Sentence examples for steep improvements from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

This represents a steep improvement of 19.5% within 30 min of PV outputs increase from 0 to 0.15 pu.

Given the relatively steep improvement in motoric capacity measured between days 18 and 20, rotarod analysis was extended to 30 days for surviving animals.

The steepest improvements were in District 25 in Flushing, Queens, where the number of students meeting state standards increased by 11.2 percentage points, to 65.7percentt, and District 23 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, with an increase of 8.4 percentage points, to 41.8percentt.