Sentences with phrase «small decline over»

The government claimed that securing a budget allocation for STI in 2010 of $ 297.3 million — a relatively small decline over the 2009 figure — is a victory and validation of its policy to place science at the heart of its economic policy and drive to create a «knowledge economy.»

In the charts below, we take the 20 % U.S. states that had the largest decline in housing net worth from 2006 to 2009, and we compare them to the 20 % states U.S. states that had the smallest decline over the same time period.

Not exact matches

While the share of sales going to women - owned businesses rose over the past five years, after having declined over the previous half decade, the actual fraction remains small.

«Often in the hands of entrepreneurs or families, small businesses with up to 99 employees are typically more flexible when economic shifts occur but can lack the deep pockets to survive a major decline in the economy,» notes the Index besides a graph showing a sharp decline in wages during the worst years of the economic crisis and a steep increase over the last three quarters of last year.

He analyzed Nielsen data about Facebook's online audience over a 14 - month period ending Sept. 2017, and found a small, but general decline in people's use of Facebook.

Over two - thirds of poll respondents experienced sales / revenue declines, implying a broad weakening of small business finances; and

Unlike most markets, where connectivity was on the decline over the last year, Atlanta, increasingly known in local techie circles as «Silicon Peach,» saw a 33.3 percent improvement in corporate - to - small - business connections, as well as an 11.5 percent improvement in connections with startup advisors and mentors.

Top performing fund managers at Fidelity, Janus Henderson, Hodges Capital and Baron say that the decline in research coverage means that they are seeing more small - cap companies that are mispriced and potentially undervalued, giving firms that have the capacity to conduct their own research an advantage over the long term.

The detached market (over $ 1.5 M) has been declining for months now, but in a small city like Vancouver with a lack of supply, I don't expect to see prices dip below where they were in 2016.

Abstracting from changes in the composition of corporate bond indices, spreads between yields on government and corporate bonds have shown a small net decline over the past three months (Graph 48).

Shown in the figure above, although refinancing applications fell significantly in response to higher rates in late 2016, and have declined over the September 2017 to January 2018 mortgage rate increase period, the decline in February was smaller compared to the extent of the rate increase in the same month and mostly offset the modest increase in January.

I believe there's a 50 % chance the property I sold could decline by 10 % ($ 2,500,000) over the next several years due to an increased supply of luxury condos, a small chance mortgage rates go higher, and a slowdown in hiring.

«There is a small decline in church attendance over time, but not nearly as large as suggested in popular culture, or even by some social scientists,» said University of Nebraska - Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel, who conducted the study.

[116] In Wales, where polls were less frequent, the 2012 — 2014 period saw a smaller decline in Labour's lead over the second - placed Conservative Party, from 28 points to 17.

While the decline of green vegetation was small, the area affected was not: 2.1 million square miles (5.4 million square kilometers), equivalent to over half the area of the continental United States.

Over the past few decades, a small international clan of scientists, alarmed by the sudden decline of corals, have created underwater nurseries aimed at «replanting» corals to buttress wild populations.

Although amphibian populations all over the region declined, the golden toad's limited habitat and small population made it especially vulnerable.

The NEJM and The BMJ, however, showed small decreases over the first five years, followed by increases back to their approximate starting points around 2007 - 08, before once again declining (fig 1 ⇓).

However, their health declined a small but notable amount over the next six years, the study found.

Over time, this can result in osteoporosis (weak bones that break easily), kidney stones (small clumps of calcium), and a decline in kidney function.

Of course having very small strokes over time can lead to another form of cognitive decline (i.e. multi-stroke dementia).

In the longitudinal prospective Three City cohort study of 4,197 healthy women and 2,820 healthy men over 65 years, women consuming more than 3 cups of caffeinated coffee per day for four years showed a smaller decline in verbal retrieval and visuo - spatial memory than women consuming one cup of coffee or less per day.

Australia was one of a small number of relatively high - performing countries in which achievement levels in PISA declined over this period.

In an article that appeared in Ed Next in 2004, Chris Berry traced the decline and rebirth of small schools in America and looked at the impact of smaller schools on students» future earnings over the course of the 20th century, as the movement to consolidate small schools into larger schools grew.

Only Queen Anne's County, one of the smallest districts represented by Harris, experienced something of a decline in out - of - school suspensions; one or more suspensions were meted out to 2.2 percent of its students in 2013 - 2014, only a slight drop over the 2.4 percent rate in 2011 - 2012.

