Sentences with phrase «with over a quarter»

The playmaker has been at the heart of Malaga's outstanding form this season, helping the club to qualify top of their Champions League group (in their debut season in the competition) and to fourth place in La Liga with over a quarter of the season gone.

While the official team picked by UEFA did not include the Arsenal star but did feature his international team mates Toni Kroos of Real Madrid, Jerome Boateng and Joshua Kimmich of Bayern Munich, Squawka.com have reported that Ozil won the fans vote hands down with over a quarter of all the votes polled.

Meanwhile, the candidate for whom I voted in the leadership election and who won an incredible 60 % mandate with over a quarter of a million votes is subject to an attempt to keep him off the ballot paper.

With over a quarter of a million tenants living in overcrowded homes and 2 million on housing waiting lists, we need to end the spare room subsidy and ensure a better use of social housing.

With over a quarter million people in this city, but we know that only one of them may be the right person for you.

In contrast, there was more concern over the ability to fund learning resources, with over a quarter of secondary schools showing a low level of confidence.

Within two years, the team was the largest in the school, with over a quarter of the student body running, jumping, and throwing for us, and when I left, nearly everyone mentioned the creation of the team — which to me was the most obvious idea possible — as my defining accomplishment.

85 % of schools in the top 500 admit fewer FSM pupils than live in their catchment area, with over a quarter having a gap of five percentage points or more.

In fact, even basic awareness of the Prevent duty was low with over a quarter (26 %) saying they hadn't even heard of it.

As an indie author with over a quarter of a million words published, I've made plenty of mistakes and learned many lessons along the way.

They also have a very large Facebook page, with over a quarter of a million fans, and any promotion you do with Freebooksy will get shared on their Facebook page as well as with the subscribers of that genre.

As an indie author myself with over a quarter of a million words published in four books, I've had my share of ups and downs.

As a banker, and someone with over a quarter million in debt, I can tell you the the weight - gain analogy is very accurate.

The 50 - 64 age group fared particularly well, with over a quarter claiming a net worth of # 500,000 +.

The rest were foreign carriers led by British Airways with over a quarter million miles in deals in the past six months alone.

With over a quarter million attendants filing through, plenty of the exhibitors have models at their booths fighting to the attention of visitors.

With over a quarter of a century of experience in the art of cross-examination, contested cases are his passion.

With over a quarter of students admitting to mental health problems, there is a high chance you know someone who is suffering.

The increase comes after the Hays UK Salary & Recruiting Trends Guide 2017 revealed nearly three - quarters of East Midlands employers said they would be adding to their workforces over the coming year, with over a quarter stating operations and technical skills are the hardest to recruit for.

The result is an effective vehicle that rises above the noise to communicate with over a quarter million followers.

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Nanos Research, which conducts a weekly survey for Bloomberg, found that almost a quarter of respondents at the end of September said their personal financial situation had worsened over the past year, compared with about 20 per cent in early August.

The transport bottlenecks have increased the discount buyers take for Canadian oil over U.S. light crude and Cenovus said its differentials averaged $ 24.28 per barrel in the first quarter, a 67 percent jump when compared with last year.

On Tuesday, Calgary - based Calfrac Well Services Ltd. reported it more than doubled its first - quarter revenue compared with the same period last year and is reactivating equipment it parked over the past three years.

Statistics Canada predicts that the proportion of seniors could, by 2031, equal the level now seen in Japan, which has the oldest population in the G7 with one - quarter of people over age 65.

Anything, these days, that's over a quarter century old has got to have the sense of getting a little long in the tooth, but with that comes total brand identity.»

«The macro environment in Canada and the U.S. remains supportive and developments over the past quarter have provided us with additional upside,» TD chief executive Bharat Masrani said on a conference call discussing its results.

Nearly one - third of HR professionals and managers claim boomerang employees have a stigma hanging over their heads that they might leave again, and more than one - quarter say these employees may have the same baggage they originally left with.

It's an area where Apple has struggled in recent years, with sales down 14 percent year over year last quarter.

Data from the Housing Industry Association has shown residential construction already beginning to increase in WA, with new home builds increasing by just over 8 per cent in the September quarter.

