Similar to last year, 9.1 per cent came from legal departments with $ 10 million or more in legal spending in the last fiscal year, 7 per cent with $ 5.1 million to $ 10 million, 6.3 per cent with a budget of $ 3.1 million to $ 5 million, 23.1 per cent at $ 1 million to $ 3 million, 14.6 per cent between $ 501,000 to $ 1 million, 25.8 per cent between $ 101,000 and $ 500,000, and 13.7 per
cent spent less than $ 100,000 in legal costs.
Not exact matches
The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more
spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting
less dropped to 17 per
cent from 29 per
cent in the summer and 35 per
cent at the start of the year.
Put 10
cents of every dollar that comes into your hands somewhere where you are
less likely to
spend it.
The Tampa Bay Times, for instance, reported that Kids Wish Network was
spending less than 3
cents of every donated dollar on the children it promises to provide for.
Their plan proved difficult to execute:
less than two
cents of every dollar
spent by blacks in the U.S. goes to black - owned businesses, and it's hard to say what's cause and what is eff ect.
Also, the 1.25
cent / $ value on an ongoing basis (after the initial bonus) is
LESS than the Capital One Venture card, where you earn 2 pts / $
spent on EVERYTHING; 2 pts is worth 2
cents of travel credit.
The previous Liberal government having increased
spending 47 per
cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased
spending another 19 per
cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per
cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling
spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or
less to leave it there.
A recent study commissioned by Real Estate Webmasters says that last year, 53 per
cent of real estate professionals
spent less than $ 5,000 on their annual marketing efforts, including both online and offline avenues.
Thirty - six per
cent of our December respondents told us they expect to
spend less on automobile purchases — up from 25 per
cent in July 2016.
A recent report from Mintel found that 47 per
cent of free - from shoppers in the UK
spend less on these products when budgets are tight but with Lidl's permanent range, customers will now be able to carry on buying their favourite free - from foods whatever the budget.
Amatil
spent $ 45 million to build plants that will use 15 per
cent less resin in the production of each bottle, resulting in significant raw material cost savings.
Departments whose administrative
spending occurred mainly in the central Whitehall departments, and were correspondingly
less affected by reclassifications, showed rather smaller proportional changes (11 per
cent reduction on average, compared to 32 per
cent among the four departments with the largest administration costs).
The thinking behind the cap is straightforward: welfare
spending has somehow managed to get out of control in recent decades, rising from
less than five per
cent of GDP in the 1950s to around 13.5 % of GDP now.
Two, in a country where we are
spending less than 30 per
cent of our income on capital expenditure and more than 70 per
cent on recurrent expenditure getting out of recession will hardly be quick.
And once you strip away all of these categories, the amount of money
spent on what most people would label «welfare» - unemployment benefit - is vanishingly small at
less than one per
cent of all government
spending.
He declined to be nailed down to how much he might
spend on his campaign — should he run — though he did say he would work for 99
cents, one
cent less than Bloomberg accepts, joking: «I'm a grocer.
Mayor Paul Dyster proposed a
spending plan for next year that would raise the tax rate for commercial properties slightly and the residential property tax rate by
less than 2
cents per $ 1,000 of assessed value.
The Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) said government
spending in these areas made up
less than one per
cent of its total budget and had proven benefits.
You can already see hints of this from the Gravity Tank survey: app users
spend about 25 per
cent less time reading newspapers, watching TV or using a computer since they started using apps.
Modern children
spend, on average, just 9 per
cent of their time outside, a lot
less than previous generations.
When one considers that supply teaching staff make up
less than three per
cent of school staffing costs, compared to the almost seven per
cent spent on administrative and clerical staff, it's clear that agency
spend is a minor factor in the budgetary difficulties some schools find themselves in.
We could believe that with the increasing adoption of technology in schools, the use of hard copy books and pens are
less in demand;
spending on stationery is set to drop by three per
cent.
The Resource Our Schools initiative, which has already attracted support from the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and numerous subject associations, comes following procurement research published by BESA that shows that primary schools are
spending 3.7 per
cent less on resources than last year.
It also shows that secondary schools are
spending 5.7 per
cent less.
However, there is also wide variation in total
spending, with 10 per
cent having
less than # 49,000
spent on them and 10 per
cent having more than # 67,000
spent on them.
The National Benchmarking Overview Report 2016 - 17 which is compiled by local authorities shows that, since 2010 - 11, real - terms
spending per primary and secondary pupil has fallen by 9.6 per
cent and 2.9 per
cent respectively, which translates as # 513
less per primary pupil and # 205
less per secondary pupil.
