Sentences with phrase «by a few percent at»

Early MR materials changed their resistance only by a few percent at room temperature.

Not exact matches

The economy may be healthy enough for them to raise interest rates, but the new 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent target for the benchmark fed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more years.

According to separate analysis by DynamicAction, retailers ahead of Black Friday were already selling about 21 percent fewer items at full price than they did at the same point in 2014.

The banks have very sharply reduced their credit card exposure by 22 percent in the last few years, so that they're not lending to the U.S. economy at all.

Moreover, with same store unit sales up 55 percent year - over-year at Kroger, Blossom Water hopes to be in a few hundred more of Kroger stores by year - end.

At 60 calories per serving, Fever - Tree Naturally Light Ginger Beer contains 42 percent fewer calories by sweetening with natural fruit juice, instead of cane sugar.

Few students on the team, from what I could tell, faced quite the daunting array of disadvantages and obstacles that the average student at Fenger High School in Roseland did, but with 87 percent of IS 318's students eligible for federal lunch subsidies, the school had come by its Title I designation honestly.

A few hours later, SNA put out a press release praising the appropriators but calling on the Agriculture Department to go further by not implementing any additional reductions in salt, not requiring 100 percent whole - wheat items, getting rid of the requirement for fruit and vegetable servings at every meal, and allowing any food item permitted to be served as part of a reimbursable meal to be sold at any time in vending machines.

But sending the second email did not improve the performance of the third email by more than a few percent on open rate, and not at all on the click and donation rates.

A report by the NYC - based and labor - backed Center for Working Families overlaid state income tax data on top of Senate Districts and found fewer than four percent of residents in 29 of the 32 districts are currently being impacted by the income tax surcharge, which kicks in at $ 200,000 for individuals and $ 300,000 for couples.

«At the September 13, 2012 election fewer than 25 percent of the required number of committeemen were elected by the Conservative Party,» Gamache wrote.

White House budget data indicates both basic and applied research would be cut by at least 13 percent below estimates of R&D in the 2017 omnibus bill passed a few weeks ago.

16 Cutting saturated fat intake to the recommended 10 percent of your calories will prolong your life, but only by a few months at most, researchers found.

Participating 4th - grade children who reported eating one or fewer servings of vegetables per day at the start of the study increased their vegetable intake by 40 percent.

According to An Martel, head of the study and professor at the University of Ghent in Belgium, it is therefore not surprising that an afflicted population shrinks by more than 90 percent within just a few weeks and then disappears.

And even fewer — 15 percent by some estimates — will get a post at the kind of research university where the nation's significant scientific work takes place.

A new national survey conducted by The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and researchers at Yale University found that fewer than 1 in 3 Americans, and 40 percent of Catholics, are aware of Pope Francis's efforts to publicize global warming as a priority issue for the Catholic Church.

«While this galaxy is forming stars at a rate hundreds of times faster than our Milky Way galaxy, the sharp vision of Hubble revealed that the majority of the galaxy's starlight is being emitted by a region with a diameter just a few percent that of the Milky Way,» said Geach.

Have a bowl of vegetable soup before lunch; you'll eat 20 percent fewer calories at the meal, suggests research by Barbara Rolls, PhD, a professor of nutritional sciences at Pennsylvania State University.

Even without making any other dietary changes, simply by reducing your fast food consumption to two or fewer times a week, you can reduce your risk of getting diabetes and other deadly diseases by about 50 percent - which means your lunch at McDonald's is literally killing you.

If study participants stick to a 10 percent intake of fat, the following health benefits have been documented by numerous studies: Obesity In 1975, a study on low - fat diets and extremely obese study participants found that when the participants at an extremely low - fat diet, they were able to lose an average of 140 pounds in just a few months.

The most striking changes occurred at the bottom of the distribution, as the share of African American students attending schools with fewer than 5 percent white students fell by more than 50 percent after 1968.

Despite spending more per capita on preschool programs than any other state, Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer preschools for children in poor neighborhoods compared to wealthier communities, according to a study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

A nationally representative survey by Public Agenda found that 85 percent of teachers and 73 percent of parents agreed that the «school experience of most students suffers at the expense of a few chronic offenders.»

For instance, a study by the group Public Agenda found that 85 percent of teachers and 73 percent of parents felt the «school experience of most students suffers at the expense of a few chronic offenders.»

But when the budget numbers came out a few weeks later, the HBCU presidents weren't feeling the love: According to The Atlantic, Trump's first budget «slices federal education spending by 13.5 percent but claims to «maintain» minority institutions and HBCUs at around $ 492 million, the same amount the [Obama] administration initially budgeted.»

