How To Use Cumulative In A Sentence

The results showed that cumulative OP exposure from about two-dozen foods often exceeded a child's acceptable Reference Dose (RfD).
Weakness number one is a cumulative amateurishness. The spotlight begins to shine on the coalition's flaws and faultlines | Andrew Rawnsley
However, he is at pains to point out that there is no one author of the canonic interpretation of a particular building; it is developed collectively over time, the cumulative, filtered effect of many previous responses.
A Carlow man was fined an accumulative sum of £150 for failing to have a tachograph on his lorry and having no tax displayed on his vehicle.
Figure 1 shows the cumulative absolute changes in bone mineral content/bone width and bone mineral density after ranking each patient by age.

And for the first 16 weeks of 2009, the AAR said U.S. railroads reported cumulative volume of 4,286,128 carloads, which is down 18.0 percent from the first 16 weeks of 2008. Undefined
The accumulative total settlement less than tradition soft foundation consolidation method.
For the last five years, the average bond portfolio has returned a cumulative 46.4%.
None of the unruly activities in themselves would be regarded as seriously criminal, but their accumulative effect is having a real impact on the usage of the community building, and may even threaten its future survival.
Cumulative Density Function By definition, an uncertain quantity is one whose value can lie anywhere along a specified range.
American aircraft mounted an average of two sorties a day apiece, for a cumulative daily total of more than 2,000. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Depression is often caused by the cumulative effects of stress and overwork.
As if fulfilling the portentous predictions of some medieval soothsayer, the first year of this new century has witnessed an unprecedented catalogue of warnings of the cumulative effects of climate change.
In particular, the early parts of cumulative emergence curves at a range of temperatures were superposed when expressed in thermally weighted time, while the late parts diverged.
Yet, people are more prone to make mistakes when sleep deprivation and all the other perplexities of the race take their accumulative toll.
The developmental threshold and effective accumulative temperature of Obolodiplosis robiniae (Haldemann) , an important insect pest of Robinia pseudoacacia, were studied in the laboratory.
American aircraft mounted an average of two sorties a day apiece, for a cumulative daily total of more than 2,000. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
we live in an accumulative society
At the end of the set of nine games, the player who has the lowest cumulative score is the winner.
We have learned that the interface between people and machine (sedentary work) is inherently corrosive, producing cumulative health problems such as eyestrain, fatigue, repetitive stress injuries, chronic low back disorders, constriction of blood flow and breathing, and neck and shoulder strain. PSFK
Over the first 36 weeks of 2009, U.S. railroads reported cumulative volume of 9,549,297 carloads, which is down 18.4 percent year-over-year. Logistics Management Logistics - Best Practices News
If, however, they are part of that once-fashionable system called MBO management by objectives, then they are also supposed to flow up the hierarchy in cumulative fashion, in which case it becomes unclear where overall values enter the picture. The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning
The fatigue life and cumulative damage of ammunition feeding spring in automatic naval gun of medium calibre have been analysed.
We are not goddesses, divas or supermoms any more than we're bitches, shrews, sluts or nursemaids, and the damage of getting it wrong has been accumulative, making the picture of a woman's role seem quite grim and hopeless when it's really far from it. Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women
No significant correlations were apparent between creatinine clearance and either duration of mesalazine treatment or cumulative mesalazine dose.
Reasons put forth include his advancing age, the cumulative effect of thousands of hits and the decline of his offensive line.
The total value of all the cards in the hands of the other players is added to the winner's cumulative score.
The cumulative totals for each column are also entered.
A series of procedures that will cumulatively have such an effect is also covered.
The suggestion of orchestral relationships is contained in the massiveness of the harmonic texture, and in the cumulative effect of the climaxes and crescendi. Edward MacDowell
Quarter point increases sound harmless, but it is their cumulative effect that causes the pain.
Worst of all may be the cumulative or snowball effects on future generations.
The cumulative effect here was rather like being force-fed an endless supply of overrich chocolate cake. Times, Sunday Times
Let us now examine my formula showing your probableaccumulative investment in rental - income property.
