Sentences with phrase «lowest fifth of»

Low fitness was defined as the lowest fifth of the sex - specific distribution of treadmill exercise test duration.

And the impact on the lowest fifth of earners can be eliminated by devoting about 12 percent of the proceeds to such a purpose, according to Terry Dinan, senior adviser at the Congressional Budget Office.

Not exact matches

By 2013 food, a notoriously low - margin business, had grown to a fifth of its revenue.

The metro area's job growth rate of 0.7 % between February 2017 and February 2018 was the fifth - lowest.

While Las Vegas» 2016 GDP growth rate of 3.9 % was the seventh - highest among the 40 largest metro areas, the region's Q3 2017 average weekly wage of $ 898 was the fifth - lowest.

Fifth in line to the throne, the new prince's arrival came at a lower cost than one might expect for a royal baby delivery — at least when compared to the cost of a similar delivery in the US.

Phoenix's non-farm payroll job growth rate of 3.0 % between February 2017 and 2018 was the fifth - highest among the 40 largest metro areas, but its 2016 GDP per capita of $ 49,493 was the fifth - lowest.

Although Tampa's 2016 GDP per capita of $ 46,972 was the second - lowest among the 40 largest metro areas, its GDP growth rate of 4.2 % that year was the fifth - highest.

In fact, of those eight films, five of them have made less at the box office than Crash, which is currently the fifth - lowest grossing film of the past four decades (in terms of sales adjusted for inflation).

While shoppers can easily enter Tiffany's store through its 57th Street entrance, the heavy security around Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue a block away has lowered visits by shoppers, many of whom are tourists from Europe and China who are already staying away from Fifth Avenue's luxury stores because of a strong U.S. dollar.

The state's unemployment rate of 3.5 % was the seventh lowest in the country, and its Q2 2015 annualized GDP growth rate of 5.2 % was the fifth highest.

Arkansas» November 2015 average weekly wage of $ 689 was the lowest among the states and DC, and the state's 2014 GDP per capita of $ 37,334 was the fifth lowest.

One fifth of all consumers have low credit scores, in part because of the lingering impact of the Great Recession.

Millions of Social Security recipients and federal retirees will get a 0.3 % increase in monthly benefits next year, the fifth year in a row that older Americans will have to settle for historically low raises.

The percentage of adults thankful for the economic situation in the U.S. is lower than in 2010 and about a fifth of what it was in the mid-1980s, according to a new poll.

The UK breakdown group's shares lost of a fifth of their value after its new CEO warned of lower earnings and slashed the dividend.

China fell back on its major levers to stem the biggest stock market rout since 1996 and a deepening slowdown, cutting interest rates for the fifth time since November and lowering the amount of cash banks must set aside.

Despite having the fifth - lowest median household income in the U.S., Kentucky is one of the states where residents are less likely to live paycheck to paycheck because the cost of living is so low.

The fact that in western Europe between a tenth and a fifth of each generation never married, combined with a relatively late average age at marriage for women, implied that fertility levels were normally lower than in other societies.

The global weakest links tally declined for the fifth consecutive month in February 2018, reaching a two - year low of 189 as of Feb. 26.

The county's average effective property tax rate of 0.85 % is fifth lowest in the state.

-- The top quintile (top 20 per cent) saw their family income grow by 27 per cent during that time (average after - tax, after - transfer family income of $ 135,500), compared to 14 per cent for the second - highest quintile (after - tax family income of $ 73,500), nine per cent for the second - lowest quintile ($ 32,700) and 16 per cent for the bottom one - fifth of income earners (after - tax income of $ 14,600)

Moreover, the homebuilder didn't see its quarterly profit fall as sharply as some investors had expected, and despite some lower sales prices for its luxury new homes, Toll Brothers said that unit sales were up 12 % for the quarter, and net signed contracts were up by more than a fifth in terms of homes sold.

The county's average effective tax rate of 1.64 % is fifth lowest in the state.

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That would mark the fifth consecutive quarter of lower earnings.

The central role of terrorism in low - intensity - conflict strategy against the Nicaraguan people is related to a fifth lesson learned from the U.S. war in Vietnam.

After adjusting for inflation, the per capita expenditures of the lowest - income one fifth of the U.S. population today exceed the per capita income of the median American household in 1955.

