Sentences with phrase «which declined in recent years»

In fact, there are signs that the proportion of uninsured motorists, which declined in recent years, may climb to 18 percent in 2010.

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Even Atlantic Canada, which has battled declining enrolment in recent years, saw its undergraduate numbers rise by 1.5 %.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins attributed those declines to recent troubles in the global markets, which have been in steep decline since the new year.

They are aimed at combating recent trends in cigarette smoking, which has been in decline over recent years.

The rate at which Americans start businesses has been falling for more than three decades, and while the decline has slowed in recent years, it has shown no sign of reversing.

Although inflation compensation, which has returned as an accurate measure of inflation expectations, plays a key role in the recent rise in longer - term rates, an earlier post illustrated that the primary reason for the longer decline in the 10 - Year Treasury note rate is the real, or inflation - adjusted, yield, as measured by the rate on 10 - Year Treasury Inflated Protected Securities.

Further, FFIV's recent revenue growth has been modestly below expectations, which has led to a 3 % decline in consensus revenue expectations for FY17 and FY18 over the past year.

Remarkably, this has resulted in a near 13 % year - over-year decline in wireless telephone services prices, which at the margins is weighing on recent CPI readings.

Over five million manufacturing jobs were lost just during the eleven - year period following the turn of the millennium, which indicates that the decline has accelerated in recent years.

The Guttmacher Institute reported Tuesday (Jan. 17) the rate fell to 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women 15 to 44 years old in 2014, which is a decline of 14 percent since its most recent survey in 2011.

Ranchers have been especially vocal in opposing protection for the wolves, which they say are to blame for increased livestock predation as well as the decline in the region's elk herds in recent years.

Despite an apparent decline in opportunities for information technology professionals in recent years, the job market for computer science Ph.D. s remains strong, with an unemployment rate below 1 %, according to the latest Taulbee Survey from the Computing Research Association (CRA), which was released in May.

The volume of ice divergence has doubled since 2000 due to a more mobile ice cover as multiyear ice has declined, which can explain the drastic ice reduction in the Arctic Ocean in recent years.

The announcement deepens the sense of transition for the U.S. particle physics community, which has faced a steady decline in funding and support for advanced accelerators in recent years.

The policy statement also makes a commitment to reverse the decline of state funding of R&D which, in recent years, has dropped from more than 1 per cent of GDP to less than 0.5 per cent.

The time at which this decline in levels begins is still much debated amongst experts but recent research seems to indicate that it can begin as early as 25 - 30 years old.

The gap in workforce participation between men and women in my analysis, which followed workers beginning when they were age 25 in 1982 - 1989, may well have declined in more recent years.

NEA has called on Congress to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self - Determination Act, (SRS) which provides critical assistance to rural districts whose funding depends largely on federal timber sales, which have declined precipitously in recent years.

As austerity measures have rolled out in recent years, numbers of support works have declined, class sizes have increased further, all of which seems to cause the perfect storm of poor teacher retention and the concomitant low teacher recruitment.

The school is among the state's leaders for math instruction time, which has increased steadily in Illinois in recent years while English instruction minutes have declined, according to recently released data from the Illinois State Board of Education.

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The company has just announced they are closing their Taipei 101 outlet, the largest bookstore in Taiwan which opened in 2004, as it has suffered from a continuous decline in sales in recent years.

The number of bookstores at physical locations fell almost every year from 1992 to 2014 (from 13,136 establishments to 6,888), but the decline has slowed in the most recent years for which data are available.

In recent years these stores have managed to implement lifestyle products such as wine glasses, pillows and bath robes, which have helped offset the decline in book saleIn recent years these stores have managed to implement lifestyle products such as wine glasses, pillows and bath robes, which have helped offset the decline in book salein book sales.

The recent correction in Hormel's stock price appears to be driven by short - term fears (declining turkey prices, which are near a seven - year low) rather than issues that could affect Hormel's long - term earnings power (Hormel's other businesses remain stable to moderately growing, and management reaffirmed 2017 guidance).

To the extent that we continue to force add - on effects in the form of declining employment and capital investment, we also reduce the likelihood that profit margins and returns on equity will recover to the historically above - average levels which have prevailed in recent years.

This is especially the case for African penguins, which have shown significant declines in recent years and have been reduced to a handful of breeding colonies on islands off the coast of South Africa and Namibia.

According to the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO), APD — which was first introduced by British Government in 1994 - has been a contributing factor to a decline in the number of British holidaymakers visiting the Caribbean in recent years.

