Sentences with phrase «cent of their time in»

After being a secondary force for half a century prior to 1886, the Tory Party was then in office, alone or in coalition, for over 70 per cent of the time in the next 80 years.

But sharks exposed to the highest level of carbon dioxide spent just 15 per cent of their time in the squid - scented stream.

In secondary schools, it is predicted that by 2017, 70 per cent of student time will be spent using technology, and at least 50 per cent of the time in primary schools.

The study found that attainment had been improving for pupils who were eligible for free school meals for less than 60 per cent of their time in schools.

«It worked out so well, we now spend 90 per cent of our time in here,» says the owner.

Not exact matches

Brent crude, the international benchmark, fell about 69 cents at the time of the tweet, before trading down 0.8 percent at $ 73.17 a barrel as of 2:31 p.m. in London.

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.

IHS believes GM could add about $ 439 million in profit over the same three - year time period, while Gartner thinks auto makers will be earning up to 10 per cent of their revenue from connected services by 2020.

Comparing full - time, year - round workers, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J..

The initiative, which donates 50 cents to charity every time one of its Contribute members takes an opinion survey, has raised $ 6 million since 2011 for charities engaged in causes including animal welfare and youth programs.

GAAP EPS of $ 1.62 included 15 cents of net restructuring charges and other significant items and was down 6 percent versus the prior year, reflecting the absence of a one - time gain booked in Q1 2017.

At that time, the company owned 34.3 per cent of the issued capital in PRL.

In the private sector, Canadian women working full time are earning hourly wages that are 80 per cent of what men earn.

But shipments of Windows Phone devices grew 78 per cent to 8.7 million in the April - to - June period, compared with the same time a year ago.

The heavy rare earths developer announced this week it had received valid applications for $ 11.7 million in shares under the plan, pitched at 7.8 cents a share at the time of closing on the 12th of February.

Aéropostale's shares have slipped from an all - time high of $ 29.90 in 2010, to 15 cents when the stock stopped trading Thursday.

Cenovus reported one - time severance costs of $ 43 million as it cut its staff count by 15 per cent in the first quarter, and a $ 59 - million non-cash expense for Calgary office space that exceeds current needs.

In other words, it's neat when it works, but that only happens about 70 or 80 per cent of the time.

In November, musician Damon Krukowski penned a frustrated screed about the grand sum of 21 cents received from Pandora for the 7,800 times one of his band's songs was played on the service.

The share of part - time work among university - educated Canadians also rose from 10 per cent in the 1990s to 13.5 per cent today, with the gap relative to high - school graduates narrowing to only one percentage point.

The income gap between the top one per cent and the rest of filers has widened over time, calculated in 2010 constant dollars.

Parents hoping to teach their children the power of compound interest on their savings today will have a harder time than parents in the 1970s and 1980s, when interest paid on savings accounts soared above 10 per cent compared with rates today, when even the highest - paying savings accounts sit in the low single digits.

During that time period, box office revenue per patron increased to $ 10.54 compared with $ 10.23, though attendance during the quarter slipped 2.1 per cent to 17.6 million people compared with 17.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2016.

«This bid seems to defy logic,» Peel Hunt analyst Paul Morland told the Financial Times, characterizing the 79 % premium HP paid as «an «amazing» premium for a company whose earnings grew by just 6 per cent in the first half of the year.»

It was the opinion of 95 per cent of those questioned in October, 1935, by the National Conference of Jews and Christians that there was less anti-Semitism in their communities at that time than there had been at the beginning of the depression.

Just five per cent of companies that have won a Best Managed award have gone out of business, compared to an estimated 72 per cent of average Canadian firms in a comparable period of time.

IT has been observed that 80 per cent to 90 per cent of the organisations we work in today will not exist in twenty years time or will be radically different.

Earnings came in right on estimates apparently: analysts were looking for 13 cents a share and Yahoo did exactly that (after adjusting for a range of one - time bad things).

Cellit Mobile Marketing, in Chicago, and Movo, in Florida, sell short codes for $ 500 to $ 1,000 per month, plus a one - time setup fee of a few thousand dollars and a charge of 4 cents to 7 cents for each text message.

In recent years, rich countries have not kept their promises to provide aid to the developing world at a rate of 0.7 per cent of GDP, and although aid has not declined, it has remained flat for some time.

