relatively high - performing countries in which achievement levels in PISA declined over this period.

It is destined to go on sale in Europe and the USA, where small car sales are relatively strong in a declining market.

That plan involves reserving a relatively small bucket of cash (about 20 % of the overall portfolio) to invest if / when a large market decline occurs, which we have now defined as a decline greater than 35 %.

This is why you probably shouldn't undo it when the decline in value is relatively small.

An underwater mortgage can happen for a variety of reasons, but the most common is when a buyer puts down a relatively small down payment when purchasing a home only to have the home's value decline.

This is still a relatively small position and one that we intend to increase significantly if shares decline to the $ 4 level again.

At this point, given the decline in the stock price this year including another blow today, my position is relatively small.

As such, the asset purchases of a large working age generation drives the price of assets up; when this population ages, and the subsequent generation is relatively small, asset prices decline.

-- Sustainability of Revenue: Newmark clearly remains reliant on UK project work — service revenue's been declining in absolute / percentage terms (to 19 % of revenue), while non-UK sales are still a relatively small component (15 %) of revenue.

So, the US carbon sink is relatively small and projected to decline over the 21st century.

These upward and downward shifts in public beliefs and attitudes are relatively small, compared to the larger declines that occurred between the fall of 2008 and January 2010.

The majority of the winter warming is associated with changes in sea ice cover even though the sea ice declines at this time of the year are relatively small.

Finally, declining demand also has a relatively small but statistically significant effect on prices across all generators.

Law book sales have been falling, and the relatively small law e-book segment is not large enough to overcome the print sales decline.

But trolls began returning to court as the year continued and 2016 will likely end with a relatively small overall decline.

While the drop is relatively small, the monthly decline «might represent the inflection point in commercial real estate values given the ongoing liquidity crunch,» writes Moody's.

While the price decline was a relatively small 5.3 percent in Cook County, September's median price declined 20 percent in Kane County.

Retail was the best performing sector over the past quarter, benefitting from relatively strong income growth and a smaller capital decline than other sectors.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.