They found that the increase of scores of general intelligence stopped after the mid-1990s and declined in numerical reasoning sub-tests.

The increase will probably decline further this decade as suitable land becomes less available and costlier.

This suggests that the increase in the population growth rate in underdeveloped countries declined somewhat during that five-year period.

And, she said, they predicted that the increase would decline to 10 percent in the near future.

Keep in mind these have been years of peace and economic growth, years when the increase in the national debt should have been declining.

But the increase required to maintain a particular rate of overall economic growth in the rich countries has declined.

The reason given was that since 1976, military spending had been increasing annually 4 percent to 5 percent, whereas the increase in G.N.P. had declined to 2 percent.

He forecasts that this year's increase will decline to about 5 percent.

The increase in normalized time-delays in volcanic eruptions does not decrease at the time of the eruption but gradually declines at about over several.

The allowable increase above the index would decline by 0.5 percent for each of the next three years.