Sentences with phrase «very substantial decline»

In the first half of 2017, Grulich says the team saw a «very substantial decline» in new infections — a drop of 35 %.

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In my view, the most likely accompaniment to economic weakness would not be a decline in nominal rates, but somewhat accelerated inflation (meaning that real interest rates might very well fall to negative levels), and possibly substantial weakness in the U.S. dollar.

Although PCAST called for «very substantial mitigation,» its report declined to recommend the idea of putting a price on carbon pollution, a centerpiece of climate legislation that Congress rejected earlier in Obama's term - or the administration's pending decision on whether to permit the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

The authors» summary of the available evidence is very specific: «This analysis of apparent consumption, national dietary surveys and food [beverage] industry data indicates a consistent and substantial decline in total refined or added sugar consumption by Australians over the past 30 years [1980 to 2010]» (my bolding; p. 499 of PDF).

As Peter Molnar, one of the paper's authors, says in an interview with the BBC, ``... as the climate warms, we may not see any substantial effect on polar bear reproduction and survival for a while, up until some threshold is passed, at which point reproduction and survival will decline dramatically and very rapidly.»