Sentences with phrase «cent since last year»

Dorset's West Bay, home of crime drama «Broadchurch», takes third place — up 3.16 per cent since last year.

Overall the broker share in the industry has increased from 25 per cent to 28 per cent since last year.

The average price of a home in Toronto is up 18 per cent since last year and we hit record sales in August.

TORONTO — The price of basic wireless phone service in Canada has gone up 16 per cent since last year but packages with more features have held steady or gone down, according to an annual study commissioned by Industry Canada and the CRTC.

Overall reading scores across the nation have improved 0.72 per cent since last year, but writing is down 0.55 per cent and over the long - term it is down by more than two per cent since 2011.

YouGov found the percentage of people believing the police's version of events had fallen by just one per cent since last year, while the percentage believing Mitchell had risen by just six per cent.

Self - serve premium averages $ 1.133, down 3.9 cents in one month and down 17.4 cents since last year.

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Since introducing its pods for the Keurig system last year, he said Starbucks has captured 15 per cent of the market.

A PwC director has claimed the productivity of iron ore mining equipment in Australia has fallen 40 per cent in the last four years, and has sat behind the global average since 2012.

Fueled by low prices, and an improving job market, consumption of gasoline in the U.S. rose by 2.6 per cent last year to 9.2 million barrels a day, the highest level since 2007, the government said.

The sales last month were the second lowest March total in Greater Vancouver since 2001 and 30.2 per cent below the 10 - year sales average for the month, the board said.

The dollar has eased off in the last couple of days since Trump complained about it being too strong, but, after rising half a cent on the back of Draghi's press conference, it's still close to a 14 - year high against the euro.

Services industries expanded 2.8 per cent last year for their highest pace of growth since 2011.

But the average rate on the 30 - year mortgage has jumped more than a full percentage point since May and was 4.57 per cent last week — just below the two - year high.

As you are aware, the Reserve Bank Board has kept the cash rate unchanged at 1.5 per cent since August last year.

The agency also said wages grew 1.8 per cent last month compared to a year earlier for the biggest increase since last October.

Benchmark zinc ended down 1.3 per cent at $ US3007 a tonne after sinking to $ US2994, the lowest since September 15 last year after treatment charges were agreed.

For the players, among the key issues is the NHL's request for wage rollbacks of around 19 per cent, something many players are resistant to, especially given the large increases in NHL revenue in recent years — up 50 per cent to $ 3.3 billion, in the years since the last lockout.

Average hourly wages were $ 26.12 last month, a meagre 1.1 per cent increase from year earlier and the weakest gain since the late 1990s.

Yields on 10 - year bonds fell by around 40 basis points, to 5.3 per cent, by early March but are now around 5.9 per cent — a net rise of 25 basis points since the time of the last Statement.

A clear, although gradual, shift has occurred in respondents» medium - term inflation expectations, with the share of respondents expecting inflation to be less than 3 per cent per annum declining steadily since early last year.

The company's gearing after the purchase is lower than originally expected, at less than 33 per cent rather than 35 per cent thanks to Lattice's strong operations and cash generation since July 1 last year when the deal took effect.

Longer - term inflation expectations of investors have been similarly subdued; the difference between 10 - year bond yields and indexed bonds continues to fluctuate within the 2 — 2 1/2 per cent range it has remained in since mid last year.

The closely watched 10 - year yield topped 3 per cent last week for the first time since 2014, on the back of rising expectations about inflation and rates.

Out of the UK's total of 5.7 m small businesses, only 1.7 per cent applied for a loan or overdraft last year, the fifth consecutive year of decline since 2012.

B.C. home sales in March tallied $ 5.39 billion, a 20.6 per cent tumble compared with March 2017, while the association says sales dollar volumes since January slipped 1.7 per cent to $ 13.9 billion, compared with the first quarter of last year.

Its financial performance has since declined, however, with profit slumping by more than 50 per cent to $ 7.5 m last year.

