Sentences with phrase «although around a quarter»

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Electrically - charged cars saw sales jump by 47 percent, although the alternatively - powered market still only accounted for around 6.5 percent of total sales during the first quarter.

The September quarter NAB survey finds that labour cost growth picked up to 0.7 per cent in the September quarter, although respondents expect it to return to around 0.5 per cent in the December quarter.

As a result, the trade deficit has remained at around 2 per cent of GDP for the last three quarters, although it has declined from the peak reached in the middle of 1999.

Although 1 million homes are bought and sold in England each year, meanwhile, around a quarter of sales fall through.

Although revenue fell around 8 percent from a year earlier to $ 2.8 billion, Publicis saw organic growth of 1.6 percent (attributed to change excluding the impact of acquisitions and foreign exchange) for the first quarter of 2018 — attributing that in part to accounts gained in 2017, including Lionsgate, Southwest Airlines and McDonald's.

Correspondingly, the current account deficit has also widened over the past couple of years, although the deficit for the September quarter, at around 6 per cent of GDP (assuming that the net income deficit remains constant as a share of GDP), is likely to have been smaller than in the previous quarter.

In the December quarter, earnings increased by 1/2 per cent, although they remain around 11 per cent lower than a year earlier.

Although the appreciation of the Australian dollar has dampened export prices in Australian dollar terms, the value of exports has edged higher since mid year, rising by around 1 1/4 per cent in the December quarter.

Although this is a much lower figure than the number who fled in Syria, most estimates suggest there are only around a quarter of a million Christians left in Iraq, making the impact of the recent displacement there so much greater.

A quarter of the foreign fighters in Syria are Western, and although Britain is not the biggest contributor (Belgium and Scandinavian countries are), it accounts for around 500 over those over the three years.

Although CLT has been around for a quarter - century, tall wooden buildings are only now taking off.

The styling, that's «premium» (actually it's a bit heavy around the rear three - quarter, although the estate is rather handsome), the cabin is «premium» too (in this case «premium» meaning spacious, pleasant, apparently well made), and the options... here comes the P - word again (the Mondeo is built on a Ford family platform whose kit of bits comes in part from Volvo, hence they can use cool stuff like radar cruise control from the Swedish suite of electronics).

They will be available in Europe in the third quarter of 2014 and although UK prices are yet to be confirmed, they will start at $ 200 in the States, so expect around # 150 to # 180.

The rep I spoke to said that the S2 is due out in the second quarter of 2012, and although the price point has yet to be officially determined, he said that the base model (Wi - Fi only, 16 GB of storage) will probably start somewhere around $ 400, with the dock somewhere in the range of $ 150.

The story as a whole immersed me from pretty much the start thanks to some great writing and terrific performances, although it does go off the rails a bit about three - quarters of the way through when Wei somehow ends up ferrying some idiot around the place.