Sentences with phrase «year decreases slightly»

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Canada's public R&D as a share of GDP has decreased slightly in recent years, going from 0.89 % in 2009 to 0.81 % in 2013.

And while overall life expectancy has decreased, the numbers are slightly less grim for women: female life expectancy remained the same at 81.1 years, while it dropped to 76.1 years for men.

Net investment income of $ 603 million pre-tax decreased slightly from the prior year quarter.

Although the number of homes on the market increased this year, the average multi-million listing price decreased slightly from $ 1.7 million in 2016.

National Western Life shares have decreased slightly more than 6 percent since the beginning of the year.

Following the investing guideline that portfolio risk should decrease — although not too fast — as a person approaches retirement, let's assume ex-ante portfolio risk of roughly 11 percent for the 50 year old, 9.5 percent for the 55 year old and slightly below 8 percent for the 60 year old.

Rising home prices, despite an increase in the national family median income ($ 67,723) 4, slightly decreased affordability in the third quarter compared to the third quarter of last year.

According to Straus, it has decreased only slightly from 1985 when studies showed 90 percent of parents used corporal punishment on toddlers and more than half continued to inflict it on children up to the early teen years.

The spending plan decreases taxes slightly next year.

Sales of spectacles to existing customers may decrease slightly as their eyesight no longer deteriorates regularly, and they no longer need a new prescription every two years.

They note that average health risks decreased «slightly but significantly» over the three years of the study — probably because of the health promotion programs that were available to employees.

After 5 years, total fat intake had decreased in the low - fat diet group (from 40 % to 37.4 %) and had slightly increased in both Mediterranean diet groups (40 % to 41.8 % in olive oil; 40.4 % to 42.2 % in nuts).

Over the past 10 years, I've mastered the technique of «slightly increasing muscle tone» to a body part while «decreasing the size» of that same body part.

Later on in the year I experimented with Kiefer's Carb Nite and at the end of the 10 weeks, I drew another set of labs, which showed that my Free T3 had slightly decreased to 2.8 and my TSH slightly increased to 2.23.

After age 30 or so, it is normal for a man's testosterone levels to decrease slightly every year.

Daily servings of fruits and vegetables for individuals 2 years of age and older remained similar from an average total of 4.5 servings in 1989 — 1991 to 4.9 servings in 1994 — 1996; they decreased slightly to 4.7 servings in 1999 — 2000 (NCI website: http://cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/prevention/).

The first year students made the goal; the second year, math scores decreased slightly.

The number of people getting certification in New Hampshire has decreased slightly over the past three years, though.

Washington — Americans will spend $ 230 billion for education during the 1983 - 84 school year — up from $ 215 billion this past year — while total enrollment in the nation's schools and colleges will decrease only slightly, according to the Education Department's annual «back - to - school» forecast.

The first year of the grant, P.S. 19's Hispanic population slightly decreased to 92 percent from 95 percent; because the school was to close, it was prohibited from recruiting in the 2011 - 12 school year.

The cost per student should decrease slightly to $ 30.10 per student after the 2016 - 17 school year, according to DPI.

Yet even though the country's scores on international exams are above average, they have remained largely unchanged since the tests were first administered in 2000, and the percentage of students who were at least moderately proficient has decreased slightly in recent years.

English tests have shown less significant decreases, and on fifth - and sixth - grade English tests, the cutoff score was in fact slightly higher this year than in 2006.

Production decreased 8 % from the 37,288 Corvette Stingrays built during the C7's inaugural year, but we've been told that the production cycle for the 2014 model year was slightly longer than 2015.

Total sales decreased slightly, from $ 1.9 billion to $ 1.89 billion, compared to the prior year.

The survey also found that while the percentage of Americans who have recently visited a public library in person decreased slightly, the proportion who have used a library website in the past year has increased:

Rumor (and Börsenverein prediction) has it, that the number of consumers reading both print and ebooks will decrease slightly (an estimated 3 %) within this year, while the exclusive use of print books will be significantly on the rise (from 38 % in 2014 to an estimated 45 % in 2015).

Following the investing guideline that portfolio risk should decrease — although not too fast — as a person approaches retirement, let's assume ex-ante portfolio risk of roughly 11 percent for the 50 year old, 9.5 percent for the 55 year old and slightly below 8 percent for the 60 year old.

For the third consecutive year the proportion of total assets held in cash and term deposits decreased slightly (by 2 %).

Total money market assets increased slightly from year - end with growth in separate accounts of just under $ 4 billion offsetting a decrease in money market fund assets of about $ 3 billion.

Despite the fact that average rate for a 30 - year, fixed rate mortgage decreased slightly to 5.5 %, it could not match the record - low rates seen in April.

As markets continue to stabilize and inventory levels return to normal, prices are expected to decrease slightly over the rest of this year.

Over the last ten years, the revenues almost doubled, the earnings per share almost doubled, the net income doubled, the dividend tripled, the number of shares outstanding slighly decreased and the payout ratio slightly increased from 37 to 49 %.

The 30 - year note rate increased slightly to 3.81, up from 3.76 the month prior while adjustable - rate mortgages (ARMs) decreased to 3.9 percent, the lowest percentage since May of 2013.

Although this number is still quite high, it has decreased slightly from the previous year.

According to the Comparative Data maintained by the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC), while overall minority enrollment in veterinary medicine is increasing in the 30 schools of veterinary medicine, the total enrollment of AA in the other 29 School / Colleges is actually decreasing slightly or at best has remained at the same level over the past 20 years.

I went back to school and assumed my travel would decrease this year, but in 2017 I actually traveled ever so slightly more.

This has been decreasing at a rate of slightly less than 1 day per year (you can get the data by Googling Tibbitt to Contwoyto winter road).

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.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

According to Cazenave, these showed around 3.4 mm / year until recently when this decreased slightly to around 2.4 mm / year.

However, this would not change the human contribution to the global warming over the past 60 years, during which time solar irradiance has actually decreased slightly (Figure 1).

Elsewhere on this site there is a graph of overall ocean heat content which is building indicating that while the sst is decreasing slightly the overall ocean is warming, It is likely that this overall ocean warming which has nothing to do with changes to the atmospheric temperature because it is the sea surface and not the deep ocean that is in contact with the atmosphere is what is resulting in the overall rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration which is currenly increasing at 2ppmv / year.

The trends are decreasing and ~ 10 — 18 year trends ar already zero or slightly negative, depending on the temperature index.

EU emissions slightly decreased in 2005 relative to the previous year, by 0.7 percent - the first decrease since 2001.

Ocean energy input decreases and the amount of energy entering the thermohaline circulation declines sending a pulse of slightly cooler water on that 1000 to 1500 year journey.

The number of auto casualties in wealthy nations have waned slightly, especially last year when driving decreased due to high gas prices and economic hardships, but not enough to compensate for the exponential growth in auto dependence and auto deaths in poorer nations.

All three scenarios assume slow rates of growth (1.5 — 2.5 % per year) that decrease slightly after 2035.

That's slightly less than what LG lost mainly on the G5 between April and June 2016, but overall mobile revenues have also decreased year - on - year, to a more than modest KRW 2.7 trillion, or $ 2.39 billion, signaling shrinking smartphone unit shipments.

Although the divorce rate decreased slightly in the 1980s and 1990s, a trend that continues, the number of families with children affected by parental separation each year has remained relatively stable.