Sentences with phrase «by less than a quarter»

Information, therefore, was only supplied by less than a quarter of NHS organisations, and what data that did exist was patchy at best.

If the first recount shows Buchanan and Jennings separated by less than a quarter percent (entirely possible given the 386 - vote margin currently), an automatic hand recount would be triggered.

Nordhaus discounts the future at 6 percent a year; Stern by less than a quarter of that at 1.4 percent.

Not exact matches

For the quarter ended July 20, Dick's adjusted earnings were 96 cents a share, up from 82 cents a year ago, but less than the $ 1.00 expected by Wall Street and even its own forecast of $ 1.02 a share to $ 1.07 a share.

SoundCloud's existing cash reserves will only carry it through to the fourth quarter of the year, which is less than 50 days away, according to sources cited by TechCrunch.

Company B's leader shares that impulse, but has also introduced the measurable goal of producing a solar panel that retails for less than $ 500 by the second quarter of 2018.

According to TechCrunch, in the fourth quarter of 2016, Snapchat grew its users base by 3 %, which is less than the 7 % growth in the third quarter of 2016.

Reported by the school the student attended, indicates whether the student is (or was) full - time, three - quarter time, half - time, less than half - time, withdrawn, graduated, etc..

The study also found that though less than half of businesses found success in their first daily deal offer, more than three - quarters of businesses reported profitable promotions by the time they had run seven or more deals.

2017.09.29 Housing affordability relief still elusive in Canada in the second quarter as ownership costs continued to rise in Toronto: RBC Economics Becoming a home owner in Canada is less affordable now than at any time since 1990, according to the latest Housing Trends and Affordability Report issued today by RBC Economics Research...

According to latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of households, proxied by occupied housing units, fell in the first quarter of 2018 to just under 120 million, i.e. growth of less than 1 % on a year - on - year basis.

In the September quarter, household consumption rose by 1.1 per cent, a slight increase from the pace in the June quarter, but less than might have been expected given the boost to incomes from the budget measures.

More specifically, the brewer must produce no more than 6 million barrels of beer annually, less than one - quarter of the business can be owned or controlled by a company that's not a craft brewer, and the products must be made with traditional ingredients such as malted barley.

According to the Federal Reserve Board's G. 19 Consumer Credit report, the total amount of consumer credit outstanding rose by 5.2 percent (SAAR) over the 1st quarter of 2017, 2.4 percentage points less than the 6.6 percent rate of growth in the 4th quarter of 2016.

The REIA series which, unlike the ABS series, does not exclude the upper end of the market, but uses unmatched samples, rose by slightly less than 2 per cent in the June quarter and by just under 9 per cent over the year.

Overall, the average quoted price on LowestRates.ca increased by 1.08 % in the first quarter of the year, which was less than the amount insurers were approved to raise rates.

This trend suppresses the demand side of the housing market, while the supply - side has been hindered by builders eschewing starter homes and moving up the value chain, as evidenced by the fact that the average size of a new single - family home is almost 2,700 square feet today, versus less than 2,100 square feet a quarter century ago.

Its first - quarter net profit slumped by 79 percent, it replaced its CEO of less than three years, John Cryan, this month with new CEO Christian Sewing whose game plan revolves around «painful» cuts.

If the Fed adheres to their schedule of quantitative tightening, I calculate M2 will grow by the end of the first quarter — it's currently running around four and a half percent — and the year over year growth rate will be down to less than 3 percent.

The fixed - weight deflator for private consumption rose by 1.5 per cent over the year to the December quarter, while the broader fixed - weight deflators also showed increases of less than 2 per cent.

At the retail level, prices of imported consumer goods fell in the year to the March quarter by just over 1 per cent; domestically produced goods prices are also rising more slowly than a year ago, but the slowing is less pronounced and, in the year to March, domestic goods prices rose by about 3 per cent.

Labor productivity in the U.S. rose by less than expected in the first quarter, according to a report released by the Labor Department on Thursday.

However, if earnings grow by an estimated 18.4 % over the next four quarters, you've got a P / E to Growth (PEG) ratio of less than 1X, which seems reasonable if the world can get along.

AutoNation said Hurricane Irma negatively impacted third - quarter earnings by about $ 8 million, or 8 cents a share, which also was less than expected.

In Poland, however, to take the largest Jewish population center, although there was a Jewish middle class, the per capita income of Jews in the 1930s was less than $ 100 per year, and a quarter of Poland's Jews were kept from starvation only by charity from America.

Industrialized countries with less than a quarter of the world's population are responsible for about three - quarters of the carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels.

Pope Benedict XVI has been in office for less than a year, and already there are rumblings of dissatisfaction (in some quarters of disquiet, in others of impatience), aroused by the — so far — slow progress of what everyone seems from the beginning to have assumed will be one of the new pope's priorities: the reform of the Roman Curia.

The company has doubled its locations in less than one year, and by the end of first quarter 2012, it will have tripled its store growth from 2010.