At the end of each month, the cost accountant will issue a cost statement to reflect the cumulative cost situation of the current month and year.
He says by creating drugs to replicate the effect, it will take longer for the accumulative damage caused by free radicals to occur.
Tomorrow's campaign, however, is about doing what you can, small changes that make a cumulative difference, so even a windowbox of herbs or a few pots of lettuce is a tasty, enjoyable way to cut down on the food miles of what you eat. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's climate-friendly recipes
Dennis and Erdos think that the fear is well justified by a thousand cumulative trends, beginning with the habitual incivility of teenagers from broken homes and ending with serious and organised crime.
However, this campaign need not be sequential to be effective, the cumulative effect across all regions will help achieve the results we seek.
We first cumulated these returns to obtain the cumulative sum unadjusted and market-adjusted returns for the selected aftermarket time horizons.
The effects will take place very slowly but have an accumulative lasting effect.
I shall introduce its fundamental essence in Chapter 3 under the title of cumulative selection.
Roebling had, in effect, fashioned a single hollow beam as protection against cumulative undulations.
Then the percentages were multiplied by the factors indicated on the x-axis to determine the cumulative effect on reproduction.
The genius of the language has been described as accumulative: it "tends rather to add syllables or letters, making farther distinctions in objects already before the mind, than to introduce new words. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Yeah, and calling it ‘post-hardcore’ makes it sound like some kiddie's genre where they've all not shaved for a month in the hope their cumulative bumfluff makes them look like they're grown up.
These can be avoided by giving lithium only twice daily avoiding the cumulative late afternoon peak of t.i.d. or q.i.d. doses or in a single moderate dose at bedtime. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
The BA source said the cumulative delays could play havoc with the airline's schedules.
The cumulative rewards can be lucrative, and the experience can change lives.
It is simple pleasures, such as a walk on a sunny day, which have a cumulative effect on our mood.
The MSM is covering the Iranian protesters far more than those hundreds of thousands of American protesters I was at 6 different anti invasion marches millions accumulatively. Ganji Speaks | ATTACKERMAN
The weighted scores for each ulcer were then tallied to obtain a cumulative score.
Though single pieces were restrained, the cumulative effect of a group exhibition was to reorganize spatial perception radically.
By ‘scalability’ we mean the extent to which items (in this case features), when ordered according to difficulty, form a continuum that is unidimensional and cumulative.
Based on the cumulative length of every Yankee game Rivera has played in his career and the average amount of time it takes him to deliver a single pitch 1.7 seconds, it's possible to make some back-of-the-envelope estimates about how the all-time saves leader has spent his days. Meet Baseball's All-Time Sit Leader
The cumulative effect of loud noise is damage to the specialised hair cells in the inner ear that are essential to hearing. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, the cumulative impact of temporary disablements is considerably smaller than that of permanent impairments.
With the development of space technology, the cumulative hypervelocity impact damage effects of micro-size space debris and micrometeoroid (space dust) are getting more attention.
But NICE says that this should not be done, lest they have an undesirable cumulative effect. Times, Sunday Times
Marked by the thickened release of "good" from "growing," what we find inscribed from within narrative time is both a phrase for cumulative social improvement and an asymptote of its visionary teleology as well, Tennyson secularized: the immediate "growing betterment" (participial adjective plus noun) as well as, hard on its heels, the "growing [ultimately] good Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
Inclusion of later years into the cumulative lifespan measure diluted the effect.
The disadvantages that they suffer are serious and cumulative. Times, Sunday Times
Comparison of the cumulative isochore distribution on chromosomes 17 to 22 and on the whole human genome. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
And it's that accumulative effect, what I call the gathering momentum of millions acts of kindness which take place on a daily basis, which literally can transform this country one heart and one soul at a time. CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2003
At first, the drug does no harm, but cumulatively its effects are bad.
We want them to emerge solely as a result of cumulative selection of random mutations.
And through studying the system of voting right agency and voting right trust, cumulative voting, senior partners' fiduciary obligation, elimination of the concerned shareholders' voting right...
