Sentences with phrase «by more than a quarter of»

The contribution of Bruno Fornaroli and Luis Garcia was noted by more than a quarter of respondents (26 %), including supporters of other clubs.

At Xcel Energy, the utility firm with the highest total wind capacity in the United States, the number of forecasting errors has dropped since 2009, saving customers some US$ 60 million and reducing annual CO2 emissions from fossil - reserve power generation by more than a quarter of a million tonnes per year, says Drake Bartlett, a renewable - energy analyst with the firm who is based in Denver, Colorado.

Of these, only two factors were believed to be better for children today by more than a quarter of poll respondents: quality of education (36 percent said it was better when they were growing up) and quality of health care (39 percent).

If you're looking for responsive, professional service that's backed by more than a quarter of a century of experience, then you've come to the right place.

The fictional property, home to George and her family in the series of much - loved children's books, was chosen as the perfect home by more than a quarter of the 2,000 people surveyed.

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Passport Capital sold 325,434 shares of the social media company, cutting its stake by more than one quarter.

To be specific, Comcast's subscriber base grew by 53,000 during the most recent quarter, substantially more than most analysts were expecting, and a much better performance than the same quarter a year earlier, when the number of subscribers shrank by 8,000.

Drugmaker Merck reported a better - than - expected first - quarter profit on Tuesday, helped by a more than 150 percent rise in sales of cancer drug Keytruda.

Air pollution rose by more than a quarter in parts of northern China in March, and the region has been hit by another bout of smog in the second half of April,...

The Freelancers Union, which represents 165,000 people nationwide, found that more than three - quarters of its members reported having been cheated by a client, with an average loss of $ 6,000.

The oldest law school in Canada, McGill, ranks just under U of T. Its highly regarded law journal is cited by The Supreme Court of Canada more often than any other university - affiliated journal, and McGill law graduates regularly make up a quarter of The Supreme Court's annual clerkships.

Total produced 2.703 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe / d) in the first quarter, driven by ramp - ups and new acquisitions, up more than 5 percent compared to the same period in 2017, and above analysts» estimates of 2.663 million boe / d.

Third Point: The hedge fund run by Daniel Loeb disclosed Thursday that it bought more than 45 million shares of Ally Financial (ALLY) during the second quarter, giving Third Point a 9.5 % stake in the auto lender.

GetResponse analyzed more than 21 million emails sent by its clients during the first quarter of 2012.

More than half of small businesses polled by SurePayroll say they expect to surpass expectations in the third quarter of this year.

Los Angeles - based City National, acquired by RBC in 2015, contributed US$ 114 million in net income in the latest quarter, more than double the US$ 58 million in the first quarter of 2017.

Roughly a quarter of all oil transported by sea (more than 15 million barrels per day) passes through the Strait of Malacca.

A Nanos poll sponsored by The Globe and Mail echoed Ondrack's findings, indicating more than three - quarters of Canadians regard smartphones as a neutral or positive factor on lifestyle.

More than one - quarter of a worker's day on average is spent answering and reading emails, according to research released in 2012 by the McKinsey Global Institute.

Generated new leasing spreads of 15.6 %, representing the sixteenth consecutive quarter that the rental rate for new leases increased by more than 10 % over the prior rent for the comparable space.

According to global market research firm NPD Group, LCDs now account for more than 90 % of TV sales — bad news for Panasonic, whose sales dropped by about 25 % in the second quarter of this year.

More than three - quarters (78 percent) of independent workers say their nontraditional employment status lends itself to improved money management, according to a recent survey by T. Rowe Price.

SAP had been slow to move into the cloud, said Reuner, but after making the shift with acquisitions such as procurement software company Ariba in 2012, the first quarter of 2017 saw it sell more subscriptions than expected, with new cloud bookings increasing by 49 percent to 215 million euros ($ 244.9 million) and shares hitting a record high.

Tesla said in its third - quarter earnings letter that it had more than 7,000 Superchargers by the end of September.

