Sentences with phrase «shrinking by more than»

The researchers found that the ozone hole has declined compared to its peak size in 2000, shrinking by more than 4 million square kilometers by 2015.

The Office for Budget Responsibility predicts overall employment will increase every year for the next five years, despite the public sector headcount shrinking by more than 10 per cent.

The value of his investment, then worth $ 252 - million, has shrunk by more than $ 50 - million.

At 3 percent, purchasing power would shrink by more than $ 117,000.

While the number of startups has increased exponentially, the number of active venture capitalists has shrunk by more than 2 / 3rds in the past decade to less than 750 today and still shrinking.

Greece is already managing to beat some of its deficit - reduction targets, as figures released Wednesday show that its central budget deficit for the first two months of 2012 had shrunk by more than half compared with the same period last year.

Latvia's economy shrank by more than a fifth in 2008 and 2009 when the country was led by Valdis Dombrovskis, now vice president of the European Commission and a participant in the Friday meeting.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed the economy shrank by more than expected, a contraction of 0.2 % between October and December.

Overall, 34 percent of patients showed an objective response, meaning that their tumors shrank by more than 30 percent, and did not re-grow.

Over the past forty years, the ice cover in summer has shrunk by more than half, with climate model simulations predicting that the remaining half might be gone by mid-century unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced rapidly.

The team found that the September ozone hole has shrunk by more than 4 million square kilometers — about half the area of the contiguous United States — since 2000, when ozone depletion was at its peak.

In Cohort B — those who received pembrolizumab as first - line therapy — 12 of 52 patients, or 23 percent, saw tumors shrink by more than 30 percent, while the disease was stabilized in nine of them, or 17 percent.

According to An Martel, head of the study and professor at the University of Ghent in Belgium, it is therefore not surprising that an afflicted population shrinks by more than 90 percent within just a few weeks and then disappears.

It had then shrunk by more than half and lost nearly three - fourths of its volume.

In 26 out of 32 patients, tumours shrank by more than 30 per cent, and two of the patients saw their tumours completely disappear.

According to an international clinical trial led by Sylvia Adams, MD, associate professor of medicine, breast tumors shrank by more than 30 percent in 12 (23 percent) of 52 patients who received pembrolizumab as first - line therapy, and the disease stabilized in 9 additional patients (17 percent).

By contrast, breast tumors shrank by more than 30 percent in just 8 (5 percent) of the 170 patients who had been previously treated with other agents; each of these 8 patients lived at least another year.

While warming of 2C would ultimately see permafrost - covered land shrink by more than 40 %, stabilising at 1.5 C would «save» approximately 2m square km, says the new study.

PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates «consumer eBooks will drive $ 8.2 billion in sales by 2017, surpassing projected print book sales, which it thinks will shrink by more than half during that period.»

In its annual «Entertainment & Media Outlook,» set to be released Wednesday, PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) estimates that trade (consumer, not educational or academic) ebooks will drive $ 8.2 billion in sales by 2017 — surpassing projected print book sales, which it thinks will shrink by more than half during that period.

In the period from 2000 - 2015, the hole in the ozone layer shrank by more than 4 million square kilometers — nearly a billion acres — according to a new report in the journal Science.

On Tanzania's Kilimanjaro, ice cover has shrunk by more than 33 percent since 1989.

The Peruvian government estimates that the country's glaciers have shrunk by more than 20 % in the past 30 years and expects them all to disappear by 2040.

A third of the permanent snow and ice on New Zealand's Southern Alps has now disappeared, according to research based on aerial surveys by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.The researchers say that that since 1977, the volume of ice on the nation's Southern Alps has shrunk by more than 18 cubic kilometres [continue reading...]

«Over the past forty years, the ice cover in summer has shrunk by more than half, with climate model simulations predicting that the remaining half might be gone by mid-century unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced rapidly.»

