Substantial reduction in processing effort.

There was a significant 10 percent increase in the caseload over this same period of time.

In addition, the sharp decline in official development assistance continued.

Each degree of trend estimation was given a numerical value ranging from 2 to 2 ( 2 representing a large decrease 1, some decrease 0, no great change 1, some increase and 2, a large increase).

Violence has declined dramatically over the last 500 years.

As a result, human fatalities from disasters have been vastly reduced.

Brazil welcomes the announcements regarding substantial reductions in nuclear arsenals.

The number of new cases of STDs has greatly increased over the past three years.

The decline was significant and recorded in all regions.

Other information requested in the annual reports questionnaire (prevalence among the general population, school population, demand for treatment etc.) is not always available for different years or may be difficult to use for comparative purposes.

The past 25 years have seen the most dramatic reduction in extreme poverty that the world has ever experienced.

Food aid, primarily from foreign sources, was drastically cut this year.

Africa is the only continent in which food production has declined significantly over the past two decades.

Objective 2. Significant reduction in the number of participant reconciliation exception cases.

264. The available data show a considerable decline in poverty in Tunisia.

UNDCP apos s fund balance will sharply decline to 22,682,900 by the end of 1999 (E CN.7 1997 9, table 11).

Prices were also boosted by sharply reduced supplies from Kenya due to drought.

19. In addition, there has been a sharp reduction since 1994 and 1995 in the level of peacekeeping activity.

This, in turn, resulted in substantial currency devaluations and required a sudden contraction of trade deficits.

The Committee believes that considerable under expenditures would result because of the situation in Kosovo.

Association congresses were rather less affected, but budgets were minimized and attendances dropped severely.

It is necessary to use a combination of interventions in order to achieve and sustain significant reductions in disease transmission.

The reform of the Common Agricultural Policy was a success.

The State has had to severely curtail the funds allotted to finance important economic and scientific research.

Economic life in Darfur has been depressed to the extent that declining revenue for Nyala has reduced the town's administrative structures to a point of near breakdown.

Requests for utilization of the Fund over the past two years have declined dramatically for several reasons.

This, combined with excess supply in electronics commodities, led to considerable declines in export earnings.

A number of members also considered that any measures to mitigate or smooth large increases in scale rates should be applied symmetrically to large scale to scale reductions of rates.

These reviews resulted in the reduction of the size of the Disarmament Yearbook by 40 per cent, the reduction of Disarmament Review from 200 to 100 pages and the elimination of some marginal reports as well as reductions in the frequency of non essential meetings.

And mind you, it is not getting just a little more for just a little less.

At the same time, since the Office of the Ombudsman has been established, there has been a significant decline in the number of cases submitted for formal resolution to the Joint Appeals Board at Headquarters a decline of 30 per cent by 2003 and a further decline of 14 per cent by 2004.

It was estimated that Malawi would have to grow by at least 6 per cent a year in order to reduce poverty significantly.

I would be remiss if I ended my statement without requesting a considerable reduction in the percentage of international assistance that goes to the remuneration of international experts.

It is hoped that with these components working in concert, violence against women will be greatly reduced.

Elimination of this summary will reduce the overall length of the report, and thus respond to the efforts of the General Assembly of the United Nations to limit documentation.

The number of Member States within range decreases by more than 50 per cent, from 148 to 64.

In terms of the geographical location of place of residence, the decline has been most marked in urban areas, where the current rate is 55 per cent less than that of 1987.

The largest CH4 emission reductions are expected to emanate from waste management activities reduction of waste disposal in landfills through recycling and waste incineration.

A drastic reduction in pension benefits (although maintaining the non contributory nature of the pension plan)

In their efforts to reduce the impacts of these ERW the Coalition Munitions Clearance program continues to undertake very significant reduction and disposal efforts which are making a substantial dent in the numbers of ERW present.

The latest available data, from 2002, indicate that the country has done well in reducing global malnutrition (in underweight children under five years of age), although the pace of the reduction declined significantly after 1995.

But the population is declining and it's declined fairly substantially, about 21 percent since 1987, when I started these surveys, in terms of number of active nests.

The number of Member States within range falls from 148 to 33, a reduction of 78 per cent.

Sexually transmitted diseases have been reduced but at a negligible and unsustainable pace from 199,188 cases in 1998 to 180,125 in 2002.

Other countries, such as Papua New Guinea and Madagascar have also significantly reduced the annual amounts used.