Though «Daily Show» host Trevor Noah's ratings ticked up in the first quarter of the year and «The President Show» resonated with audiences, if not with some critics, network representatives still remember fondly Stewart's and Colbert's domination of the 11 - t0 - midnight time slot among key demographics pined over by advertisers.

The company reportedly finished 2014 with a 26 % gain in revenue in the year's last quarter, while over four million people subscribed.

But trade flows appear to be shifting: the U.S. ran a deficit with Canada over the three most recent quarters for which data are available, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The region «has been a consistently good performer for us over the last several quarters and we will continue to invest our global sales resources to drive opportunities there,» Wehner said in an interview with Reuters.

So it doesn't take a lot, even if you're a small company, to find some way to solicit feedback from either a large group of your customers through an email campaign with a SurveyMonkey link or even just kind of talking to customers on a regular basis over the fourth quarter to get some feedback.

Awtani added provisioning requirements of public sector undertaking banks have increased with the surge in non-performing assets (NPA) and that there still exists stressed loans in the system which will probably be recognized as NPAs over the coming few quarters.

Royal Dutch Shell fell over 5 % after it said that fourth - quarter profits would fall by 40 % from a year earlier, and that it expected to cut another 10,000 jobs together with BG Group, which it is acquiring.

Over the March quarter as a whole, China's exports to the US rose 14.8 % from a year earlier, outpacing a 8.9 % increase in imports over the same period, seeing its trade surplus with the US swell to $ 58.25 billOver the March quarter as a whole, China's exports to the US rose 14.8 % from a year earlier, outpacing a 8.9 % increase in imports over the same period, seeing its trade surplus with the US swell to $ 58.25 billover the same period, seeing its trade surplus with the US swell to $ 58.25 billion.

During a conference call to discuss first - quarter results for his hedge fund firm Pershing Square Capital Management, Ackman described an «intensive» process over the past few weeks as he and a handful of his employees have worked with the embattled drugmaker in its search for a new leader.

For example, in «A Short History of the Income Tax,» John Steele Gordon points out that the U.S. income tax act of 1913 was only 14 pages long; by 1942, it had blossomed to 208 pages with over three - quarters of them «devoted to closing or defining loopholes» that tax lawyers and accountants were using to «game the system.»

Foreigners spent more than $ 5.4 billion on travel in the first quarter, compared with about $ 5 billion over the same period a year earlier and $ 4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2014.

Bankers with greater depth and longer - term relationships,» said Goldberg, who added that more robust senior talent and improved lending relationships with clients «really has come to benefit the firm over the last couple years, and it was quite evident in the first quarter.»

By contrast, well over three - quarters of Starwood's 11 - brand portfolio was either in luxury, with properties such as St. Regis, or so - called upper - upscale, the category between true luxury and limited service, consisting of brands like Westin, Le Meridien, and Sheraton.

With over 1.9 billion monthly users, the company raked in $ 8 billion in revenue last quarter, the vast majority of which comes from their impeccable ad platform.

«Often in the hands of entrepreneurs or families, small businesses with up to 99 employees are typically more flexible when economic shifts occur but can lack the deep pockets to survive a major decline in the economy,» notes the Index besides a graph showing a sharp decline in wages during the worst years of the economic crisis and a steep increase over the last three quarters of last year.

«Slowing consumer demand combined with a surge in new home completions over the next several quarters will create more balance in the housing market and produce less upward pressure on home prices,» the association says in its release.

Iowa cropland prices increased by a quarter over the past year, with the choicest plots changing hands above US$ 10,000 an acre — far above historical averages.

Sales in what was the company's second quarter totalled just under $ 2.9 billion for the quarter compared with just over $ 2.9 billion a year ago.

Over the course of a 15 - minute conference call Uber executives projected that bookings — which saw a gross increase of 10 % in Q1 2017 on the previous quarter — would continue to rise and that losses would keep on narrowing, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed sources familiar with the meeting.

Its fourth quarter results were mixed, with earnings dropping 57 % over the same time last year.

Sales of small businesses with revenues of about $ 350,000 rose eight percent in the second quarter of 2011 over the same period last year, but the news isn't quite as good as it sounds.