Sentence examples for relatively steeply from inspiring English sources

The first segment, the ramp, dips relatively steeply; slip on it causes uplift of the overriding slice and of the crystalline rocks from deep in the crust to create high relief and the high range.

Indeed, after dipping with the wider economy in 2009, the total value of subsidies or tax breaks received by those extracting or burning fossil fuels climbed relatively steeply and by 2011 was approaching the pre-crash peak of more than $80 billion.

Reactivation preferentially occurs along relatively thick (c. 1 km), relatively steeply dipping (c.

The fixed peg was not abandoned until just before the June G20 meeting, after which the yuan appreciated by about 1%, only to devalue slowly again, until further US pressure in September when it again appreciated relatively steeply, just prior to the September US Congressional hearings to discuss measures to force a revaluation.

The mask response then declines relatively steeply as the probe contrast increases further.

Thomas et al. (2012) considered relatively high Rh values as indicative of comparatively steeply sloping terrain and consequently higher basin energy manifested as high intensity of erosion processes operating along the hillslopes as well as sediment transport capacity.

On the contrary, O'Brien is an assured technician who excels at any line length (including the prose poem), but whose favorite structure is the relatively short, steeply enjambed free verse line first perfected by William Carlos Williams.

At the other end of the spectrum are benthic species with relatively short jaws and steeply descending heads, which directs the jaws more ventrally to forage on material that is under the fish (Cooper et al. 2010, 2011b, and references therein).

It had large reserves of high-quality coal in the Roger mine below the seams already exploited, and although the mines dipped steeply, was a dry and relatively gas-free pit.

In pattern 2 ('later mortality decline'), the MI ratios were relatively stable up to 1990 and decreased steeply thereafter; at this point in time the MI ratios were also much higher in pattern 2 ('later mortality decline') than in pattern 3 ('earlier mortality decline').

Morocco, whose king has traditionally posed as Commander of the Faithful, delivering televised Ramadan sermons, has steeply boosted state promotion of a relatively tolerant version of the faith.