These effects can usually be avoided by estimating and controlling the cumulative oxygen dose.
The likelihood of suffering from PTSD is cumulative, meaning that if PTSD could be measured so effectively, and thus forfended a soldier who spends a year and a half in Iraq but comes within a tenth of getting full-blown PTSD will still be 90% of the way to PTSD when they return a year later. On the Scene at the Iraq Hearings - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Specifically, Bank of America priced $6 billion in depositary shares representing an interest in shares of noncumulative perpetual preferred stock. BofA Expects to Raise $12 Billion
Researchers used a system of measurement called the cumulative promotion index to find graduation rates.
For example, cumulative per cent germination is probit transformed and then paired with the temperature-time at which the probit was observed.
It is one of his party pieces, and he understands its cumulative power as well as any leading conductor today. Times, Sunday Times
Using the unit cumulative normal frequency distribution we may compute confidence limits for our estimate of beta.
It is simple pleasures, such as a walk on a sunny day, which have a cumulative effect on our mood.
Markov chain models of cumulative damage have been provided a comprehensive descriptions of cumulative damage processes.
However, there is cumulative evidence that for Clarke the soul is merely coextended with a part of the brain. Samuel Clarke
Like in real life, the effects are cumulative and so combinations might result in different effects.
The most common approach to measuring cumulative effects across domains or over time is to use past events and outcomes as determinants of current outcomes.
That said, there are problems that I believe stem from a cumulative lack of confidence.
Lead is a cumulative poison: the body mistakes it for calcium and uses it to make bone, so that large amounts build up.
American aircraft mounted an average of two sorties a day apiece, for a cumulative daily total of more than 2,000. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
He lent me a digital power meter that measures both demand in watts and cumulative energy consumption in watt-hours.
Lists of one to 413 colleges, or others from one to 713 colleges or still others from one to 1,013 colleges are those I define as hierarchical and cumulatively register as useless for one simple reason: they forgot their audience. Robert Franek: College Rankings Fatigue or Just Bad College Rankings Fatigue?
His renal system, in addition to being weakened from the accumulative effect of many infections, also suffered from his overuse of alcohol.
Is there an accumulative good effect or gradual nullification over time?
They shrieked, yelled, blared, shrilled, and boomed the scandals and horrors of the moment in multivocal, multigraphic clamor, tainting the peaceful air breathed by everyday people going about their everyday business, with incredible blatancies which would be forgotten on the morrow in the excitement of fresh percussions, though the cumulative effect upon the public mind and appetite might be ineradicable. Success A Novel
Travel industry sources endorse the success of Disney's cumulative marketing approach.
It is simple pleasures, such as a walk on a sunny day, which have a cumulative effect on our mood.
The ratings firm is mulling an upgrade for both its B3 ratings on the noncumulative preferred securities issued by Bank of America and its Ba3 rating on the cumulative preferred securities issued by its preferred funding unit. Moody's May Upgrade BofA Preferred Shares
Cumulative Density Function By definition, an uncertain quantity is one whose value can lie anywhere along a specified range.
This has several advantages: fragile items will be spared the cumulative damage resulting from repeated handling and removal from storage facilities.
The line of reasoning proceeds as follows: Science is a cumulative activity.
Pollutants are everywhere and their effects are accumulative.
The cumulative effect, over billions of years, is to change the elemental composition of the universe.
Study on Corrosion Cumulative Damage Rules and the Calendar Life of Aircraft Structures.
How faithfully the ancestral lines have met in the latest product, how mysteriously the joint characteristics of body and mind have blended, and how unexpected yet how entirely natural a recombination is the result -- these points are elaborated with cumulative effect until we realize at last how little we are dealing with an independent unit, how much with a survival and reorganization of what seemed buried in the grave. Natural Law in the Spiritual World
The new anthology, however, allowed him to experience a kind of welling up, a cumulative appreciation of how much squalling life Mr. Slate Magazine
Their cumulative effect would give rise to the microwave background radiation.