Only a little more than one - quarter of those who work with an advisor (27 percent) had been told by the advisor how much their portfolios could lose if there were a market crash.

So is this company, thanks to the completion of a two - year highway - expansion project: first - quarter sales for 1997 were up by more than 40 %, compared with the same period last year.

Meanwhile, the second estimate for gross domestic product data in the second quarter showed the U.S. economy grew by 3.0 percent, more than the expected increase of 2.7 percent.

Samsung sold more smartphones than Apple in the third quarter of 2012, as consumers postponed purchases in anticipation of the iPhone 5, new research showed on Tuesday, while Nokia slipped down the rankings to be overtaken by Blackberry maker Research in Motion.

The company's share price fell by around a quarter so far this year, though it jumped more than 5 % on the news of Vestberg's departure.

Indian immigrants were responsible for more than quarter of those start - ups — followed by newcomers from Britain, China, Taiwan, and Japan.

Metso jumped to the top of the European benchmark Wednesday, up more than 7 percent after reporting an operating profit that was up by 28 percent in the first quarter.

During the latest quarter, comparable - appliance sales jumped by more than 20 %, now accounting for 10 % of Best Buy's sales.

The Parliamentary Budget Office has released a report (pdf - h / t to Kady O'Malley) that makes note of the distinction between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross Domestic Income (GDI), and shows that by the latter measure, the fourth quarter of 2008 was even more dreadful than the GDP numbers that made all the headlines.

The community bank share of total assets fell 6 % from the second quarter of 2006 to the second quarter of 2010, and by more than 12 % in the following period through the second quarter of 2014.

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.

For one, the millennial generation, including those with higher net worth, hold significantly more cash than any other generation, according to a report by UBS issued in the first quarter of 2015.

Roughly One in Four Americans is Online «Constantly» More than a quarter of U.S. adults consider themselves online «almost constantly» according to survey data recently released by the Pew Research Center, a figure that jumps to nearly 39 percent for younger people in the 18 - to -29-year-old age group, and Kurt Wagner looks closely at some of the survey's fascinating statistics.

Tesla shares were in freefall on Thursday, down more than 7 % in mid-morning trading, extending the losses that began on the heels of an alarmingly high cash burn in the first quarter that was exacerbated by Elon Musk's out - of - touch remarks.

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More than half of the components of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index have reported first - quarter results as of today.

In the first quarter of 2016, blockchain investments had outnumbered investments in Bitcoin startups by more than five to one — a major shift from 2015 when Bitcoin startups receiving venture investment outnumbered blockchain startups by more than twenty to one.

More than three - quarters of black adolescent and young adult smokers use Newports, a menthol cigarette produced by Lorillard, according to a 2004 study.

I will more than double my year - to - date totals by the end of the quarter.

More than half of the combined net income reported by 200 large public companies in the first quarter stemmed from a decline in the companies»...

This net position in turn consisted of foreign currency asset holdings equivalent to about 20 per cent of GDP, with more than three - quarters of this in the form of equity investment (including direct investment by multinational companies in their offshore operations).

China will take in more than six of every 10 dollars spent on ecommerce in Asia - Pacific this year and nearly three - quarters of regional spending by 2017.

BBK's strong performance in India, where its sales grew by 278 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016, and more than 363 percent in 2016 overall, allowed it to emerge as the No. 5 smartphone vendor worldwide.

(A recent study by three Boston University researchers found that patent trolls have cost publicly traded companies an average of $ 83 - billion annually over the past four years, more than a quarter of all U.S. industrial research and development spending during that period.)

Advance estimates released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis report on Friday showed that the U.S. economy slowed more than expected in the fourth quarter, rendering the annual GDP growth...

The diagnostic imaging specialist said that net income rose by more than 25 % during the quarter on a modest 4 % rise in revenue, with the company's Definity and TechneLite devices providing much of the growth in sales.

«Financial sponsors continued to pursue liquidity in their investments, with more than three times the proceeds raised by financial - sponsor - backed US IPOs in the fourth quarter of 2013 than the same period a year earlier.»