Sentences with phrase «years declined steadily»

[The Hockeystick graph purports to show that temperatures of the last thousand years declined steadily — until the 20th century, when there was a sudden large rise.]

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At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.
The decline is noteworthy because you'd think the stars were aligned for a boom in the construction of dream homes: the economy has been churning out jobs steadily for a year, real - estate prices are high, and interest rates are low.
Oliver Camilo, the company's co-founder and CEO, declined to disclose revenue or terms of its celebrity partnerships, but he says AppMoji reached profitability earlier this year, and has been growing steadily each month.
The school's full - time MBA enrollment has been steadily declining for years, falling to just 380 from more than 1,500 in 1990.
But for all the «crazy experiments» from central banks, it's interesting that global GDP has been either very stable or steadily declining in recent years, he said.
Ratings for the annual Grammy Awards had been declining steadily for several years.
The number of companies going public has been steadily declining over the years, and many startups are opting to stay private longer, in part because private capital has become abundant.
«Since we began working ten years ago to pass effective tobacco measures around the world, global sales of cigarettes have declined after a century of steadily increasing.»
Their answer: 2,235, a gain of about 6 % over today's levels — not too bad, considering that expectations for corporate earnings next year have been steadily declining.
Never mind that crime rates have been steadily declining for years.
Capitalization rates, despite a recent uptick in some markets, have declined steadily for several years.
After declining between steadily from 2007 to 2012, emissions increased each year from 2013 to 2016 to 1,783 MMTCO2.
Some critics of the program alleged it would cause a spike in inflation in the U.S. dollar, but inflation peaked in 2007 and declined steadily over the next eight years.
The European Union is experiencing a cyclical recovery and the unemployment rate has been steadily declining over the past two years.
As the following chart illustrates, cumulative funding for ICOs has declined steadily since the beginning of the year.
It turns out that although real median incomes are only slightly higher than they were 30 years ago, this statistics masks a U-shaped trajectory in which incomes declined during the 1980s and 1990s and have since grown steadily:
The opportunity arose, I argued, because it seemed to me that the oil environment was finally, in fact, ready to improve — oil stockpiles were finally dropping below 5 - year averages and declining steadily, and rig counts were due to decline as well, after so many months of sub-profitable oil prices.
Over the past year, despite strong U.S. shale production growth, global inventories have steadily declined.
Such a hypothesis, in our opinion, does much to explain the incongruity of a declining gold price while fundamentals for paper currency, and the US dollar in particular, obviously deteriorate; while demand for physical gold has exceeded new mine supply for several years running; and while above - ground 400 - ounce.999 gold bars located in London, New York, and other financial capitals (in cohabitation with speculative trading activity in paper markets) have steadily dwindled and disappeared into Asian financial centers reformulated as.9999 kilo bars.
A clear, although gradual, shift has occurred in respondents» medium - term inflation expectations, with the share of respondents expecting inflation to be less than 3 per cent per annum declining steadily since early last year.
Venezuela is home to the world's largest crude oil reserves, but its production has steadily declined to a 13 - year low after companies halted some operations because of unpaid bills.
From around that time, fixed lending rates for both businesses and housing declined steadily; in June 2003, 3 - year fixed business rates reached their lowest level since comparable data were first collected in September 1994.
While Amazon has steadily increased its global ad budget to 3.7 % of total sales in the last nine years, the majority of its brick - and - mortar competitors now devote a smaller percentage of their declining annual sales to advertising.
However, its influence had steadily declined during the last years of the Weimar Republic and, as Rychlak has shown, it was almost eliminated by the Nazis in March 1933.
Even though homicides have declined steadily for the past several years, that all changed in 2015.
Metaphorically, it is like marrying a woman whom you love and are devoted too, but who after around fifty years of marriage (i.e nine years ago) tragically but steadily declines into dementia.
His play has declined steadily over the past 2 - years.
Still, as Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers wrote a few years ago in their study «The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,» women have become steadily unhappier since 1972.
Teen pregnancy has been steadily on the decline for years now.
Rates of normal birth have been declining steadily over the past 20 years, despite the evidence of the benefits to mother and baby.
Though Zach was a top ten name for over a decade, it has been pretty steadily declining for a few years.
«The revenues have been declining, steadily for the last couple of years due to the shrinking gaming market.
Greater investment in neighborhoods has increased commercial activity, and the years of abandonment and decline have steadily reversed.»
«We feared that such chemicals, by steadily causing a little damage to the airways day after day, year after year, might accelerate the rate of lung function decline that occurs with age.»
A University of Illinois study drawing from over 20 years of data shows that sulfur levels in Midwest watersheds and rivers have steadily declined, so much so that farmers may need to consider applying sulfur in the not too distant future.
In fact, production rates have steadily declined from a maximally productive period between 3 and 6 billion years after the Big Bang, when galaxies formed about 10 times as many stars (going by the total mass of the stars created) each year than today.
They have been declining steadily ever since 1978 — which is just what you'd expect if the sulfur dioxide came from an eruption in that year.
The first explanation is based on global climate change: Scientists have shown that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels declined steadily since the beginning of the Cenozoic Era, 66 million years ago.
From a decline in the spore counts, they conclude that the megafauna population dropped steadily between 14,800 and 13,700 years ago, making them rare 800 years before any comet strike.
Over the past 200 years, agriculture, oil and gas drilling, livestock grazing and development have reduced sage grouse range by nearly half, and sage grouse populations have steadily declined.
«We feared that such chemicals, by steadily causing a little damage to the airways day after day, year after year, might accelerate the rate of lung function decline that occurs with age.»
While viral and bacterial infections have declined over the last 60 years, autoimmune and chronic inflammatory disorders are steadily climbing.
The probability of receiving a response peaks when the man is 7 - 8 years younger than the woman, and steadily declines from there.
American movies today are in a worse state than ever, to judge by the recent Academy Award nominations — the sorriest list of honorees I've ever seen in a 90 - year - old process that has, for at least the past dozen years, steadily declined.
Though last year's Mulan put their animation grosses back on the upswing, box office for Disney animated features had been in steadily decline since The Lion King's high - water mark in 1994.
But over the same period, the performances of 15 year olds in PISA have declined steadily.
After several years of decline, the number of American children living in poverty has been rising steadily since 2000, a study found.
Meanwhile, public school enrollment steadily declined, dropping by more than 30,000 students over 30 years.
However, this is not due to increased rate of academisation in primary schools, as growth in the proportion of schools becoming academies has been steadily falling across both phases in recent years, but the decline in growth in the secondary sector has been steeper.
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