Sentences with phrase «cent of our year 8»

International studies indicate that the top 10 per cent of our Year 8 students now perform at about the same level in mathematics as the top 50 per cent of students in Singapore, Korea and Chinese Taipei.

Data from the Scaffolding Numeracy in the Middle Years (SNMY) project, the second of the two studies mentioned above, found that approximately 70 per cent of Year 5 and 35 per cent of Year 8 students did not have access to multiplicative thinking.

TIMSS shows that 20 per cent of Australian Year 4 students and nine per cent of Year 8s reported being bullied almost weekly.

Around 40 per cent of Year 4s and 61 per cent of Year 8s were taught by a science teacher that had attended PD in science curriculum.

Not exact matches

The government already spends about $ 12 - billion each year to pay interest on its debt, about 8 per cent of revenue.

The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.

The weakest aspect of Canada's economy this year was the feeble performance of private investment, projected by the Conference Board of Canada to contract by nearly 8 per cent compared to 2014 levels.

For the last four years, our terms of trade have risen at a rate of about 8 per cent per annum.

Production is running at record levels in the financial year to date and BHP produced 58 million tonnes of iron ore during the quarter, up 8 per cent on the previous corresponding period.

The Minneapolis - based financial services company also announced a dividend of 90 cents per share, an 8 percent increase over the previous quarter and the 11th quarterly dividend increase in the last nine years.

Graph 8 shows the net result of the linkage: a 1 per cent increase in the real cash rate, lasting for two years, would raise the exchange rate by around 3 per cent and would trim 0.3 per cent off inflation, with a lag which reaches its peak effect in ten quarters.

That said, the equation fits the cycle pretty well (see Graph 5)[8] and Graph 6 shows the impact on GDP growth of a 1 per cent increase in the real cash rate, maintained for two years.

On November 8, 2012, the President of the Treasury Board tabled Supplementary Estimates B for fiscal year 2012 - 13, which indicated that total estimates to date were down 2.0 per cent from the same period last year.

Most economists are tipping the central bank will stay on hold until at least August, while financial markets are pricing in an only 8 per cent chance of a rate cut tomorrow, moving up to a more than 100 per cent chance of more easing by the end of the year.

Coles Express sales fell 8 per cent to $ 1.3 billion as comparable fuel volumes fell 15.9 per cent, (on top of a 22 per cent fall in the year ago period), countering modest convenience store sales growth.

In contrast, abstracting from the increased circulation of cash around the end of last year, annual growth in currency has been relatively stable at around 7 — 8 per cent for a number of years.

Consumer price inflation eased to 2.4 per cent over the year to December, down from the peak of 5.3 per cent in the middle of the year (Graph 8).

The price of construction output continued to increase at a rapid pace in the December quarter, to be more than 8 per cent higher in year - ended terms.

Accordingly, a substantial pool of undrawn commitments built up over the last few months of 1999 and the beginning of this year, peaking at a level equivalent to just under 8 per cent of housing credit.

In the final three months of last year the US dollar declined by 8 per cent against the euro and 7 per cent against the yen, to be around its lowest level in the past decade.

According to the Nationwide and Halifax surveys, year - ended house price growth declined to around 8 per cent in March from 20 per cent in the middle of last year.

A survey of trade union officials, conducted by ACIRRT (Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training) following release of the June quarter CPI, gave a median inflation forecast of 2 per cent over the year to June 1999, rising to 3 per cent over the year to June 2000 (Table 8).

Assets of equity trusts have grown particularly strongly, to be up by 8 per cent in the March quarter and by nearly 40 per cent over the year.

In the September quarter, both the REIA and ABS measures recorded increases in the range of 3 — 3 1/2 per cent, with both series showing rises over the year of between 15 and 18 per cent (Table 8).

Strong price pressures are also evident in health and education services, with the price of health services rising by around 8 per cent over the past year and the price of education services by just under 5 per cent.