According to GasBuddy.com, the average price of regular gasoline in Canada on Monday was about $ 1.33 per litre, up 22 cents from the average of $ 1.11 per litre at the same time last year.

Sevigny, along with his McMaster communications counterpart Philip Savage and Andrew Laing of Cormex Research found in their analysis that despite the amount of fighting in the House of Commons, MPs receive applause to their comments or questions 75 per cent of the time.

The suggested fixes include capping loans at 65 per cent of the home value, introducing new and more conservative means of estimating how much a residence is worth, and amortizing the loans (meaning that borrowers would have to repay the principal within a certain time frame, as in a mortgage, whereas now they can simply keep paying interest on their HELOCs).

The stock found support near 70 cents in the second half of the year, testing that level three times ahead of a March 2017 uptick that has now reached ranged resistance.

The speech makes clear that the Bank's monetary policy frameworks centres around a flexible inflation target that aims to deliver an average rate of inflation of between 2 - 3 per cent over time and in a way that best serves the public interest.

Medical Transcription Billing Corp., a healthcare information technology company that provides a fully integrated suite of proprietary web - based solutions, together with related business services, to healthcare providers practicing in ambulatory care settings, went public in July 2014 at $ 5.00 and suffered an immediate downtrend that continued to the April 2017 all - time low at 29 cents.

In a survey conducted in 2015 by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) on Asian investment in Canada, Canadians estimated that foreign direct investment from China made up 25 per cent of Canada's total investment, when the actual figure at the time was closer to three per cenIn a survey conducted in 2015 by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) on Asian investment in Canada, Canadians estimated that foreign direct investment from China made up 25 per cent of Canada's total investment, when the actual figure at the time was closer to three per cenin 2015 by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) on Asian investment in Canada, Canadians estimated that foreign direct investment from China made up 25 per cent of Canada's total investment, when the actual figure at the time was closer to three per cenin Canada, Canadians estimated that foreign direct investment from China made up 25 per cent of Canada's total investment, when the actual figure at the time was closer to three per cent.

The company, which went public in 2006 at 95 cents and hit an all - time low at 9 cents at the end of the bear market, recovered and reached an all - time high at $ 8.00 in June 2015, following a correction that extended into the second half of 2016, pushing down the stock to a 2 - year low at $ 2.45.

Lightpath Technologies, Inc., a provider of optics, photonics and infrared solutions for the industrial, defense, telecommunications, testing and measurement, and medical industries, hit an all - time low at 30 cents in February of 2009 after a multi-year fall that began with the dot.com bubble in 2000.

Despite a one - time, $ 425 - million charge tied to tax reform in the U.S., BMO reported $ 973 million in net income for the quarter ended Jan. 31 of this year, with revenue growth of about 5 per cent compared with the year before.

According to the Growing Gap, a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, «In 2004, the richest 10 per cent of families raising children earned 82 times more than the poorest 10 per cent — almost triple the ratio of 1976, when they earned 31 times more.»

It seeks to achieve a rate of increase in the Consumer Price Index of between 2 and 3 per cent, on average, over time.

They've come a long way in a short time: it was just over four years ago, April 2, 1993 to be precise, when Philip Morris cut the price of Marlboro cigarettes by 40 cents a pack.

[5] The share of interest - only loans in total housing credit then stabilised for a time at around 40 per cent, having increased steadily up to that point.

At about the same time, APRA acted to ensure that the interest rate «buffer» used in the serviceability assessments for all loans was at least 2 percentage points above the relevant benchmark rate (with an interest rate floor of at least 7 per cent).

According to this June's Financial Times «Expenditure by local and central governments in China jumped nearly 25 per cent from the same month a year earlier, a sharp acceleration from the 9.6 per cent growth registered in the first four months of the year, according to figures released by the finance ministry,» and HSBC's Flash PMI index suggests for the first time in six months that there has been an expansion in manufacturing, although the flash index is, of course, preliminary and may be revised.

Professor Scarthe also recommends that, once the deficit is eliminated in 2015 - 16, any future government should gradually start creating a deficit by, for example, spending on infrastructure and this could be done while at the same time maintaining a stable debt to GDP ratio of around 25 per cent over the medium to longer term.

Only about 60 per cent of Air Canada's flights pulled up to the gate within 15 minutes of their scheduled arrival times in 2012, according to figures tracked by the website FlightStats — that's one of the worst records among major international airlines.

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