Sentences with phrase «big point increases»

Cineplex is moving to devalue its Scene loyalty program, with big point increases to premium movie tickets set to take effect this fall.

Not exact matches

As you chill the methane and oxygen below its liquid point, you get a fairly meaningful density increase — you get on the order of 10 % to 12 % density increase, which makes quite a big difference for the propellant load.

Computing power has increased exponentially in the last decade, to the point where big data and machine learning have come together to make the customer experience richer and infinitely more simple.

The purchase worth as much as 26.5 billion rupees could increase Singtel's stake in Bharti Telecom by up to 1.7 percentage points to 48.9 percent and its holding in Bharti Airtel, the country's biggest mobile carrier, by up to 0.9 percentage points to 39.5 percent.

For all the reasons mentioned above, font sizes have increased over the last few years to the point that many view 14 px as the very minimum font size, and many sites go even bigger with 18 px as a minimum, especially when a lot of reading is involved.

With range an ever more vital competitive point, increasing amounts of capital will be chasing the next big battery (GM is a major investor in Sakti 3).

It was up 7.4 points from the prior month, which was its biggest monthly increase since the 14.52 point increase in July 1980.

At the point the growth began to slow, the multiple would contract, meaning that even if its earnings do grow 600 % in the next few years, if it becomes subject to the law of big numbers - that ever increasing amounts eventually forge their own anchor - the result would be a market capitalization substantially similar to today, leading to no increase in the stock price over a long period of time.

Whether the $ 175 price increase on a car is «no big deal» may vary by your income and perspective, but many pundits are pointing out the argument falls a little flat coming from this Republican administration.

RBC's aggregate measure for housing affordability in Canada rose by 1.2 percentage points in the second quarter to 42.8 per cent, the biggest quarterly increase in six years.

Forecast: Digital Advertising Pulling Away From TV on Global Basis New research from Zenith forecasts big gains for global digital ad revenue, increasing a lead built last year and pointing towards a 44.6 percent share of total ad revenue by 2020.

The biggest increase in confidence was with Instagram (up 9 percentage points).

And while GWNFA has complained that head office is not allowing franchisees to raise their price points in response to the minimum wage increase in Ontario, their biggest operating region, head office might fear that «if customer counts are down and franchisees raise their prices to cover the labour cost increase, that will drive more customers away,» Fisher said.

BHP Billiton points out that, over the next 20 years, China's urban population is likely to increase by almost 250 - million people and the rising middle class will be looking to upgrade to «bigger and better apartments, sitting above more extensive underground car parks, which will demand steel - intensive building and renovation,» she asserts.

«TD raised five of its fixed - rate mortgages, including a big 0.45 percentage point increase to the five - year term.

He said the ConocoPhillips and Crescent Point deals are likely examples of big companies «looking for scale» in a specific play, as major producers need large parcels of land to meaningfully increase their production.

He also points to a big increase in popularity of persimmons, especially the firm and reliably sweet Sharon variety, as well as cactus pears.

That has allowed the Suns to increase their scoring by 16.0 points per game over last year, the biggest jump in the shot - clock era.

Basically, the bigger schools will have more power than ever to determine how they operate, which will at some point mean increased benefits for players.

The NBA has seen a big increase in totals closing above 200 points over the last few years, but are sportsbooks keeping pace with this trend?

But it's no secret that the biggest sticking point of all was the minimum wage increase, which the governor made clear for weeks leading up to the April 1 deadline was his top policy priority.

In Copeland Tory support increased by no less than 8.5 points — the biggest increase in support for a government party since Harold Wilson's Labour government won the Hull North byelection in January 1966 (at the cost, incidentally, of a promise to build the Humber Bridge).

Despite remaining in opposition for its third election in a row, Labour at 40.0 % won its greatest share of the vote since 2001, made a net gain of 30 seats to reach 262 total MPs, and, with a swing of 9.6 %, [127] achieved the biggest percentage - point increase in its vote share in a single general election since 1945.

But the biggest story of the night in Wales was the performance of UKIP, which saw its vote increase by 12 points and saw seven candidates elected.

De Blasio says New York City is the safest big city in the United States and pointed to overall crime being down, a 93 percent drop in the use of stop and frisk policing, his neighborhood policing initiative and argues that marijuana possession arrests have gone down even as critics note an increase.

