Sentences with phrase «slower than in past years»

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More than one million people die from AIDS each year — an enormous number, but one that has decreased steadily throughout the past decade thanks in large part to anti-retroviral medicines that can slow its spread within the body.

Other Wall Street firms have resized their bond trading in the past year, as business has been slower than expected.

The Chinese government says that GDP growth there has slowed to 6.9 % in 2015, and that it will grow by 6.8 % next year after averaging more than 10 % for the past decade.

A faster than expected downturn in print advertising and slower increase in digital revenues, combined with the costs of international expansion, means that the company's outgoings have outpaced revenues over the past five years.

Year - ended business credit growth remains more moderate than that for household credit, but in contrast to the slowing in household credit growth, it has continued on the broad upward trend evident over the past few years.

They continue to point to further growth in investment, though at a slower pace than seen in the past year (Graph 30).

The latest NAB business survey shows total labour costs increasing at close to their fastest pace of the past five years, although still considerably slower than in the mid 1990s.

Donor - advised funds grew further in 2016, albeit at a slower rate of growth than in years past, setting a new record in every key metric.

«Our estimates show that the growth in Chinese emissions has slowed a lot in the past two to three years, and is now much lower than at any point since the early 2000s,» said study lead author Jan Ivar Korsbakken, senior climate economics researcher at CICERO.

Peter Stott, the head of climate monitoring at the U.K. Met Office, agreed, noting in an email that, «The slowdown hasn't gone away, however, the results of this study still show the warming trend over the past 15 years has been slower than previous 15 year periods.

Quick question, you say that the optimal rep range to build muscle mass is 8 reps and yet in this program you say you should work to fatigue every excerise but i can do alot more than 8 reps. Should i try really slowing down every excerise or do something different ive been traning for years now at the gym but hit a plateu and was wondering if your excercise techniques would push me past it.

The first few days saw slower ticket sales than usual: In past years, all of the (non - industry / press) tickets for next - day screenings would be gone by 10 in the morning, while this year it was still possible to find tickets for less hotly anticipated titles the day oIn past years, all of the (non - industry / press) tickets for next - day screenings would be gone by 10 in the morning, while this year it was still possible to find tickets for less hotly anticipated titles the day oin the morning, while this year it was still possible to find tickets for less hotly anticipated titles the day of.

There has been a small resurgence of westerns over the past few years — Django Unchained, Hateful Eight, Slow West, The Salvation — but it will take a lot more than that to make the genre really viable again in today's market.

The number of students in North Carolina's charter schools has more than doubled in the past seven years, but the number of these nontraditional public schools opening each year is slowing down.

In his opening address, Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle suggested that «the global book business is doing better now than it has been for the past 50 years, and perhaps even since its inception,» citing among other things consistent, if slow, growth in many territories, and balance among print and digital formats,&raquIn his opening address, Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle suggested that «the global book business is doing better now than it has been for the past 50 years, and perhaps even since its inception,» citing among other things consistent, if slow, growth in many territories, and balance among print and digital formats,&raquin many territories, and balance among print and digital formats,»

Even if the big publishers are as slow to see the wisdom of this bundling model as they have been over the past five years to adapt in business - positive (rather than defensive) ways to the ebook revolution, it's worth noting here that, as is so often the case, Amazon has a secret weapon on this terrain.

Despite slow revenue growth in a challenging IT environment, the company's earnings have more than doubled over the past five years.

The country's economic foundations actually grew in the past year, thanks to the addition of more than 200,000 jobs and slow but steady GDP growth.

LIHUE — The number of feral cats has declined on Kauai in the past five years and though the pace has slowed in 2018, there are still more than 3,000 urban feral cats on the island.

The number of feral cats has declined on Kauai in the past five years and though the pace has slowed in 2018, there are still more than 3,000 urban feral cats on the island.

Given that the cryosphere and oceans are far better long - term indicators of changes in Earth's energy balance than the much more «noisy» troposphere, for anyone to suggest that the warming of the Earth system has slowed or stopped over the past 10 years, means they are purposely ignoring the far bigger heat sinks of the cryrosphere and oceans, or they simply want to spout nonsense.

``... the growth rate of the net climate forcing has been slower in the past 15 - 20 years than it was in the preceding three decades, but only slightly.

Another trick of contrarians: refer to past cooling as «dramatic» (even though it was slow and slight) and modern warming as «slow» (even though it's * much * faster than at any time in at least 2000 years).

Lolwot is saying the evidence is that global warming has accelerated slightly rather than slowed in the past 16, or so, years.

On a positive note, the rate Earth Overshoot Day has moved up on the calendar has slowed to less than one day a year on average in the past five years, compared to an average of three days a year since overshoot began in the early 1970s.

Responding to and in the manner of KK Tung's UPDATE (and, you can quote me): globally speaking the slowing of the rapidity of the warming, were it absent an enhanced hiatus compared to prior hiatuses, must at the least be interpreted as nothing more than a slowdown of the positive trend of uninterrupted global warming coming out of the Little Ice Age that has been «juiced» by AGW as evidenced by rapid warming during the last three decades of the 20th Century, irrespective of the fact that, «the modern Grand maximum (which occurred during solar cycles 19 — 23, i.e., 1950 - 2009),» according to Ilya Usoskin, «was a rare or even unique event, in both magnitude and duration, in the past three millennia [that's, 3,000 years].»

While only a few recent species extinctions have been attributed to climate change, natural global climate change at rates slower than current anthropogenic climate change caused significant ecosystem shifts and species extinctions in the past millions of years.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

Trenberth still relates the effect from CO2 based on 100ppmv causing an increase of 0.6 °C but does not subtract the 0.5 °C of natural warming as recovery from the LIA that has nothing to do with CO2 emissions therefore producing an effect six times too high for the effect from increased CO2 Trenberth is not aware that CO2 is not increaseing at an accelerated rate as predicted by Hansen but at a near linear rate averaging 2.037 ppmv / year so by 2100 the concentration will not be as predicted by the IPCC as per scenario A1 but merely reach a level of 573.11 ppmv by 2100, This is only in the case that CO2 increase is maintained but this may not happen as the rate appears to be slowing down with the average rate for the past 5 years being lower than the rate for the past ten years.

It's true that in 1999 the country will see an increase in unemployment, the slowing of housing construction, and a drop in consumer confidence, says David Lereah, senior vice president and chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, Washington, D.C. «That'll make homebuying less appealing than in the past two years.»

Redding said she has noticed that homes are sitting on the market longer than they did in the past few years, yet she would not say the market is slowing down but rather returning to normal.

Looking forward, the company's economists predict that home prices in Cleveland will continue to rise throughout 2018, but at a slower pace than what we've seen over the past year.

To recap, most economists and analysts expect prices to continue rising through next year, but at a slower pace than in the past.

That's slower than the 5.7 percent growth in average wages over the past year across those same counties.