Sentences with phrase «few points off»

This is perfect for people who are just a few points off on their credit score.

In a note late Tuesday, Standard & Poor's estimates that Katrina could «shave a few points off our forecast of 3.7 percent growth.»

One final note: Applying for the new balance transfer card might knock a few points off the score initially, but paying down the debt and using credit responsibly going forward should mitigate or even cancel out that effect in the longer term.

One check is going to look better than ten checks, especially because each hard check takes a few points off of your credit score.

When you apply for new credit, the lender makes a hard inquiry on your credit report, which might shave a few points off your score.

Every time you apply for a credit card, loan or any other type of credit, the lender does a hard credit check that can temporarily knock a few points off your credit score.

Avoid making new applications for credit unless you really need to, because every new inquiry into your credit has the potential to knock a few points off your score.

One final note: Applying for the new balance transfer card might knock a few points off the score initially, but paying down the debt and using credit responsibly going forward should mitigate or even cancel out that effect in the longer term.

This might seem counter-intuitive, especially since a hard credit inquiry will be performed which may ding a few points off your score.

Most credit card servicers want to retain you as a customer, so they'll be willing to shave a few points off if that means you'll stay on.

A simple inquiry can strike a few points off your credit score, depending on what else is in your credit history.

While inquiries only shave a few points off credit scores, you'll want to make sure you apply for cards you really want — and that you're most likely to qualify for.

I'm sure one could find a deli here and a green grocer there that is willing to knock a few points off the price, but bringing down the cost of an entire bagful of groceries is a tall order.

Each one shaves a few points off your score so you should steer clear of trying to get new credit unless it's absolutely necessary.

Each new inquiry knocks a few points off your score so only apply for credit when it's really necessary.

Just keep in mind that requesting a credit line increase often results in a hard credit check, which can knock a few points off your credit score.

The length of time since you've applied for new credit: Each application that causes a hard inquiry on your credit may take a few points off your score.

We scored the sedan high for the functionality of its cabin tech, but knocked a few points off of the design score because of Remote Touch annoyances — but not, as you may think, for weird styling, which doesn't factory heavily into our rating system.

After all, we are only a few points off the tentative leaders.

The usual contenders, Worcester and Teddy Hall are sitting at the top of the JCR Premier League with Exeter only a few points off the pace.

Gee I bet they wish they were in the top 3 a few points off the lead then all Arsenal fans would be right behind their team.

Arsenal could have dropped to fifth by then and be a good few points off top spot, so will our ability to respond to pressure come to the rescue again?

Every time you apply for credit, the lender does a hard credit check on your credit report, which can knock a few points off your score temporarily.

«Just a few points off... is what will cause the entire narrative to be off,» he continued.

Not exact matches

You can start off small by making just a few changes to an integral part of your business — one you probably don't give much thought to anyway — your Point of Sale (POS) system.

There are still plenty of ways for it to fail once it gets off the ground — the structure could be torn apart by supersonic shockwaves or the side boosters may not separate, since that system has never been tested, for example — but at that point, SpaceX could probably launch another Falcon Heavy within a few months.

Instead of worrying about bargaining for a few percentage points off the rate, spend time negotiating the lease's term and thinking about the company's true needs for the future.

It becomes your single central point of management for all HR needs, streamlining tedious workflows like employee on - boarding and off - boarding, document management, time off tracking, performance management, compliance and benefits administration to name a few.

Not only has Cleveland's offense taken off since James took his hiatus, but the defense has improved, allowed 2.3 fewer points per game.

While on the campaign trail in 2015 at the age of 44, the presidential candidate spoke at Liberty University and alluded to his experience of having to finance his education: I, Cruz said, «took over $ 100,000 in school loans, loans I suspect a lot of y» all can relate to, loans that I'll point out I just paid off a few years ago.»

Depending on your credit, you could shave off a few percentage points in interest, resulting in big savings.

Interest rates may increase but probably not enough to make an impact to a CD that is up for renewal, Real estate income should increase over time but mostly a few percentage points here and there, I suppose you could manufacture more income by paying off one of the rentals assuming your income numbers are after expenses and not gross income.

In Karmic return, I could point to a few not - so - small fortunes others have made off our ideas.

It will hopefully be a moot point as the loan should be paid off within a few months.

At this point I just needed to move my body so I was happy to do anything, off I went and attended a few barre classes.

I see that some of mine have dropped just a few points, while other have fallen off a cliff.

I was very reluctant to do that because I felt that I really wasn't sure if I would get an answer, or that I wouldn't be ready for an answer, or that I wouldn't know for certain if I felt that I did get an answer that is was actually from God or whether I was just deceiving myself, so for a few years there I just put that off, however those questions and concerns kept boiling up within me, so at that point I couldn't take it anymore putting it off.

This was followed by a few straightforward questions asking you to clarify what now seems a very disjointed view, and you seemed to have missed the point entirely and gone off on some strange tangent.

With far fewer attachment points than scaffolding discs, gumfoot discs allow the web to detach with ease and yank off the ground any prey that has walked into it.

At that point people chose to have fewer children, and population leveled off without any political action.

Few of us are able to pull this off — to resist believing in that to which evidence seems to point.

The unemployment rate for married men is just over 3 percent (and for married women not much higher), which is why relatively few married - couple families in 1992 had incomes below $ 16,960, the cut - off point defining the bottom 20 percent.

The thought of certain dinosaurs running into the wind in an attempt to take off and, after several million years, succeeding like the Wright brothers in flying a few yards, is a fantasy that sufficiently points up the absurdity of evolution.

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

It started to foam at one point but I just scraped that off and let is sit a few days more until it was soft, fermented and, I got ta say, so delicious!

I, admittedly, used to be the type who would buy the off - brand cling wrap because I tend to be unnecessarily frugal at times but, at some point, Thom talked me into spending a few extra bucks on the quality stuff and I haven't reached for the $ 2 roll, since.

Directions: Melt butter in a large skillet over medium - low heat / Add sage leaves and cook, stirring often until butter begins to brown and the sage gives off a nutty, toasty aroma, 3 to 4 minutes / When the butter is brown and the sage is crispy and literally melts in your mouth, remove from the heat / At this point, some people give it a few squirts of cold lemon juice for extra flavor and to stop the cooking / Add lightly cooked peas, asparagus, rapini, literally any tender fresh vegetable, prosciutto, parmesan cheese, chopped herbs, whatever you have on hand.

Remove plastic, lightly shave off top until you see brown, whack a few spots with pointed end of knife (near handle), pry open.

Using that as a jumping off point, combined with my other favorite thing, chickpeas, or more specifically chickpea flour, I thought I'd make a beet socca with tahini and za'atar, an Israeli spice blend with oregano and sesame seeds I fell in love with on a trip to Israel a few years back.

Their strike force seems as potent as ever, but remember, if they go off the boil and retreat to seeing out games, the fact their defence has seen better days might start to leak a few extra points.