Sentences with phrase «slower than in recent years»

Economic growth in China is still robust — China's gross domestic product grew an estimated 7.8 % in the first half of 2012 — but its growth is slower than in recent years, as is its growth in energy consumption.

Not exact matches

Faculty salaries have risen slower than many other fields in recent years, and with provincial governments squeezing education budgets tough wage negotiations are likely to remain the norm.

A recent study found that McDonald's was slower than ever in 2013, averaging 189.5 seconds, the slowest average speed of service for the burger chain in the last fifteen years.

Though the market for vodka is more than three times larger than that for bourbon, its growth has slowed in recent years.

The rate at which Americans start businesses has been falling for more than three decades, and while the decline has slowed in recent years, it has shown no sign of reversing.

That's slower than inflation, and nowhere near fast enough to get ahead of all the debt Canadian households have piled up in recent years.

In recent months, the fund's growth has been slowing as yields have declined from more than 6 percent early in the year to around 4 percent currentlIn recent months, the fund's growth has been slowing as yields have declined from more than 6 percent early in the year to around 4 percent currentlin the year to around 4 percent currently.

«Although this «rise of the nones» has increased dramatically over recent decades, the rate of increase slowed last year, suggesting the possibility that there may be a leveling off in this measure in the years ahead,» reports the Gallup study, which is made up of more than 350,000 interviews.

Chelsea only slowed spending in recent years because they went totally ham in the years prior, they are stacked full of good youth (they sold a lot of quality young players too) and Roman seems to have little appetite for overspending now but they still have bigger resources than us and better facilities just like City a fact people gloss over and the result of the overspending on youth sees them recoup money that they then use to spend whilst it looks like they are not spending (also got lucky with the price inflation directly after they went crazy on youth and the regularity of their China deals is sketchy at best.)

Craft beer continues to grow across the United States, as it has in New York state, but at a slightly slower rate than in recent years, according to a new report from the national Brewers Association.

The Online Publisher's Association reported in 2004 that dating websites created more revenue than any other paid online content category, as they netted roughly $ 470 million in consumer spending, up from about $ 40 million in 2001.11 Revenue growth has slowed in recent years, but the industry continues to maintain a robust base of users, many of them willing to pay premium fees for access to specialized services.12

In recent years I have taken to recommending that we slow things down a bit and focus on the basic, underlying skills that these students need rather than trying to jump through too many hoops.

«According to publishers the rate of growth and penetration of eBooks has slowed with value penetration estimated to be around 15 % — 18 %, with growth closer to 20 % than the 100 % we have seen in recent years.»

OTTAWA — The Canadian Real Estate Association raised its home sales forecast Monday on the back of stronger than expected sales in recent months after a slow start to the year.

Turns out, all reports and analysis lean towards a flattening out of property prices in most Canadian markets, with some areas of the country experiencing a decline in both sales activity and prices, as other areas continue to experience price gains, albeit at a much slower pace than we've seen in recent years.

In fact, tourism has grown by more than 25 percent throughout the Riviera Maya in recent years and shows no signs of slowing dowIn fact, tourism has grown by more than 25 percent throughout the Riviera Maya in recent years and shows no signs of slowing dowin recent years and shows no signs of slowing down.

He said these attacks have slowed in recent years, but they still occur, and a rescue team was attacked less than two months ago, leaving four BBA workers hospitalized.

The group said to accomplish that, solar capacity would need to grow at an annual rate of 22 percent between 2013 and 2030 — slower than what has been seen in recent years.

For example, atmospheric carbon dioxide grew by approximately 30 % during the transition from the most recent cold glacial period, about 20,000 years ago, to the current warm interglacial period; the corresponding rate of decrease in surface ocean pH, driven by geological processes, was approximately 50 times slower than the current rate driven largely by fossil fuel burning.

Using the NDVI, one team this year reported that «over the last few decades of the 20th century, terrestrial ecosystems acted as net carbon sinks,» i.e., they absorbed more carbon than they were emitting, and «net greening was reported in all biomes,» though the effect had slowed down in recent years.

Coinciding with cycles of reduced sea ice, glaciers on the island Novaya Zemlya in the Barents Sea, also underwent their greatest retreat around 1920 to 1940.61 After several decades of stability, its tidewater glaciers began retreating again around the year 2000, but at a rate five times slower than the 1930s.47 The recent cycle of intruding warm Atlantic water45 is now waning and if solar flux remains low, we should expect Arctic sea ice in the Barents and Kara seas to begin a recovery and Arctic glaciers to stabilize within the next 15 years.

Interestingly this year, while July ice loss rates were rapid in the central Arctic, melt out of the seasonal ice in Hudson and Baffin bays was slow with the ice cover persisting longer than in recent years.

Apparently, since data such as the all time record HIGH Antarctic sea ice, advancing Arctic sea ice, slowing to non existent GMSL at less than 2 / mm annual (and negative in some recent years), flat to lower global temps for almost 2 decades, and all the myriads of other associated data... flatly, empirically, REFUTE this cadre of AGW grant leaching con artists pretending to do science with grossly false models....

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.

Second, this general prediction «'' internal variability leading to slower than expected warming in recent years through 2010, followed by accelerated warming «'' is almost exactly the same prediction that the Hadley Center made last summer in Science (see here).

While carbon emissions have flattened in recent years, the report finds that global energy - related CO2 emissions increase slightly by 2040, but at a slower pace than in last year's projections.

And despite impressive support from Beijing for renewable energy and a dawning understanding about the dangers of air pollution, coal use in China is poised to continue rising, if slower than it has in recent years.

«Renters spent more than ever on rent this year, but the amount they spent grew at the slowest pace in recent years as more renters transitioned into homeownership and new rental supply slowed rent growth across the country,» Terrazas says.

Next year, prices are expected to rise by around 3.0 % — a slower pace than what we have seen in recent months.