Sentences with phrase «by high double digits»

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«For the two years we've been in this arrangement, sales have grown by mid - to high double digits.

The company currently expects revenue to rise by a low double - digit percentage rate, with upside potential into the high teens if customers ramp up spending.

Prices in the Mile - High City rose by double digits over the last year or so.

They had generally expected that its high - growth segment, Amazon Web Services (AWS), would post a loss, but instead the company surprised the market by showing double - digit operating margins in the first - quarter.

Investors rationalize the higher prices by assuming that double - and triple - digit growth will continue into the future and earnings will eventually catch up.

While earnings for S&P 500 companies may end up flat or only slightly higher in 2016, hopes are high that next year earnings may grow by double digits for the first time since 2011 on the back of the rebound in energy and Trump's tax cuts.

The coal producer said that net income was higher by nearly a sixth from year - ago levels, but adjusted pre-tax operating earnings dropped by double - digit percentages, and overall revenue was down 4 % compared to the first quarter of 2017.

Anyone questioning whether the Wolf Pack have enough fuel to sustain a deep run need look no further than their first two games in the NCAA tournament, when they outlasted a pair of high - major opponents with multiple projected first - round NBA draft picks between them by making double - digit comebacks in the second half.

After all, they've already won twice by double digits against higher seeded teams.

St. Francis has four players averaging double digits in scoring, led by Craig with 17.1 points per game to go along with a team - high 13.4 rebounds per game.

Kelly, who has the highest approval rating of any city official, would also lose by double - digits to former City Comptroller Bill Thompson and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, the poll found.

Fact is, Democrat Schreibman was down by double - digits to incumbent Republican Gibson last summer, but has closed the gap to perhaps high - single digits.

eHarmony predicts a «high and double - digit» revenue growth this year, of somewhere between $ 275m and $ 350m, and its EBITDA is projected to surge by 50 - 70 % for both this year and 2016.

Though revenue growth was in double digits, it was offset by higher expenses that ultimately led to the decline in profit.

Meanwhile year - long exposes by newspapers such as the Sacramento Bee into the high cost of so - called pension spiking, or the practice of allowing teachers and bureaucrats nearing retirement to get double - digit pay raises in their final years of work in order to gain even fatter pensions, has also led to a state investigation, once again reminding families that they pay the price for 3,090 teachers (as of 2010) getting more than $ 100,000 annually in pension annuities.

Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between different racial and ethnic groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.

A 2005 research study by the MDRC, a New York - and Oakland, California - based research group, found that Kansas City high schools produced and sustained a «double digit» improvement in the percentage of 11th - graders reading proficiently and a dramatic decline in the percentage of students scoring «unsatisfactory» on the state test.

Oakland's 63 percent high school graduation rate is, by double - digits, the lowest of all California urban school districts with student populations of 35,000 or more.

Age seventeen, stringy - haired and halter - topped, weighing in the high double digits and unhindered by a high school diploma, I showed up at the Pacific ocean, ready to seek my fortune with a truck full of extremely stoned surfers.

For example, the double - digit inflation of the 1970's was caused by banks keeping interest rates low in an attempt to stimulate a weak economy, at a time when imported inflation from the oil shock was high (leading to stagflation).

To get to this stage, and to keep growing, your savings rate should be high in the double digits by now.

«The No. 1 tip I have for any new investor is to not get sucked in by the allure of high single - digit or double - digit yields,» said Keith Park of DivHut.

This is the easiest way to harvest the full value of credit card cash rewards programs and there's no sense in earning rewards at single - digit rates only to watch as they're eaten up by far higher, double - digit rate interest charges.

It's a losing strategy to earn low single - digit cash back rewards, only to see them get eaten up by far higher double - digit interest charges.

As in the first game, Hotline Miami 2 is only truly fun when you're playing at a high level, chaining kills together into double - digit combos and dodging death by a fraction of an inch.

Demand is really high, construction is healthy, rents are rising and property values are really beginning to see increase even by the double digits.

Last year almost 90 percent of the country's 150 largest metro areas saw prices go up, many by double digits, and in more than half of the markets, prices are now at or above their previous all - time high.

Pending contracts and sales growth continues to hit double - digit percent gains; Prices remain near record highs Rockville, MD --(August 10, 2015)-- The following analysis of the Washington, D.C. Metro Area housing market has been prepared by Elliot Eisenberg, Ph.D. of RealEstate Business Intelligence (RBI) and is based on July 2015 MRIS housing data.

For the past three years they have been swarming over the hardest hit housing markets, buying distressed properties in bulk and pushing prices higher by double digits.

This growth was driven by the semi-detached, townhouse and condominium apartment market segments that continued to experience high single - digit or double digit year - over-year average price increases.

Properties sold at real bargain prices should be sought by property investors aiming at high investment returns because, they can allow for large capital gain and double - digit returns, if they are resold at market price.