Sentences with phrase «cent spent more»

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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.

Capital spending on major mining, energy and infrastructure projects in Australia is set to drop more than 60 per cent over the next three years, according to analysis by ANZ Banking Group.

One brewing company I've worked with spends 22 cents of every sales dollar on marketing, but most microbrewers spend even more.

' cents Curbing «wasteful spending» on programs that aren't «any more effective than they were twenty years ago.»

Scotiabank's spend on technology, including cybersecurity initiatives, rose 13 per cent last year and now sits at more than $ 3 billion, Porter noted.

More strikingly, CGA - Canada has calculated that before the financial crisis Canadians borrowed on average 31 cents for every dollar spent on new vehicles; today it's 95 cents.

Household spending, another category expected to accelerate thanks in part to the more - favourable borrowing environment, only inched upwards by 0.1 per cent.

Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.»

The US export sector is getting the benefit of a lower dollar; there's a significant fiscal package in the pipeline, which will add more than 1 per cent of GDP to private spending power; and sharp cuts have been made in US official interest rates, with financial markets expecting more to come.

Coupled with a global technology sell - off, concerns about its growing spending have clobbered its shares more than 10 per cent since a January record high.

The Commerce Department's report on Monday also showed consumer spending, which accounts for more than two - thirds of US economic activity, increased 0.4 per cent in March after being unchanged in February.

In North America, for example, U.S. clean energy spending grew by seven per cent in 2015, while Mexico's more than doubled.

Although China is still set for sub-8 per cent growth in 2012, its weakest in more than a decade, momentum picked up noticeably in the fourth quarter after the government increased its spending on infrastructure.

Survey shows average Valentine's Day shopper plans on spending $ 173 Half of Valentine's Day shoppers intend to buy candy and sweets On average Canadians save more than 15 per cent on confectionary...

In other words, the federal government is today spending nearly 50 per cent more real dollars per citizen than it did a decade ago.

And affordability is an even more serious problem for another 22 per cent of people in Kamloops, who spend more than half their income on rent.

Of the people who rent in Kamloops, just under half spend more than 30 per cent of their income on rent.

It is important to note that the retail trade survey covers only around 40 per cent of consumer spending and that other recent indicators of consumption have been more positive.

What is even more puzzling is that while the President of the Treasury Board claims control over spending by pointing to the decline in the Estimates of $ 10.4 billion, or 4 per cent, the June 2011 Budget shows an increase of $ 9.7 billion, or 3.6 per cent, in expenses between 2010 - 11 and 2011 - 12.

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.

Over the past year, capital spending rose by more than 17 per cent, with the main categories of investment — machinery and equipment investment (abstracting from civil aircraft deliveries), buildings and structures, and spending on computer software — all recording robust growth in the quarter and over the year.

64 per cent of respondents plan to spend more on corporate travel in 2018; this is consistent with the upward trend seen in previous years

Close to one - in - five Canadians (17 %) believe that Canada spends more than the UN target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income on overseas development assistance.

CCA will also spend 36 per cent more on mainstream and digital marketing to build brand awareness and relevance — especially in the teen market — and will use digital technology to improve service in the route or convenience channel.

Metcash's first - half underlying net profit fell 9 per cent to $ 101.7 million as the grocery, liquor and hardware wholesaler cut prices and spent more on marketing to drive sales growth.

«They were not in their 100 per cent best moment and other clubs would have spent more on him so I thought immediately: «What a good transfer for them.»

''... if nutrition is so important, why don't people spend every available extra cent on more calories?

37.10 per cent of respondents believed their children enjoy spending more time with their mum whilst 34 per cent felt their child enjoyed spending more time with their dad

It is best to spend a few more cents on the best natural disposable diapers we have in this natural disposable diaper review than expose your little one to cheap yet toxic disposable diapers.

Shows like Jamie Oliver's «Food Revolution,» and school districts like Chef Ann Cooper's former district in Berkeley, CA and current district in Boulder, CO, are often held up as examples of what's possible in school food reform, yet it's seldom ever mentioned that in each of these cases, far more money is being spent on those meals than the current federal reimbursement rate — and far more than that rate plus six cents.

Ninety four per cent of public spending cuts are yet to hit the UK, and the public sector is due to come under more pressure in the next few years.

Britain is one of just four Nato member states which spend two per cent of more of their GDP on defence spending.

3) Fuel poverty is defined as when a household is required to spend more than ten per cent of its income after housing costs on total fuel use.

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.

«We will also insist that lottery distributors spend no more than five per cent of what they distribute on admin,» he added.

The latest batch of # 75 billion (which represents more than ten per cent of current annual public spending) was created just a few days ago and credited instantly to financial institutions.

Some 94 per cent believe that the deficit in the public finances should be tackled more by cutting spending than raising taxes, while only 2 per cent disagree.

Earlier this week, the government set out its comprehensive spending review (CSR) outlining plans to cut funding for social housing by more than 60 per cent, with new tenants in line to pay higher rents.

More changes are expected in the autumn spending review when some government departments face cuts in the order of 25 per cent, the chancellor warned.

It found that spending per person in the UK was more than 350 per cent higher than in Romania and Bulgaria, the two newest countries to join the EU.

Asked what the next government should do in the event that it has to find more money than it expects, 30 per cent said it should increase taxes more than planned «in order to limit the impact on public services», but 55 per cent preferred to «reduce spending more than planned, in order NOT to increases taxes further».

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.

And in a message for all three parties, more than two thirds of voters - 68 per cent - felt that the parties «could and should set out in far more detail their plans for taxes and spending over the next two or three years».

The Association of Police Authorities has pointed out that with more than 80 per cent of the policing budget spent on staff, «it is inevitable that jobs will be affected».

If they revise down the Treasury's growth forecasts by 1 per cent of national income, the gap between tax revenues and spending increases by around # 10bn, meaning the government has to find more money from somewhere.

«If governments spent one cent more on social services per dollar spent on health by rearranging money between the two portfolios, life expectancy could have experienced an additional 5 % increase and potentially avoidable mortality could have experienced an additional 3 % decrease in one year.»

Children who spent 2 hours or more a day in front of a screen were about 50 per cent more likely to have psychological problems, regardless of exercise, suggesting that screen content or associated behaviour is to blame (Pediatrics, DOI: 10.1542 / peds.2010 - 1154).

More than 40 per cent of workers in the US use a computer in their work, but they have to learn their computing skills outside formal education — only 0.2 per cent of public educational resources is spent on computers.

«Private and public spending for medications is 75 per cent more per person in Quebec compared to countries with universal pharmacare,» said Marc - André Gagnon, a professor at the school of public policy and administration at Carleton University.

Baboons, meanwhile, live in groups of 50 or more and can spend as much as 20 per cent of their time grooming.