Sentence examples for points of the decline from inspiring English sources

Viacom attributed four percentage points of the decline to a strengthening dollar.

Performance in maths had declined 30 points since 2003, equivalent to one year of schooling, with 10 points of the decline in the last three years.

Australian students' scientific literacy has declined by 17 points since 2006, equivalent to seven months of schooling, with nine points of the decline in the last three years.

Performance in reading literacy fell 25 points since 2000, or 10 months of schooling, with nine points of the decline in the last three years.

And his tomb wasn't all that either: "The modesty of the size of the tomb points to the decline of economic conditions in this period," says Wegner.

However, UK revenues grew by 1% year on year to £47.8m as the company hailed reaching the much sought-after tipping point of the decline in print revenues being balanced by growth in digital.

The currency's strength, Mr Draghi said on Saturday, accounted for a half percentage point of the decline in the annual inflation rate.

Some, like William Julius Wilson, then of Chicago University, pointed to the decline of inner-city manufacturing to explain the sharp spike in poverty in black inner-city neighbourhoods between 1970 and 1980 in keeping with Kain's logic.

Typical findings consist in the reduction of gray matter and/or an increase of neuronal density pointing to the decline of neuropil (see Introduction).

She's one of several scientists pointing to the decline of Arctic sea ice and offering theories about how the phenomenon could explain the growth of erratic weather in the Northern Hemisphere.

"The terrorist attacks have added 10 to 15 percentage points to the decline," the president of ISI, Ed Hyman, said yesterday.