Sentences with phrase «slight declines»

After three consecutive months of slight declines, private residential construction spending increased 2.2 % on a month - to - month basis in February.

Office, industrial, and retail are all expected to inch back, with slight declines in vacancies and positive growth in net absorption and rents.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

As of last week, the Market Climate in stocks remained characterized by an overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yields syndrome that has historically produced periods of marginal new highs, slight declines, and yet further marginal highs, followed somewhat unpredictably by nearly vertical drops.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The September quarter Rabobank survey suggests that farm equipment investment intentions, which are not covered in the Capex survey, remain at a high level, despite a slight decline in reported confidence in the farm sector.

But the mixed economic picture was underlined by the same month's inflation report, showing annual price rises below consensus forecasts at the headline level and a slight decline in core inflation.

Wisconsin, meanwhile, harvested a tad over 100 million bushels, a slight decline from the previous year.

For instance, the economic research team at Zillow expects house values in Oakland to rise by around 3.3 % over the next year, while they're predicting a slight decline in values for San Francisco during the same period.

A major player in China's wine importing business, the company imported 2.6 million litres of wines last year, a slight decline of 7 % compared with 2.8 million litres in 2015.

Dairy Crest has reported a slight decline in revenue from # 1.648 billion to # 1.63 billion for the year ended March 31st 2010, as strong sales growth of key brands and liquid milk to retailers, which together increased by # 52 million, was offset by planned lower sales of dairy ingredients and lower sales to doorstep and middle ground milk customers.

Dairy Crest has reported a slight decline in revenue from # 1.648 billion to # 1.63 billion for the year ended March 31st 2010, as strong sales growth of key brands and liquid milk to retailers, which together -LSB-...]

According to the 2016 Monitoring the Future Study since 2001, the numbers have remained stable or shown a slight decline in teen use of anabolic steroids except for 12th grade.

«While there has been a slight decline in participation, it does not reflect the measurable and positive gains we have made as a school district in making improvements to the nutritional quality of our school breakfast and lunch programs.»

More recently, Michael has seen a slight decline in its popularity.

After a slight decline in the 1970s and»80s, mothers» time with children has also increased, and today's mothers spend more time with their children than mothers did in the 1960s.

In 2013, close to 4 million births were registered in the U.S., indicating a slight decline in birth rate.

The Cozy Bump is designed with a raised center and depressed ends in the leg section so that there is a slight decline of the head above and below the raised bump.

With a slight declining enrollment and expected staffing changes through the retirement of some exceptional faculty members, we are again looking for adjustments and realignment of staff to best meet our current needs.

This is a slight decline since the last parliament, as many longstanding backbenchers, who employed relatives, stood down at the election.

Avella said the slight decline in opioid - related fatalities may be due to pending cases that have not yet been finalized.

But there is a slight decline in the percentage of Ukip voters who plan to stay loyal at the 2015 election; this is down five points to 52 %.

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.

However, there has been a slight decline in the proportions of Republicans and non-enrolled voters who have this opinion.

However, when treated early, the effects persisted for at least six months, with only a slight decline between 6 weeks and 3 months.

People with mild cognitive impairment were defined as those who have a slight decline in cognition, mainly in memory in terms of remembering sequences or organization, and who score lower on tests such as the California Verbal Learning Test, which requires participants to recall a list of related words, such as a shopping list.

It pointed out that although there had been a slight decline in total catches after 1989, catches soared to a record 101.3 million tonnes in 1993.