Substantial reduction in processing effort.

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

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The reform of the Common Agricultural Policy was a success.

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

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

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.

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

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.

There have been considerable reductions in nuclear weapons arsenals.

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.

Violence has declined dramatically over the last 500 years.

Since establishing a satellite based early warning system for cyclones, for example, his Government had been able greatly to reduce the number of victims.

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

The Panel also noted that the nomination for 2006 represents a significant reduction on the quantity exempted for 2004, and was about 15 per cent below actual use in 2004.

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

We have made many commitments to end oppression, radically reduce poverty and protect our environment.

Moreover, poor countries lost substantial export income because of agricultural subsidies in the rich countries.

This change had already enabled the Committee to reduce substantially the time required to complete the examination of communications.

A massive programme is needed to reduce poverty in a meaningful way.

Despite those findings, WFP had recently announced that it would substantially reduce its assistance to the Saharan people.

The security situation has also improved outside the camps, with substantially fewer injuries and deaths reported.

Prenatal mortality decreased considerably in 1992 2001, whereas most of it was due to the drop in neo natal deaths.

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.

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

Parties therefore had an obligation to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions dramatically, and to fulfil the other promises they had made.

The substantial reduction in these outflows is a result of the 25 per cent decrease in programme expenditure compared with the previous biennium.

For example, participants noted that the Kimberley Process had significantly reduced the illegal trade in rough diamonds by up to 70 per cent.