Sentence examples for steep rate of from inspiring English sources

But "core" inflation, excluding food and energy prices, also climbed at a fairly steep rate of 2.1percentt.

In recent months, the steep rate of economic decline has stabilized, and last-minute school shopping in this month will probably lift sales.

Enemies accused him of preying on affluent elderly people in the hope of being remembered in their wills, and of "sucking the provinces dry" by lending money at a steep rate of interest to those in the distant parts of the empire, including the unhappy inhabitants of Boudicca's Britain.

Although the steep rate of increase in the cost of New York City hotel rooms has been slowing with the economy, the occupancy rate in the city's 60,000 hotel rooms remains strong, and "the high end of the hotel business just had a tremendous year," Mr. Hennessey said.

Prior to the attainment of a mud pressure of 35 MPa, the lower bound compressive strain increases at a rate of 5.8e−7/MPa, then escalates sharply to a steep rate of 2.03e−5/MPa beyond this value (Fig. 21a).

Although a decline in net ownership is not uncommon if no continuous distribution mechanism is in place, the steep rate of decline in Bioko may be related to a rapid expansion of new houses on the island (C. Schwabe, unpublished data).

Our recent results in the region, in which every country where we work produced steep rates of growth, demonstrate this demand; our data also show that implant service delivery, among other contraceptive methods, still has room to expand.

Steep rates of discounting, at an extreme, have been proposed to be a vulnerability factor to develop impulse control disorders (e.g. Reynolds 2006; Scheres, Tontsch, et al. 2010).

The prices consumers paid for goods and services fell a surprising 0.3percentt in July, the steepest rate of decline in 15 years as gasoline prices plummeted, the government said.

The Times's weekday circulation has been nearly halved since 2000, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, falling to just over 600,000 — a far steeper rate of decline than at many other big dailies like The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press and The Washington Post.

Retrospective examination of mortality data from the 1940s and 1950s show that mortality due to hypertensive heart disease declined, with a steeper rate of decline in the early 1950s.