Sentences with phrase «of a few cents per»

Jet's smart - cart shopping basket rewarded customers with discounts of a few cents per product if they bought more items at one time.

Not exact matches

But because operators bill at such a high rate for data roaming — at about 15 cents per kilobyte of information in France, for example, which is roughly the amount of information in this paragraph — consumers typically reach that limit within a few hours of downloading standard e-mails.

And if U.S. giant Verizon provides coast - to - coast service north of the border, it could snatch up as much as 10 or 15 per cent of the market after a few years, he said.

According to the latest Census of Agriculture, more than 80 per cent of Canada's dairy farms are located in Ontario and Quebec and half are found in fewer than three dozen Census Divisions.

Neither existed in Germany or the Netherlands just a few years ago, but they now account for 17 per cent and 32 per cent of their respective markets, the analysis firm says.

New car sales were down 11.6 per cent in Western Australia, with nearly 1,000 fewer cars sold in the month of April.

When those prices collapsed anew a few years later, the central bank dropped the benchmark interest rate back to its crisis - era setting of 0.5 per cent %.

Macy's, one of the few big winners last holiday, said on Wednesday that its earnings per share rose 30 percent to 61 cents for the third quarter.

Deals in the secondary market, as represented by Midland's 35 key housing estates, hit a low of 41 per week, 40 per cent fewer than in the first quarter of 2003 during the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

The rising cost of homeownership is pushing more people to rent, and the vacancy rate in Toronto has tightened over the past few years to 1.3 per cent, according to CMHC.

The share price of mining junior Batavia Mining Ltd has more than doubled in the first few days of 2006 on a 140 per cent gold resource upgrade that could bring its Gullewa copper gold project in Western Australia back in production within a year.

With the existing $ 5,500 - per - year contribution limit, all but the top few per cent of families will soon be able to shelter all of their assets from taxation.

The fries have about 20 per cent fewer calories than the chain's regular fries as a result of a batter that blocks out some of the oil during frying.

Only a few thousand of Canada's businesses are publicly traded, and private firms generate roughly 70 per cent of all corporate profits.

Robinson says most people invest in ICOs because of the chance to win big — bitcoin's price went from a few cents each bitcoin to $ 5,734 per bitcoin in four years.

Cellit Mobile Marketing, in Chicago, and Movo, in Florida, sell short codes for $ 500 to $ 1,000 per month, plus a one - time setup fee of a few thousand dollars and a charge of 4 cents to 7 cents for each text message.

The ACCA allows manufacturing companies to depreciate, for tax purposes, the value of newly purchased equipment and machinery at the accelerated rate of 50 per cent per year, reducing their taxable income in the first few years of owning the asset.

Fewer than 20 per cent of the company's current staff, several hundred already in Vancouver, are Canadian, he said, largely because talent is scarce.

From 2001 to 2011, that study found that fewer than five per cent of Canadian taxpayers in the bottom half of the income scale owned at least 10 per cent of the shares in at least one Canadian - controlled private corporation (CCPC).

In one of the few studies that has examined flextime's effect on company profits, last year, researchers from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and China's Renmin University studied the 35 per cent of Canadian firms with flextime policies.

But on spending, they're unwilling to go farther than they have so far, with measures to freeze civil service managers» pay, target a few Crown agency executive packages and find ill - defined savings worth 0.3 per cent of the current budget.

If so, just wait until the next price shock (petrol is now at $ 1.14 per litre, give or take a few cents, in Ontario now) really hits proud owners of these new trucks and you will be able to buy a slightly used one at a good discount price.

A few months ago, the French government decided to hold on to a 10.1 per cent in the Toulouse - Blagnac airport — denying a purchase by Casil, the Chinese consortium which already owns 49.9 per cent of the airport.

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 per cent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

Accreditation by the AACSB is a mark of excellence earned by fewer than five per cent of the world's business schools.

Fewer say this of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (36 per cent) and B.C. Premier John Horgan (30 per cent).

Our best estimate is that potential output will rise by an average of 1 1/2 per cent per year over the next few years — that is not very impressive relative to history.2 We are counting on gains in productivity to deliver fully two - thirds of that growth.

