Sentences with phrase «higher average mark»

Last year's eBay iPad numbers had also pegged Russia as the biggest importer of 16 GB iPads, as well as having the highest average mark - up on the 32 GB model at $ 306 over retail.

Not exact matches

Zinger got high marks, too, averaging 4.7 for the five sessions he led.

What's more, one of the women in the Equilar 100, Oracle's (orcl) Safra Catz, tied with her co-CEO, Mark Hurd, for the title of highest paid chief executive, raking in $ 53.2 last year, significantly boosting the women's average.

We prefer owning — even though, at $ 366,000, the average Canadian home today costs more than twice as much as its U.S. equivalent; even though a small increase in the lending rates will push scores of over-leveraged homeowners into crisis; even though Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is practically guaranteeing that those higher rates are coming.

In February, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record high 10 days in a row, and broke the 21,000 - mark in early March.

The national average cost of a gallon of gas stands at $ 2.76, marking the highest it's been in three years.

Entry - level salaries on average increased 3 percent to $ 49,785 a year ago, marking the highest amount of the average base pay for college graduates in a decade.The analysis was conducted by Korn / Ferry International, an executive - search firm in Los Angeles.

Since that high - water mark, the number of stations declined an average of 2 % annually.

The Dow Jones industrial average continued higher in spite of weaker - than - expected jobs data, getting ever closer to the elusive 20,000 mark.

The national average for a gallon of gas has climbed to $ 2.76, marking the highest it's been since summer 2015 when the cost peaked at $ 2.81, according to online gas station database GasBuddy.com's latest weekly survey of 135,000 gas stations across the country.

Currently, even the highest average 15 - year loan rate — again in Maine — barely passed the 4 % mark.

So far, US markets continue to hold just below record levels, with the 20,000 mark in the Dow Jones Industrial Average yet to be breached as of this writing, though the FTSE 100 set all - time highs this week.

According to preliminary Nielsen data, Tuesday night's episode averaged 15.2 million viewers and a 3.9 rating, and while that marks a 25 percent decline in the demo, that 3.9 also represents the season's third - highest delivery for a scripted broadcast show.

Black Tuesday was Oct. 29, 1929, and was marked by a sharp fall in the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) especially hard hit in high trading volume.

According to Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, the average U.S. mortgage rate hit their highest marks since July 2017.

The average reference price for the period marked the highest since the first quarter of 2015 when it was $ 6.50 / lb.

«We focus on a lot of high - end goods that wouldn't be available at your average grocery stores,» says Mark Berge, beverage buyer for Super King.

He has one of the three highest academic averages in the history of Mansfield High — he received a B for one marking period in seventh - grade English but nothing lower than an A since — and will certainly become the fourth member of his family named most likely to succeed by his classmates at graduation.

Two years ago, Martin averaged 8.4 free - throw attempts per game, one of the highest marks in the league.

A capable scorer, Patterson is also a high - percentage shot - taker, shooting at a 51.9 percent mark this season and averaging 49.5 percent for his career.

That's 1.33 points scored per possession, a much higher mark than the Warriors» regular - season transition scoring average.

His 18.7 yards per catch average is the second - highest single - season mark the team has seen in the Tom Brady era (minimum 10 catches).

This is the highest rebounding mark by a Hawks rookie since Al Horford averaged 9.7 in 2007 - 08.

That's higher than Steph Curry's.669 mark last season and way above his career average of.607.

Furthermore, DDR does excel at the offensive components of this position, as he averaged 20 meters per pass last season, while completing 89 % of all his passes, both high marks on the clubs last season among outfield players who logged at least 1,000 minutes, suggesting that he is actually adept at distributing from the back.

This season teams are averaging 3.32 power plays per game, the highest mark since 2012 - 13.

There can be no doubt that the planet is warming; 2016 was the fifth time in the 21st century a new record high annual temperature has been set (along with 2005, 2010, 2014, and 2015) and also marks the 40th consecutive year (since 1977) that the annual temperature has been above the 20th century average.

When Marist last asked about the governor's approval rating in its March 9th poll, 19 % gave him high marks, 43 % said he was doing an average job, and 36 % reported he was performing poorly.

The average property - tax bill is going up $ 228 this year, because of higher property values — and the rebate just offsets that, Mark - Viverito argues.

When Marist last asked about Mayor Bloomberg's job performance in its October 30th survey in the heat of his re-election campaign, 54 % gave the mayor high marks while one - third graded him as average.

High fire years, she said, almost exclusively are marked by warmer - than - average spring seasons followed by warm, dry summers.

People who gave the top mark to the «recognition and prestige» of their jobs were 3.5 times more likely than average to rate their overall job satisfaction just as high.

Calibration is the agreement between the predicted risk and actual outcomes on average, and across the spectrum of predicted risk — from low to high, said Mark E. Cohen, PhD, one of the study's authors and a statistical manager in the ACS Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care.

Daily averages have continued at this level or higher through Jan. 9, though they could continue to dance up and down around that mark due to day - to - day variations caused by weather systems.

But female mongooses spent more than twice as long sniffing the higher mark as the lower one, an average of 5.9 versus 2.4 seconds.

This marks the fourth time in the 21st century a new record high annual temperature has been set (along with 2005, 2010, and 2014) and also marks the 39th consecutive year (since 1977) that the annual temperature has been above the 20th century average.

This marks the highest departure from average for the season in the 136 - year period of record, surpassing the previous record set last year by 0.21 °C (0.38 °F).

June - August 2016 also marks the 10th highest three - month temperature departure from average for any three - month period on record.

This marks the fifth time in the 21st century a new record high annual temperature has been set (along with 2005, 2010, 2014, and 2015) and also marks the 40th consecutive year (since 1977) that the annual temperature has been above the 20th century average.

Iron Age and Anglo - Saxon samples mark the two extremes on this projection, while modern samples are spread between them, indicating mixed levels of Anglo - Saxon ancestry, which is on average higher in East England than in Wales and Scotland, with a large overlap.

Leading the pack was Sony Pictures Classics, which received positive reviews for an astounding 16 out of 17 of its releases last year, resulting in an average Metascore of 72.9, the highest mark in the three years we have been ranking studios.

Anyway, that marks the highest average score given to any Mario Party game.

Yes Man marks a return for Jim Carrey back to his roots of gimmicky high - concept comedy ideas that ride on his charmingly goofy personality reacting to a variety of situations based on some metamorphosis to his initial average - guy persona (see Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty).

While this number was, and essentially remains, twice the national average of high school graduates who graduate from a four - year college, we were concerned because although nearly all of the students who left our school were college - bound, we suspected we had missed the mark of college readiness for some of our students.

Amid reports that overweight pupils underperform academically — data obtained from at least six studies by Scottish PHD student Anne Martin show that children who are obese at 11 achieve lower than average marks in maths, science and English at 16 — and findings that there is a higher incidence of serious childhood obesity in London than New York, figures like the London Health Commission's Lord Darzi are claiming that the issue is «at breaking point.»

Hanging with Smarties Ups GPA High - school students whose friends get higher marks tend to raise their own grade point averages over time.

The decision to base ratings on overall averages means that schools, even if they are low - performing, will receive high marks, «despite low outcomes and little to no progress for historically underserved students.»

In 2017 girls who had attended a Bridge school for over five years were our highest performing cohort, averaging 287 marks.

Bridge students averaged 265 marks in the KCPE examination, 15 marks higher than the national average.

We will also continue to push all students to earn a 2.7 Grade Point Average (GPA) or higher each marking period, which makes it much more likely for students to be accepted into a Cal State University (CSU).