Not exact matches

To be specific, Comcast's subscriber base grew by 53,000 during the most recent quarter, substantially more than most analysts were expecting, and a much better performance than the same quarter a year earlier, when the number of subscribers shrank by 8,000.

With a polarized electorate, both parties believe they benefit more by turning out core supporters than from courting a shrinking group of swing voters.

Chief Executive Bob Dudley is in line for a $ 19.6 million compensation package for 2015, a year in which shrinking profit margins triggered by sharp falls in the price of oil led to more than 5,000 job losses at the oil and gas company.

The math is simple: More firms leaving than arriving means a shrinking percentage of business is being controlled by entrepreneurs.

Even though the tobacco market is shrinking as more people quit, Calantzopoulos said that by 2025 there will still be more than a billion smokers worldwide.

-LRB-...) Government debt sales will more than double this year, to a net $ 1.44 trillion by JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s estimate, raising the specter of buyers» fatigue just as the Federal Reserve is shrinking its $ 4.4 trillion balance sheet and raising interest rates.

One by one the crowd that gave cover to Begley shrinks until only he remains, and he is exposed as a racist who cares more about judging others than justice.

Russia is shrinking by 700,000 people a year [like America, Europe and China] so in 23 + years you'll be more than sorry you didn't have the INTELLIGENCE to have a replacement policy in place!

By the end of last year, that had shrunk to little more than a fifth.

They will shrink by up to 15 % after several washings and are slightly thicker and more absorbent than their conventional counterparts.

Nick Clegg saw his share of the vote shrink by 13.4 % (now having just 2,353 votes more than Labour when he previously had 19,096 more).

And yet this is the same government that passed an emergency budget that could put more than a million workers on the scrapheap, that jacks up a VAT that lands heaviest on those who are the most hard - up, that floats shrinking some public services by up to 40 % — that almost gleefully drops the guillotine of cuts on the necks of the poor.

I predict the field will shrink to no more than four by New Year's.

The drug combination shrunk tumors by at least 50 percent more than those treated with either drug alone.

When the output of the models was compared to the hypothetical populations, the researchers found that the models consistently misrepresented them — often overestimating the size of shrinking fish stocks by more than 25 %, while underestimating the number of fish in recovering populations.

In Cohort A, pembrolizumab shrunk tumors by more than 30 percent in eight of 170 patients, or five percent, and stabilized the disease in 35, or 21 percent, of those previously treated for mTNBC.

* The late - summer polar ice cap, already at historic lows today, would shrink only another quarter and hold steady by century's end, instead of melting by more than three - quarters with no let - up in sight.

If those eating more than 100 grams of meat a day — a fairly small rump steak — went vegan, their food - related carbon footprint would shrink by 60 per cent, saving the equivalent of 1.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.

If more ice is lost at the margins than gained at the core, the ice sheet shrinks, ultimately affecting albedo as (depending on the underlying geography) lakes form, some rockbed is exposed and areas are reconquered by the ocean.

He contends, correctly, that something more than basic skills and factual knowledge needs to be inculcated by our schools and colleges if young Americans are to do their part to keep us competitive in tomorrow's flattening, shrinking world.

After estimating that new teacher supply has declined by more than 20 percent between 2007 and 2016, they calculate that implementing high - stakes evaluation reform and repealing tenure shrunk the teacher labor supply.

Our sample is effectively less than 126 observations, but Mike wants to shrink it more, by excluding cases from the sample and excluding the outcomes of high school graduation (too squishy) and college graduation (too few cases).

Over the last fifty years, closures have shrunk the system by more than half, from 5 million to less than 2 million students.

While the gap has shrunk, more teachers are scoring level 5s based on test scores than are being judged level 5s by their observers.

And what I learned was that the Accord is so light on its feet, it feels like it's shrinking around you more like a Civic than a big ol' sedan — an illusion provided by its incredibly light steering, which despite being slightly overboosted, still provides decent feedback.