Sentences with phrase «several decades of declining»

Specifically, this suggests that after several years of fiscal austerity and several decades of declining inflation, these trends are on the cusp of reversing.

Dr. Samuel J. Fomon wrote: «The increase in breast - feeding in industrialized countries in the 1970s was worldwide, and the reasons for the increase after several decades of decline are not easy to identify.

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For several decades poverty, in any acute and degrading form, declined in most of the industrialized world.

«In fact, they are already experiencing sharp declines in population and extinction on a global scale, and they have become the focus of several research and conservation programmes in recent decades,» the scientist explains.

Over the last several decades, for example, the number of jobs involving the study of steel has declined by about 90 %.

Infected bat populations of several species have declined over 90 % and a few species may become regionally extirpated or extinct in the next decade.

«A prominent and well - characterized feature of AD is progressive, region - specific declines in the cerebral metabolic rate of glucose (CMRglc)-LSB-...] Carriers of a common Alzheimer's susceptibility gene [APOE Ɛ4] have functional brain abnormalities in young adulthood, several decades before possible onset of dementia.

Apart from several live recordings of older classics, which feel unnecessary on an album that highlights Clark's late - career work, this collection is a testament to the spectacular consistency of quality and depth in Clark's songwriting genius even as he struggled through declining health in his final decade.

Recently pulling itself out of a several - year decline with the emergence of Dynasty Warriors 7, we crank out the crystal balls in an attempt to predict the future of a popular Japanese franchise which has also been a guilty pleasure for many western gamers over the past decade.

The author of the «Entries to arts subjects at Key Stage 4» publication, Rebecca Johns, has stated that the findings show that entries to arts subjects by Key Stage 4 cohorts have declined over the past couple of years, following several years of gradual increases, with the 2016 entry rates being the lowest of the decade.

Mr Stanyer also highlighted the «major impact» of industrial decline over several decades, which had seen job losses in pottery and coal mining and a switch to service industries.

Thanks to technological improvements and increased regulation of the airline industry, plane crashes have declined significantly over the last several decades.

While other segments of pet ownership have been on the rise in the past several years or decades even, bird ownership has been on the decline.

The artist, best known for his «Circle» and «Stripe» Color Field paintings, had several major museum shows and a number of gallery shows in his last few decades, even as his output slowed because of his declining health.

This too is Los Angeles and Oakland, Detroit and New Orleans, the revitalized city and the tenants of the last several decades who have been forced into decline.

Finally, the presence of vigorous climate variability presents significant challenges to near - term climate prediction (25, 26), leaving open the possibility of steady or even declining global mean surface temperatures over the next several decades that could present a significant empirical obstacle to the implementation of policies directed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions (27).

Those who do will surely suffer, since GW is predicted to reduce world net food crop output in several ways: droughts, floods, heatwaves that kill plants; land loss from sea rise; no irrigation in glacier - fed rivers after glaciers melt in a few decades — putting 40 % of India & China at starvation risk; crop loss due to increased pests (weeds & bug); fish decline from several GW factors; there's probably more.

In 2005, during the hottest average decade on record, 8 low - wind conditions known as «the doldrums» combined with very high ocean temperatures to cause massive coral bleaching in the Virgin Islands.9 This was followed by a particularly severe outbreak of at least five coral diseases in the Virgin Islands, resulting in a decline in coral cover of about 60 percent.9 There is some indication that higher ocean temperatures — between 86 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit (30 to 35 degrees Celsius)-- promote optimal growth of several coral pathogens.9 Other research showed that elkhorn coral post-bleaching had larger disease lesions than unbleached specimens, suggesting that bleaching may increase the corals» susceptibility to disease.9, 10

The thickness of Arctic sea ice has also been on a steady decline over the last several decades.

If treatments at this scale are completed and repeated over the next several decades, increases in runoff could help offset the current and projected declines in snowpack and stream flow due to warming while improving the resilience of forest stands.

«Finally, the presence of vigorous climate variability presents significant challenges to near - term climate prediction (25, 26), leaving open the possibility of steady or even declining global mean surface temperatures over the next several decades that could present a significant empirical obstacle to the implemen - tation of policies directed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions (27).

Over the past several months, the Arctic Ocean on the opposite side of the world has also seen record - low sea ice — a new nadir in a decades - long decline that, climate scientists say, is one of the many fingerprints of humans» hand in warming Earth's atmosphere and oceans through the burning of fossil fuels.

«And since it has long been known that the DTR has declined significantly over many parts of the world as mean global air temperature has risen over the past several decades (Easterling et al., 1997), it can be appreciated that the global warming with which this DTR decrease is associated (which is driven by the fact that global warming is predominantly caused by an increase in daily minimum temperature) has likely helped to significantly reduce the CHD mortality of the world's elderly people.»

But the reason that EIA is projecting a long - term decline over the next decade or more is the glut of cheap natural gas, mostly from unconventional sources like shale, that has profoundly changed America's energy outlook over the next several decades.

The number of hungry people, which was declining for several decades, bottomed out in the mid-1990s at 825 million.

His research shows that, mostly because of Asia's incredible growth, global inequality has declined sharply for several decades, reducing so much that the world hasn't been this equal for more than a century...

IMO, the strongest argument for sea ice decline over the last decade for being unusual and at least in part attributable to global warming is this (from Polyakov et al.): The severity of present ice loss can be highlighted by the breakup of ice shelves at the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, which have been stable until recently for at least several thousand years based on geological data.

Marriage rates have steadily declined in the United States over the past several decades, and the American Psychological Association states that 40 % to 50 % of marriages will end in divorce.

However, this decline in growth will occur over several decades and may be offset by the millennial generation starting households of their own.