Sentences with phrase «steadily decade by decade»

The burn duration has increased steadily decade by decade as well, and in each of the five forest areas we studied.

The burn duration has increased steadily decade by decade as well, and in each of the five forest areas we studied.

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Second, approval rates by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have steadily risen over the past two decades, climbing from 23 percent in 1994 to 89 percent and 77 percent in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

Figures published by the non-partisan think tank Pew Research Center estimates that annual inflows of undocumented immigrants from Mexico have steadily declined over the past decade.

My predictions of steadily rising oil prices over the last decade, including my call for $ 100 - per - barrel oil by 2007, had flown in the face of conventional wisdom.

Despite what's going on in much of the rest of the world, Panama's economy — one of the fastest - growing in the Americas — is steadily chugging along, growing by nearly 6 % or more every year for nearly a decade now.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

It ain't for nothin'that newspaper and television reporters and pundits have steadily lost audience over the last decade to a new army of amateurs and outsiders — a world of information scarcity is being replaced by a world of information plenty, and political journalism's place as the arbiter of public discourse is eroding fast.

Over the last decade, New York City public school students have seen real improvements in their schools, most clearly evidenced by a graduation rate that has been climbing steadily after decades of stagnation.

Scores have increased steadily for two decades, raising nationwide averages by 28 points for fourth - graders and by 21 points for eighth - graders since 1990.

«After growing steadily, particularly in the last four decades, aquaculture is for the first time set to contribute half of the fish consumed by the human population worldwide,» said Ichiro Nomura, assistant director general of FAO's fisheries and aquaculture department.

In addition to problems created by sudden climate changes over a few decades or even a few years, the committee points to abruptly developing problems created by a steadily changing climate.

White - nose syndrome has spread steadily for the past decade and is caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, known as P. destructans or Pd.

Vaupel has shown that the maximum life expectancy among such countries has risen steadily by more than two years each decade since 1840.

The scale of bleaching has been rising steadily in the last four decades, a study author tells Carbon Brief, with the global proportion of coral being hit by bleaching per year rising from 8 % in the 1980s to 31 % in 2016.

After improving steadily for half a century, the health of American children as measured by key indicators began to deteriorate during the past decade, according to a report released last week.

It is a welcome move by the Australian Government, as over the past decade the number of students from India coming to Australia has steadily increased.

While these stories (e.g., Partelow, 2016; Rich, 2015) and a highly - publicized recent report (Sutcher et al., 2016) generally discuss teacher shortages as a national problem, we argue that the popular conception of a «teacher shortage» is not borne out by historical data; in fact, the production of newly - minted potential teachers has increased steadily over the past several decades, and only about half of these recent graduates have been hired as public school teachers in a typical year.

But state education agencies have been steadily drained of staff for years and do not have the capacity or the authority to redesign the education systems of their states to meet the challenges posed by the fundamental changes that have taken place in the global economy over the past two decades.

The reality is that book retail has been steadily deteriorating over the years and publishers themselves have been compromised by decades of cost - cutting.

Elsewhere, a breezy painting by the mid-career German artist Michael Krebber, who has steadily gained a cult following among young artists over the past two decades, features a reproduction of the text of a blog post by another artist about painter Alistair Frost.

For the next six decades Mr. Seliger worked steadily and slowly, producing no more than 10 paintings a year but always showing and always represented by major dealers, most recently the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery on 57th Street, where he had a solo show last fall.

First developed by Whitney curator Dana Miller in 2015, «Lines of Sight» focuses on Herrera's artistic production between the years 1948 to 1978, the decades when she developed her signature style and moved steadily towards a restrained abstraction.

A 2007 NASA sponsored satellite - based study sheds light on the puzzling observations by other scientists that the amount of sunlight reaching Earth's surface had been steadily declining in recent decades, began to reverse around 1990.

It increases steadily each year by $ 10, so that clean energy is then cheaper than fossil fuels within a decade.

The essential point is that with net energy in Earth's climate system steadily increasing decade by decade, there is no way for the Arctic sea ice to not go to zero eventually.

According to AGW theory and IPCC claims, warming should be steadily accelerating... Actually this is formally falsified by observations showing quite a constant back - ground trend of +0.05 °C per decade, on top of which cooling and warming periods are alternating.

Today, the urgency of the issue — where decades of inaction by world leaders has combined with steadily increasing extreme weather to produce an obvious threat to humanity — is undeniable.

«The top of the glacier is melting away as a result of decades of steadily increasing air temperatures, while its underside is compromised by currents carrying warmer ocean water, and the glacier is now breaking away into bits and pieces and retreating into deeper ground.»

Yet U.S. food production over the same time has also risen by robust percentages even as the number of acres under cultivation has been steadily falling for decades.»

Open - ocean time series show that surface ocean pH has decreased on average by 0.1 pH units since the industrial revolution (Caldeira and Wickett 2005; Orr et al. 2005; Doney et al. 2009), with open - ocean pH decreasing steadily over the last few decades at a rate of 0.0019 per year (Doney 2010).

With pre-existing relationships to retailers and carriers, a highly experienced management team, one of the strongest brands in the telecommunications industry, strategic partnerships with the likes of Google, Foxconn and Nokia itself, and an aggressive global approach supported by a still significant, if steadily declining, feature phone business, HMD Global may just be able to pull off the resurrection of the decade.

Nevertheless, the U.S. divorce rate peaked in 1980 and has declined slowly but steadily ever since, dropping by 27 percent from a high of 22.6 divorces per 1,000 women three decades ago to 16.4 divorces per 1,000 women in 2009.

The homeownership rate increased sharply during the Housing Boom, but has declined steadily, reversing the prior decade's gains by late 2014.