Sentence examples for steep improvement from inspiring English sources

In particular it would be useful to determine if more than 10 acupuncture sessions would improve outcomes, as from the graph in Figure 2 the steep improvement of the acupuncture group appears to level off quite abruptly when treatment ceases.

The steep improvement last year occurred after students in New York City and elsewhere performed abysmally on the test in 1998-99, the first year it was given.

The graph reveals the steep improvement in Labor's position in the betting markets over the last month, and in the last week in particular.

But the steep improvement now required means the ambition is doomed after the latest results were almost identical to the OECD's 2012 tests.

The combined effect means that students from better-off areas are still two-and-a-half times more likely to attend university than those from the lowest participation areas – but a steep improvement from 2012, when they were more than three times more likely.

To find the drastic bodily transformations that they thought must have resulted from a steep improvement in nutrition, the researchers had to go back 1.9 million years, when humanity's ancestors shifted from being small-brained, jut-jawed australopithecines to being cortically enhanced, small-faced and modestly dentitioned Homo erectus, the immediate predecessors to modern humans.

They include Middle School 51 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, one of the only city schools to show steep improvements in both math and reading, as did the Professional Performing Arts High School in Manhattan.

The Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, influential Democrat Carl Levin said Thursday he would not support sending more combat troops to Afghanistan unless there were steep improvements in the training and capabilities of Afghanistan's own army and police.

Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy proudly noted that the passing rate of New York City's fourth graders on the state math exam had jumped by 5.6 percentage points, a steeper improvement than that of fourth graders statewide.

Ernie Davis's recent progress will not get it off; it just missed its target on the reading test in 2002 and will have to show even steeper improvement in each of the next two years.

This implies that patients with higher IQ scores had a steeper improvement slope than those with lower scores.