Sentence examples for degrees rise from inspiring English sources

Increases of 4 to 7 percent in the global mean evaporation and precipitation rates might occur for a doubling of the carbon dioxide level and a few degrees rise in global mean temperature.

Stern, chair of the Grantham research institute on climate change and the environment at the LSE, said: "If we are to give ourselves a 50% chance of avoiding a warming of more than 2C, and radically cut the risk of a 4 degrees rise, global annual emissions will need to peak within the next 10 years and then fall steadily, at least halving by 2050".

Similar calculations might be attempted for carbonyl sulfide, but they are likely to show much the same increase (perhaps 20% increase for a few degrees rise in temperature) that was predicted for the carboxylic and acetic acids.

By 1906, he'd calculated that a doubling of CO2 would lead to a couple of degrees rise in average temperatures – not far off modern estimates that converge on around three degrees.

Annual awards of doctoral degrees rose sevenfold between 1996 and 2006.

While the mean income of white women with college degrees rose 48percentt from 1980 to 1997 and the income of Hispanic women was up 42percentthethe income of black women with college degrees rose only 21percentt.

The ANU's vice-chancellor, Ian Young, who is chairman of the Group of Eight, said claims of the cost of degrees rising to $200,000 were "alarmist".

From 1990 to 2000, the share of African-Americans in the 24- to 29-year-old group with college degrees rose to 17.5percentt from 13.4percentt.

The share of 24-year-olds from families in the top-income quartile who hold college degrees rose from about 40 percent in 1970 to 70 percent in 2011.

Achieving higher wages also requires a greater commitment to education; wages for those with college degrees rose 1.4 percent between 2000 and 2010, after inflation.

The natural temperature underground ranges between 56 and 64 degrees, rising according to the number of people working in a space and the length of time it has been occupied.