Sentences with phrase «cent have fewer»

And another 25 per cent have fewer than 10 lawyers.

The majority of charities in the UK (53 per cent) have no paid employees, while a further 30 per cent have fewer than 10.

Not exact matches

In a March 26 report, Plessis said that the purchase does have the potential to add a «few cents» to the company's annual cash flow per share.

The rising cost of homeownership is pushing more people to rent, and the vacancy rate in Toronto has tightened over the past few years to 1.3 per cent, according to CMHC.

The share price of mining junior Batavia Mining Ltd has more than doubled in the first few days of 2006 on a 140 per cent gold resource upgrade that could bring its Gullewa copper gold project in Western Australia back in production within a year.

«Our distributorship has risen 35 per cent in the last few months,» Mr Jeffery said.

Since domestic long - distance telephone rates have dropped to a few cents a minute, international calling is the killer app for these sites.

The fries have about 20 per cent fewer calories than the chain's regular fries as a result of a batter that blocks out some of the oil during frying.

Vancouver region prices have spiked to all - time record highs over $ 1.61 but will likely fall by four to six cents per litre over the next few weeks as two refineries in Washington state start up after maintenance shutdowns, said GasBuddy senior petroleum analyst Dan McTeague.

Futures are up only a few per cent to say where the market would go next.

In one of the few studies that has examined flextime's effect on company profits, last year, researchers from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and China's Renmin University studied the 35 per cent of Canadian firms with flextime policies.

But on spending, they're unwilling to go farther than they have so far, with measures to freeze civil service managers» pay, target a few Crown agency executive packages and find ill - defined savings worth 0.3 per cent of the current budget.

A meaningful carbon tax would add a few cents a litre at the pumps, but I suspect many Albertans would pick that option over broad - based tax increases, jam - packed classrooms, or shuttered operating rooms.

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 per cent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

After the last update of «Byzantium» on the Ethereum network, the transaction processing fee of the gambling smart - contract has dropped to a few cents and now is less than 0.5 % of the minimum bet.

Our forecast a few months ago for 2010 was that inflation, measured either in headline or underlying terms, would be in line with our 2 — 3 per cent target.

The proportion of respondents expecting inflation to be 10 per cent or above almost halved in July, following a few months when over one - third of survey respondents had such an expectation.

Over the same period, 29 per cent of the few new jobs created in B.C. have gone to temporary foreign workers.

The share of new investor loans with very high LVRs (above 90 per cent) at the time of origination has been declining for a few years and is below that for owner - occupier loans (Reserve Bank of Australia (2017), Financial Stability Review, April).

Even a half point rise in rates, which have been edging up incrementally the last few weeks, could translate into a 9 per cent slump in sales and a 2.6 per cent drop in prices by 2015, compared to where the market stood in 2012, notes economist Will Dunning in a rates - impact assessment released Wednesday.

Equity prices have also increased over the past few months to be more than 20 per cent above their recent troughs in most major international markets.

Stockland chief executive Mark Steinert this week said the national population growth rate of 1.6 per cent would keep driving demand for new facilities, even though traditional retailers were planning fewer new stores than they were five or six years ago.

-- Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR), now the largest rural telecom company in the U.S., has long been a favorite of mine, although it tested my devotion a few years ago when it cut its dividend twice in six months, from $ 1.00 a year to 40 cents.

In the past few months, the trade surplus has widened significantly, as export growth remained rapid, at 33 per cent over the year to March, while import growth slowed to 19 per cent over the same period.

Engineering construction has risen by 36 per cent over the past year and the unprecedented amount of work yet to be done suggests further expansion in the next few quarters.

The unemployment rate has edged lower over the past few months to 6.1 per cent in September, and other indicators, such as new claims for unemployment benefits, are also showing signs of stronger labour demand.

Moneris, which facilitates card payments for 220,000 Canadian merchants, said last month that its purchases over its systems increased by about 5 per cent in the first quarter from the same period a year ago, following the pattern that the company has observed for the past few years.

