In spite of such progress, the level of international support is far below that of the commitments made at the Forum of Development Partners held in Brussels one year ago, which amounted to 1.032 billion.

Considering, nevertheless, that much remains to be done in this field,

However, it still is not as prevalent as it was prior to the 1960s.

The other thing is that we ve got much lower costs.

However, there are still less than a dozen frozen zoos worldwide.

Larger objects (such as macroscopic dust grains) are far less common, but would be much more destructive.

Betelgeuse, however, has a much lower density than the Sun.

The latter continues to climb at a rate much faster than that of domestic production.

While combining these two roles is still common, it is becoming less so.

However, these are much less abundant than the primary chemical elements.

While a rising birth rate is contributing to current population growth, it remains considerably below the 'baby boom' peak of 2.95 children per woman in 1964, below the replacement rate of 2.1, but higher than the 2001 record low of 1.63.

The monthly number of deaths due to violence is still high, much too high 100 to 300 but it is substantially lower than in the period before the adoption of the first Security Council resolution on Darfur, in July last year, when mass attacks had led to mass killings.

Although this tendency has been reversed and average annual population growth over the last five years was less than 1 , the demographic transition is still in progress, and Mexico still has a large cohort of youths.

In these age groups the proportion of women with small children is also much smaller.

Economy The economy of Pagan was based primarily on agriculture, and to a much smaller degree, on trade.

(c) Because these emigrants paid contributions for lower professional categories, so that they were much lower.

Progress in achieving the MDGs is far from what was originally envisaged.

The budgets do not indicate actual revenues received, which have generally turned out to be far less.

Women's longer lifespan? The fact that women tend to be much less violent than men? But, no, it wasn't any of these gifts.

But a single market does not require a single social or industrial policy, far less a common taxation policy.

Today, the top few players still earn a very good living, but less than at the peak.

We endorse the Secretary General's appeal for an increase in funding, which continues to be below the level required to deal effectively with the consequences of natural disasters.

Substitution therapy is the least used approach, possibly reflecting the fact that it is only relevant for opioid dependence and that it is still controversial in some regions.

MIT just has a new radio chip that uses far less power than our chips.

For starters, much less time has elapsed since the financial crisis, the recession has been much shallower, and recovery has come faster.

Non core resources more than doubled, while core resources grew at a much slower pace.

Much less effort has been concentrated on steering consumers' choice towards sustainable tourism products.

Staff, especially those who are locally recruited and who commonly earn far less than their counterparts in other agencies, should have appropriate salaries.

The height of the Danube at the beginning of the flood was still below the record level registered in 1895.

For the time being, however, the protection framework for the victims of natural disasters is less well developed than the protection afforded to civilians affected by armed conflict.

Although, the number of Member States that had paid their assessed peacekeeping contributions in full rose in 2004, it was still significantly below the 124 Member States that had paid their regular budget assessments in full.

It turns out it would have been better to start with my face, which was much more painful, and move toward my legs, giving me a trend of improvement over time that would have been also less painful.

I believe also, our generation, our relationship to satisfying what we want is far less tangible than any other previous generation.

The campaign reduced the French and allied invasion forces to a tiny fraction of their initial strength.

Demographics The population density, although it has increased over the last decades, is well below the national average.

Natural gas is much more environmentally friendly than coal, which continues to be the mainstay of electricity production around the world and in the UK.

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

However, the higher number of deaths from road traffic injuries receives comparatively much less attention.

The Fund's annual revenues are consistently and often dramatically lower than the projected needs itemized in the budget.

Average annual GDP growth per capita for the period 1966 2007 still stands at 1.45 in comparison to an average of 5.96 for the East Asia and the Pacific region as a whole.

But we should not get carried away overseas Indians still invest a lower proportion of their resources in India than overseas Chinese do in China.

But, the point is that scuba divers generally stay less than 100 feet deep, and very rarely go much below this, at least, not with any kind of sanity.

In 2007, Belarus's population declined by 0.41 and its fertility rate was 1.22, well below the replacement rate.

The bad rainy season with rainfall far below the annual average occurred in summer 2006 07.