The dramatic 25 point average increase in the SNP vote in Scotland is accompanied by a big average drop of 18 points for Labour.

Smaller ancestors like dog relatives increased in size more than larger ancestors like hippos to reach that optimal weight, suggesting that bigger is better for aquatic life, but only up to a point.

«More to the point, with Congressional activity that increased the size of the budgetary pie there is no reason that NASA's science program can't see a bigger slice.

Possibly with the phenomenal growth of the internet and the aforementioned increase in cougar dating sites available to mature women in the UK, of late there seems to have been a «tipping point» in opinions about older women opting for cougar dating — and the general consensus now seems to have become: «If the lady and her beau are happy, so what; it's not a big issue.»

At the publishing house she works at, and which Christian bought, she is promoted to fiction editor, a job that comes with a big exposed - brick office and lots of responsibility («Increase the font size by two points,» she commands an underling, with a satisfied smirk).

After posting the biggest increase last month, J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) does it again and pushes himself up to 1st place with a perfect score of 50 (up a giant 17 points).

The alarmingly central presence of Stiller's character's place of work («big box» store Costco) points to mainstream cinema's increasing reliance on product placement.

This bumps Holly Hunter (The Big Sick) down to # 3 but Hunter actually increases in points, keeping her place in the top 5 solid.

Learning the truth about the international standing of American students had a bigger impact, reducing the share of respondents giving a grade of «A» or «B» from 18 to 13 percent and increasing the share of respondents giving a «D» or «F» by 10 percentage points (see Figure 5a).

Support for increased spending on our standard question drops by 20 percentage points, a much bigger drop than what was observed in 2009, when support for increased spending fell only 8 percentage points (from 46 percent to 38 percent).

The biggest gains occurred in high schools, where student proficiency increased by 30 points in reading and 34 points in math.

By far the biggest increase in 4th grade math scores that included Bush presidency years occurred between 2000 and 2003, when the average score rose three points per year.

Graduation rates rose in 36 states, with the biggest increases in Delaware (where 87 percent of students graduated on time in 2014, up 6.6 percentage points from 2013); Alabama (where 86.3 percent graduated on time, up 6.3 percent); and Oregon, which has had one of the lowest graduation rates in the nation.

Detractors will point to flat or slightly declining scores in the past two NAEP tests, preceded by big pre-Common Core increases in 2009 and 2011, as evidence Common Core was a mistake.

In charter schools, the grade level with the biggest gains in math compared to last year was eighth grade with a 3 percentage point increase.

But continuous professional development (CPD) saw the biggest fallout, with a «staggering» 20 percentage point increase in respondents saying this had been cut compared to last year — 66 per cent in total.

In magnets schools, the grade level that made the biggest gains in math was third grade with a 3 percentage point increase.

«I have seen the evidence,» he shot back, «and it isn't very big as a percentage point increase... and it was also better for KS2 than for KS1.»

While the overall U.S. performance fell far behind top performers, such as Singapore, Japan, and Canada, the United States made the biggest improvement in equity from 2006 to 2015, increasing its percentage of «resilient students» — defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than predicted by their socioeconomic status — by 12 percentage points, as shown in the below image from the report.

As the Brookings Institution has pointed out in a book it is releasing tomorrow, the percentage of poor families flocking to suburbia increased by 67 percent; on average, 12 percent of residents in suburbia are struggling economically and socially, versus 22 percent of residents in big cities.

Christie has made a big point that two - thirds of all districts will see an increase in state aid this year, and none will see cuts.

My biggest frustration is the 30 mph transition point where the truck rapidly increases it's rpm's.

Received wisdom is that provided the books you've self - published are any good, and that they are in the same genre, you'll see a significant increase in sales when you publish your third, fifth and seventh book, and so on — although yesterday someone told me that the fourteenth is the biggest tipping point (no idea why!)

I bring this up because in reading one of the Hachette versus Amazon articles the writer pointed out how much gaming is already being done by the Big Publishers, such as buying ebooks themselves to increase the subsequent print order from Amazon.

In fact, one Amazon page already points out that the products that see the biggest increase in sales tend to have «innovative or complex features» — and they give the example of several expensive pieces of technology.