Fewer respondents plan on sending additional employees to conferences in 2018 (4 per cent); this number has been moving consistently lower since 2015

Over the same period, weighted - average U.S. gasoline pump prices have risen by almost $ 1.13 per gallon and now stand just a few cents below $ 3 per gallon.

Starting from just a few cents, the digital currency has skyrocketed to as high as $ 1,200 before climbing back down to a modest $ 800.

Since it took office in 2006, arrests for marijuana possession have jumped by some 40 per cent and harsher mandatory penalties have been imposed for growing as few as six plants.

Seldom do we realize that a drop of a few cents in the stock market in New York has drastic effects on the economy of major cities in the Third World.

Only four countries - Czech Republic (nine - per - cent), Sweden (18 - per - cent), Estonia (19 - per - cent) and the Netherlands (19 - percent)- were found to have fewer Christians, as a proportion of the wider young adult population.

Seldom do we realise that a drop of a few cents in the stock market in New York has drastic effects on the economy of major cities in the Third World.

I have done the math and usually the organic bulk price (especially on rice) is about the same or only a few cents more to buy from the bulk bins than the packaged foods aisle.

Even though they were attracting fruit flies, had a combined value of no more than 17 cents, and numbered too few to make a batch of banana bread, the thriftster in me didn't want to throw them away.

According to data from market research firm Euromonitor International, the edible oil category, which had overtaken dairy to become the largest packaged food segment in our country a few years ago, grew at 25.6 per cent to cross the Rs. 1.3 trillion mark in 2017.

Amcor derives 95 per cent of its overall $ 11 billion in annual revenues from overseas markets, and is one of the few big blue - chip Australian companies to have made a success of offshore expansion.

Coca - Cola Amatil was another company that had experienced better years, with the share price falling 17 per cent on top of the 17 per cent it fell the previous year, as consumers bought fewer carbonated soft drinks.

CCA reports that in the last few weeks, about 5 per cent of consumers who have bought the $ 2 cans are completely new to the soft drink category.

Where the price for dairy products on the global market has gone up by 80 per cent in the past few years, farm returns have risen only 15 per cent.

Coke Life, the first new Coke brand since the successful launch of Coke Zero in January 2006, is sweetened with a blend of cane sugar and stevia, a plant based - sweetener 300 times sweeter than sugar, and has 35 per cent fewer kilojoules than classic Coke.

Morningstar analyst Daniel Mueller believes Coke Life, which is sweetened with stevia and has 60 per cent fewer calories than regular Coke, will appeal to consumers demanding low - calorie low - sugar alternatives to sugary soft drinks.

However, Coca - Cola South Pacific plans to use the Coke Life formula sold in the UK and the US rather than the formula sold in South America, which has a higher stevia content and 60 per cent fewer kilojoules than classic Coke.

The drink has 35 per cent less sugar and 35 per cent fewer kilojoules than classic Coke.

Coca - Cola Life, which has about 60 per cent fewer calories than classic Coca - Cola, was launched in Chile and Argentina last year after five years of research by The Coca - Cola Company.

Despite reports of «collective outrage», however, less than 10 per cent of MediaCity's 2,300 staff appear to have signed the petition, and possibly only because they hadn't read further than the first few lines of the memo.

But in the past few weeks the sector took a fresh round of hits when franchise group Aussie Farmers collapsed, RFG announced an $ 88 million loss and flagged up to 200 franchise - run stores would close, while pizza giant Domino's reported disappointing results on the back of franchisees complaining about a brutal business model, and Caltex announced it was ditching its franchise model days before a damning report was released by the workplace regulator that found 76 per cent of its franchised stores had payroll compliance breaches that included underpaying workers.

The Australian Financial Review spoke to numerous retailers across the country who confirmed they had been offered discounts of between 10 per cent and 30 per cent in the past few weeks to help move excess stock of the winemaker's 2009 Penfolds Grange.

Organic milk sales have boomed in Britain over the last few years and were 50 per cent higher this July than in the same month last year, according to new figures from the Milk Development Council.