Sentences with phrase «suggested number of drops»

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Reliable housing market statistics are hard to come by, but a number of private surveys of home prices in various cities now suggest at least a halt to the 20 % annual increases, and in some cases precipitous drops.

A study cited by local media suggests the number of Norwegians who listen to the radio on a daily basis has dropped by 10 % in a year, and the public broadcaster NRK has lost 21 % of its audience.

Indeed, a recent study suggests the number of retail gas stations has been slowly dropping over the past two decades, with a «continued lack of profitability» as the driving force behind the decline.

With an overwhelming amount of data flooding into the organization each second, the company needed to find a way to identify and react to specific patterns — «like a certain number of dropped calls in a certain amount of time for a certain kind of customer» — that suggested a customer was about to bolt.

The most recent batch of data from the American Apparel & Footwear Association suggests a large swath of U.S. consumers is opting for quality over quantity: in 2011, Americans spent 4.9 % more on apparel, while the number of items purchased dropped 5.3 %.

However, figures from planning consultancy Urbis on Wednesday showed that the number of units under construction in Brisbane was dropping sharply, suggesting the market was self - correcting and was unlikely to suffer any great supply - demand imbalance.

In the overall market, the number of new listings dropped more than sales, which the board says suggested that market conditions became tighter.

However, a substantial number of people drop out of A.A., and some data suggest that half of A.A. «s new participants do not continue after 90 days.

The co-chair of the Conservative Party, Baroness Warsi, has suggested that UKIP's increase in council candidates has coincided with a drop in the number of BNP candidates.

New Yorkers for Local Approval of Casinos released a poll today suggesting that most New Yorkers support the constitutional amendment that would allow for 7 new non-indian casinos, 54 %, but that number drops if you tell them they won't know where the casinos will be placed or won't have local control over deciding if a casino will be built in your town.

Molly Reynolds, a Brookings fellow in governance studies, said a number of indicators suggest that congressional capacity to process information has continued to drop even after precipitous declines following the Republican takeover of the House and Senate in the 1994 elections.

Now Koenig and his colleagues suggest the lengths of the cycles may somehow cause the numbers of cicadas» predators — insectivorous birds — to drop.

The drop in prevalence after applying morbidity criteria is dramatic, but still suggests huge numbers of people affected - around 1.8 million in the UK and 8.9 million in the U.S..

If in 20 - years the world, through several approaches, some within the MDGs framework and others outside of them, have seem the number people leaving in extreme poverty fall by half then this suggests that it is possible to drop the number further.

The vast majority of this decline is attributable to a sharp drop in the number of multiple subject credentials (usually granted to elementary school teachers), which may suggest that elementary teachers have historically been overproduced in California.

In the past year, I've seen some data that suggests that the number of sales on e-books is dropping.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Goombas are physically weak and are not much of a threat to Mario or Luigi, since a single stomp usually defeats them, although a number of different Goomba variants have emerged throughout the years; however, they do drop hints of being much stronger and more competent than their appearances suggest, as in the case of Captain Goomba.

Professor Nordhaus chooses 3.0 degrees C for doubling of CO2, 9 a value that empirical evidence suggests is greatly exaggerated.10 To illustrate the point, for a climate sensitivity of 1.0 degree, a value suggested by a number of empirical studies, Professor Nordhaus's «DICE» model calculates that the optimum policy's net benefits drop from about $ 3 trillion to a net cost of about $ 1 trillion, and the benefit - to - cost ratio plunges from 2.4 to 0.5.

For one thing, the work of a number of respected scientists suggests that the drop in oceanic pH will not be nearly as great as the IPCC and others predict.

There have been a number of studies suggesting that ground - based data is severely compromised by urban heat island effects, inappropriate placement of monitors that increase recorded temperatures over what they would have been if the instruments had been properly cited, and the drop - out of a large number of rural stations in the 1970s.

Lorne O'Reilly, senior counsel at Dow Chemical Canada ULC in Alberta, suggests the drop in reported usage may come down to what people are reporting as an AFA, a factor of familiarity of what's out there or simply the fact that AFAs have been tried, but in a number of circumstances the traditional hourly billing rate provides the best value.

Many people assume that most of the population is undocumented but the research suggests otherwise and in fact the number of «illegal» immigrants in the United States has steadily dropped since 2007 much of which can be attributed to our struggling economy and increased border awareness.

Looking forward, representatives of the Government of Canada have suggested that they expect the number of invitations issued per round to increase and that the minimum score of those that are invited will likely drop over time.

They can define the nature of what we see, as when you drop a frame onto an image, suggesting, at least, that what is framed is now «art», or when you slap some numbers and lots of indentation onto a patch of text, making it look like legislation.

These statistics do not provide a breakdown as to how many of these claims were multiple claims, but data from the Ministry of Justice suggests that the number of single claim ET1s has dropped by a vast proportion, with some sources suggesting a drop of up to 75 %.

The number of young women completing engineering and technology programs has dropped significantly over the past 30 years, and a report from the National Center for Women & Information Technology suggests that a little more than half of all US women who do enter technology fields leave their employers midcareer.1

Foreign investment activity is clearly down compared to last year, but it may not be as big of a drop as the numbers suggest, says Zeb Bradford, chief investment officer at Seattle - based Metzler Real Estate, an investment advisor that specializes in representing foreign investors in the U.S. real estate market.

EBut the allure of Vancouver may be fading, according to numbers from the company that suggest there was an 81 per cent drop in buying inquiries in Vancouver in August compared to August 2015.