Sentences with phrase «cent had used»

The union surveyed 322 headteachers and found 97 per cent had used agency supply teachers in the past 12 months, with two thirds doing so to cover vacancies caused by issues in recruiting staff.

They found that only 25 per cent of patients who tested positive for hepatitis B had used the exchange, whereas among those who tested negative for hepatitis B, 74 per cent had used the exchange.

Just ten per cent had used a head shop.

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Not exact matches

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.

St. Louis - based Anheuser - Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, said earlier this month it had cut its water use by 32 per cent in the last five years by sponsoring preservation initiatives in water basins critical to its breweries, and by installing U.S. Department of Agriculture real - time weather and crop water - use data meters on suppliers» farms.

MillerCoors released a sustainability report Wednesday that shows it has cut its water use by 9.2 per cent from 2012.

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.

Its profitability depends greatly on energy costs and, while Fundstrat's model uses a global average of 6 cents per kilowatt hour, Chinese miners apparently only have to pay 4 cents or less.

The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada found the number of households with a HELOC and a mortgage against their home has increased nearly 40 per cent since 2011, prompting commissioner Lucie Tedesco to caution this month the trend «may lead Canadians to use their homes as ATMs.»

The proposed law would tax people about 62 cents per every gigabyte of Internet used.

Generally, you have two options: deduct the mileage on business - related travel at 56.5 cents a mile (that's the 2013 rate), or own a car that you use exclusively for business.

«Oil prices used to have an 80 per cent correlation with the loonie and now it is a 94 per cent relationship.

I took every cent I had in the world and went out and bought formulations for a cosmetic that I had been using for 10 years that I thought was phenomenal.

If you exchanged your Chase Ultimate Rewards points for cash to purchase the ticket, or if wanted to use fixed - value points worth one cent each — such as miles you can earn with the Capital One Venture card — you would need 120,000 points to cover the whole trip.

While Ja Rule had a larger following and more resources at the time, 50 Cent was able to use Ja Rule's success as a way to build credibility for himself.

Feuds between celebrities happen all the time, but 50 Cent has made using rivals to his advantage into an art form.

Of the moms surveyed, only 24 per cent said they'd feel comfortable using their phone to make payments in store, while the male and young consumers were split.

For the past quarter century, the Bank of Canada has had the responsibility of using monetary policy to achieve low, stable and predictable inflation, a goal cemented in our 2 per cent inflation target.

Natural Resources Canada used to have a program called the Canadian Building Incentive Program, which gave financial incentives to buildings with energy efficiency measures, including a $ 60,000 grant for reducing energy consumption by 25 per cent.

Many Canadians - I mentioned 69 per cent of older Canadians - have effectively used RRSPs to save and invest for their retirement, and then effectively used the companion vehicle of a Retirement Income Fund or «RIF» to fund their retirement lifestyles.

Planning for the future — but still not confident Despite using various financial tools for retirement savings such as RRSPs (45 per cent), cash savings (43 per cent), or TFSAs (39 per cent), 45 per cent of Canadians are still not confident that they will have enough money in retirement to afford the lifestyle they want.

Furthermore, only one in 10 Canadians (12 per cent) say they are using / planning to use an annuity to ensure they have enough money to lead their chosen lifestyle in retirement.

Overall, the government sector is reported to have hedged about 70 per cent of its foreign currency asset exposure using derivatives.

As at the end of March 2013, international investment position (IIP) data indicated that Australian entities overall had a net foreign currency asset position equivalent to 27 per cent of GDP before taking into account the use of derivatives for hedging purposes (ABS 2013a).

The general government sector — which consists of national, state and local governments — had a net foreign currency asset position equivalent to around 3 per cent of GDP as at the end of March 2013, before taking into account the use of derivatives for hedging purposes (Table 2).

RBC has seen an increase of more than 30 per cent in active mobile users over the past year, a clear indication that more Canadians are using the RBC Mobile app to bank whenever and wherever they want.

