Sentences with phrase «couple percent this year»

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A couple of years ago, the practice of showrooming — where shoppings would look at an item in a store then purchase it online — was on an alarming rise, with 50 percent of online purchases in 2012 occurring as a result of this behavior.

Though the rebound in growth over the past couple of years has seen unemployment across the bloc fall, the jobless rate remains elevated at 8.5 percent.

A cheap date — defined as cab rides, dinner or lunch for two at a pub or diner, soft drinks, two movie tickets and a couple of beers — runs about $ 195.90 in Zurich, down around 7 percent from last year, the survey found.

But just a couple of years later, Netflix lost its exclusivity with Epix when the distributor signed a similar deal with Amazon (AMZN)-- news that also hit the company's share price hard, taking Netflix stock down by as much as 11 percent in a day.

«We expect the economy will continue to perform well, with the job market strengthening further and inflation rising to 2 percent over the next couple of years,» Fed Chair Janet Yellen said.

High - end retailer Nordstrom ended the summer saying it planned 20 percent fewer clearance days this year than a couple of years ago, with another 25 percent reduction next year, as it focused on service and «differentiated» products.

As a result, we should have grown much faster than the 2 1/2 percent pace evident over the past couple of years and seen an inflation rate much higher than what we experienced.

During her press coverage, Fed Chair Janet Yellen expressed doubt that the U.S. economy can grow much faster than 2 percent annually over the next couple of years, placing her squarely at odds with President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a pledge to boost GDP growth as much as 4 percent.

Video has been booming across social channels for the past couple of years and 85 percent of businesses are keen to create more video in 2018:

However, she said, they remain highly engaged with Facebook, and she cited Pew Research numbers released last week that show teenagers» usage of Facebook has stayed roughly level over the past couple of years, growing from 93 percent to 94 percent.

DXY was pretty much flat year - to - date, but CERI (the Canadian dollar trade weighted index) was down a couple percent.

Vijay now simply calls it a mobile internet business as possibilities have exploded over the past couple of years, especially after a US$ 680 million funding infusion from Alibaba in return for a 40 percent stake.

JD.com, which owned 68.6 percent of its finance unit before it was spun - off this year, sold 28.6 percent of the unit for $ 2.2 billion to a couple of undisclosed investors.

Delmar plans to repay the TARP funds before the dividend bumps up to 9 percent in a couple of years, he said.

If much of the investment into bond mutual funds that has occurred the last couple of years is for purposes of dampening the volatility of a portfolio — and with the 10 - Year Treasury yield at 1.8 percent it's difficult to argue for a different motivation - then it's important to think through the thesis that bonds will defend a balanced portfolio in an equity bear market in the same way they have, especially to the extent they have in the last two bear markets.

Inflation's been low for the past couple years — as of November, the consumer price index had risen 1.7 percent over the previous 12 months.

Chan believes the 12 to 13 percent growth rate in home prices is unsustainable, and instead sees prices going up anywhere from 4 to 7 percent on a year - over-year basis over the next couple of years.

This year, for the first time, fewer than 25 percent of American households consist of a married couple and their children.

According to Trena Mewborn, Director of Counseling Service at First Baptist Church at the Mall, there are addicts in the church as well: «Just based on the couples that I've seen through the years, at least 50 percent of the couples who are coming forward have some type of struggle with pornography or internet affairs or some type of sexual issue.»

The average age of couples when they divorce is 30 years old, but a 2015 study by the University of Utah states that after the age of 32 the likelihood of divorce goes up 5 percent per year.

In the last five years, divorce among couples married twenty years or more has increased fifty percent.

Fifty - three percent favor adoption for same - sex couples, a figure five points below the level of support a year earlier.

«The beer market has stabilized over the past couple of years after declining between 1 and 2 percent in 2009 - 2011 and then again in 2013,» said Brian Sudano, managing partner with Beverage Marketing Corporation (BMC), New York, in Beverage Industry's March issue.

In the draft, the Panthers did a couple of things to help Cam Newton, who completed just 44 passes to his backs last year while crashing to a 52.9 percent accuracy rate, a stunning 7 points lower than 2015.

