Sentences with phrase «cent of british»

Another survey this week, by sellhousefast.uk, found that 63 per cent of British homeowners have so many excess belongings that they are forced to seek self - storage to cope with their hoarding habits.

For the majority dinner is served by 2.30 pm, with Mum still as head chef in 36 per cent of British homes — however a more modern 35 per cent said Christmas dinner was a team effort.

In a recent Ipsos Reid opinion poll, 58 per cent of British Columbians agreed that the Property Transfer Tax places an unfair tax burden on home buyers relative to other segments of the population.

In a recent Ipsos Reid opinion poll, 58 per cent of British Columbians agreed that the Property Transfer Tax (PTT) places an unfair tax burden on home buyers relative to other segments of the population.

But only 36 per cent of British Columbians support their child marrying a Hindu, just 28 per cent would approve of marrying a Sikh and a tiny 17 per cent endorse wedding a Muslim.

A majority of Albertans (55 per cent) support the project, compared with just 33 per cent of British Columbians, who would bear the brunt of the risks and the consequences from the inevitable oil spills.

This is equivalent to 1.7 per cent of British Columbia's 2012 — 13 revenues.

Prominent climate deniers including Matt Ridley, Owen Paterson, Lord Lawson, and James Delingpole join the roughly 50 per cent of the British public who are in favour of the UK leaving the European Union.

Despite these factors though, a recent survey revealed that 45 per cent of British residents consider a holiday to be the most important luxury in their lives, and so many have turned to domestic tourism as a more convenient alternative that avoids many of the potential pitfalls of overseas travel.

To back this up, the report reveals that 42 per cent of British Bafta winners attended a fee - paying school.

Future First works in 10 per cent of British state secondary schools enabling those schools to utilise the talents of alumni to support current students.

She reports that only 10 per cent of British women have ever taken HRT, but in the US, «where women have even begun suing their doctors for failing to offer it», a third of postmenopausal women do.

Depersonalisation disorder is not as rare as you might think, says Anthony David at King's College London and the Maudsley Hospital: it may affect almost 1 per cent of the British population (Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, DOI: 10.1007 / s00127 -010-0327-7).

Arthur D. Little, a firm of consultants found that 83 per cent of the British public regard environmental damage as a serious crime, but only 67 per cent of executives agree.

More than 40 per cent of American companies provided information on how much they spend on the environment, compared with 23 per cent of British companies.

They've been in combat since the 1990s in most parts of the navy and air force and in 70 per cent of the British army.

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) said the potential of the bottom 20 per cent of British workers had been wasted for years — hitting our economic potential.

72 per cent of British adults believe Ed Miliband should spend more time outlining what Labour would do in government if they won the next General Election, according to an ITV News Index poll.

While Muslims are about five per cent of the British population, its youth comprises at least ten per cent of our school population.

Encouraged by recent polling showing that 80 per cent of british firms would stay in the EU, Clegg will come out fighting today and ask them to join him on the frontline in the battle for Britain remaining in Europe.

«This poll shows that only five per cent of the British public support the sale.

Fifty - eight per cent of British respondents agreed with the statement that «we are heading for environmental disaster unless we change our habits quickly».

Eighty per cent per cent of British people want the government to take a more active role in helping those at risk of having their homes repossessed, according to an Ipsos MORI study for St Mungo's.

The End Child Poverty coalition has just released the results of an opinion poll that shows 82 per cent of British people think that tackling child poverty should be a government priority.

A mere 52 per cent of British voters made the decision to exit the EU last June.

Given this, it is hardly surprising that a recent poll found that 43 per cent of British people think that the country should be proud of the Empire, while only 11 per cent of people support the proposal of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign to remove the statue of the British colonialist, Cecil Rhodes, from Oriel College in Oxford.

25 per cent of British Christians do not believe in Jesus» resurrectionOne in four people who class themselves as Christians do not believe the resurrection...

Humanitarian charity Christian Aid has urged the government to crack down on tax avoidance after a new poll found 89 per cent of British adults say tax avoidance by large companies is morally wrong even if it's legal.

Eleven per cent of British women are taking antidepressant medication daily.

It comes as a new study shows nearly 80 per cent of the British public see no signs of improvement for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children who are at risk of serious issues such as neglect, poverty, bad health or homelessness.

Fact: Over half of the tax breaks handed out go to the wealthiest 20 per cent of British Columbians, and the poorest 40 per cent of people in B.C. won't receive a dime.

It boasts nearly 2.5 million residents and in 2014 produced goods and services valued at $ 119 billion — 58 per cent of British Columbia's real GDP.

For 16 years the B.C. Liberals stood with the top two per cent of British Columbians while making life more expensive for everyone else.

Highest Income Inequality — In January, B.C. Stats reviewed the data and found that B.C. has the largest income gap in Canada, with the bottom 20 per cent of British Columbians earning just 7.7 per cent of what the top 20 percent make, and well down from the 22 per cent seen in the 1990s.

The Angus Reid Institute found 54 per cent of British Columbians support the project, up from 48 per cent.

And this just in: 52 per cent of British Columbians don't vote, but do answer calls from pollsters.

Sixty - six per cent of Atlantic Canadians and 63 per cent of British Columbians also gave the Tories poor marks.

Just three per cent of British households own a smart thermostat, up from two per cent last year, while a similar two per cent own phone - controlled lights — the same amount as a year earlier.

Not exact matches

On a per - share basis, the Vancouver, British Columbia - based company said it had profit of 1 cent.

«There are 70,000 books in the British Library with leadership in the title,» the blog reports Furnham remarking, «but most leaders don't succeed, they fail, with a base rate of bad leadership collated from various studies of 50 per cent.»

Regionally, prices were higher in all provinces except British Columbia, which recorded its third consecutive month of disinflation, chiefly attributed to a one - per - cent decrease in food costs.

The addition brings to four — including original members Ontario and British Columbia — the number of provinces that have signed on to the project, although they represent about three quarters of Canadian listed companies with a market capitalization of 53 per cent of the total.

Lacavera owns about 35 per cent of Wind Mobile, which has a wireless network serving about 750,000 customers — primarily in heavily populated areas of Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.

Fan also pointed out that Verizon Wireless can not invest outside of the continental U.S. due to a shareholder agreement with British telecom company Vodafone (which owns a 45 per cent stake in Verizon Wireless), and that it would be unlikely that any wireless investment by Verizon Communications Inc. would occur outside of Verizon Wireless.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver released the data a month after the British Columbia government implemented a 15 - per - cent tax on foreign buyers in Metro Vancouver in an effort to chill one of the hottest markets in North America.

The Bank of England's Mark Carney has promised the same until the British unemployment rate falls below 7 per cent.

We helped limit raw log exports, launched the British Columbia Community Forest Association and used the Softwood Lumber dispute to reallocate 20 per cent of logging tenures across B.C.

Home resales were already on a downward track before the British Columbia government introduced a 15 per cent tax on home purchases by foreign nationals in Metro Vancouver, and area resales could see further significant weakness in the near term if there is a sharp downgrading of future price expectations and a drop in speculative activity.

On that same page one can find the real 2017 ratio, 13.8 per cent, set to grow to 19.5 per cent by 2019, still lower than most provinces but ahead of British Columbia and Saskatchewan.)

98 per cent of businesses in British Columbia are considered small businesses.