Sentences with phrase «comparable figure»

U.K. February mortgage data also showed an annual decline of 5.6 percent for approvals with analysts at Jefferies saying they anticipate a further fall in March given difficult to match comparable figures from last year before an improvement in trends returns in subsequent quarters.

In contrast, when Tony Blair first became Labour leader Gallup found comparable figures to Brown on whether he was decisive and effective... but found that 70 % of people thought he was caring and likeable.

Without knowing things like what weighting was used we don't know exactly how comparable the figures are, but it certainly doesn't look as though the Conservative swing is any larger in the easiest marginals than in the county as a whole (and — in the present political circumstances — it doesn't need to be).

Many other advanced economies already invest comparable figures on R&D, so the promises actually mean that the UK will merely catch up — and long after the next parliament is history.

The demise of the V6 was inevitable; inline - fours are now cranking out comparable figures with the help of turbochargers, so a drop in displacement for the base engine is not a surprise.

Stadler did not indicate whether the production version of the SUV could offer comparable figures, as the concept's range of 310 miles on a full charge may already seem outdated when the production version goes on sale.

To that end, this particular edition included brief explanation as to why the big gap in eBook total net revenue numbers, seen through most of 2013 as compared to 2012's unprecedented comparable figures, had almost closed by year's end.

This is an approach that we call carbon cap equivalents, which «is derived by adding up the full range of supplemental and complementary proposals to each country's carbon cap and converting this into one comparable figure of what these emissions reductions would effectively amount to if they had been the result of a carbon cap alone.»

This is in line with comparable figures for 2016 produced by the Crime Survey of England and Wales.

Comparable figures from state schools in adjacent counties were unavailable.

The comparable figures for Canada are 3,136,000 bbl / day of crude oil production and 1,918,000 bbl / day of refinery capacity — about 61 per cent of crude oil production.

This is, however, still below the comparable figures in the United States, where 70 per cent of corporate bonds on issue are rated below A +.

The comparable figure in 2012 - 13 was 28 %.

Hong Kong's exports are over 160 % of GDP and the comparable figure for Singapore is 138 %.

Whereas expectations of inflation fell to a low of 14 per cent in the mid-1970s recession and were around 10 per cent at their low point during the 1982/83 recession, the comparable figure now is 4 per cent.

The comparable figure for headline inflation moved up from 1.5 % to 1.9 %, bringing it back up to the ECB's target of slightly below 2 %.

The region has year - to - date new orders totaling $ 139.10 million, 16.3 % below the comparable figure for 2012.

In October of 2013, the Economist reported that «in America's 50 states the average ratio of state debt to personal income is 3.4 %» whereas the ratings agency Moody's says the comparable figure for Puerto Rico is 89 percent.

By 2050, the comparable figure should be just over a quarter, with the remainder distributed across....

For example, among traditionalist evangelicals, men gave 85 percent of their vote to Dole, compared with 64 percent for women, a twenty - one point difference; comparable figures for traditionalist Catholics were 58 and 47 percent, respectively.

In the latest round Manchester will have seen its funding cut by over # 247 per home; the comparable figure for the South - east is as little as # 12 per dwelling.

In fact, the Liberal Democrats» Projected National Share (PNS) and NEV for 2017 were up from the comparable figures for 2013.

In the UK, remuneration for some executive roles has ballooned 4000 per cent in the last 30 years, whilst a comparable figure for the average worker is only around 300 per cent.

Alas, there is no comparable figure for the lowest deciles.

The comparable figures for men are 18,446 for 1994 and 23,298 in 2014.

Fortunately, in 1977, NASA launched the twin Voyager spacecraft — their paths are shown here — and both are escaping the sun's glow: in mid-November, Voyager 1 was 118.9 times farther from the sun than Earth is; for Voyager 2, the comparable figure was 96.9, still more than twice as far out as Pluto.

(The comparable figure is less than 1 % for five other research agencies surveyed by the IG.)

The comparable figure for R - rated movies was 33 %, a statistically negligible difference.

There's no comparable figure to Buck O'Neil in «Baseball.»

In 1999 the comparable figures were 41 percent and 51 percent, and in 1996 they were 36 percent and 43 percent (see Figure 2).

The umbrella group for charitable organizations found that households that gave to education in 1987 averaged a donation of $ 293 — more than the comparable figure for any other area except religion, which received an average household contribution of $ 715.

The comparable figure last year was 33 percent, down from a peak of 39 percent in 1978 and 1979.

While 62 percent of those born in America in 1950 attended at least one year of college, the comparable figure for those born in 1975 (and who came of age in 1995) was just 59 percent (see Figure 1).

For instance, while 60 percent of white third - graders tested proficient or advanced in English language arts, the comparable figures were 19.8 percent for black students and 35.3 percent for Hispanic students.

In the rest of the state, the comparable figures were 2 percent and 0.4 percent.

Only a minority of countries in Africa had sufficient test data to be included in these rankings - and it could be that countries such as Ghana are among the higher achievers in the continent, performing better than the majority for which there are no comparable figures.

The comparable figures for New York City Public Schools were 38 percent and 41 percent, respectively.

So the average total per pupil spending in DC area private schools, some of the most elite private schools in the entire nation, is about $ 10,000 less than the comparable figure for DC public schools.

The comparable figures for DC were 0.134 and 0.097.

Indigo offers no comparable figures before fiscal year 2013, but the decrease in sales the last 12 months of all print products was a mere 3.6 %, from some 70 % of the total down to 67.4 %.

Booksellers are feeling bullish heading into the final frenzied days of selling before Christmas following a raft of «strong publishing» and sales tracking nearly 10 % ahead on the comparable figures from 2014, beating the national retail average.

From 1993 through 2017, ETFs had an average annual tax burden of 0.3 % due to both capital gains and dividends, some 80 bps lower than the comparable figure for mutual funds (1.1 %).

For Vancouver, Canada's largest West Coast city, the comparable figure is an impressive 44 percent.