Sentences with phrase «small average decline»

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The small - cap Russell 2000 ended the session flat, while both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 settled with modest 0.2 % declines.

This percentage decline is smaller than the trailing 5 - year average of -11.1 % and trailing 5 - year median of -7.8 % for the index.

This represents a small decline in year - ended inflation from the June quarter, and a more sizeable drop from an average inflation rate of around 3 per cent during 2002 (Graph 68).

Despite a small decline in May, consumer confidence for the first five months of 2015 has been at a higher average level than at any time since May 2004.2 A relatively low unemployment rate and moderate inflation have helped maintain consumers» upbeat mood.

«The concept of a ban on a small and declining part of the average adult diet is a light - weight approach to a more complex problem facing our society.»

The concept of a ban on a small and declining part of the average child's diet is a light - weight approach to a more complex problem facing society.

Despite a sharp decline in support for the Liberal Democrats (their support currently averages 8 % according to four of the leading pollsters), smaller parties are knocking more loudly at the door of the Commons than ever before.

Men who stayed single showed a small age - related decline of about 12 to 15 percent in the male sex hormone, while the testosterone levels of new fathers — those with a baby between 1 month and 1 year — on average dropped about 30 percent.

However, when it comes to optimal angles for targeting the chest, most experts agree that smaller inclines or declines (20 - 30 %) will work better than large inclines or declines for the average bodybuilder.

Researchers have typically found that a one - point decline in the average baseline achievement of a student's classmates leads to a smaller (e.g. one - tenth of a point) decline in the achievement of that student.

David Whitman, in his book «Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner - City Schools and the New Paternalism,» reports that in Chicago, from 2003 through 2006, just three of every 1,000 teachers received an «unsatisfactory» rating in annual evaluations; in 87 «failing schools» — with below average and declining test scores — 69 had no teachers rated unsatisfactory; in all of Chicago, just nine teachers received more than one unsatisfactory rating and none of them was dismissed.

Even so, it should be obvious, and I tried this out on a 9 year old this week, new generations, those whose eyesight will not deteriorate for a long time to come, those people can read prints I can't even read with my reading glasses, thus they could care less about the size of the font available in a Kindle, leaving the Kindle sadly to the declining Boomers, who are spending $ 500 on the average when they buy a Kindle, while an entirely new computer generation is buying this new crop of Netbooks that are full computers in pretty much all senses, but are even smaller in size than the Kindles, and smaller in price.

Compared to the month that I sold, the average price in my (former) small town has now declined 13 %.

Inflation is negative for stocks, but it is a small negative — for every 1 % that the inflation rate goes up, stocks decline 2 % on average.

While a relatively small decline, it is in sharp contrast with the annual average growth of 4.2 % for the last decade.

And although this deviation is smaller than multi-annual variation, the average decline in precipitation does lead to... Continue reading →

For corn, small long - term average temperature increases will shorten the duration of reproductive development, leading to yield declines, 4 even when offset by carbon dioxide (CO2) stimulation.5, 6 For soybeans, yields have a two in three chance of increasing early in this century due to CO2 fertilization, but these increases are projected to be offset later in the century by higher temperature stress7 (see Figure 18.2 for projections of increases in the frost - free season length and the number of summer days with temperatures over 95 °F).

NASA satellite data reveals how this year's minimum sea ice extent, reached on Sept. 9 as depicted here, declined to a level far smaller than the 30 - year average (in yellow) and opened up Northwest Passage shipping lanes (in red).

There was a small decline in streamflow as well, despite a small increase in precipitation on average.

It is a shame, no one points out small town average temperatures since 1940 to today are on a decline.

It would then show just how very small the average southern citizen's emissions would be when (just after 2020) the Souths emissions had to peak and then begin to rapidly decline.

Because only a small fraction of shale gas can be extracted cost effectively, production declines by an average of 80 - 90 % over the first 36 months.

The average contract rate on conventional loans used to purchase newly built single - family homes edged down by two basis points, from an even 4.00 to 3.98 percent — a decline too small to see on the chart below:

Part of this decline in price was simply a result of this year's average home being 12.4 % smaller than last year's.