Sentences with phrase «of several percentage points»

And the percentage who rated agents» honesty and ethics as high or very high (20 percent) represents an increase of several percentage points from Gallup measures of the 1990s, when the high / very high number was consistently in the mid-teens.

«Some low - lying developing countries and small island states are expected to face very high impacts and associated annual damage and adaptation costs of several percentage points of GDP,» the report said.

«Some low - lying developing countries and small island states are expected to face very high impacts that, in some cases, could have associated damage and adaptation costs of several percentage points of GDP,» the report said.

Some low - lying developing countries and small island states are expected to face damage and adaptation costs of several percentage points of GDP.

An increase of several percentage points might raise payments by hundreds of dollars per month.

JLR has increased its proportion of fleet sales from 37 percent in 2013 to 44 percent last year and is expecting a further shift, over the next couple of years of several percentage points, towards the industry average of 46 percent.

Not exact matches

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.

President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner are unlikely to reverse several scheduled tax increases, including the 0.9 percentage point increase in the Medicare tax rate on wages and salaries of more than $ 200,000 for single filers ($ 250,000 for married filers); a 3.8 percent Medicare tax on unearned income of higher income filers; and an increase in the capital gains tax rate.

Volume / mix was 0.7 percentage points lower as strong growth in condiments and sauces was more than offset by a combination of significantly lower shipments in India, unfavorable holiday - related shipment phasing in Indonesia, as well as the impact of distributor network realignment in several markets.

And now, after watching the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index fall by several percentage points since Thursday and bounce some of the way back on Tuesday, you have a different kind of fear: that all the stock market riches have been won already or that your emotions will get the best of you amid all of the volatility.

Interest rates for non-prime loans are several percentages points higher than those of prime loans.

The number of such products released in North America experienced a 19 % jump between 2013 - 2014, and that rose several more percentage points in the following year.

Even someone like Alexis Sanchez, presently the apple of every Gooner's eye, must be having his seemingly endless optimism tampered by several others pointing out to him the miniscule percentage of points Arsenal has been able to claim against top - flight opposition in last eight years.

The point I'm making for discussion regards spending such a large percentage of the team's salary cap on one player with big contracts looming for several stellar performers.

When matched against several potential Republican gubernatorial candidates, Cuomo leads each of them by at least 40 percentage points.

But the budgets of several research agencies would shrink by a few percentage points, or remain at existing levels.

Conversely, a 1997 increase in the GED minimum score requirements of several states reduced the dropout rate among black and Hispanic 12th graders by 4.4 and 7 percentage points, respectively.

For several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.

The proportion of Corcoran High School students saying that they learn new things instead of reviewing things they already know «Everyday» or «Several Times per Week» increased by 10 percentage points for English classes and by 19 percentage points for math classes.

Used - car financing rates typically are several percentage points higher than on new - car loans and used - car loans usually don't run as long as 60 months based on the simple fact it is a used car and some of its useful life is behind it.

Even if you sell short term call options that are 5 % or 10 % out of the money, you could increase your annual yield by several percentage points.

The price of oil, for example, is quite volatile, often changing several percentage points in a day.

Because of our greedy and fearful investment decisions, we earn returns that are several percentage points per year lower than the overall market.

Several other special offer mortgage rates from RBC will also rise by 0.10 percentage points on Friday but the amount of annual interest charged will depend on whether the term is for two, three or four years.

Unemployment is nearly two percentage points below the national average; there are several large companies anchoring the local economy, including a large presence by Boeing and the headquarters of Chesapeake Energy.

Once the auction occurs, the rates are calculated by adding several percentage points to the 10 - year treasury note yield, to cover the «administrative costs» of issuing the loans, according to the 2013 legislation that enacted this system.

However, the returns are also several percentage points lower than has historically been achieved with stocks, which is a large performance difference in this game of compounding returns over long periods.

I would estimate I lose several percentage points of gain on both sides of the trade, but the potential for extraordinary returns on these illiquid stocks is worth the time and effort.

In the past six months, 20 of the 58 rewards cards that CreditCards.com tracks have increased the top end of their APRs, many by several percentage points.

The first is that the game tracks all of your stats across every game you play; not individual player performances, but your cumulative totals in several categories including points, shooting percentage, and the like.

John Carter August 8, 2014 at 12:58 am chooses to state his position on the greenhouse effect in the following 134 word sentence: «But given the [1] basics of the greenhouse effect, the fact that with just a very small percentage of greenhouse gas molecules in the air this effect keeps the earth about 55 - 60 degrees warmer than it would otherwise be, and the fact that through easily recognizable if [2] inadvertent growing patterns we have at this point probably at least [3] doubled the total collective amount in heat absorption and re-radiation capacity of long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases (nearly doubling total that of the [4] leading one, carbon dioxide, in the modern era), to [5] levels not collectively seen on earth in several million years — levels that well predated the present ice age and extensive earth surface ice conditions — it goes [6] against basic physics and basic geologic science to not be «predisposed» to the idea that this would ultimately impact climate.»

Surveys of the climate science community since 1996 have found the percentage of climate scientists agreeing on human - caused global warming has steadily increased to the point where in the last few years, several independent surveys have found 97 % agreement among actively publishing climate scientists.

Several percentage points of savings add up quickly.

And if you really get into a bind, Samsung's nifty «Ultra Power Saving» mode can still strip TouchWiz down to its bare essentials and pull several hours out of a few percentage points of juice.

Rates of return for annuities vary based on age, but most pay a return several percentage points higher than other low - risk investments.

Looking at the graph, it seems that when the percentage of homes with increasing values is high (above ~ 66 %) or is increasing fast (up several percentage points in a month), home prices tend to increase — or continue to increase — in the future.

Home - ownership rates are still near record lows, several percentage points down from before the housing bust, even after one of the longest economic expansions on record.

If you want to price the house several percentage points north of fair market value, many agents will walk away for fear of taking on an overpriced listing that won't sell, or at least won't sell during the time they're the listing agent.