Forecasters, including the Bank of Canada, are lowering their growth forecasts for 2015 to below 2 per cent, a far cry from the almost 2.5 per cent they were forecasting only a few months ago.

«Millennials are the future of the workforce and will constitute over 50 per cent of the working population in the next few years,» added Zakai.

Gaurav Mendiratta, founder and CEO, SocioSquare, said, «Everyone is facing common problems of return on investment (ROI) from social ads, as well as their content reaching to only a few per cent of their followers / fans.

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

This remains at the higher end of outcomes over the past few years, though slightly below the most recent peak of 4.4 per cent in June 2003.

Either way, come September, for the first time, Australians can no longer watch Australia's One Day or Twenty20 Internationals played in Australia on free - to - air television — with that (effectively siphoned) privilege going to the fewer than 30 per cent of Australian households subscribed to pay television.

The proportion of respondents expecting inflation to be 10 per cent or above almost halved in July, following a few months when over one - third of survey respondents had such an expectation.

Accordingly, a substantial pool of undrawn commitments built up over the last few months of 1999 and the beginning of this year, peaking at a level equivalent to just under 8 per cent of housing credit.

Over the same period, 29 per cent of the few new jobs created in B.C. have gone to temporary foreign workers.

The share of new investor loans with very high LVRs (above 90 per cent) at the time of origination has been declining for a few years and is below that for owner - occupier loans (Reserve Bank of Australia (2017), Financial Stability Review, April).

The REALTORS ® Association of Hamilton - Burlington (RAHB) reported 1,099 sales were processed through the RAHB Multiple Listing Service ® (MLS ®) System in March, 38.6 per cent fewer than the same month last year and 18 per cent fewer than the 10 - year average for the month.

The CPI fell by 0.4 per cent over the year to June, compared with falls of nearly 1 per cent in the past few years.

The REALTORS ® Association of Hamilton - Burlington (RAHB) reported 1,185 sales were processed through the RAHB Multiple Listing Service ® (MLS ®) System in April, 32.4 per cent fewer than the same month...

The REALTORS ® Association of Hamilton - Burlington reported 15,565 all - property sales through the Association's Multiple Listing Service ® (MLS ®) System in 2017, 5.9 per cent fewer sales than in the...

The REALTORS ® Association of Hamilton - Burlington (RAHB) reported 779 sales were processed through the RAHB Multiple Listing Service ® (MLS ®) System in February, 40.3 per cent fewer than the same month last year and 25.7 per cent lower than the 10 - year average for the month.

Stockland chief executive Mark Steinert this week said the national population growth rate of 1.6 per cent would keep driving demand for new facilities, even though traditional retailers were planning fewer new stores than they were five or six years ago.

The REALTORS ® Association of Hamilton - Burlington (RAHB) reported 753 sales were processed through the RAHB Multiple Listing Service ® (MLS ®) System in December, 16.4 per cent fewer than the same...

The REALTORS ® Association of Hamilton - Burlington (RAHB) reported 1,099 sales were processed through the RAHB Multiple Listing Service ® (MLS ®) System in March, 38.6 per cent fewer than the same month...

The REALTORS ® Association of Hamilton - Burlington (RAHB) reported 1,185 sales were processed through the RAHB Multiple Listing Service ® (MLS ®) System in April, 32.4 per cent fewer than the same month last year and 21.7 per cent fewer than the 10 - year average for the...

Engineering construction has risen by 36 per cent over the past year and the unprecedented amount of work yet to be done suggests further expansion in the next few quarters.

The unemployment rate has edged lower over the past few months to 6.1 per cent in September, and other indicators, such as new claims for unemployment benefits, are also showing signs of stronger labour demand.

Unit labour costs (based on compensation per hour worked) grew by 1.3 per cent in the June quarter to be 2.8 per cent higher over the year, which is around the average growth rate of the past few years.

«Cryptocurrencies will experience a heavy correction of up to 90 per cent in the next 12 months and very few companies will survive this correction,» Sebastian Markowsky, GP Bullhound director and main author of the report titled «Token Frenzy: The Fuel of the Blockchain», wrote.