The entire US wine industry exports less than one quarter of the value of wine to China sold by hundreds of Australian wine companies.

That's also how you get Ginn dropping a pass at the 15 - yard line on a deep dig route that ends up being intercepted by T.J. Ward (or as Phil Simms says, the 13 - yard pass was too haaard... SMDH) while his team is trailing 16 - 7 with less than six minutes left in the third quarter.

Yesterday in the first quarter of the Packers Vikings game, this guy named Aaron Rodgers was body slammed by Anthony Barr in a less than fortunate manner.

A breastfed baby, less than 3 weeks old who does not have at least one bowel movement larger than a quarter (coin) within a 24 - hour period should be seen by a healthcare provider to ensure he is drinking well at the breast.

The number of jobs in STEM fields is expected to keep growing rapidly, but women are currently very underrepresented, accounting for less than a quarter of employees in the STEM workforce, according to a report by the Economics and Statistics Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

By baby's first birthday, less than a quarter of mothers are breast - feeding at all.

According to them, by nullifying elections in 18 out of 31 local government areas, Section 179 (2)(b) of the Nigerian Constitution, which required that a candidate vying for the office of the Governor would be declared winner if he has not less than one quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two - thirds of the local government areas, has been breached.

Both Lamont and Davidson secured big majorities in the union section (65 % and 61 % respectively) whilst even Lamont failed to win a majority amongst individual members by a long way, winning less than 37 % in the first ballot — Davidson won just a quarter of that section, whilst Cathy Jamieson won about 43 % in the last Leadership election in 2008 (admittedly in the second ballot — Lamont may also have achieved that had this gone to another round).

Less than three quarters (72 %) of UKIP voters at the 2014 European Parliament election say they could see themselves voting UKIP in a general election, according to a new ITV News Index poll carried out by ComRes.

State tax collections totaled $ 18.6 billion in the first quarter of the new fiscal year, $ 1.2 billion less than the same period last year and $ 315.7 million below projections, according to the state cash report issued Tuesday by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

The fact that he proposed the independent redistricting process allowed him to put himself on the side of the reformers, which is a valuable thing — a poll by Quinnipiac University found about half of New Yorkers say line - drawing should be completely independent, and another quarter say legislators should have some say, but less than now.

Three - quarters of those surveyed by phone correctly estimated the number of calories they should consume daily, but this was true of less than half of those surveyed at point - of - purchase.

Studying data from 2,871 smoking and nonsmoking young adults, ages 18 - 34, Dr. Olivia A. Wackowski and Dr. Cristine D. Delnevo found that a quarter of young adults believed hookah to be less risky than cigarettes — a belief shared by current cigarette smokers and those who had never smoked cigarettes before.

«This means if we look back to the universe when it was less than a quarter of its present age, we'd see that a pair of galaxies separated by a million light years would be drifting apart at a velocity of 68 kilometers a second as the universe expands,» says Font - Ribera, a postdoctoral fellow in Berkeley Lab's Physics Division.

Bat droppings were similar to mouse pellets, about a quarter - inch long by less than an eighth - inch wide.

In our nationwide departure from physiologic birth and breastfeeding, less than one - quarter of women can be expected to be nursing by 12 months postpartum.

This amount of vitamin D needed is equivalent to less than a quarter of the human dose recommended by the Vitamin D Council, which suggests that following the Council's vitamin D recommendations may in itself turn off any negative effect of vitamin A in humans.

Studies by the Corporate Leadership Counsel find that less than a quarter of senior managers think that Learning and Development is critical for meeting business outcomes.

Less than a quarter of school leaders believe that ending the national curriculum levels system of assessment will benefit pupils, a survey by TES and the NAHT shows.

9 • solve one - step problems involving multiplication and division, by calculating the answer using concrete objects, pictorial representations and arrays with the support of the teacher • recognise, find and name a half as 1 of 2 equal parts of an object, shape or quantity • recognise, find and name a quarter as 1 of 4 equal parts of an object, shape or quantity • Compare, describe and solve practical problems for: lengths and heights [for example, long / short, longer / shorter, tall / short, double / half]; mass or weight [for example, heavy / light, heavier than, lighter than]; capacity / volume [for example, full / empty, more than, less than, half, half full, quarter]; time [for example, quicker, slower, earlier, later]; • measure and begin to record the following: lengths and height; mass / weight; capacity and volume; time (hours, minutes, seconds) • recognise and know the value of different denominations of coins and notes • sequence events in chronological order using language (for example, before and after, next, first, today, yesterday, tomorrow, morning, afternoon and evening) • describe position direction and movement including whole half quarter and three quarter turns PLUS MANY MORE OBJECTIVES!

According to a 2009 study by ACT, a nonprofit assessment organization, less than one - quarter of graduating high school seniors nationwide are college ready, based on English, math, reading, and science scores.

According to CAP's survey, more than three - quarters of Americans agree that school integration will improve the quality of education received by low - income students, but less than half of the public agrees that integration will improve the quality of education received by high - income students.