Sentences with phrase «faster than the number»

This means the number of coworkers globally is growing even faster than the number of coworking facilities.

At the same time, more people are retiring than are entering the workforce, which means that the number of people selling stocks to pay for living expenses is increasing faster than the number of people who are buying stocks in their retirement accounts.

Although currently the percentage of homeschooled children is only 4 % of all school children nationwide, the number of primary school kids whose parents choose to forgo traditional education is growing seven times faster than the number of kids enrolling in K - 12 every year.

The number of managers in the NHS, in particular, has increased much faster than the number of clinical staff.

Between 2002 and 2006, the number of female Ph.D. graduates increased faster than the number of male Ph.D. graduates — but in 2006, the number of women earning those degrees stopped growing and the number of men earning degrees started to decline.

It is «NP - complete»: the solution requires a number of computational steps that grows faster than the number of cities raised to any finite power (NP stands for nondeterministic polynomial).

«The number of people using dating apps is growing faster than the number using all apps,» it said.

Though homeschooled children represent only 4 percent (about 2 million) of all school - age children nationwide, they are growing seven times faster than the number of children enrolling in grades K - 12.

The late Cato Institute scholar Andrew Coulson gave us a more up - to - date perspective in 2015, explaining that since 1970 «the number of teachers has grown six times faster than the number of students.

Although school enrollments are expected to grow in the next decade, NCES reports that student - to - teacher ratios will actually improve, primarily because the number of school teachers is rising faster than the number of students.

He notes that since 1970, ``... the number of teachers has grown six times faster than the number of students.

Also, because the population of English language learners is growing much faster than the numbers of well - trained specialists in ELL instruction, most schools will need to leverage their existing expertise by encouraging teachers to learn from and collaborate with skilled colleagues.

Impressive as that seems, the little MS3 is even faster than that number implies.

It isn't maddeningly powerful, but it seems faster than its numbers read.

And it feels much faster than the numbers suggest.

This, basically, is a concept that, starting at a low price, if you increase price you make more money as the price per unit goes up faster than the number of units sold goes down.

In other words, the delinquency percentage is down not because we have fewer borrowers making late payments or no payments but because the universe of loans is growing faster than the number of delinquent borrowers.

Of course, with the price of oil dropping faster than the number of remaining Sears stores, the airlines can't justify adding fuel surcharges to their tickets anymore.

Global outbound travel spending is rising faster than the number of trips, indicating higher spending per trip.

And then you realize that our appetites are growing faster than our numbers.

They observed the number of cold nights was decreasing faster than the number of cold days.

The stats are clear — the population has grown way faster than the number of judges and courts.

During the same period, the number of e-mails sent grew three times faster than the number of people e-mailing; in 2006 just the e-mail traffic from one person to another — i.e., excluding spam — accounted for 6 exabytes.

Thanks to the claimed advantages of the cryptocurrency, the only thing that has risen faster than the number of bitcoin enthusiasts is the price of a bitcoin token.

The number of apartments available will finally grow decisively faster than the number of people looking for apartments, pushing vacancy rates higher and rent growth down, experts says.

The unemployment rate was unchanged only because the labor force shrank faster than the number of employed persons.

Not exact matches

And with the high number of orders, she was able to fix part of the problem: Her manufacturers were suddenly happy to move a lot faster than before.

«The number of new patients is moving far faster than the capacity to manage them,» the World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan announced on Friday.

But the numbers drop pretty fast when certain niceties are specified — such as $ 100,000 - and - up price tags, the likelihood of severe motion sickness, dizziness, and acceleration - induced unconsciousness, as well as an unknown but certainly less than trivial chance of being incinerated in a rocket explosion or errant atmospheric reentry.

There are two reasons why: 1) The brain processes the number symbol faster than written words, and 2) numbers make your message specific.

But the current reality is this: While the number of U.S. companies owned by women is increasing faster than those of other groups, those companies are responsible for just 6 percent of the country's employees and 4 percent of revenue, according to a 2012 report commissioned by American Express Open.

Women are being appointed to ASX200 boards at a faster rate than ever, but a number of major Western Australian companies remain without any female representation on their boards.

«The confidence number suggests that businesses are continuing to see their margins get squeezed, and their costs are going up faster than top - line revenue,» says Mark Vitner, managing director and senior economist for Wells Fargo Securities.

The number of black women - owned businesses has more than tripled since 1997, making black females the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. Between 2007 and 2012, the number of black women - owned businesses grew by 67 % according to the National Women's Business Council's Survey of Business Owners.

The phenomenal numbers put Super Mario Odyssey on the path to becoming the best selling game for the Switch, Nintendo's latest gaming console; fans are buying it even faster than they bought The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a launch title that was heralded as one of the best games in the Zelda franchise's history.

Rousseff's impeachable offense was for playing fast and loose with the nation's budget; essentially fudging the numbers to make the budget deficit look smaller than it really was.

Typically, these businesses describe their loans as faster and more readily available to customers than bank loans, because they leverage technology to evaluate risk on a number of factors, as opposed to relying solely on credit scores.

Employers offering mass numbers of jobs and high - end work moved out of the U.S. much faster than they moved in — 57 percent head out while just 9 percent thought about moving in.

The trouble is, the number of Ontarians aged 65 and over is growing at a rate three times faster than the overall population.

Somewhere like Australia, which accepts less than half the number of immigrants per year that Canada does, and is able to processes its applications far faster.

With the large number of houses on the market in Michigan right now and the difficulty in selling a house, the number of rental units on the market is increasing — probably faster than the pool of potential tenants.

That sounds much faster than the 2.5 % to 3 % growth expected here at home, but many economists doubt the accuracy of Chinese government numbers, estimating that growth will be closer to 3 % to 4 % in the years to come.

PR has helped us to drive our numbers faster than we had planned and has gotten us to our 300,000 registered users.

We'll fire someone if they don't fit the culture a whole lot faster than we would if they didn't hit their numbers.

With huge numbers of people who are barely out of poverty, it now needs to prevent near - paupers from falling back, while also dragging the poorest out of destitution faster than economic growth alone could do the job.

US economy grew faster than expected in first quarter For a number of years, first quarter readings of economic growth in the US have fallen short of expectations.

Issues defined as «growth stocks» have a number of common traits, but the most important is that their earnings are expected to grow at a faster pace than the broader market over a period of time.

The new numbers indicate India's economy has been growing faster than previously thought, and are at odds with other measures showing continued weakness.

The labour productivity of Canadian businesses fell by 0.6 per cent in the third quarter, the second consecutive decline, as the number of hours worked grew faster than business output.

The result in a number of countries, including Australia, was average credit growth over the late 1980s almost 10 percentage points faster than the growth in nominal GDP (Graph 63).