Newark's North Star Academy, for example, which is run by Uncommon Schools, may beat city - wide averages, but it loses half of its students between grades five through 12, it serves half the percentage of students with disabilities and 15 percent fewer of its students are in poverty, notes Bruce Baker, a professor of education finance at Rutgers University.

For instance, if you stop using the card and continue to pay it down month after month until it is eventually at a $ 0 balance or at least below 30 percent utilization, your score will very gradually increase by a few points here and there, assuming all of your other credit accounts are in good standing.

Especially when you look at the historical performance of managed funds, you see that the majority of them (I don't have my copy of ARWDWS right now, so I'm relying on memory here) don't beat the market at all (and thus produce funds that under - perform the market by several percent after fees are taken out), and very few (maybe 5 - 10 %) manage to beat the market enough to make up for their fees.

A survey performed by the World Health Organization estimates the dog population in Myanmar at approximately 3.48 million, of which fewer than 1 percent are vaccinated, for rabies.

99 percent of fleas on pets after two monthly applications versus a 54.8 percent reduction achieved by FRONTLINE Plus (p ≤ 0.0079).1 At the end of the two - month study, nearly five times more pets treated with ACTIVYL were flea free, and ACTIVYL users found significantly fewer fleas in their homes.1

According to a March 2017 survey by Pymnts.com, fewer than 5 percent of consumers who currently have a mobile payment application, such as Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or Android Pay, use it at every opportunity.

By the time any painting gets started it's at least a few months into the process.The preparation generally takes fifty percent of the time, and actual painting takes fifty percent.

True, sellers remain reticent, with noticeably fewer top quality artworks at Sotheby's and Christie's, but New York auction receipts are significantly up (Sotheby's by 300 percent over 2009) and even if most lots are selling within their heavily reduced pre-sale estimates, interest is slowly beginning to build.

But the differences are not by orders of magnitude, more like a few 10's of percent at max.]

It adds that job losses would be minimal; the new carbon market would create new jobs; that the manufacturing sector will lose a few jobs; that household consumption will fall by only one percent at worst; that increases in energy costs would be modest; and that overall costs would be small enough to permit expansion of programs to offset the burden for low - income households.

An analysis of the GISP2 ice core record from Greenland reveals that abrupt climate events appear to be paced by a 1,470 - year cycle with a period that is probably stable to within a few percent; with 95 % confidence the period is maintained to better than 12 % over at least 23 cycles.

Compared with the globally efficient policy (with a globally harmonized emissions price at all times), near - term emissions prices in developed countries rise from between a few percent and 100 percent under the different scenarios, and discounted global abatement costs are higher by about 10 to 70 percent.

During Crist's first few months in office, he signed executive orders calling for stricter tailpipe emission limits for cars sold in Florida, reductions in the state's greenhouse gas emissions, and a mandate requiring utilities to generate at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

The total annual dosage, averaged over the entire surface, varies by up to 0.1 percent, while more specific, seasonal changes at any place can reach a few percent.

Gaming computers could easily be at least 75 percent more efficient by making a few setting changes and changing some components while actually improving performance.

Together we found that the equivalent of a few days of sunlight exposure decreased the effectiveness of chemical dispersants by at least 30 percent.

Found in an estimated 50 percent of items at the grocery store, from packaged foods to cleaning supplies, and also made popular by its «healthy saturated fat» profile, it's an oil that few food manufacturers can afford to give up, despite the environmental havoc wreaked by its production.

Right now, only a few auto insurance companies have car tracking programs, but at least one study estimates that by the year 2020 more than 25 percent of auto insurance revenue will be generated by car - tracking - related policies.

If in a space of at least twelve hours, fewer than six blocks are mined, the difficulty adjusts downwards by 20 percent for the next block.

Last year, Roku addressed consumers» interest in low - cost devices by updating its Roku 1 to be called Roku Express — a 75 percent smaller form factor, with double the processing power, at $ 30 — only a few dollars more than Chromecast is right now.

This isn't unusual at this time of year — Facebook's numbers have shown similar patterns in the past couple of years — but it's worth noting that the total number of active Facebook accounts around the world is down by 50 million, or 2.5 percent, since its high point of 1.968 billion a few months ago.

Starting at 8 a.m., with medium to heavy usage including browsing the web, taking lots of photos, watching a few YouTube videos, and playing a game, the battery reached 30 percent by 6 p.m. Thankfully, the phone supports fast - charging so it doesn't take long to get fully recharged.

The Bluboo S1 is the most affordable offering of the lot seeing how it has already been available at 30 percent off for the last few days, yet you're now also able to slash its price all the way down to $ 128.89 by using a newly introduced promo code during checkout.

Compensation remains competitive Twenty - five percent of employers expect to boost salaries by at least 5 percent over the next few months.