(Its cumulative, kids!) and the ultrasound is the only thing that ever showed the lump. What do you think of the new breast cancer guidelines? « Dating Jesus
Yet fascination with firepower can be cumulative, leading to a quest for ever bigger and bloodier effects.
This has several advantages: fragile items will be spared the cumulative damage resulting from repeated handling and removal from storage facilities.
The NCVYS chief executive, Susanne Rauprich, said: By failing to take a comprehensive view of the cumulative impact that the cuts agenda places on young people, we are risking unintended consequences that could in the long term prevent a large number of young people, and in particular those that are already disadvantaged, from realising their true potential. 'Savage' cuts to youth spending could rob a generation of chances
In some games certain cards are wild - either the deuces or a joker added to the deck - and in some games there is a cumulative jackpot which is won by a high hand such as a royal flush.
In the last few years, magnetic storage has made a comeback with a 60% cumulative annual growth rate of areal density in magnetic-disk storage products.
Great Regulars: It seems to combine elements both from that safe-as-houses mediaeval form, the sestina, and from the intricate pantoum: its accumulative structure also suggests folk-tales such as The House That Jack Built. Archive 2009-11-01
However, long-term cumulative mortality increased from 4.7% to 7.4% over the same period. Risk of death may linger for trauma survivors
Microgrids that enable "islanded" power generation and distribution will be another important growth market in the coming years, with $7.8 billion in cumulative investment by The Earth Times Online Newspaper
Researchers uesd a system of measurement called cumulative promotion index to find graduation rates.
Combining two or more of these therapies has a cumulative effect on pain reduction.
the benefits are cumulative
Cumulatively, these archaeological discoveries give a very clear picture of Celtic life.
But there are increasing worries at their cumulative impact on the Hunter Valley. Times, Sunday Times
That is why minority groups devote so much of their efforts to campaigning for cumulative voting. Principles of Corporate Finance
Scientific knowledge is cumulative.
Methods:The noise intensity and spectral analysis were monitored with HS6288 noise inspector. Cumulative noise exposure(CNE) was calculated according to noise intensity and working age.
Each improvement may seem trivial, but the cumulative effect can be huge. Times, Sunday Times
Cumulatively, however, the proliferation of obscurantist bunkum and the reaction against reason are a menace to civilisation.
There is a well-marked distinction between the excitable and what I will call the accumulative temperament in patients. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
As if it were something cumulative that accrued around me, like the hardening shell of a crustacean.
To assist other functions to finish quality analysis in cumulative charts ( trend analysis ).
Innu elder and Chief Georges-Ernest Gregoire told Survival International: All the massive industrial 'development' projects that have been imposed on our land in the last forty years have undoubtedly had a cumulative impact on the size of the caribou herd. Georgia River Reindeer Population Dramatically Dropping (PHOTOS)
Neonicotinoids are of particular concern because they have cumulative, sublethal effects on insect pollinators that correspond to CCD symptoms -- namely, neurobehavioral and immune system disruptions. Annie Spiegelman: Beekeepers Ask EPA to Remove Bayer Pesticide Linked to Colony Collapse Disorder
If teacher’s weren’t given up to 200 cumulative sick days, TTC workers weren’t overgenerously paid for not watching people walk through turnstyles and other cushy government jobs, inlcuding those that require very little education, then maybe there would be funds left over for legal aid. Bentley Threatens, “No More Money” : Law is Cool
How long would it be before both offers amounted to the same cumulative total?
This paper addresses the optimization of equally cumulative hazard preventive maintenance(PM)strategy of flow line production system with minimal repair at failures.
The cumulative effect provides an even more impressive testimonial.
The cumulative measures smooth graphs and provide an overall indication of directional changes in forecast accuracy.
That is, cumulative discrimination may be more than an additive process in which the effects of discriminatory incidents sum over time to form larger and larger outcome disparities.
Annual and cumulative production of developed oilfields can be forecasted by HCZ projection model. Good projection result has been achieved in practical application.
