Until the mid-1990s, the proportion of children living in poverty had been rising erratically (see chart 3).
Born in 1812, he rose from an erratically middle-class background as it sounds like the beginning of one of his limericks the twentieth of twenty-one children, by his own account.
At the time the world's population was close to 1 billion, having risen slowly and erratically from maybe 300m at the start of the millennium; which in turn was probably not much, if at all, more than it had been in 1AD.
Respiration was accelerated and labored, pulse rate increased initially, and rose directly with the increasing dose; but later rose and fell erratically.
"The data shows the trading those funds do every month has severely disrupted and dramatically changed those markets, causing food and fuel prices to increase, hedging costs for businesses to rise, and prices to swing erratically up and down, which also raises everyone's costs," Dennis Kelleher, president and C.E.O. of Better Markets, said in a statement.
That shortly after takeoff, the C-130 began to fly erratically, alternately dipping and rising: a flight phenomenon known to aviation experts as "phugoid".
More subtly, flexibility about when income and expenses are recognised on balance sheets permits what is known as "income smoothing": managing balance sheets in such a way that a corporation's profits rise smoothly and predictably (just beating the "forecasts" which investor relations departments have fed to Wall Street analysts), rather than fluctuating erratically.
Did her voice rise in pitch, briefly and erratically, in midsentence?
(Patients who follow treatment only erratically contribute to the rise of dangerous drug- resistant strains).
Its main town, Waitangi, consists of a pub and hotel down by the water and on the rise above it a general store, an erratically open fish and chip shop, a petrol station, and perhaps three-dozen homes.
