Sentences with phrase «sharp increase»

But both parties saw sharp increases in the number of voters who want to hear less about religion from politicians.

For - profit colleges have seen sharp increases in enrollment in recent years despite alternatives such as public community colleges being much cheaper.

A sixth mass extinction could be triggered by sharp increases in carbon dioxide by 2100, one new study suggests.

However, many of my patients with pretty good insulin sensitivity also experience sharp increases in their blood sugar levels after consuming sweet potatoes.

If only climate change caused sharp increases in snake populations, then we'd be on top of the problem!

This has seen very sharp increases in fees for the court process.

The incidence of type 1 diabetes is increasing worldwide, showing a particularly sharp increase among children under the age of 5 years.

Recent data reveal sharp increases in motor vehicle crash fatalities in 2015 with the upward trend continuing in 2016.

There was an especially sharp increase in the relationship between age and Conservative vote choice for men between 2015 and 2017.

These efforts have allowed urban areas to avoid sharp increases in water use, even as their populations have grown significantly.

Compared with previous studies that found that losses increase regularly with sea - level rise, we find a much sharper increase with sea level because of this effect.

Looking at the skills challenges by sector, financial services and construction have seen very sharp increases in skill shortages since 2013.

At stake is about $ 25 million in yearly revenue without which county officials say they would have to make some serious reductions in service and / or sharp increases in the property tax.

Through the market mechanism the program provides, buildings are more readily able to reduce emissions, with the ability to sell reductions credits to buildings with sharp increase of energy consumption that are more costly to retrofit — driving greater emissions reductions at a reduced cost by all participants.

However, it is worth noting that several polls from other companies have also shown sharp increases in Labour's lead over the past week.

Like cross-town rival Ford, which saw sales of its brawny Mustang and immense Lincoln Navigator models jump 70 percent or more, General Motors Co. and Fiat Chrysler, the smallest by market share of the former U.S. - owned and so - called «Big Three,» reported sharp increases in demand for many of their largest vehicles.

Post-2007 higher rates of food price inflation are associated with sharp increases in corn, soybean and wheat prices.

Ulster County's Resource Recovery Agency (UCRRA) has given final approval to a $ 14.3 - million budget for 2015 which calls for sharp increases in collection fees but for the third year in a row requires no direct support from county property owners.

Harris Cooper, chairman of the department of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University and America's leading homework scholar who co-authored the landmark meta - study on homework, says that while there exists no formal studies on the rise in summertime homework, he's witnessed a particularly sharp increase over the past two years — probably a response «to high - stakes testing and accountability issues for schools.»

The statement dated October 17, 2016 and signed by Duncan Amoah, the Chamber's Executive Secretary attributed the «current prices to sharp increases on the world market prices as the cedi has been relatively stable over the past two

A new report from the United Nations World Tourism Organisation has singled out developing nations for praise following sharp increases in spending.

These declines in well - being mirror other studies finding sharp increases in mental health issues among iGen, including in depressive symptoms, major depression, self - harm, and suicide.

While age at first birth has been inching up for some time, «we have seen sharper increases since 2009,» said lead author T.J. Mathews, a demographer at the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).

Of course the term «black» can arise in a wide variety of different contexts that have absolutely nothing to do with racism, which is what could be described as «noise,» there is a small increase where Jim Crowe laws were enacted, followed by a more substantial increase in the interwar era which precedes a very sharp increase during the Civil Rights era up to the modern day.

The 2,400 residents of 11 condo buildings currently face sharp increases in their ground rent, a fee they pay each year to the Battery Park City Authority.

For iron ore and coal, substantial increases in contract prices are set to take effect later this year, building on the already sharp increases of last year.

The Wall Street Journal pegs the total cost of his platform, which includes sharp increases in Social Security and Medicare, plus free tuition, at $ 18 trillion over 10 years, the biggest increase in public spending since the Second World War.

Since 2010 ULIP sales have taken sharp increase, but when IRDA revamped the norms the ULIP sales which constituted 90 % of private life insurance have fallen to less than 10 %.

Trulia's rent monitor shows that rents increased by 6.5 % nationally last year, but larger metro areas experienced even sharper increases.

The Canadian Government had concerns that continued sharp increase in house prices would lead to a crisis in some local markets and took steps to cool the Real Estate market by toughening lending criteria and the introduction of a 15 % tax on foreign investors in British Colombia and Ontario.

A dynamic is put in place in which debt keeps labor down — not only by eating up its wages in debt service, but in making workers suffer sharp increases in the interest rates they have to pay or even risk losing their homes if they miss a payment by going on strike or being fired.

The 2.9 TFSI V6 biturbo engine, which Audi developed from the ground up, offers sharp increases in power and efficiency as well as an incomparably full - bodied RS sound.

They are familiar to those who have followed the debate and reflect concerns about possible sharp increases in energy costs and loss of jobs in the heartland.

I felt a subtle boost and, more notably, a disturbingly sharp increase in mental focus.

Overall inflation decelerated after an energy induced sharp increase in April, while core inflation (excluding food and energy) increased slightly.

If the accounting rules for public funds also change, reducing the discount rate on liabilities, the employers of public school teachers, along with other public employers, will face a double hit, requiring sharp increases in contributions.

Fourth - grade math scores for these students both in Texas and in the nation display sharp increases since 1992 (Figure 9).

Nearly all state pension plans failed to meet their target rates of return in the years following the financial crisis, which has necessitated sharp increases in contributions from employers and employees.

UPDATED WITH PUBLIC COMMENT A sharp increase in the number of charter schools petitioning - and receiving - permission to open from the California State Board of Education has attracted the attention of the Legislature.

Apr 18, 2018 - Homebuilding activity in the United States showed an unexpectedly sharp increase last month.

Our ability to take such actions without engendering sharp increases in inflation depends heavily on our credibility and independence from short - term political pressures.

The mid-troposphere chart experienced the same relatively sharp increase from1999 to 2002, but the increase was much lower, and more rapidly reversed — hence the difference between the long term trends.

For instance a far sharper increase of CO2 emissions from lighting between the lower and the higher income classes has been mitigated by the use of more efficient lighting systems like tube lights and compact florescent light bulbs (CFLs).

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Population growth and the concentration of employment in major cities have spurred sharp increases in property values.