Sentence examples for annual shift from inspiring English sources

House prices edged up by 0.2% in July, taking the annual shift in prices to -0.4%, a result of sluggish demand for homes combined with a gradual rise in the supply of available properties, according to Nationwide building society.

(This is because a moving Earth should produce a parallax, or annual shift, in the apparent positions of the fixed stars, unless the stars are very far away indeed).

The legislative session is over here in Juneau, and the city has made its annual shift to tourist season, when giant cruise ships line up in Gastineau Channel and thousands of passengers debark into rows of shops by the docks.

Annual variation in rainfall peaks in both areas is linked to the annual shift in the position of the ITCZ and associated monsoon winds from the coast inland to around 10°N (Sultan and Janicot 2000; Janicot et al. 2008).

As reliably as the other signs of seasons turning comes the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's annual shift in focus to influenza.

The first parallax measurement of Wolf 359 was reported in 1928 from the Mount Wilson Observatory, yielding an annual shift in the star's position of 0.407 ± 0.009 arcseconds.

"The Original Amateur Hour," with Ted Mack as host, began on the DuMont network and ran sporadically in prime time, with near annual shifts to competing networks, until 1960, when CBS scheduled it on Sunday afternoons until 1970.

There was a large amount of tree-to-tree variation observed in the radial profiles of wood density in the current study as well as a number of distinct annual shifts (Figure 2), which meant that only around 18% of the variation in wood density could be explained using the fixed effects included in the model tested.

Influenza A, influenza B, and RSV all showed strong winter and spring time seasonality, with annual shifts in the timing and height of peak activity during the study period (Figure 2).

Bêche and others (2006) found that annual shifts in community composition were much larger between years than between season.

Vector-borne disease often is highly seasonal because of annual shifts in vector activities and abundance (4 ); however, seasonal patterns based on serologic data must be interpreted with caution because of long-term antibody persistence in some recaptured animals (S.N. Bevins, unpub. data).