Resource company hedging levels, as recorded in the NAB quarterly business survey, have remained fairly steady this year at around 25 — 30 per cent of exposures (Table 8).

In the June quarter, the overall rise in housing - secured credit exceeded dwelling investment by the equivalent of 8 per cent of household disposable income, which is almost twice the average magnitude of housing equity withdrawal seen over the past two years (Graph 28).

During that same six - year period in which the number of DOM - sponsored missionaries decreased by 31 per cent, the number serving under EFMA agency sponsorship increased by 15 per cent, from 6,000 to 7,500, and the number serving under IFMA increased from 6,000 to 6,500 (8 per cent).

Melbourne - based Farm Pride Foods, which is one of Australia's biggest egg processors, has had to cancel orders, with its sales plunging between 8 and 9 per cent compared with the same time last year.

The Irish firm could not escape the current climate of squeezed margins, higher raw material prices and «currency turbulence» with operating profit for the year falling by over 8 per cent on 2003 to $ 238.546.

Production is running at record levels in the financial year to date and BHP produced 58 million tonnes of iron ore during the quarter, up 8 per cent on the previous corresponding period.

Contested takeovers account for 27 per cent of activity in 2014, up from about 14 per cent last year and 8 per cent in 2012, Dealogic data shows.

Aldi and Lidl have almost doubled their share of the UK market to more than 8 per cent in the past few years.

3,050 looked after children were adopted during the year ending 31 March 2011, a decrease of 5 per cent from 2010 and a decrease of 8 per cent since 2007.

«In 51 years of Ghana's existence, the debt was Gh cents 9.5 billion, now you have bequeathed this country in 8 years, you have moved this debt from Gh cents 9.5 billion to Gh cents 122 billion,» he added.

Their departments are among the first ministries to agree cuts of 8 per cent per year for the next four years.

Under the 8 years of the NPP government, from 2001 - 2008, taxes and loans amounted to GH cents 20 billion.

In contrast, taxes, oil revenue, and loans alone over the 8 - year period of 2009 - 2016 would amount to some GH cents 248billion.

On the economy the manifesto says the next NDC government will pursued in the next four years: an average GDP growth rate of at least 8 per cent per annum and a single digit rate of inflation;

Moreover, debt will rise, according to official statistics, next year to 8 per cent of GNP.

Moniz notes that just 0.1 cent per kilowatt - hour of electricity and 2 cents per gallon of transportation fuels would yield about $ 8 billion per year, although such surcharges would need to be developed «with collaboration from industry and consumers.

The first blow to Britain's efforts to combat global warming is the decision by President of the Board of Trade, Michael Heseltine, that the «nuclear levy» will end next year, reducing electricity prices by 8 per cent.

The French treasury has trimmed 8 per cent off this year's science ministry budget as part of the country's general spending cuts, leaving many laboratories in financial difficulty.

It appears that the proportion of black 8 - year - olds entering puberty has dropped from 48 per cent in 1997 to 43 per cent today.

If the world's population met these goals, 8 per cent of early deaths over seven years would be prevented (The Lancet, doi.org/cdfc).

In the first year of reporting (March 8, 2016 to March 8, 2017), at UHN there were 74 MAiD inquiries, 74 per cent of which were for patients whose primary diagnosis was cancer.

Presenting results as hazard ratios or relative risks always makes effects look large — «a 30 per cent heightened risk of developing type 2 diabetes» sounds like a big effect but based on figure 2 it looks like statins may be associated with an increase in the annual rate of new diabetes from about 6 per 100 people to approximately 8 per 100 people over a 10 year period.

Eyebrow - raising figures on his website claim that he has less than 8 per cent body fat with the health, physique and energy levels of an 18 year old.

Rosé has taken over summertime sipping, with global consumption one of the highest growing in the wine industry, increasing by 11 per cent in 8 years.

According to the research — only 8 per cent of them would date an older woman, 40 per cent of them want women at least five years younger and they are far more likely to judge a future partner on looks.