Soy sauce, even the low - sodium kind, is the king of umami — the «fifth taste,» a savoriness inherent in certain foods.

Produced with fifth generation agave growers from the finest Blue Weber agave found in the highest regions of Jalisco, Mexico, Tequila Avión's distinct flavors are achieved through a combination of slow - roasting at lower temperatures to protect the natural flavors of the Avión Agave and a proprietary ultra-slow filtration process which creates an unusually smooth taste profile.

McIlroy booked a confidence - building, third - lowest score of the finale (after Stenson and Mickelson), good enough to lift him into a distant share of fifth place.

Fifth tier Wrexham, one of the oldest professional football clubs in the world, were taken to a replay and then beaten by Stamford AFC, who come from a small town in the East Midlands and play their league games a whole three tiers lower.

They also went out of the Capital One cup to League One's Sheffield United this week and must be feeling pretty low as they have slipped from third place in the Premier League to fifth and look like sliding further unless Ronald Koeman can turn things around pretty quickly.

But using a lefty specialist for an out in a low leverage situation in the fifth inning fits the bill nicely for head scratcher of the day

The Astros really can't afford for Morton to not get out of this, considering it's still only the fifth inning, his pitch count is low enough to push deep into this game, and their bullpen is, to use a professional term, bad.

If Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players were slipping into any kind of a complacent frame of mind ahead of the fifth round FA cup tie against the lowest ranked team still in the famous ould cup competition, then the shock result o9f Lincoln City today should knock it out of them.

Arsenal finished in the fifth position last season, their lowest league finish since Arsene Wenger took over as manager of the club two decades ago and that anomaly has prompted the Frenchman to delve into the transfer market and splash the cash, something the fans had hitherto accused him of not doing enough.

Bettors should also know that large underdogs have historically fared well in low - scoring games, and this total (116.5) is the fifth - lowest of the season.

They were unable to trouble the medals finishing fifth with Jamaica taking gold, although it was still a successful relay as they lowered the previous British record of 42.21 to 42.10 seconds.

Chelsea recently sacked manager Andre Villas - Boas after a run of poor results, which has seen the club go as low as the fifth position in the Premier League table.

The win does, however, lift the Cottagers up into fifth place and has put some healthy breathing space between them and the lower reaches of the table which, considering they're now without their star man for a considerable period, is ideal.

(Three - fifths of the students in the study were low - income, and their scores improved just as much as the scores of the students who were above the low - income cutoff.)

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Their perspectives on fatherhood * Nearly 50 % of the conceptions were described as a complete surprise, and only three were planned * Nearly two - fifths (37 %) of the prospective fathers had had previous children; most still had some contact with the children but only two were still living with them and were engaged as actively involved fathers * Two - thirds (65 %) described themselves as having a low or medium sense of reality about their impending fatherhood * Three - quarters were expecting the baby to have a noticeable impact on their way of life * Three - quarters were motivated to learn more about pregnancy and fatherhood, with partners, family and friends seen as the most important source of information * Very few thought about health professionals as a potential source of support and advice, and some would have liked to have talked to one but felt awkward about it.

Through incremental changes, that amount should be lowered over the next decade to 740 milligrams or less of sodium for grades through 9 through 12; 710 milligrams or less for grades 6 through 8; 640 milligrams or less for kindergarten through fifth grades.

Some of those present in Alex Salmond's fifth - floor office remembered him being uncharacteristically «low - key», perhaps because his advisers had told him not to look triumphalist.

The current Father of the House has served the constituency since 1964 and had the fifth - lowest overall expenses claims, despite his seat being almost 200 miles from Westminster.

While it will now be more likely that the justices will divide evenly on difficult cases, Justice Kennedy will remain the swing vote, providing a fifth vote for a majority of progressive justices (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan), and remaining with the conservatives (Thomas, Roberts and Alito) in tie votes, which will leave the lower court's judgment in place and will not operate as binding precedent on lower courts.

Indeed, at 24 per cent in 2012, it is considerably lower even than the ETR observed for the fifth North Sea hydrocarbons producer, the German Federal Land of Schleswig - Holstein, whose government has been increasing the statutory royalty rate in line with rising oil prices in recent years — from 12.5 per cent in 2003 to 21 per cent as of the time of writing — with the result that the ETR in the German sector of the North Sea in 2012 came to 33 per cent.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.