RBC Transaction Banking has a leading market share among Canadian banks for export letters of credit coming into Canada, and is used by 80 per cent of the world's top 20 banks for standard settlement in CAD.

Instead, according to the Washington - based Silver Institute, the use of silver in photography peaked in 1999 and has fallen by almost 80 per cent since.

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).

You have probably heard estimates that suggest that around 40 per cent of tasks performed by humans in Canada and the United States could be automated using current technology.3

But surely the vast majority of Canadians would accept an increase in the GST of only «one cent on the dollar» knowing the additional revenues would be used to provide needed funding for many groups and individuals»?

Over the past couple of years, speculators have also used short sales of gold to obtain low cost funds to invest in other assets — for example, by shorting gold (borrowing it and selling it in the spot market), market participants have been able to obtain US dollars at between 1 and 2 per cent, well below the rate of return available on US assets.

This is true not only in our market, but also in another seven of the 27 countries that the OECD identified, using two different measures, as having housing stock that is over-valued by 20 per cent or more.

At 2.1 cents per point, only the Starwood Preferred Guest Program has a higher value for points being used toward free stays at hotels.

But here is what's most important to note: If you are on solid financial footing, the premium in interest rate to use an alternative lender is about 0.5 per cent, with the added bonus of not having to supply nearly the same level of collateral or personal guarantee.

The statement was made in connection with revelations that ANZ has used a benchmark called the «Household Expenditure Measure» or HEM as the base to assess mortgage applications for ~ 73 per cent of the loans it assesses.

Once ES balances returned to more normal levels, use of intra-day repos picked up again; banks have recently undertaken about $ 5 1/2 billion a day, or about 5 per cent of total daily RTGS payments.

Assuming that they invest $ 1.5 million of their financial assets at 3 per cent after inflation and use up all income and capital in the 37 years to Nancy's age 95, it would generate $ 65,700 per year or $ 5,475 per month before tax.

(a) Aggregates weighted by GDP at PPP exchange rates unless otherwise specified (b) Per cent, based on US dollar values (c) Includes intra-euro area trade (d) Weighted using market exchange rates

«The premier said this week that she has completed a project development agreement with Petronas, a proponent that had already told her government that it intends to use up to 70 per cent foreign labour on construction,» Ralston said.

Pacific NorthWest LNG, majority - owned by Petronas, told the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office that it would recruit 40 per cent of the workers required to build its terminal, and a staggering 70 per cent of the workers used during the last three years of building, from overseas.

The stock has surged 400 per cent since, with investors betting on its copper resources as part of a wider play for minerals that are used in batteries - a similar story that Kumova oversaw at Syrah with its graphite resources.

If a Bell Mobility customer were to use five gigabytes of video (roughly two high - definition movies, or seven standard - definition movies) through a competing service like Netflix, it would cost them $ 40 to do so — an 800 per cent markup compared to what it charges for its own service, Klass wrote on his blog.

This seems to be based upon the survey report's affrmation that «only 9 per cent said they wouldn't use (condoms) as it would be wrong.»

Some have argued that since 98 per cent of Catholics (who have been sexually active) have used contraception (according to statistics in the US), the sense of the faithful (the sensus fidelium) is that the use of contraception is not incompatible with the Christian faith.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

By contrast, the South African Council of Churches (SACC) which represents approximately 22.5 per cent of all South Africans, and the Roman Catholic Church, which claims 9.5 per cent of the population, have recently endorsed the use of violence as a «necessary evil» to «free» black South Africans.

Judged by the standard GNP statistics, the US per capita income had increased in real value by 25 per cent since 1976; but, using the ISEW, they found that over the same period the economic wellbeing of Americans had actually declined by 10 per cent.

«Using radiocarbon dating of camel bones» AND your positive every camel's bones that ever existed before the 10th Cent has been found and examined?