FlatOut 4: Total Insanity is an entry into the destruction sub-genre of racing games, one that has seen a bit of decline in recent years, it's been 6 years since the release of the previous title in the series, which was met with dismal reviews.

With the rise of the internet, there has been an undeniable decline in the public's appreciation of printed matter — a decline mirrored by the waning public interest in NASA's space program, which has consequently received significant budget cuts in recent years, making the shift to privatized and corporate space travel an encroaching reality.

«Our acquisitions have been declining over the past few years, resulting in more pressure to secure funding from local private trusts and the NACF (both of which have been essential for recent purchases of work by artists such as Rachel Whiteread, Frank Auerbach and Richard Deacon).

The credible scientific studies I can find indicate that the observed Arctic sea ice decline has accellerated in recent years, which would make a linear interpolation a really lousey estimate with which to predict the future.

Here's the main graphic, which shows the dramatic recent expansion of open water (dark blue) at the peak of summer melt, and the decline in thick old ice (white is ice that is over five years old) and thin ice formed the previous winter (light blue).

2008 data shows emissions have declined since peaking in 1999, but in recent years have oscillated around a flat trajectory, which the Commission expects to continue through 2010.

These costs do not represent the capital or operation and maintenance costs for the resource (which have been declining rapidly in recent years), but rather the cost of accommodating the resources in the current system.

Unfortunately, in recent years Null fell into declining health, contracting a serious case of consensus from which Null never fully recovered.

In recent years, Maine lobstermen have reported record lobster catches, which researchers believe may be related to warmer water temperatures in the south that force lobsters north as well as fewer predators in the Gulf, like cod, which have been in decline due to overfishinIn recent years, Maine lobstermen have reported record lobster catches, which researchers believe may be related to warmer water temperatures in the south that force lobsters north as well as fewer predators in the Gulf, like cod, which have been in decline due to overfishinin the south that force lobsters north as well as fewer predators in the Gulf, like cod, which have been in decline due to overfishinin the Gulf, like cod, which have been in decline due to overfishinin decline due to overfishing.

As a result of this major effort, Mexico's total oil production, which has been on a sharp decline in recent years, is projected to turn a corner around 2020 and then rise to 3.4 mb / d by 2040, up almost 1 mb / d from today.

The Norwegians also noted very little ice around Svalbard in the early 1920's so who is to say that this recent decline isn't just part of a longer 80 - 100 year cycle, probably led by changes to ocean currents (which would explain why the Arctic has warmed, unlike the Antarctic continent).

It turns out that the positive predictive value of that test is rather meager, which is one reason, among others, why the popularity of PSA testing has declined in recent years.

Over-exploitation of the giant Geysers steam field has caused a decline in geothermal capacity in the USA in recent years, which has been partly offset by important capacity additions in other countries.

Which is why projections for precipitous declines in the price of batteries — as much as 40 — 60 percent over the next five years according to one recent report — are such good news.

Due to the way in which these various cycles have been relative constant over the last 35 million years, the earth has settled into a relatively recent cycle of approximately 100,000 year long declining climates and ice ages, and brief 12,000 - 18,000 year long warm spells we call inter-glacial periods like our current Holocene.

And in East Africa, scientists found that a decline in wildebeest populations in the Serengeti - Mara grassland - savanna system decades ago allowed organic matter to accumulate, which eventually led to about 80 percent of the ecosystem to burn annually, releasing carbon from the plants and the soil, before populations recovered in recent years.

Already, it has experienced more than a 50 percent decline in a little over 20 years and the outlook for the future is not good.Previously, the most recent study survey conducted on the pig - nosed turtle — which is found only in Papua New Guinea — was led by Mark Rose between 1980 and 1982.

Having worked in Big Law for the last six years, this was one of two recent posts that validates my experience in Big Law amid a lot of noise about its decline (the other was a great article by Josh Kubicki of Seyfarth Shaw LLP, which appeared in the OBA's JUST «Debatable» column in June).

Writing in response to recent industry surveys, which confirm the legal industry's increased interest in alternatives to the billable hour (aka AFAs), reporter Chris Johnson noted pure hourly billing is in decline and is expected to decline over the next few years.

Moreover, the rate at which Canadian courts have been imprisoning offenders has risen sharply in recent years, although there has been a slight decline of late...

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The Rainy River court district also includes Fort Frances and Atikokan, Ont., all of which have seen declining numbers of court days with the decreasing availability of judicial resources in recent years, says Morgan.