In Dolton, where the Park District hasn't had an increase in its tax rate since 1927, a 15 - cent increase will be sought for the third time in the last couple of years to help offset the cost of operating the new recreation center.

And in Dolton, where the Park District hasn't had an increase in its tax rate since its inception in 1927, a 15 - cent increase is being sought for the third time in the last couple of years to help offset the cost of operating a new recreation center.

The NAO finds the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has made «real and substantial progress» since its last report in 2002, noting that # 6 billion was given out in pension credits to 2.7 million pensioner households last year - a take up rate of about 69 per cent.

Since 2008, China has continued to grow rapidly (nearly 8 per cent last year) despite the wobbly global recovery.

Last year saw the lowest number of house completions since 1923 - just 103,000 - in an industry which even in its current state is around three per cent of GDP and which helps maintain around one and a half million jobs.

According to the Community Security Trust, a not - for - profit group providing security for the Jewish community, there were 455 anti-Semitic incidents last year, a fall of 14 per cent on the previous year but the second highest level since 1984.

According to Ministry of Education statistics, considering the current enrolment figure of 47,000 in the colleges, the government would have spent GH cents 282 million on allowances last year if the allowance regime had been in place, since each student received GH cents 500 a year.

International benchmark Brent futures were nudging 71 dollars per barrel, both crude benchmarks are up by almost 60 per cent since the middle of last year.

The Home Office says cocaine is the only drug which has risen in use since 1998 and although cocaine use has been stable since 2000 - fewer than five per cent of adults have used the Class A drug in the last year - the government says it is determined to strengthen efforts against it.

Fashion sales up but future looks gloomy (Times Online) «Sales of clothes, shoes and textiles were 9.5 per cent higher than in April last year, the biggest annual rise since July last year... Analysts said that retailers would struggle to keep up the momentum as households faced sluggish earnings growth and political uncertainty as well as tax rises and spending cuts.»

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year leyear's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year leyear levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year leYear 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year leyear levels

Latest figures show 83.5 per cent of pupils were offered their first choice of secondary school and 94.6 per cent of pupils were offered one of their top three secondary schools last year, which follows the creation of 735,000 new school places since 2010.

The latest figures come shortly after government statistics revealed that the number of applicants for teacher - training courses had dropped by 6,510 — equivalent to 33 per cent — since the same time last year.

The latest performance data for primary schools shows that the gap between disadvantaged pupils and others in a combined measure of English, reading and mathematics has decreased in each of the last six years, narrowing by 1.3 per cent in the latest year and 10.5 per cent since 2011.

Alarming findings from the Youth Sport Trust (YST) suggest that 38 per cent of English secondary schools have cut timetabled Physical Education for 14 - 16 year - olds since 2012, while almost one in four (24 per cent) have done so in the last academic year.

There are now 529,164 pupils at ISC schools, up 1.2 per cent from last year and the highest level since records began in 1974.

Despite increased costs, ISC schools raised their fees just 3.6 per cent last year — the lowest rise since 1994 — as part of their commitment to controlling fees and amid fears that greater increases might turn parents away.

Its proportion of pupils getting five A * to C GCSEs, including English and maths, has since risen from 54 per cent in 2013 to 61 per cent last year.

The number of people starting an apprenticeship has fallen by around 30 per cent since the levy was introduced this time last year.

In January, 14 per cent of all pupils were eligible for and claiming free school meals, down from 14.3 per cent last year and the lowest level since records began in 2001.

Real Estate prices have risen by 11.4 per cent over this time since last year.

Based on the revisions, Statistics Canada now estimates that growth for last year came in at 1.1 per cent compared with its earlier reading of 1.2 per cent, its slowest pace since the 2009 recession.

For high - income earners living in Alberta, whose tax rates have increased dramatically since last year, the impact on their take home pay this month will be much more severe as Alberta's top federal / provincial combined marginal rate went from 40.25 per cent in 2015 to 48 per cent in 2016.