Sentences with phrase «very small decline»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Population and economic activity has been flat to declining in rural areas and small towns, with very few exceptions.

Given the magnitude of this decline, it is very unlikely that we will see anything close to pre-recession levels of small - business lending next year.

And as the wholesale price declines, it's very difficult for small operations to keep up, which is why most of them rely on the strength of their marketing.

Harvey can probably be blamed for a very small part of the 0.2 % decline in August retail sales but he claims innocence for all previous months» reported and revised numbers:

The bottom line: Most parts of Canada will see, very soon, a modest upward trend in housing prices, and those that don't are unlikely to see anything worse than a small decline.

On the contrary it appears that not only are the New Breed a very small minority among parish ministers, but their numbers may now actually be declining.

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

Research has shown that beyond very small schools and school districts, there are few opportunities for economies of scale in education because most of the costs increase with enrollments and are not fixed costs that decline with additional clients.

Honda declined to specify how many additional vehicles the new recall covers but a spokesman said it was «a very small number.»

When prices decline, there is very little downside (at least comparably speaking) when the only thing you can lose is a small down payment.

Investing in private equity to benefit from the illiquidity premium and / or small cap premium is also a possibility as a means to diversify and benefit from the above stated premiums, even though this asset class has become very crowded as yields have declined significantly.

You have a great blog and are clearly very bright and above many of your peers in the finance industry.As you know, when the market goes down, it pretty much takes everything down with it and small caps have been hit even harder.Everyone feels dumb when the prices of their stocks decline and feels smart and vindicated when prices turnaround and shoot up.We are living in challenging times and the macro is likely to affect future stockmarket performance affecting 80 % of all stocks for a long time to come.Stocks as part ownership of businesses are affected by the global economy.In the meantime, most stock prices have been gyrating based more on Mr Market's emotions of how various economies will emerge than anything else.

This makes for very consistent investment returns — add in a nice bump from their (small) equity allocation, and diluted EPS (of 131 cts) held up well vs. a decline in operating earnings (to 136 cts).

«Small increases in the price of oil and natural gas will have a very strong impact on the margin profile on energy companies, because their costs are still declining,» Marks said.

Also note the inventory is still down 19.5 % in Las Vegas (red), but the YoY decline has been getting smaller - and it is very possible that inventory will up year - over-year in Las Vegas later this year.

Still, Merritt Clifton of Animal People, an independent newspaper dedicated to animal protection issues, makes a compelling argument that the population of feral cats in the U.S. is much smaller than is often reported, and may very well be on the decline.

[31] Even a very small number of additional annual female deaths will cause the subpopulation to decline.

The series is super niche and has been declining on sales since Heaven, plus it has always been very small in america.

However, support then abruptly declined when it was clear that the Wii U wasn't a very popular system, despite the game remaining fairly popular amongst its small community of fans chasing down top scores on the leader boards.

But the evidence shows this can't be true; temperature changes before CO2 in every record of any duration for any time period; CO2 variability does not correlate with temperature at any point in the last 600 million years; atmospheric CO2 levels are currently at the lowest level in that period; in the 20th century most warming occurred before 1940 when human production of CO2 was very small; human production of CO2 increased the most after 1940 but global temperatures declined to 1985; from 2000 global temperatures declined while CO2 levels increased; and any reduction in CO2 threatens plant life, oxygen production, and therefore all life on the planet.

«For a very small industry that's still in the developmental state, it's not a good sign when the number of planned projects is declining,» Lucky said.

«The remaining carbon budget for keeping warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius or two degrees Celsius is very small, and staying within this budget requires declining global emissions rapidly and as soon as possible,» Rogelj says.

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.

The size of the reservoirs are relevant in the sense that a 50 % decline in atmospheric CO2 is matched by only a very small percentage increase in ocean CO2 for the pCO2 balance to be reached.

The power of many small bees becomes very apparent when we look at how central pollinators are to the food system, and how devastating a declining bee population could be for humans.

When pipeline advocates talk about rising demand, they ignore some very good news: US oil consumption is on a steady decline, and small measures could reduce that consumption even further.

In China, the # 1 reason for the reindeer population decline appears to be inbreeding, which isn't surprising since the total populat is split into small groups that have very few matin choices, and thus little genetic diversity.

The dispensaries did make out with a very small victory, with the court declining to make an order that the properties be closed down in the event that the dispensaries failed to adhere to the injunctive relief ordered and directing the police to enforce said closure.

Data released today by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) show that interest rates on mortgages for new homes declined in September, but the changes were very small.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.