Reading over the summer has the potential to prevent a decline in reading achievement scores from the spring to the fall, even the small step of reading one book can be beneficial;

Buick -1 % The Encore's big increase over its small initial volumes last year and another good month for the Regal (+43 %) kept Buick from joining the other GM divisions with a double - digit decline.

In the 2012 annual report there's a definition for «digital content»: «The digital business includes digital content such as eBooks, digital newsstand (and) apps...» Certainly newsstand and app sales are a small portion of that total, leaving ebook sales, declining from a peak of just over $ 300 million in 2013 to some $ 175 million in the past fiscal year.

One possibility may be that, as eyes decline, the ebook offers one distinct advantage over those small format print books: the ability to make the kanji bigger to read.

Now there's no particular reason that 80 % number should be particularly stable over time... if UK mid / small caps have a boom and the FTSE100 «dinosaurs» go nowhere for a while, it seems the proportion of the rising FTAS market cap comprised by a stable FTSE100's market cap should decline.

If he gets declined or approved for a small amount he can call chase (or whatever issuer) and tell them that he intends to transfer this balance over for the purpose of paying it off.

Although these issuers do not use the same FICO - score categories, the following charts show that all issuers reported continued declines in outstandings held by cardholders with lower FICOs (below 660), while oustandings for cardholders with higher FICOs either had smaller declines or in fact grew over the past year.

I also have a position in MFC Industrial, a company with exposure to metals and oil and gas (which, however, I will be selling shortly), a video game developer that is a net / net (Gravity Ltd.), a small position in RadioShack (made even smaller by the decline in share price over the past 2 years), and finally a short - term spinoff trade (Oil States International).

So, the US carbon sink is relatively small and projected to decline over the 21st century.

For the period 1987 to date there appears to be a very small decline which suggests to me that any increase early in the period has been slightly more than offset by a small decrease over the past 12 years or so.

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).

Typing «climate change» into the search box reveals, over 12 months, a peak of interest last December (Cancun), followed by a slump, then a small rise and a gradual decline thereafter (although there is a slight rise at the end of August).

This will likely be a smaller decrease than in past years, as US emissions have declined by around 1.2 % per year over the past decade.

And while temperature should decrease the total amount of carbon in the upper layer of the oceans, we see an increase in carbon (and a decrease in 13C / 12C ratio)- Ice cores, tree carbon and coralline sponges all give small 13C / 12C variations over the Holocene, but all show a steady and ever faster decline since about 1850.

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 models assume very small declines and increases (less than 1 % pp) in relative humidity at these levels over the same period (depending on height) so the data would be very inconsistent with the models and the theory.

The highest solar activity during the period 1950 to 2000 was during cycle 19 so it is quite possible that a small decline in thermosphere temperature would be observed over the period without that contradicting my assertion that generally a more active sun warms the thermosphere (but that is something you admit anyway).

One specific aspect of the customer concerns that, over the term of the outsourcing relationship, its pricing will become uncompetitive, is the cumulative impact of gradual year - over-year declines in market price: although initially the customer's pricing may have been ahead of the market, after six or more years of small declines in the market price, the customer's pricing may be significantly above market.

Although there was a small decline in litigation in 2014, patent trolling exploded over the past decade and remains at historically high levels.

Fundstrat Global Advisors LLC believes that the current drop in smaller altcoins is likely over after a roughly 75 % decline, Bloomberg reported.

Choosing a work meeting over a family event, forgetting to express appreciation or actively withholding praise; declining to give a comforting hug when needed — emotional withdrawal occurs in both large and small ways.

Key takeaways: 1) The U.S. continues as an attractive investment destination for commercial real estate investors; 2) Commercial fundamentals remain on an upward trend, boosted by solid employment gains; 3) While investors have taken a step back over the past year, leading to declining sales volume in large cap markets, small cap markets benefited from increased visibility and capital inflow, as growing local economies and higher investment yields provide diversification to investors.

Shown in the figure above, although refinancing applications fell significantly in response to higher rates in late 2016, and have declined over the September 2017 to January 2018 mortgage rate increase period, the decline in February was smaller compared to the extent of the rate increase in the same month and mostly offset the modest increase in January.

Retail was the best performing sector over the past quarter, benefitting from relatively strong income growth and a smaller capital decline than other sectors.

«Looking back at the early shows, we had a lot more furniture in the mix... the number of furniture dealers gradually declined over the years as the show evolved into more antique and vintage decor accessories, estate jewellery, ephemera — more «smalls» vs. large furniture pieces.»