Sentences with phrase «cent have little»

20 per cent distrust mortgage brokers, another 16 per cent don't trust their bank and equally 16 per cent have little trust in their insurance agent.

Over 35 per cent have little or no understanding of the new measures.

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Corporations have reaped profits off the privatization of prisons and prison labor; some prisoners have gotten paid as little as 12 cents an hour, doing work for corporations, like Victoria's Secret and Walmart.

«In essence, the bank's saying what it has been saying — it needs to see the economy grow a little more quickly, [and] inflation move toward that 2 per cent target before we can look forward to interest rates going up.»

Little did I know that six months later I would purchase a startup that lost every cent I owned.

The Australian dollar has remained in a relatively steady range over the past couple of years, at levels that are a little above average against the US dollar and about 10 per cent above average in trade - weighted terms.

At home, the company's annual same - store sales growth in Canada — a measure of the performance of restaurants open for more than a year — have slipped from a high of six per cent in the mid-2000s to little more than one per cent last year.

We have learned that the interest rates associated with 2 per cent inflation leave very little room to manoeuvre in response to large shocks.

Export growth has eased a little, following the surge in December 2003 as exporters sought to avoid the cut in tax rebates on 1 January, but growth over the year remains exceptionally strong at 43 per cent.

Commodity prices have changed little on average over recent months and remain at high levels; the RBA Index of Commodity Prices fell by 0.8 per cent in SDR terms over the three months to January to be 10.2 per cent higher over the year.

Consumer price inflation has slowed a little, from 2.2 per cent in late 2003 to 2.0 per cent over the year to April, and measures of underlying inflation are generally also around 2 per cent.

In year - ended terms, growth in the WPI was 3.5 per cent and has changed little since March 2003.

Based on past relationships, and assuming crude oil prices remain around the October average level, this increase in crude oil prices would directly increase the CPI by a little over 0.6 per cent.

The Wage Cost Index continues to record wages growth at an annual rate of around 3 1/4 per cent, and there has been little change in the wage increases being negotiated under enterprise bargaining, which continue to yield average annualised increases in the 3 1/2 to 4 per cent range.

Were he to invest and achieve a four per cent real annual return with just a little more risk from dividends and capital growth, he could have $ 17,920 per year starting at age 65.

The number of agricultural businesses registered with the WCB — it's a little misleading to refer to these businesses simply as «farms» since many of them are more like farm - products factories — has increased a similar amount, by 107 per cent.

In the nineties, it has averaged a little over 40 per cent, where it currently is.

Over the past year, household credit has increased by around 20 per cent, and with the value of housing loan approvals continuing to rise over recent months, there seems little prospect for a near - term slowing in the pace of growth.

The US economy has continued to recover from the recession in 2001, though the pace of growth slowed a little in the first half of the year, with GDP increasing by 2.3 per cent over the year to the June quarter (Graph 2, Table 1).

The exchange rate against the US dollar peaked at US68.5 cents in early July, but it subsequently came down quite sharply, falling by almost 4 cents in the middle of the month, and has shown little net change since.

Growth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two decades.

Looking forward, there is little evidence to suggest that the rate of credit growth is likely to slow in the near term, with new loan approvals for housing having increased by 24 per cent over the six months to August.

The Bank's quarterly survey of financial market economists suggests that near - term inflation expectations have changed little over recent months, with the median forecast for inflation over the year to June 2004 at 2.2 per cent in November, compared with 2.3 per cent in August.

The 10 per cent that we cut off has the most carbon in it, so we put that carbon back in the ground,» chief operating officer Mark Little told the company's annual meeting on Wednesday.

In Australia, the early March tightening, which lifted the cash rate by 25 basis points to 5.5 per cent, had been fully anticipated and its announcement caused little reaction in markets.

The heightened pressure on the exchange rate in early June saw the yield on 90 - day bills, which had been a little below the cash rate, rise sharply at one stage to 5.8 per cent.

While the measured participation rate has been quite volatile over the past year, in recent months it has stabilised at around 63 3/4 per cent, a little above the average of the past decade.

The Japanese authorities slowed the very heavy intervention they had been undertaking in earlier months and the yen appreciated by as much as 8 per cent to 108 against the US dollar between end August and late October — its highest level for nearly three years — before weakening a little.

Curiously, the memory is a little stronger, the image a little firmer, in recollecting the buying of presents, rather than the getting: the simultaneous feeling of titanic generosity and utter miserliness, an endless calculation of love measured to the penny, and an irrecoverable sensation» the proud knowledge that one has, in a rage of magnanimity, squandered every cent, matched with the shameful awareness of just how paltry the result is.

The church I attend looks very different than the one three minutes down the road, and the larger church body I belong to has little in common with the type of 10,000 member megachurches below the border that fly giant American flags and preach that God's 100 per cent in favour of bombing Iraq.

On a student budget, I subsisted almost completely off those little corner shops and the hearty breads they would churn out daily for mere cents.

Beleaguered dairy group Murray Goulburn's decision to reverse its cut to farmgate milk prices appears to have done little to stem the tide of supplier defections, with the company revealing on Monday its milk intake for the 2018 financial year will be about 18 per cent lower than in 2017.

Three years ago, profit margins in Treasury's Asian business were 38.8 per cent in its maiden full - year results after it demerged from Foster's, although Mr Clarke explained that figure was skewed somewhat because Treasury had little infrastructure on the ground in China then.

Investors showed they had little patience for companies that undershot earnings forecasts, even by the thinnest of margins, sending down shares in retailer Woolworths on Wednesday by 3 per cent after its March - quarter sales result came in slightly shy of analyst targets.

Lion had 50 per cent if the craft beer market, helped by its purchase of Little World Beverages last year which owns the nations second biggest craft beer, Little Creatures.

Lion boss Stuart Irvine, who was in Geelong on Monday morning to launch the nation's biggest brewer's new Little Creatures brewery, said his company's lightening purchase of a 10 per cent stake in takeover target WCB two months ago would deliver it a «seat at the table» and influence over the direction of the outcome.

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If it wasn't us chasing the six points back I would think all they have to do is win each of next games til the team at top feels pressure and they slip a little, however with it being us even if that scenario played out I would not put a single cent on us taking advantage of the slip.

It is best to spend a few more cents on the best natural disposable diapers we have in this natural disposable diaper review than expose your little one to cheap yet toxic disposable diapers.

Moving off to college and not having my loving mother give her two cents every time I went shopping allowed me to find my style a little more.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo embraced a statewide ban on single - use plastic bags, introducing a bill to outlaw them by next year day after Earth Day and a little more than a year after he blocked a 5 - cent surcharge that New York City had sought to place on single - use plastic bags.

Just 14 per cent of the public think the Tories have run the best campaign in the current election, a little behind Labour, on 17 %, and way behind the Scottish National Party on 26 %.

Thirty - three per cent of voters would accept the use of the little - known law while 54 % would oppose it.

Recent polls have shown the Labour lead over the Conservatives diminishing to as little as one per cent, down from a high during the phone - hacking scandal.

Stock markets have risen because they expect him to allow a tax reform bill that would bring a little sense to America's tax code, cutting capital taxes and boosting growth by up to nine per cent.

Only 15 per cent believe it would be a transformational government like Margaret Thatcher's and 10 per cent predict a disappointing one that would change very little.

DWARF galaxies circling the spiral galaxy Andromeda have boosted a little - fancied rival to the idea of dark matter — the invisible stuff thought to make up about 80 per cent of the universe's matter.

We know little about the other 96 per cent, but some of it is likely to have a gravitational signature, he says.