Sentence examples for fell by a factor of from inspiring English sources

As "fun" gained influence, mentions of "pleasure" fell by a factor of four.

According to the Russian-language site Meduza, from 1990 to 1999, the number of abortions in Russia fell by a factor of 1.8, while the number of births fell by a factor of 1.6; the birth rate in Poland continued to fall after an abortion ban was introduced there in 1993, and in 2003 the Polish birth rate was one of the lowest in the world.

The GP consultation rate fell by a factor of 3.

This statistic fell by a factor of ten, but was influenced by a service utilisation outlier.

The NPFS usage rate fell by a factor of five between the ages of 44 and 65 years.

He said: "Emissions per unit of energy need to fall by a factor of six.

But since Sony offered the first commercial lithium-ion cells in 1991, their costs have fallen by a factor of 12, he said.

This boom-and-bust cycle — the density of midges can rise or fall by a factor of a million within a few years — drew the interest of ecologists like Dr. Ives.

Douglas-Westwood, another consulting firm, calculates that the productivity of upstream capital spending has fallen by a factor of five since 2000, and that it continues to decline by almost 5% a year.Demand for oilfield equipment and services has outstripped supply, which has also increased development costs.

But while computing costs, for example, have fallen by a factor of 10,000 or more, the cost per kilogram of launching a payload into space has remained virtually immobile.That is because there have been few truly new entrants to the market.

Microsoft's Windows operating system is the most popular software platform today precisely because of its openness to developers.Consumers, too, tell us they value our open software standard and the hugely beneficial effect it has had on the cost of computing, which has fallen by a factor of 10m since the microprocessor was invented in the early 1970s.