You can gaze on stuffed specimens of the animals that were part of the subtle and cumulative process of reaching his eureka. Times, Sunday Times
It is one of his party pieces, and he understands its cumulative power as well as any leading conductor today. Times, Sunday Times
Moss-grown regulation is when new user integral (initiative cent value is - 20 minutes) after accumulative total value achieves 0 minutes, can fall behind successfully.
Each of the four movements that cumulatively created the modern worldview arose in response to a noble quest.
The policy's cumulative cost is about to pass 20 billion. Times, Sunday Times
While normal scientific work is highly cumulative, acquiring a new paradigm is a noncumulative scientific change, a rupture, a break from the past. Scientific Revolutions
The cumulative effect of all these landlord combinations sustained Irish landlordism into the early twentieth century.
What can be conspirative for an harley davidson 2007 that is sulkily wittingly, cumulatively tightly, and enquiringly careful? Rational Review
Initially sympathetic commentators lose patience with him when they view his work in its cumulative invariability.
Worst of all may be the cumulative or snowball effects on future generations.
The bill also brings cumulative sentences, instead of concurrent sentences.
The solid line represents cumulative fruit size and the dotted line the pressure applied to the roots.
Not emphasized, however, was the mottled, hardening effect of any fluorides on teeth or the possible accumulative long-term effect of such additions.
Quarterly, non-cumulative, series 11, pfd., $0.375, non-cumulative preferred share series 12, $0.328125. Globe and Mail
Moss-grown regulation is when new user integral (initiative cent value is - 20 minutes) after accumulative total value achieves 0 minutes, can fall behind successfully.
Quarterly, non-cumulative, series 9 pfd., $0.421875. Globe and Mail
Cumulative Density Function By definition, an uncertain quantity is one whose value can lie anywhere along a specified range.
The images on the bookplate juxtapose, rather unhistorically, several images from the career of Downing as a young actor, but, cumulatively, they indicate his ability successfully to mix classical, canonical drama and popular entertainment.
Needless to say, the cumulative effect of this patchwork approach to narrative is both disconcerting and slightly depressing. Times, Sunday Times
In any liberal democracy a mobilization of bias is cumulatively created by the outcomes of political and social conflicts.
Moreover, the cumulative impact of temporary disablements is considerably smaller than that of permanent impairments.
Bars above histograms indicate the 1st, 5th, 95th, and 99th percentiles of the cumulative frequency distribution.
Yet it's a determinedly quiet play whose impact is cumulative, as we see how all these finely drawn characters are constrained by custom or cash. Times, Sunday Times
Taking the experience of IRCA as a starting point, we estimate that comprehensive immigration reform would yield at least $1.5 trillion in cumulative U.S. gross domestic product over 10 years. Fernando Espuelas: Want Economic Growth? Legalize 12 Million People
Established custom, normative precedent, conduct, and cumulative tradition, is typically based on Muhammad's example.
I am pointing to a systematic and intentional course of study by which children acquire knowledge of the Bible and a catechetical level of theology in a cumulative fashion over time.
He defined a game as a conflict of interests resolved by the accumulative choices players make while trying to anticipate each other.
the eventual accumulative effect of these substances
The cumulative process is directed by nonrandom survival.
One is that, as David Mellor or several members of the royal family might attest, cumulative disclosures acquire momentum.
The Fed ease that triggers the refinancing surge sets into motion the cumulative dynamics of an economic expansion.
The trouble is that the cumulative effect of those clashes build. Times, Sunday Times
Similarly, Fannie Mae issued $9 billion in new noncumulative preferred stock in 2007. How Fannie And Freddie Unloaded Their Trash
Cumulatively, these impairments result in disorientation while ambulating.
Our concern is that the downside risks interact and their cumulative impact could weaken the recovery significantly, possibly triggering stagflationary developments in some advanced economies," Mr. Gurria said. OECD Chief Warns on Growth Risks
The ‘cumulative effect’ Carter speaks of is prefiguration.
The actual travel behavior is better described by the descriptive model of decision based on Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT) in risky traffic networks.
