Sentences with phrase «higher than couples»

According to Health Research Funding, engaged couples who go through premarital counseling have a marriage success rate 30 % higher than couples who don't seek professional guidance.

The divorce risk for these couples was two and a half times higher than couples where both partners are Swedish.

The price was about 20 % higher than the couple had budgeted for, but homes in the neighbourhood don't go on the market very often.

But finding a house that required no renovations and met their criteria — 1,400 square feet, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and some outdoor space — pushed prices $ 170,000 higher than the couple originally intended to spend.

Not exact matches

They were a couple years older than me when I was reading them, so I also kind of read them as a fantasy ideal of what high school would look like.

Be aware, however, that beginning in 2018, the total value of all your available deductions would need to be greater than the new, higher standard deductions under the legislation — i.e., $ 24,000 for married couples filing jointly — or you won't benefit from the deduction for charitable giving.

A couple of weeks ago I read about the pillow online, which claimed to be so cool thanks to a knit fabric that has a higher heat transfer than most materials (ultra-cool knit polyethylene), and asked Helix if they could send us a pillow to try out in person.

The company has lost sales to Apple and Android, it was late in delivering new products, burned through a couple of CEOs and saw its share price tumble from an all - time high of $ 150 to less than $ 10.

This year cast doubt on the sustainability of these returns, and coupled with high fees, a 2 % annual management fee and a 20 % cut of the profits, many have opted to take control of their own investments rather than trust in crypto hedge funds.

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.

Coupled with a global technology sell - off, concerns about its growing spending have clobbered its shares more than 10 per cent since a January record high.

Your cost of customer acquisition (COCA) for email marketing, for example, may be much higher than your COCA for social media — email marketing might require expensive software, more staff to manage it, and content creation man hours while your social media marketing program could be executable with no software investment and just a couple dedicated man hours per week.

High earners — individuals making more than $ 200,000, or jointly filing couples earning $ 250,000 or more — also pay an additional 0.9 percent Medicare tax on all income.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

My passive Income for January 2018 is a couple hundred dollars higher than January 2017.

The effective rate on the S&P 500 was only a couple of percent higher than the new statutory rate anyway.

Still, the income - tax break on any earnings used to pay legitimate college expenses, coupled with the ability to avoid borrowing costs for tuition later, could make even lower returns in a 529 plan equivalent to higher returns outside of one — and better than not saving at all.

At 9 am on Monday morning, the Australian dollar was just a couple of pips higher than it had been a week before.

Encouraging Gains in US Futures It would appear stock markets are starting to regain some of their composure following a couple of very volatile weeks in which US indices fell more than 10 % from their record highs.

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

This coupled with higher interest rates resulted in public debt charges being nearly $ 125 billion higher in 2050 - 51 than forecast in the November 2014 report.

If you're married, filing jointly, and your combined wages will exceed the $ 250,000 income threshold for couples, you'll want to make sure that your joint Medicare surtax for the year isn't significantly higher than you anticipated.

For more than a decade, the yellow metal reached record highs and climbed to nearly $ 2,000 an ounce a couple of years ago.

The limitation on itemized deductions (sometimes called «Pease» after the Ohio congressman who proposed it) reduces deductions for high - income taxpayers by 3 percent of the amount by which their AGI exceeds a threshold — $ 261,500 in 2017 ($ 287,650 for heads of household, $ 313,800 for married couples filing jointly, and half of that for married couples filing separately)-- but not by more than 80 percent of deductions claimed.

Married couples filing jointly typically claim higher deductions, averaging more than $ 39,000 in 2014.

The movement was bound to leave a couple businesses high and dry yesterday and no one seems to understand that more than

I was just thinking over the last couple of days that one's integrity speaks for itself and I would much rather be able to hold my head high knowing that I fought for what was right than to have given in to the status quo that harms.

Research examining the quality of intimate relationships also shows that gay and lesbian couples have levels of relationship satisfaction similar to or higher than those of heterosexual couples.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

Research examining the quality of intimate relationships also shows that gay and lesbian couples have levels of relationship satisfaction similar to or higher than those of heterose xual couples.

Cook at no higher than 225f in the oven for a couple of hours, break open the tents and either broil for a couple of minutes or toss on the bbq for a few minutes to finish.

Due to the flour's high moisture and fat content, we suggest you refrigerate the package if you plan to keep it for more than a couple weeks.

A couple years ago we added an entire line of high quality essential oils imported from France that rivals any essential oils currently in the market, and generally at a lower cost than essential oils distributed through network marketing.

«There were certainly more New World wines in our line - up than Burgundy, however, many of these were of very high quality and a couple I would have put money on being from top villages in the Côte d'Or,» commented the Hong Kong - based wine consultant.

A couple of years ago, when the team went through physicals, former Blackhawks skating coach and retired Olympic speed skater Dan Jansen noted that the only person he's seen with a higher VO2 max (a measure of aerobic capacity and fitness) than Keith was Lance Armstrong.

It would be a safer choice to get a couple of high end offensive ranked players than to try to nail a couple of late rounders.

He netted a career - high 16.5 points per game last season and has good size at 6» 5, coupled with better - than - average athleticism.

Secondly, the Suns have 2.5 young players that rate higher than a mid 1st right now: Devin, Josh, and Dragan / Chriss (I think there's a 25 % chance that each will equal mid-1st value or better in the next couple years — highly coach - dependent).

Real Madrid would more than likely have to make several changes and improvements, try to bring in a couple of high - level players and make tactical changes in order to truly fill the hole left once Ronaldo finally calls it quits or truly can no longer play at the level we're used to from him.

I would say Coquelin was actually man of the match over Cazorla; he had more touches, his pass accuracy was almost as high despite being in a more pressured position, won a couple arial duels, made a couple good interceptions, made more tackles than anyone else.

Likewise with the idea that $ 30M is going to make Ryan the highest paid QB in the league for anything more than a couple of months.

He is playing really well and I think can go 1,2 gear higher hes contributing the way a # 10 should with assist and killer pass in the final 3rd and a couple of goals (Just need to assert himself more in big games)... 2nd is Wilshere: talent is there, passion is there, tecnique, vision and way more physical than Özil... but it all comes down to him being healthy and consistent I think he needs to make next season he's own and do just that and no need to buy... # 10 is where we have the most talent more than any team in EPL

Desire Finnie (Berkeley High) had 12, and showed more outside range than she had in the past ««plus a couple impressive blocked shots.

It's probably a couple million more per year higher than anyone else would spend but we can certainly afford it.

And in the case of a couple of them, Arsenal selling price is higher than the amount other teams are willing to pay.

Other than that, I'd say he's been a fantastic acquisition for us; he still has enough desire, hunger, power and strength to play at a high level for another couple of years; and I really hope he stays.

yea i'll rate Koscielny higher than Mustafi, cos Mustafi allowed himself to be charged on for a couple of headers and left his man unmarked for the 2nd goal conceded.

The large sample before this impressive run tells us more about this team than the last couple of weeks, and no team should ever be judged by its highest peak or its lowest valley.

Toronto swingman Vince Carter has been every bit as explosive as the Raptors had hoped; Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce has performed at a level higher than expected of the No. 10 pick; Vancouver Grizzlies point guard Mike Bibby ranks among the league's assist leaders; and 6» 11» Raef LaFrentz of the Denver Nuggets has already dropped a couple of double - doubles.