Sentences with phrase «slight decline»

They do experience slight declines in revenues and profit during a recession, but nothing too significant.

While none of the participants had dementia, 53 had experienced slight declines in their mental abilities.

Four - year institutions, in contrast, experienced smaller increases or even slight declines.

As a result, home prices in the province's major centres have posted slight declines.

The strong performance by digital audio helped to counter slight declines in print and e-book sales.

Most of the nation's largest school systems experienced minimal growth or slight declines in student enrollment.

It's a 30 year natural slight decline from 1998 to 2028.

Both the U.S. and the EU saw slight declines in their emissions.

Source: «Developer Confidence in Multifamily Market Shows Slight Decline in Fourth Quarter,» National Association of Home Builders (Feb. 27, 2014)

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory has had to contend with slight declines in retail sales along with a lack of financing for new franchisees.

► Upcoming model strategy for Vauxhall ► Slight decline on fleets, more towards retail ► Is there an Opel badge revival on the horizon?

Results also indicated that treatment youth in relative foster care reported slight improvements in prosocial support, whereas treatment youth in nonrelative foster care reported slight declines.

Solar activity has been in slight decline since the late 1970s whilst temperatures have trended steeply upwards.

Don't forget that the sea ice models these biologists use do not predict a decline in winter ice (Dec - March) and project only slight declines in spring ice (April - June) by mid-century (Amstrup et al. 2007; Durner et al. 2009; Oakley et al. 2012; Wang et al. 2012).

A 2016 study in published by the UK Royal Society reported, «There is less fire in the global landscape today than centuries ago» and the «global area burned» has seen a «slight decline over past decades.»

I was a surprised to see Hein quoted in a Sunday Freeman story which detailed a state report on Ulster's slight decline among the counties (from 29th to 31st) in public - health measurements.

I think the plateau, or rather slight decline, that we're seeing in the US and UK is not going to reverse.

Nashville rent loss of 1.7 % in 4th quarter 2017 was far deeper than the metro's typical slight decline.

Two sectors, however, both saw slight declines in employment: construction -LRB--15,000) and retail -LRB--4,000), after experiencing strong job growth in February.

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory has had to contend with slight declines in retail sales along with a lack of financing for new franchisees.

The current expansion cycle seems to have staying power, as the three major CPPI indexes — including Moody's / RCA, Green Street and CoStar — all either posted increases or remained stable during the summer months, after experiencing slight declines at the beginning of the year.

According to Nourry, the «plateau, or rather slight decline», that ebook sales have seen in the US and the UK in recent years is «not going to reverse».

Chinese cities, for example, saw slight declines in their livability scores due to the ongoing territorial disputes taking place in the South China Sea, which has seen military escalation from several countries.

The loonie is expected to continue on a slight decline over the next few months, but a sustained retreat in the Canadian currency is not expected.

Last month's slight decline in managed assets at Baltimore - based Legg Mason came as the Standard & Poor's 500, a broad stock index, fell 3.7 percent.

Turner was able to charge higher carriage costs to cable providers despite a slight decline in subscriber base; HBO's subscription revenues rose by more than $ 250 million; and Warner Bros. scored box office hits with «Suicide Squad,» «Batman vs. Superman,» and «Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them.»

As you can see, it did not hit those targets once in the three quarters since — even booking a slight decline in the first quarter of 2013.

The final read on consumer sentiment from the University of Michigan showed a slight decline from to 95.1 in September from 96.8 in August.

Down Under, the S&P / ASX 200 edged higher by 0.49 percent to 5,982.70 as the utilities and heavily weighted financials subindexes advanced, canceling out slight declines in the materials and energy sectors.

IDC said that 17 million PCs were shipped in the U.S. during the fourth quarter, which made for a «slight decline» from the previous year during the same time period.

New orders for manufactured durable goods, such as refrigerators, aircraft and heavy machinery, climbed 0.7 % in June, rebounding from a slight decline in May and climbing for the fourth time in the last five months.

Unfortunately, soft summer sales and a disappointing back - to - school season led Old Navy to slight declines in same - store sales over the past year.

Total revenue for the U.S. newspaper media business was $ 37.6 billion in 2013, a slight decline from $ 38.6 billion in 2012.

«A slight decline in real estate - related balances, consistent with broader housing market developments, contributed to a flat quarter for total outstanding household debt,» said Donghoon Lee, senior economist at the New York Fed.

This $ 1.5 billion improvement in the budgetary balance primarily resulted from higher personal and corporate income tax revenues and a slight decline in other direct program expenses.

For the first couple of months there was a slight decline in the price of Bitcoin Cash, hovering around the $ 360 mark.

Despite a slight decline in share price and what many feel is an overvalued stock, Amazon continues to provide funds that hold it with fuel for a short - term rally, according to an article on Benzinga.

In the mean time we did see a slight decline in dividend stock portfolio, with another worsening of the exchange rate (how low can we go?).

«A slight decline in real - estate related balances, consistent with broader housing market developments, contributed to a flat quarter for total outstanding household debt,» Donghoon Lee, senior economist at the New York Fed, said in a statement.

A slight increase in revenues and / or a slight decline (a half a percentage point on both revenues and expenses) would easily produce a surplus.

Though we had a slight decline in EMEA consulting overall, we saw our ERP and sales and marketing offerings in retail and industrial equipment posting growth there.

Indexes in Greater China posted a slight decline.

HSBC Armenia's net profit in the 12 months to December 31, 2009, was 1.6 billion drams ($ 4 million), which was down from 2008 levels but perhaps reflects a difficult operating environment in 2009, with slight declines in net interest and fee and commission income compared to the same 12 - month period in 2008.

Despite the slight decline under Clinton, the U.S. government debt has kept on growing.

By their estimation, that number represents a slight decline from the same month in 2015.

Over the same period, non-bank lenders, including super funds, experienced a slight decline in market share, but more recently the trend has been reversed.