Sentences with phrase «by few percentage point»

Very often car dealers mark up auto loans by few percentage point in addition to the commissions they get from auto lenders, and make you pay extra thousands of dollars in interest, most of which goes straight to their pockets.

However, the survey found that, while the number of people visiting a physical library location may have dropped by a few percentage point, library website use is up, possibly due to increased access to ebook lending to personal devices and library subscriptions to streaming videos, music, and research tools.

On a positive note, I have seen a slight improvement by a few percentage points in most of the core metrics since I last checked back in November 2016.

And if — inflation is gonna average 2 %, it'll be above by a few percentage points from time to time.

Devaluation risks are much less of a concern to investors now compared with the near panic in 2015 when the currency fell by a few percentage points.

Even if your net worth is low, when the market goes up and down by a few percentage points in a day, there can be sizable dollar amounts at stake.

... over the next five years bonds will probably outperform stocks by a few percentage points, but both will return much less than double digits.

Asurvey published on October 19th showed Michaud and LePage nearly even, with independent candidate Eliot Cutler behind them by a few percentage points.

showed him only trailing front - runner Juanita Perez Williams, a Democrat, by a few percentage points.

A recent poll showed him only trailing front - runner Juanita Perez Williams, a Democrat, by a few percentage points.

But the budgets of several research agencies would shrink by a few percentage points, or remain at existing levels.

The results came in last year and were not encouraging: In two shorter trials, heart function improved by a few percentage points or not at all, and one longer study found a slight but temporary benefit.

Scientists have boosted that number by a few percentage points.

Even the illicit «good stuff» might only nudge things in the right direction by a few percentage points.

For men who command a premium due to high incomes or great looks, it may be higher by a few percentage points.

She'll apparently get one if she can become the Class of» 99's valedictorian, but she is currently second in the running by a few percentage points.

Aaron Benavot, Director of the EFA GMR stated: «Aid needs to be shooting upwards, not creeping up by a few percentage points.

Does this long and often tendentious book aim merely to increase the weight readers put on signaling by a few percentage points?

Rob and Troy were able to improve student achievement by a few percentage points on proficiency exams over lecture.

It works like this: the insured's account is reviewed on regular intervals and, if there are no outstanding issues that would otherwise cause the premium to rise, discounts are added and the premium is lowered by a few percentage points.

Although the 2014 Ram HD has an enticing up - front cost, its long - term residual values trail the competition by a few percentage points.

Unsecured loans are only ahead of collateral - backed loans by few percentage points, ranging in low 20 % APRs, and higher.

But had you been underperforming by a few percentage points over a number of years, it would be time to start asking some questions.

Sure could, though I am still ahead by a few percentage points.

If you're prudent about active investing, the worst outcome is lagging the indexes by a few percentage points a year, which seems to be an acceptable trade - off to many investors.

The fed withholding amount on the paycheck was much higher than I thought it would be, by a few percentage points.

If most of the factors point toward a higher «magic» interest rate for you, bump it up by a few percentage points and switch over to saving once you've eliminated all debts above 9 % or 10 %.

Consider that few money managers are able to beat the stock market return even by a few percentage points a year.

When I looked at my past picks, my Canadian stock picks trailed the markets by a few percentage points (early picks included Nortel, JSDU, Bombardier etc.) and US stock picks beat the market by a few percentage points.

We reduced small cap allocations by a few percentage points this year and increased international.

2016 was TAA's best year ever in terms of revenue growth, just beating out 2015 by a few percentage points.

The efficiency of these plants can be improved, but that would only reduce emissions by a few percentage points.

China's coal consumption has steadily decreased by a few percentage points a year since 2013, prompting our pronouncement of a coal consumption peak in an article published in the summer of 2016 in Nature Geoscience.

The researchers acknowledge that skeptics may be slightly over-represented, «it is likely that viewpoints that run counter to the prevailing consensus are somewhat (i.e. by a few percentage points) magnified in our results.»

International agreements being pushed seek to curb emissions by a few percentage points.

By taking Defensive Driving, or other similar classes, you can typically knock down your insurance rate by a few percentage points.

So it's not a problem with the recent Android update, and it's not as simple as the battery meter just being off by a few percentage points.

The EON's Cloud Gate result of 19,124 and Fire Strike score of 5,430 turn in two more records, defeating the MSI GT60 Dominator Pro by a few percentage points.

If you overestimate its value by a few percentage points and then add 2 %, the house could easily end up languishing on the market.

Not exact matches

Think of what would happen if we could grow that by even a few percentage points.»

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

Have you devoted any time to considering how you could improve your business by an order of magnitude rather than a few percentage points?

This is not simply because Harper is better liked by Canadians who prefer to steer an SUV while sipping their Starbucks (though polls suggest he is); this is because Conservative candidates finished within a few percentage points of winning quite a few of those suburban ridings in 2006.

At the end of the 1970s, Canadian municipalities managed to save a few tenths of a percentage point of interest by borrowing in d - marks and Swiss francs.

Interest rates may increase but probably not enough to make an impact to a CD that is up for renewal, Real estate income should increase over time but mostly a few percentage points here and there, I suppose you could manufacture more income by paying off one of the rentals assuming your income numbers are after expenses and not gross income.

In fact, over the past few years, credit unions» average personal loan rates have been approximately 1.24 percentage points less than those offered by banks.

Would we not be able to squeak out a few more percentage points of return most years by developing and managing our portfolios more closely?

And if you don't believe that, consider that the Fed's moneyless («Portfoli - O - Matic») transmission mechanism has already had one «stress test» — the one administered between late 2008 and 2014 — which it failed miserably, by proving incapable of transforming $ 3.5 trillion in fresh reserves into more than a few percentage points of NGDP growth, or far fewer than were required to restore that growth to its pre-crisis path.

The woman wasn't satisfied with her $ 300,000 house crawling up a few percentage points in value when stocks had risen by double digits annually since 2009.

We often encourage our users to shop around and find the best line, because it can increase your winning percentage by a few points over time.