Sentences with phrase «falls by a third»

The number of approved foreign tech brands on China's purchase list fell by a third.

In Vancouver, home to the country's most expensive real estate, residential property sales fell by a third in September, compared to a year earlier.

The retailer's operating profit fell by a third in the fourth quarter and operating margin has more than halved in a decade.

Australia's biggest agribusiness sees profit fall by a third amid a «subdued market» and dry weather.

Unfortunately public sector housing starts are forecast to fall by a third, leading to an overall reduction in the total number of housing starts in 2011 and 2012.

A report in yesterday's Observer found offences relating to cannabis had fallen by a third since 2011 due to the police directing their limited resources on more important matters.

In 2014/15, capital spending will have fallen by a third since 2009/10.

Perhaps more realistically, if someone eating more than 100 grams of meat a day simply cut down to less than 50 grams a day, their food - related emissions would fall by a third.

In 2007 - 08, winter rainfall across Syria fell by a third, with some areas receiving no rain at all.

In another study, total acne lesions fell by a third after 6 weeks.

More telling is the fall in software sales which have fallen by a third to 31.25 million units.

A new year and academic term brought with them the release of 2017's teacher recruitment figures and the overall picture is bleak with the number of students training to become teachers falling by a third.

The one subject that showed declines was English - language arts, where the percentage of students scoring above «basic» fell by a third of a percent, to 54.1 «proficient» and «advanced,» from 54.4 percent.

Yesterday, Barnes & Noble reported a 1.8 % fall in quarterly sales to $ 1.41 bn, the result of «weak demand for its Nook tablets», within which sales of its Nook division fell by a third to $ 51.7 m.

What's more, the square - footage of the average Canadian home has grown considerably over the past 35 years, even though the average household size has fallen by a third in the same time period.

For example, it's fallen by a third year - on - year on two other occasions in the last two decades (1998 and 2003).

Total number of promotions falls by a third on year as firm promotes four to the London partnership

Parental behaviour — The ratio of praise to inappropriate commands increased threefold in the intervention group but fell by a third in the controls (table 3).

According to the Federal Reserve, from 2007 to 2012, mortgage lending to borrowers with credit scores above 780 fell by a third, while lending to borrowers with credit scores between 620 - 680 declined by roughly 90 %.

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The World Trade Organization cut its forecast for global trade growth this year by more than a third on Tuesday, reflecting a slowdown in China and falling levels of imports into the United States.

Financings worth $ 100 million or more fell by almost half in the fourth quarter of 2015, to 38 worldwide, compared with the third quarter.

OpenText's third - quarter earnings were lower than expected, and the stock fell by more than 30 %.

Belarus's gross domestic product shrank by 3.5 percent in January to August and the average monthly wage has fallen by about a third in dollar terms since the start of the year to $ 420.

For example, smartphone shipments by market leaders Samsung and Apple in the third quarter fell 13.5 % and 5.3 % respectively, according to a report by International Data Corporation in October.

Plagued by falling property prices, largely as a result of a mounting supply glut in smaller cities, one third reported an operating loss.

According to Ryan, from 1997 to 2000 and 2000 to 2006, productivity growth in the electronic and electrical product manufacturing industry fell by 25 % — two — thirds of which is attributable to lower productivity within existing plants.

Sales at stores open for at least one year fell in the third quarter by 2.3 % at company - owned restaurants.

Taken altogether, gross private investment fell by 2.7 %, the third consecutive quarter in which that measure saw declines.

The Universal Pictures film, which is a prequel spinoff to «Despicable Me,» fell a tad short of the domestic record set in 2007 by another animated film sequel — «Shrek the Third.»

Ratings agency Moody's reported Monday that the rolls of «potential fallen angels,» or issuers with investment - grade debt currently in danger of becoming junk, swelled by 17 in the third quarter, while no companies fell into the opposite category, called «potential rising stars.»

«This quarter's results fell below our expectations as our revenues were impacted by additional bankruptcies, store closures and rent concessions,» CEO Stephen Lebovitz summarized it in the third - quarter earnings report.

Ripple, the third - largest digital currency by market capitalization, fell about 14.5 percent to $ 1.18, according to CoinMarketCap.

China's official Xinhua news agency said on Monday on its verified Twitter account, noting that in the sell - off, about two - thirds of all mainland - listed stocks fell by the daily limit of 10 percent.

The pattern is marked by the stock's price rising and peaking (the first shoulder), then falling, then risking again and surpassing the previous peak to reach a new peak (the head) before falling, then rising once more and peaking a third time (the second shoulder).

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Still, an improvement will be a welcome change after trading revenue for those banks fell by 20 percent in the fourth quarter, 15 percent in the third quarter and 10 percent in the second quarter, according to Sandler O'Neill's Harte.

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Spain's household savings rate fell to its lowest level on record in the third quarter of last year as high unemployment and wage deflation in the latest recession obliged them to devote more of their disposable income to consumption, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

We expect to see GDP fall by 1 per cent at annual rates in the second quarter, and then grow by 3.5 per cent in the third quarter as oil production resumes, rebuilding around Fort McMurray begins and the new Canada Child Benefit lifts consumption.

Since Donald Trump preempted mass resignations from his business executive panels last week by disbanding two of them (on manufacturing and economic policy) and canceling a third (on infrastructure), pundits have fallen over themselves to praise CEOs as the moral conscience of the nation.

In one fell swoop, by taking all of the third parties and proprietary processes out of the equation, blockchain addresses everything from anti-money laundering and corporate transparency issues to seamless trade identification and reporting in a single, elegant package.

EM currencies overall have lost a third of their value since 2013 on a trade - weighted basis, triggered by serial downgrades to EM growth projections, a tightening of global dollar liquidity and falling oil prices.

The dramatic fall from grace appears to have occurred when Facebook stepped on a third rail: the large - scale data collection by an outside party — Cambridge Analytica — without the company's knowledge, said Peter Crist, chairman of the executive search firm Crist Kolder Associates.

For holders in all income groups below $ 100,000, the maximization rates fell by two - thirds or more.

Property sales in Cyprus have fallen by more than a third in the last year, amid fears that Chinese buyers have been put off by «appalling practices» of the past.

-LRB-...) Volumes tumbled by 19 % in the third quarter, fell by another 34 % in the fourth quarter, according to the tally.

During the third quarter, the number of available spaces on the borough's top retail corridors fell by about 7 percent to 197 from a peak of 212 spaces at the beginning of 2017, according to CBRE.

US steel output has slumped by about 35 % since Reagan took office in 1980, and steel industry employment has fallen by two thirds.

Indeed, the energy index fell 1.4 % in June, led by the third consecutive monthly drop in the gasoline component.

TCR: Yes, after Japan's real estate bubble collapsed, prices in the major cities fell by about two - thirds and have rebounded only very little from the post-crash lows.