Sentences with phrase «more than a quarter of local»

REOs and short sales now represent more than a quarter of the local housing market — this is much more than a temporary niche, according to James Harrison, RCE, CAE, president and CEO of MLSListings, Inc..

Not exact matches

A quarter (25 percent) of all Facebook users have made a purchase after clicking on a Facebook ad, and twice as many (49 percent) say they follow local small businesses on Facebook — more than the 39 percent who follow major brands or companies.

More than half of adults in the Sheffield City Region (56 per cent) agree that the new metro mayor should have greater powers than local council leaders, while a quarter (24 per cent) disagree.

And, although more than one - third of the residents 25 and older had attained a Bachelor's Degree or a higher level of education, more than one - quarter of local residents in the same age group had not obtained a high school diploma.

More than a quarter of real property value across the state is exempt from county and local property taxes, totaling $ 680 billion — a cost that carries a burden for municipalities, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found in a report issued today.

Only a bit more than a quarter of the taxpayers in Western New York take the deduction for state and local taxes that a Republican tax plan would trim by 71 percent, but Cuomo and Schumer insisted cutting the «SALT» deduction would harm the vast majority of taxpayers in the state.

More than a quarter say they have increased recruitment of local staff in the past two years

The producers of Family Movie Night reported that according to a recent Public Agenda survey, nearly three - quarters (74 %) of Americans consider bullying harassment a serious problem in their local public schools and more than 45 percent of students admitted to having been bullied, teased or taunted at school, as noted by a Josephson Institute of Ethics survey.

Larger contributions state or local chapters of teachers unions — which provided more than three - quarters of Ritz's campaign funding — no doubt helped Ritz with bigger expenditures.

We did a short hike on a place a local told us about called Judd Trail, which was no more than a quarter of a mile to a waterfall.

It's a little less touristy than the French Quarter and is geared a little more to the tastes of the locals.There is also a night market where local artists sell their crafts.

Yet it has a long way to go to catch up with fossil fuels, which currently provide more than three - quarters of heat production globally, resulting in significant CO2 emissions and in some cases adding to local air pollution.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

At the other end of the rankings, more than three - quarters of South Korea's population used social media this time last year, thanks to the impressive uptake of local favorite, Kakao Talk.