Sentence examples for significant upwards from inspiring English sources

The discrepancy was blamed on different statistical methods - the NBS numbers were based on a sampling survey, while the NHFPC's were based on hospital birth certificate data - but officials said both confirmed a significant upwards trend.

It now seems more likely that the ministers will take a wait and see attitude towards price movements, and agree to some sort of mechanism that would allow them to react quickly should prices make a significant upwards - or downwards - move.

Such an effect was shown to be caused by native defects at the Ge surface, which modify the density of acceptor-like and donor-like states nearby the surface with respect to those in the bulk, and thus largely vary the electronic properties through a significant upwards band bending close to the surface.

More recent projections from the Bank to 2015 (World Bank, 2001c, Tables A2.12-14) confirm the view that no significant upwards movements of commodity prices are expected, although this does not exclude the possibility of short-lived cyclical price spikes nor the recovery for some commodities (such as coffee and rubber, see Section 3.6 below) from the very low prices of early 2002.

"Jobs currently dominated by females will have a significant adjustment upwards," he said.

The incidence for ulcerative colitis in the younger age groups showed a non significant trend upwards over the period under study.

Estimates of the frequency of such incidences of taxonomic misidentification are rare, but the few case studies indicate it to be significant, potentially upwards of 20% for some groups [ 10].

Judith Norrington, AoC director of curriculum, said: "Both sixth-form and FE colleges offer pupils from the age of 14 upwards significant vocational expertise, often working in collaboration with schools to teach vocational GCSEs and A-levels, ranging from engineering to business.

While not statistically significant, the change upwards to 69.2%/27.7% at 12 months post-intervention is promising.

The program is highly feasible and, if implemented in this way, would result in significant savings of upwards of €3,000 per patient and year of telemedically supported case management.

Arrow upwards indicates significant change towards "healthy"; arrow pointing down indicates significant change towards "CKD".