It was cumulative and continuous, suggesting an open-ended adventure in social learning where no type was infrangible.
Each element, each clause, is given new potential instead of functioning accumulatively. Gertrude Stein
I wish they'd just give a little bit more so that you got the sense of a cumulative awareness.
The little village is at the heart of the all-conquering green and gold wearers, and with the accumulative passion and strength of all the scattered little townlands and parishes, the power of the Kingdom is a cut above all the rest.
They are toxic, bioaccumulative, and able to be transported by the movement of air, water, and migratory species to places far from their original point of release.
In a smaller number of contracts in which the Treasury got so-called noncumulative preferred stock, the bank can skip dividend payments without penalty. Three Banks Suspend Their TARP Dividends
Cumulative Density Function By definition, an uncertain quantity is one whose value can lie anywhere along a specified range.
But by and large, the industry doesn't have the kind of accumulative knowledge of making film after film after film after film. 3D Boot Camp: A New Dimension For Live-Action Film
Although the cumulative dip plot method can improve resolution of fine dip variation, it will induce pseudomorph as sampling is not even in depth.
It is morally devastating and corrupts men by cumulative temptation.
Cumulative dramatic structure is all-important in Mercadante, a younger contemporary of Verdi, and the excisions proved detrimental.
The study predicted that ultimately the benefits of immigration reform would go beyond pure tax revenue and would yield at least $1.5 trillion in cumulative U.S. gross domestic product over 10 years. Think Progress » Steve King: Immigrants Aren’t ‘Real Americans If They Love Taxes’
I ascribe to Rabbi Luria's ideas about the pleroma, the tikkum and our cumulative, individual roles in bringing redemption through the simple magic of human acts.
That's a footling difference in any one year but cumulatively ruinous over decades. Times, Sunday Times
Normally, one only meets a non-cumulative several liability where it is annexed to joint liability.
It warned that the cumulative impact of all the measures announced in the budget on work incentives was unclear. Times, Sunday Times
Normally, one only meets a non-cumulative several liability where it is annexed to joint liability.
Explosive magnetic frequency generators consist of a spiral magnatocumulative generator with a small capacitive load.
The cumulative effects of concentrated human activities can create large-scale or long-term environmental consequences beyond the assimilative capacity of the environment.
If you want to read a compendium of religiously engendered "atrocities" read Christopher Hitchens's superb book, God Is Not Great, which reminds you of them in accumulatively shocking detail. Matthew Chapman: At Last A Comic Book Atheist Hero
LEAs are to assess the cumulative educational effect of these decisions.
Two questions spring to mind in this context: firstly, is the effect of these spells of unpopularity iterative, or cumulative? The US and the Nation Brand Index
Science is often described as an iterative and cumulative process, a puzzle solved piece by piece, with each piece contributing a few hazy pixels of a much larger picture. The Emperor of All Maladies
Pseudoscience is ‘fixed’ or ‘closed’ rather than accumulative and progressive; its statements are not changed to agree with new evidence.
The biggest involved cannabis resin with a street value of almost €250,000 and the accumulative value of the drugs in all five raids now substantially tops €300,000.
The expressions are derived which relate the cumulative probability of sidelobe to the range of element position errors, subarray position errors and a phase error in each element.
The cumulative effects of so much stress can take a toll on our bodies.
It is also bioaccumulative, meaning its concentration intensifies as it moves up the food chain. "interview with CNN, Dr. Shaw said this of the toxic soup that is the combination of oil and dispersants:" Shrimpers [were] throwing their nets into water ... [then] water from the nets splashed on [one's] skin .... GlobalResearch.ca
Some of the cumulative effects of ongoing stress are fatigue, sleep problems and poor health. Times, Sunday Times
That's over fifty cumulative hours of air travel.
Data points are cumulative and useful when you have a frame of reference to plug them into.
The cumulative effect of this conscientious blandness denied Lisa a distinctive personality, which limited the fervor of its users.
LEAs are to assess the cumulative educational effect of these decisions.

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