While there have been attempts to improve this situation, 70 per
cent of initial teacher training providers still
spend less than a day with their students on dyslexia ‑ specific training.
Procurement research published by BESA shows that primary schools are
spending 3.7 per
cent less on resources than last year, and secondary schools are
spending 5.7 per
cent less.
With 75 per ‑
cent of children in the UK
spending less time outside than prison inmates (survey of 2,000 people commissioned by Persil as part of its «Dirt is Good» campaign) it's going to take more than just schools to get young people outside enough to reap the benefits; benefits that include not just self - development, but also increased academic attainment — one of the core functions of schools.
Children have fewer opportunities to be outdoors than their parents enjoyed — 33 per
cent of families
spend less time outdoors than in the previous generation.
«Kids
spend less than twenty per
cent of their childhood in school, so home is where they need most protection.
Despite the fact that his party had control of both legislative houses this year, the most McDonnell managed to do was to pass the voucher - like tax credit plan (which has been criticized for only allowing those providing scholarships to poor kids to write off a mere 65
cents of every dollar
spent, or
less than similar plans) and a weak charter school expansion that has only allowed four new charters to be opened this past school year.
If more people understood everything that it takes to get a book out into the world, there would be alot
less bitching about having to
spend anything over 99
cents for one.
If you're dead set on never
spending a
cent on book marketing, you'll get
less value from this than someone who embraces the concept that you have to
spend money to make money.
The middle 20 per
cent are still
spending nearly 3 per
cent less.
U.S. drivers are
spending approximately 90
cents less on a gallon of gas than they were a year ago.
Expenses per child decrease as a family has more children, the report found, as families with three or more children
spend 22 per
cent less per child than families with two children.
Unlike other loyalty programs, TrueBlue doesn't offer any redemption options that get
less than 1
cent per point, so you'll likely get a decent return on your rewards no matter how they're
spent.
Just 14 per
cent consider themselves «house all» buyers who go to the higher end of what they can comfortably afford when it comes to their mortgage, leaving
less room for discretionary
spending.
A U.S. study, also cited by the C.D. Howe report, said that between the ages of 60 and 80 Americans
spent at least 50 per
cent less on purchases such as cigarettes, airline tickets and camping equipment.
For every $ 100
spent at participating grocery stores, like Kroger and Food for
Less, or online through shop.fuelrewards.com you will earn 25
cents off per gallon (up to 20 gallons per reward).
However, if I find myself consistently redeeming for
less than half a
cent per Hilton Honors point, I can use that information to adjust where I allocate my manufactured
spend.
Also, the 1.25
cent / $ value on an ongoing basis (after the initial bonus) is
LESS than the Capital One Venture card, where you earn 2 pts / $
spent on EVERYTHING; 2 pts is worth 2
cents of travel credit.
Your Chase Ink Cash rewards points are worth the same — 1
cent each — for either redemption option so you only need to choose to have a smaller statement now or use a gift card to
spend less money later.
You should always avoid
spending points for merchandise, since you will effectively get about 0.5
cents for a point or even
less.
Earn 25
cents back per gallon on all Marathon purchases when you
spend $ 1000 or more per month; earn 15
cents back per gallon on all Marathon purchases when you
spend $ 500 - $ 999 per month; earn 5
cents back per gallon on all Marathon purchases when you
spend less than $ 500 per month with card.
For example, if you booked the same DFW to CZM flight with 25,000 American Airline miles and paid the fees, you'd be
spending 10,000 more miles and redeeming at 2.5
cents per point, almost 2
cents less per point than with Avios.
With the
less than one -
cent per point rate, you'd need to
spend at least $ 600 a month to offset the fee — not easy if don't stay at IHG ® hotels on a monthly basis to take advantage of the higher rewards offer.
The likelihood of Australia being invaded by a foreign power this century is probably
less than 30 per
cent, yet we
spend and will go on
spending more on defence than on any conceivable climate change mitigation policy.
Of the respondents, 5.6 per
cent spent between $ 5.1 and $ 10 million, 7.6 per
cent spent between $ 3.1 and $ 5 million, 22.1 per
cent spent between $ 1 million and $ 3 million, 16.2 per
cent spent $ 501,000 to $ 1 million, 25.1 per
cent spent $ 101,000 to $ 500,000 and 13.5 per
cent spent $ 100,000 or
less.