Sentence examples for perceived increases from inspiring English sources

But in Farmingville and other Long Island communities where informal shape-ups of Hispanic men are common, residents have complained about traffic hazards, a decline in quality of life and housing values, and perceived increases in crime.

Concurrently, perceived increases in populations of native small mammals such as plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) have led to poisoning programs, with uncertain impacts on species such as ground-nesting birds.

With faculty-librarian partnership and integrated instruction in a first year course, students showed the largest perceived increases in foundational information literacy skills but struggled with information literacy abilities.

A large fraction of farmers perceived increases in annual rainfall despite instrumental records indicating no significant trends, a finding that may be related to greater perceived water availability associated with irrigation growth.

National surveys reveal weak correlations between actual and perceived increases in violence at the state level, which may lead people to think that moving domestically will not lead to an appreciable increase in safety.

Tienda et al. (2008) find that the perceived increases in diversity at the University of Texas – Austin under the TTP Plan are largely driven by an increase in the enrollment rates of Asian students, while enrollment rates of blacks and Hispanics declined.

So the perceived increase in numbers at this time of year is actually normal colony progression – it's what you expect.

The decision to significantly expand the infrastructure for monitoring political campaigners was taken in the late 1990s, amid an perceived increase in activity by animal rights and environmental campaigners.

The MCC is set to launch a trial with club, university and schools cricket in 2017 to eradicate a perceived increase in excessive sledging and violent behaviour.

First, to a large fast-moving-consumer-goods manufacturer with huge sales in environmentally conscious western Europe, a small increase in costs can be easily offset by a large (perceived) increase in revenues.

I have to make such judgements unaided, being subjected to no such scrutiny by the Observer, so it interests me to read recent correspondence in the Guardian about the perceived increase in difficulty of its crosswords of late.