Mike Gundy: When I took this thing over, I said my goal is, one, to erase a lifetime losing winning percentage here — meaning that, up until a couple of years ago, Oklahoma State has always had a less than 50 percent winning percentage [all - time].

With our luck re: draws, we'll have to win 4 good teams to win it — No chance (well, maybe 5 percent)... Though, honestly, we're not good enough for the CL anyway and won't be for at least a couple of years.

«I like drawing contact and getting a foul,» she said, and coupled with her 3 - point shooting (34 percent last year on 224 attempts), she is a tough cover.

Because should the couple have a divorce years down the road (and there is 50 percent chance this will happen), the breadwinner will be required to pay the part time working spouse a portion of his (her?)

She and Robbins cohabited and since just 10 percent of all cohabiting couples make it past five years (let alone that they're a Hollywood couple), they were anything but a failure to me; they raised their boys to adulthood.

There are 12 times as many cohabiting couples today as there were in the 1970s and 40 percent of first babies born to single mothers are born to cohabiting couples who rarely make it past five years; in fact some two - thirds of the unmarried moms split from the child's biological father and start a new relationship before the kid is 5 years old — how do we «save» those families?)

For a lucky 3 percent of conceiving couples each year, per Baby Center, twins are a reality.

Most of today's divorces — 55 percent — are happening to couples who'd been married for more than 20 years.

It jumps to 8 percent for marriages of 30 to 39 years, likely because these couples are closer to life's empty nest stage, when children are grown and out of the house.»

As more chose to cohabit, they won't experience divorce but many won't avoid a breakup — 40 percent of cohabiting hetero couples split within five years.

Up to 70 percent of couples report a lapse in satisfaction with their relationships during the first 6 years after having a baby.

«People in sexless marriages report that they are more likely to have considered divorce, and that they are less happy in their marriages,» Donnelly told the New York Times in 2008, noting that 15 percent of married couples hadn't gotten it on with their spouse in the prior six months to one year.

Last year the governor's budget called for the consolidation of 89 public health programs coupled with a cut in funding of 10 percent.

If the existing surcharge expires, individuals making over $ 1 million a year — or $ 2.1 million for couples filing jointly — will see their current tax rate drop from 8.82 percent to 6.85 percent.

Glaser's wife, Karen Hinton — whose name also appears on the mortgage paperwork — said the couple did not require the second mortgage for the purchase of the home in 2012, which they bought with a 30 - year mortgage with 20 percent down and standard commercial interest rates.

Local officials have been increasingly worried since the governor first said early on this year that he didn't see the need to formally couple his 2 percent property tax cap bill, which has already passed the GOP - controlled Senate, with any mandate relief legislation.

Staying within the 2 percent cap means that within a couple of years we may be sending most of our money to Albany and Kingston.

Olsen says that research indicates that 15 percent of couples in the U.S. and Europe would be considered infertile by the World Health Organization (WHO), which considers a pair to be infertile if it takes the woman a year or more to conceive.

In the past couple of years, organic - inorganic hybrid perovskites have been solution - processed into thin films or bulk crystals for photovoltaic devices that have reached a 20 - percent power conversion efficiency.

Coupled with an emissions growth rate of 3.3 percent — triple the growth rate of the 1990s — the atmospheric burden is now rising by nearly two parts per million of CO2 a year, the fastest growth rate since 1850, the international team of researchers reports in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Conversely, a four - year study in Hawaii found that 31 percent of Laysan albatross pairs there consist of two females; one such couple has been observed together for 19 years.

The authors note, for example, that if you have used a pillow for couple of years, 10 percent of its weight at this point may be dead dust mites and their detritus.

More detailed GSS data suggests younger couples have sex more often than older couples — an average of 111 times per year for duos in their 20s, declining approximately 20 percent per decade.

In fact, it's totally normal: «Sixty - nine percent of the conflicts that come up between partners are always going to be ongoing issues,» says McNulty, who has been treating couples for over 25 years and is trained in the Gottman Method of Relationship Therapy, a research - focused approach to relationship counseling.

My body fat only changed by a couple percent after weight training hard for a couple of years.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of couples who met online tie the knot and five percent of married Americans say they met their partner over the internet.