"There's been a steady but gradual uptick in employer activity".
The past two years, however, have seen a gradual uptick in his earnings once more, though not to 2010 levels.
Their model generates hundreds of estimates, creating visual "spaghetti," with some trajectories indicating a sharp rise in sickness and others a gradual uptick or downward trend.
Though the waterfront community is relatively small — about 100 year-round residents — there has been a gradual uptick in home sales the past few years.
Nonetheless, economists noted a gradual uptick in the pace of inflation this year that they said would need eventually to be arrested -- even though it largely results from higher prices for a volatile item like gasoline.
Towards the end of 2017 and for much of the first quarter of this year, both oil futures benchmarks – i.e. Brent, the global proxy gauge, and West Texas Intermediate, the keenly watched U.S. contract – oscillated in very predictable ranges marking a gradual uptick to sub-$70 per barrel for the former, and sub-$65 for the latter by end of Q1 2018.
The uptick would be gradual and only up to $50, perhaps $55 tops, because of the copious amount of oil in onshore and offshore storage which needs to be factored in.
Analysts offered a cornucopia of reasons for the continuing strength of the housing market: people rushing to buy before prices and interest rates increased further, a gradual relaxation of lending standards, an uptick in inventory, a smaller share of foreclosures in the sales stream and large-scale buying by investors looking to put houses on the rental market.
The uptick in housing demand from the gradual job market recovery will be joined by a powerful demographic trend, as millions of Americans who doubled up with roommates or stayed in their parents' basements move out to form new households.
The chart showed that an uptick in advertising spending that coincided with Path's gradual rise up the overall charts.
