Sentences with phrase «cent figure seen»

That's substantially down on the 48 per cent figure seen in 2005 and comes despite an excellent day weather-wise for voting.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Yum Brands says a key sales figure for China dropped 19 per cent in May, as the parent company of KFC began to see signs of recovery from the double whammy of a bird flu scare and an earlier controversy over its chicken supply.

As can be seen in Figure 1, on earnings up to one - half average wages and salaries, the benefits from Canada's publicly administered programs meet the commonly used replacement rate target of 70 per cent of pre-retirement earnings.

Our new annual growth forecast for 2016 is 1.4 per cent; however, much of the downward revision in that figure is because of the weakness we saw in the final quarter of last year.

Single - family home construction was far more subdued and saw just a three per cent increase month over month, according to figures released Monday by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

The latest market share figures for Australian pharmacies and supermarkets in April showed A2's market share had nearly doubled over the last year to 32.8 per cent, while Bellamy's has seen its share more than halve over the same period to 10 per cent.

Tottenham will be embarrassed to see that there are nearly twice as many Arsenal fans in their borough as their own, with figures showing 18.92 per cent support for the Gunners and 10.81 for Spurs.

Liverpool launched 50.2 per cent of their raids down Everton's left flank [see image above]-- that figure for the second - half alone was 59.9 per cent — with 19.1 per cent of the Reds» attacks directed down the opposite wing.

Productivity has indeed risen sharply (see Figure 1 below), measured not only as GDP per worker (11 per cent since the onset of the crisis, the highest of any of the euro zone countries), but also in terms of GDP per hour worked (8 per cent since 2008).

According to figures from the World Bank, the Chinese economy's carbon intensity — the amount of CO2 emissions relative to the size of economic output — has decreased by almost 70 per cent over the past three decades (see «Peak planet: Carbon dioxide intensity «-RRB-, and a further 20 per cent reduction from current levels is promised by 2020.

That figure is now below 15 per cent (see This Week).

My 2 Cents: After looking at this information, I would think that if someone feels that they are really having hair loss, then it is time to see the doctor to figure out what the specific cause is.

Jenny Whittle, Conservative councillor and committee chair, has said that figures are improving with grammar pupils eligible for free school meals now over three per cent, but admitted she would like to see that figure doubled.

All too often, omitting a sprinkler system is seen as a cost saving but figures from some new builds suggest that a suitable system can be installed for about 0.5 per cent of the total build cost.

Just six per cent of would - be trainee teachers locked out of the pre-qualifying test for their courses under old government rules have applied to take the tests again since the rule limiting resits was lifted, according to exclusive new figures seen by Schools Week.

The other — Beccles Free School, also in Suffolk — saw 39 per cent of its 49 pupils achieve the GCSE benchmark figure.

We were delighted to see 84 per cent of our pupils gain their Level 4 in maths in 2015 — our highest figure yet and a fantastic achievement for them.»

However, authors often think it's worth charging (and making) so little because consumers see a book for 99 cents and figure that's worth the risk.

You don't have to be much of a mathematician to see the attraction of those figures: 70 % of $ 2.99 is $ 2.09; 10 % of a paperback priced at $ 9.99 is 99 cents.

To figure out how much you can set aside, track your spending to see which expenses you can cut, said Michelle Schroeder - Gardner of Making Sense of Cents, a personal finance and lifestyle blog.

In 2015, Belize saw 12,650 UK visitors — an 11.4 per cent increase on visitor numbers from 2014 — and expects to see this figure increase following the introduction of these additional flights.

An outstanding 19.2 per cent increase in passenger traffic in December alone saw Budapest Airport continue its record - breaking trend, with the Hungarian gateway welcoming 11.4 million passengers by the end of 2016 — a figure never before reached at the airport.

«We've seen a rise of 23.77 per cent in long - stay holidaymakers over the past financial year and families comprise a substantial portion of that figure,» said Mr Mike Anderson, Chief Operations Officer of Oaks Hotels & Resorts.

The escalation in passenger figures marks the airport's 19 consecutive month of year on year growth, with performance attributed to the busy Christmas period where the airport saw over 720,000 festive travellers arrive and depart, a rise of 1.2 per cent, as well as having over 153,000 extra seats available to popular destinations compared with the previous winter season.

The first quarter of 2016 has seen the United Kingdom emerge as the leading growth source market to Indonesia, with a staggering increase of 28 per cent on 2015 figures.

Aruba has now firmly established itself as one of the top 10 destinations in the Caribbean for the UK market: according to the latest available figures, from January to September 2009 Aruba saw a 41.88 per cent year - on - year increase in visitor numbers from the UK (10,265 as opposed to 7,235 for the same period in 2008).

So, for example, if I'm valuing SPG points at 2.4 cents per point and I see a redemption possibility at the W Miami that will net me 1 cent per point, I can easily figure out that that particular redemption is not great value.

Any figures I've seen or done myself suggest the price is overwhelming to the world economy, unless someone pulls a technological rabbet (er, excuse me, rabbit) out of a hat and manages to reduce the cost per tonne of CO2 from US$ 300 - US $ 600 to cents per tonne, and preferably fractions of one.

He sees them (chapter 18, figure 18.7) reducing potential energy from renewables by about ninety per cent.

This study modelled power grids in the United States and Canada under four scenarios (see figure 1 - 2) with wind penetration levels ranging from five per cent to 35 per cent of forecast annual system load energy in 2025:

The Chinese figures could be seen as partial confirmation of this new normal for oil, with the 5.9 per cent increase in oil demand in 2014 over 2013 well below GDP growth of 7.4 per cent.

In Figure 2 below you see ~ 12 cents / kWh coming from economic benefits — and in Figure 3 below that value is a whopping 35 cents / kWh.

The third quarter of 2008 saw 4,000 corporate insolvencies in England and Wales, an increase of more than ten per cent on the previous quarter, and more than 26 per cent up from the previous year, according to figures released by the Insolvency Office.

«Based on the figures and seeing the claims experience, in our opinion, an increase of 40 to 50 per cent is what is needed to make the portfolio break even,» said G Srinivasan, chairman and managing director of New India Assurance.

Although our source doesn't have an exact figure on the number of handsets to be made available, our secret squirrel is saying that HTC will release «around 1 per cent of total sales of the device so far» as a tester to see what the uptake is like.

2009 saw record numbers of university leavers and new figures show more than 660,000 people have applied for a university place for the next academic year. This staggering amount is up by 12 per cent from last year, once again breaking the record for the number of university applicants. With these figures on the rise, the coalition government have made an extra 10,000 university places to support the hefty amount of applications, meaning more students than ever will be graduating with degrees in the coming years. It is becoming even harder for employers to recruit graduates when they simply can not distinguish who is more qualified for the job â $ «how does one chose between the graduate with the 2:1 History degree from Durham or the 2:1 English Literature graduate from Bristol?