Sentences with phrase «at a rate of»

Statistics Canada reported December 1 that gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 2.3 % in the third quarter after contracting at rates of 0.3 % and 0.7 %, respectively, in the previous two quarters.

Analysts think the economy is growing at a rate of around 2.5 per cent in the current January - March quarter, which ends this week.

Moon rocks erode at a rate of 0.04 inches every 1 million years.

Sales of franchise and unconsolidated affiliate restaurants typically generate ongoing franchise fees for the Company at a rate of approximately 6 % of system sales.

Homes closed at the rate of 5,000 per year.

Users are checking in at the rate of 34 times per second and they are doing so in every city, in every country in the world.

For today's home buyer that means calculating whether or not you can afford monthly payments for your dream home at rates of 4 % or 5 %.

The study, published by the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20 % annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011.

Canadians are living longer — life expectancy is increasing at the rate of roughly one year per decade.

Contest forms included 10 fields and were submitted at a rate of 35 percent.

Hulu CMO Kelly Campbell shared that 35,000 Hulu subscribers watched all 331 episodes of the NBC medical drama «ER» in just 2 months — at a rate of 5 episodes per day — after it debuted on Hulu in January.

FLSA mandates that non-exempt employees be paid at the rate of 1.5 times the hourly wage for every hour over 40 worked in a week.

GoDaddy.com recently announced its 30 millionth name sold; the company registers, renews or transfers domain names at the rate of one per second these days.

Tesla already has 487 Supercharger stations around the world, and is building them at the rate of one per week.

Citizens were given a week to exchange a limited amount of banknotes at the rate of 100 old won (the North Korean currency) to 1 new won.

Not all electric cars can be charged at a rate of 80 miles per charging hour, but even if they could, achieving 400 miles (the equivalent of an average gasoline car gas tank capacity) would take 5 hours of charging.

A survey of electric car chargers showed that the sub-compact Nissan Leaf will fill the batteries at a rate of 15 to 80 miles per charging hour, depending on the charger capabilities.

Gas prices are rising at a rate of 1 to 2 percent per year, plus inflation; meanwhile, the cost of electricity generation is going down.

The city of Bonn recently installed street meters to tax prostitutes at a rate of US$ 8.70 per night.

Since launching in August 2010, Betabrand has released nearly 200 products for men and women; it currently issues new creations at a rate of two or three per week.

TNR's high - speed aluminum security door, for example, boasts a photoelectric sensor to detect vehicles and can open at a rate of 54 inches per second.

British government figures showed inflation rising at a rate of 3 percent in October — unchanged from the previous month.

«Financial capital is very mobile and basically is looking only at rates of return,» says Chris Ragan, a professor of economics at McGill University and former adviser at the Bank of Canada.

From that date, funding would be capped at the rate of medical inflation, a pace slower than the rise in total health care costs because it considers only prices, not how many visits or procedures folks are consuming.

However, you can borrow up to $ 50,000 or 50 percent of the vested balance (whichever is less) and pay interest on the money at a rate of prime or prime plus 1 percent.

Success: She's still out $ 20,000 in savings, but by the end of 2012 the website had nearly 2 million users in more than 160 countries, increasing at a rate of 30 percent every month.

(Those require that investors get paid back first — often at a rate of several times their initial investment).

Hsieh moved here in May and rented 25 apartments, at a rate of roughly $ 35,000 per month.

Beyond sea level rise, San Francisco is slowly sinking at a rate of up to 10 millimeters per year in a process called subsidence.

He also installed, apparently for parties, a machine that spits out pancakes at a rate of one every few seconds and another that produces instant mashed potatoes.

Cara's management was approached by a wildly successful U.S. chain, growing at a rate of 30 outlets per year and looking to expand north of the border.

In Malawi, for example, which had the highest business closure rate in the world, women shuttered businesses at a rate of 30 percent over the past two years, compared to about 25 percent for men.

So, high - earning households spend significantly more of their income on Social Security — which is automatically deducted from all earned income for individuals at a rate of 6.2 % — and payments into retirement plans.

Roberts, the Toronto mortgage broker, is advising all of her existing clients that if they are currently locked in mortgages at rates of 3.59 % or higher, they need to consider breaking their contracts and refinancing, depending on the penalties and time to maturity.

Since the client was showing a profit on its P&L statement, we were able to find another lender that would provide similar financing, but at a rate of 10 percent — which will save our client an estimated $ 48,000 per year.

Condo prices are growing at a rate of 19 per cent year - over-year too, even though a record number of units are under construction relative to the population, according to TD Economics.

Those who took notes by laptop were much faster — typed lecture notes come out at a rate of about 33 words a minute, compared to 22 words a minute for handwritten notes — but the tendency to take verbatim notes meant they were not truly engaging with the content.

In effect, these countries filed false prospectuses; they fluffed up their assets, disguised the liabilities in their pension and benefit schemes, and managed to adopt the euro at a rate of exchange that exaggerated the value of their currencies.

In tandem, if wages do not rise at the rate of house - price growth, then buying a property becomes more and more unaffordable.

And every extra penny in gas prices taxes U.S. consumers at the rate of US$ 1.2 billion per year.

The annual report by Oxfam found that the number of billionaires rose at a rate of one every two days between March 2016 and March 2017, while in the United States the three richest people own the same wealth as the poorest half of the population.

Tesla reaffirmed its forecast for Model 3 production at a rate of 2,500 vehicles by the end of the first quarter, and 5,000 by the end of Q2.

The market is estimated to be valued at $ 54 million and is growing at a rate of 20 percent per year, according to California Management Review.

Cash flows are only discounted at the rate of inflation as they are reported above in constant 2013 dollars.

On Wednesday we'll learn the latest GDP reading, which is expected to have expanded at a rate of 3.2 %, and Friday morning brings the July jobs report.

«While the so - called «value - added» data transmission sector of the Australian telecommunications market is growing rapidly — at rates of up to 25 per cent per annum — the demand for new high - speed services is not being met in rural and remote regions of the country,» Mr Woods said.

However, in the past decade, this massive generation became invisible at the rate of 10,000 members per day as they passed the five - decade mark.

These are advanced at rates of 85 percent to 90 percent of the invoices selected.

The closure comes after months of scrutiny caused by the use of a bump stock — an accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire at the rate of an automatic — in the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history.

But when that CCPC reinvests any surplus in, say, mutual funds or bonds, the passive income from those investments is taxed at a rate of about 50 per cent.