Sentences with phrase «less than a point»

But rivaling it this year is Afghanistan, which ranked No. 2 by less than a point.

That is less than a point a game.

The Buffalo Public School nudged out Nardin Academy by less than a point to capture the top spot.

He won by less than a point in the 1st District, where Trump won by 15 points.

Nolan won re-election by less than a point in his sprawling Iron Range district last fall, while Trump carried it by 16 points.

But despite Trump carrying her district by less than a point, Bustos won re-election by 21 points in November.

Despite voting for Barack Obama twice, the seat tilted toward Donald Trump in 2016 by less than a point.

But it is never less than pointed.

When ratings less than a point apart (e.g., 2 -, 1 +; 3, 2 +) were considered, the two raters had 94 % agreement.

Gingerbread, after a long, long while, finally dropped to less than one - third of active users, while Ice Cream Sandwich stayed mostly steady with a drop of less than a point.

Each point you buy will knock one - eighth to one - quarter of a percentage point off your mortgage rate, which is less than points would buy a few years ago.

Apple appears to be closing in on Samsung in a big way, with less than a point difference in worldwide smartphone shipments.

Monthly growth in tours came in less than a point above last year's level.

Not exact matches

«All else equal, a man who is 25 pounds below average weight is predicted to earn $ 210,925 less across a 25 - year career than a man who is of average weight,» Judge and Cable point out.

Further, IndieWire points out that the new subscription plan includes a three - month iHeartRadio trial subscription which automatically converts to a paid subscription if the subscriber doesn't cancel — a fact that MoviePass has arguably been less than transparent about.

Prime - age black men are 13 percentage points less likely to be employed than prime - age white men.

One seasoned private equity lawyer savvily points out that PE is a people business and that fund performance depends less on the brand name of the fund family than on the specific people managing the fund.

People are also pointing out that Twain's comments were published less than a week after she appeared as a guest judge on «RuPaul's Drag Race.»

Researcher Ruta Aidis, a fellow at George Mason University, gave Canada (and Australia) an overall score of 69 out of a possible 100 — just two points less than the No. 1 - ranked country, the United States — in the 31 - country survey, commissioned by Dell.

In the bond market, the 10 - year US Treasury yield fell less than 1 basis point, to 2.79 %, near the key 3 % level that traders are closely watching.

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

Clinton lost to Trump in Wisconsin by about 22,000 votes, or less than 1 percentage point.

And due to its economies of scale and zero marketing needs, it would have very low management fees, less than half a percentage point.

By some metrics, houses are less affordable now than at any point over the past 30 years.

After it hit 14,000 at the height of the housing bubble in 2007 — less than three months after passing 13,000 — the Dow wouldn't gain another 1,000 points until six years later, in May 2013.

«As well, yesterday's FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting was less dovish than expected as the Fed kept its policy forecasts unchanged despite clear deceleration in inflation and a couple of bad data points yesterday.»

But as Romano points out, they account for less than 10 % of all recharging (because most journeys are shorter than a car's range).

Meanwhile, «transportation in the U.S. costs the equivalent of less than one yuan ($) per kilometer, while road tolls [in China] are higher,» he added, pointing out that some mid - and small - sized Chinese enterprises have already started moving to Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and Cambodia for cheaper wages and materials.

Based on the information he had provided, the broker pointed out that the business was actually worth less than expected and based on the current market it was still considered to be a good deal.

While Fink is right to point out that low interest rates are putting a large burden on those of us trying to save retirement, he does not address the fact that central banks aren't primarily responsible for the fact that bonds of all types are yielding less today than we're used to.

And instead of a slowdown, fundamentals are actually pointing to solid growth in the coming months, albeit less dynamic than last year,» Brzeski said.

A little less than 15 minutes passed between our first handshake and the moment I pointed this Audi TT toward the (cloudy) coastal highways of Santa Cruz.

In fact, one way to combat loneliness, the survey found, is to work the right amount — those who reported doing so were the least likely to be lonely, while those who work more than desired had a three point increase in loneliness and those who work less than desired had a full six point increase in loneliness.

The fees can vary from less than 1 percent to a few percentage points — and interest at the prime rate to several points over prime on the balance of receivables you sell, making it steeper than most bank loans.

But the best thing to do is to get to the point quickly, so as to minimize the pain inflicted on those receiving the (less - than - desirable) update.

As a simple rule of thumb, if the value of each point is less than 1 cent, use cash and keep your points for a higher - value opportunity.»

«With coupons, discounts, loyalty points, and gifts - with - purchase more the rule than the exception today, consumers are spending less because they can,» he writes.

The largest such S&P 500 fund, Vanguard's 500 Index Fund, boasts expense ratios of less than a percentage point.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Less than 10 miles outside of Washington, D.C. it counts proximity as a selling point.

That was a percentage point more than in 2014, but two points less than in 2013.

And a Labor Department study points out an earnings anomaly: while self - employed men earn as much as or more than similar workers paid a wage or a salary, self - employed women earn substantially less than their wage and salary counterparts.

Her lead was down from an average of 5 points less than a week ago, according to RealClearPolitics.

Part of what makes the Google Home Mini and the Amazon Echo Dot so successful — besides their size and price point — is that they're no less powerful or helpful than their larger counterparts.

Suzy Welch, who contributed to the project, pointed out that every single one of the top 10 companies on the Top Attractors list is in the tech space (and 45 % of the total companies on the U.S. list), despite the fact that tech companies make up less than 10 % of the American GDP.

What it does mean, is that once kids are old enough to understand the finer points of language (and according to Bergen, that's probably younger than you imagine), there's no cause for guilt if you use (and they pick up) some less - than - demure language.

When the company launched in 2014 in San Francisco, chief executive and founder Matt Dalio envisioned his product for the one billion consumers in emerging market economies whose price point is less than $ 200.

What's more, as the Washington Post points out, the average 18 - to 34 - year - old today makes about $ 2,000 less than they would have in 1980.

As I've pointed out elsewhere, Millennials tend to be more focused on results than appearances, so micro-managing their time rather than their output is just going to confuse them — and quite possibly make them accomplish less rather than more.

The Monmouth poll found that in counties that Trump or Hillary Clinton, his Democratic challenger, won by less than 10 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election, 30 % of people say they approve of the bill and 38 % say they disapprove.