Sentences with phrase «cent had just»

The research found 51 per cent of children (aged six to 17) were currently reading a book for fun and 20 per cent had just finished one.

It may all seem like a dream come true, but joining the ritzy country club across town can actually cause a culture shock that is so powerful, and instill a rush that is so addictive, that you end up spending every cent you have just to keep that sensation coming.

Not exact matches

A $ 400 pair of snow tires rung through with a debit card would cost the merchant just 12 cents; a credit card could top $ 12.

In many cases the costs of use and adoption have a lot more to do with the calculated allocation of scarce personal time and precious resources rather than with just dollars and cents.

Those fees have since fallen back down to Earth, settling at just 20 cents Thursday, according to Bitinfocharts.

For example, some auto companies have warned that if NAFTA rules become too onerous they could just ignore them and pay the 2.5 per cent tariff to operate in the U.S.

Just as Torontonians were getting used to shelling out 5 cents for plastic bags, Mayor Rob Ford — possibly angered by having to carry so many nickels and unwilling to suffer the indignity of paying for a reusable shopping bag — put forth a motion to do away with the city's plastic - bag fee as of July 1.

Each merchant would get a free online storefront and would pay just 10 cents for a four - month listing, plus a 3.5 percent commission.

This group of occupations has an unemployment rate of just over 1 per cent and wages that are «rising by an average annual rate of 3.9 per cent — more than double the rate seen in the economy as a whole.»

Data from the Housing Industry Association has shown residential construction already beginning to increase in WA, with new home builds increasing by just over 8 per cent in the September quarter.

At present, the cost for Sound Rink to make a lanyard in China is just 35 cents, compared to nearly $ 1.00 it would cost stateside, he says.

Meanwhile Samsung has paid just 11 cents, according to Reuters data.

At its closest rival AT&T Inc., wireless service revenue has been rising just over 4 per cent per year.

For men, this has been one of our most successful ads, with a click - through rate of more than 3 percent and a cost of download of just 58 cents.

Instagram, a start - up which had existed for a mere 551 days, which had never made a cent in revenue, and which employed just a dozen people, had pulled off one of the most impressive exits in recent memory.

Blackham Resources has signed up Hartleys as lead manager for a $ 36 million capital raising that will be priced at just 4 cents per share, while mining contractor MACA has agreed to lend $ 14 million and take equity in the struggling gold producer.

In 2005, according to documents supplied recently to Congress, GM failed to make a repair of the switch that would have cost just 57 cents.

It's an important question, and one that could go some way toward explaining why GDP growth has averaged just 1.4 per cent in developed economies since 2010, compared to an average of 3.6 per cent between 1985 and 2007.

It's no secret that women have it worse than men in the workplace: Consider that women today earn just 78 cents for every male dollar, according to the Department of Labor.

Let's assume that if every one of those 19 transactions had a purchase amount with one penny over the dollar (e.g., $ 3.01) with a 99 - cent round - up, the average American would save just $ 18.81 per month with Acorns.

The book lists for $ 12.95, but corporations that ordered it within four months of publication would pay just 90 cents a copy for a minimum order of 30.

McGuigan Simeon Wines has risen from $ 3.69 to $ 4.57, Cockatoo Ridge is up from 47 cents to 70 cents, just short of its high of 75 cents.

A poll of 1,000 Texans last year for Texas Lyceum found 43 per cent of respondents saying NAFTA has been good for the Texas economy and just 24 per cent saying it was bad.

Just five per cent of companies that have won a Best Managed award have gone out of business, compared to an estimated 72 per cent of average Canadian firms in a comparable period of time.

In an advancement that could change the way that medical diagnostics are conducted, Stanford Medical School researchers have created a reusable lab that costs just one cent to make.

Ultra high - definition screens have fallen around 85 per cent in the past two years, to the point where they're just about affordable for the average household.

But HBR has also recently begun incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rankings into their methodology in order to highlight corporate leaders who think beyond just short - term gains and dollars and cents.

A recent study released by Nielsen Media Research showed that click - through rates for banner ads had dropped from 2 per cent to 0.5 per cent, and just months ago many were engraving tombstones for the five year old banner.

But the average rate on the 30 - year mortgage has jumped more than a full percentage point since May and was 4.57 per cent last week — just below the two - year high.

Just bought 2 cans of franks & beans for 1 cent each at Dollar General (last 2 cans they had).

Admittedly, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has lifted that limit several times before — in 2007 its was $ 350 billion... meaning that taxpayers» exposure to the housing market has risen by 70 per cent in just four years.

Despite the Equal Pay Act, the gender pay gap persists; women are typically paid just 80 cents for every dollar paid to men — and that number has barely budged in a decade.

Shorten told Nine last week that PHIs «are making 25 per cent profits» — which is just wrong (though why would we expect a former director of AustralianSuper with fiduciary duties over the nation's largest retirement fund to know the difference between a profit margin and a return on equity?)

While the economy has more than doubled in size in the past 30 years, middle - class incomes have gone up just 13 per cent.

Since the mid 2000s, the available internationally comparable data suggest that average annual bond issuance by Australian corporations has been the equivalent of just under 1 per cent of GDP, with around two - thirds of total issuance taking place offshore, rather than in the domestic market (Graph 1).

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economic future.

Seventy - one per cent said they'd been forced to cut back on other expenses, while 64 per cent were driving less and just over half cancelled their vacation plans to stay closer to home.

On a year - over-year basis, they are down 5.5 per cent, whereas the November 2011 Update has them increasing by just over 2 per cent.

They've come a long way in a short time: it was just over four years ago, April 2, 1993 to be precise, when Philip Morris cut the price of Marlboro cigarettes by 40 cents a pack.

Gasoline prices have been moving up steadily with the price of oil, and are now up 33 cents from last year's levels and almost 20 cents from just a month ago, according to AAA data.

For the 50 years leading up to the terms of trade boom, mining investment had averaged just over 1 1/2 per cent of GDP.

But Carney has scant room to drop the Bank of Canada's benchmark rate, already just one per cent, to boost the economy.

Within this, the share of short - term bank paper has declined from more than 50 per cent to just 15 per cent, with a particularly marked shift into government securities (Table 1).

Asked which leaders in the conflict are doing a good or bad job, just over four - in - 10 Canadians say Rachel Notley has done a good job (43 per cent).

He has also said a foreign - ownership cap of 49 per cent should remain in place for both sectors, and that loosened restrictions should apply to all industry players, not just capital - hungry new wireless entrants, but also the incumbent providers, such as BCE Inc., Telus Corp. and Rogers Communications Inc..

But if the price of their house went down by 10 per cent, they would just keep paying their mortgage and some day it would be higher again.

But if you're only spending $ 200 on a hotel room and using just 10,000 points, each point would only be worth two cents ($ 200/10, 000).

Add in the federal tax, and you've got nearly 77 cents per gallon in just taxes — the highest in the nation.

Making Sense of Cents just had a great article today that 56 % of American's have less than $ 10,000 saved for retirement!

Just thought I'd weigh in and share my 2 cents since you are looking at investing.