Sentences with phrase «paying a cent more»

«I can't pay you a cent more,» Boris tells Sophie, who's trying to sell him a car.

You won't be paying a cent more but it just means I will make a little money for your purchase.

Don't forget that although individuals are limited to buying 40,000 points per calendar year (before bonuses), you can always buy points for more than one account and then combine the points into one account without having to pay a cent more.

You won't be paying a cent more but it just means I will make a little money for your purchase.

Not exact matches

MGM Resorts, for example, agreed to pay employees an extra 35 cents per hour in the first year of the contract, 50 cents more in the second year and an additional 55 cents in the third.

• According to the same report, 21 per cent of Canadians who purchased their home before 1990 still haven't paid it off after more than 27 years, while one per cent of Canadians who purchased homes between 2014 and 2016 have negative equity in their property.

• More than half (58 per cent) of Canadians pay their credit card balance in full each month, avoiding credit card debt and interest payments altogether.

Now, according to sources familiar with the latest developments, the U.S. has offered to replace the 50 - per - cent requirement with another idea designed to encourage American manufacturing: a formula that credits car companies for paying more than $ 15 per hour.

He confirmed that the U.S. had been willing to drop its demand that 50 per cent of every car consist of American parts, in exchange for a new system that credits parts - makers when they pay more than $ 15 an hour.

Under the proposal, companies pulling in more than $ 20 million a year in the city would have to pay 26 cents for each hour worked by a local employee.

Pay for what you need and not a cent more.

Negotiators are now said to be settling on a system that sets the regional content standard at 75 per cent, and helps car companies get credits to meet that standard if they invest in high - value research and pay workers more than $ 15 an hour.

Men employed in jobs with an average probability of being sexual harassed are paid 50 cents per hour more than men employed in jobs with no risk of harassment.

«It could cost a company more to qualify a product and do all the paperwork to claim NAFTA then the one or two per cent they pay in [WTO] duties.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, seven per cent say it'll take them more than 25 years to fully own their home, while three per cent say it'll take them between 1 year to 9 years to pay it off.

It wouldn't make sense to hoard any nickels, and even still you'd have to find someone who'd want to pay more than 5 cents per nickel if they did cost more material wise, (which they do nt)

On average, undergraduates pay 40 per cent more in tuition than they did 10 years ago.

The suggested fixes include capping loans at 65 per cent of the home value, introducing new and more conservative means of estimating how much a residence is worth, and amortizing the loans (meaning that borrowers would have to repay the principal within a certain time frame, as in a mortgage, whereas now they can simply keep paying interest on their HELOCs).

In the 23rd Actuarial Report on the Canada Pension Plan (OCA, 2007), the Office of the Chief Actuary (OCA) certified that, in spite of the substantial increase in CPP benefit payments that would result from the retirement of the baby boom generation, the current legislated contribution rate of 9.9 per cent for employers and employees combined would be more than enough to pay for benefits through 2075.

An assessment paid for by DuPont said that the ethanol it will produce there could be more than 100 per cent better than gasoline in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

But Prime Minister Callaghan then urged that the government make further concessions to the unions, including «exemptions from the 5 per cent pay limit, tighter price controls and extension of the principle of «comparability,» under which public sector workers could expect more money.

One could easily think that there is only a 16 - per - cent difference, but through the magic of Rashomon, we can see that Susan pays about 44 per cent more in taxes (35/79).

The chain's current value menu, dubbed «Why Pay More,» includes items originally priced at 79 cents, 89 cents and 99 cents, though those prices have largely increased to well north of a dollar over time.

What's more, state and local employees received $ 1.17 in new benefits for every dollar per hour pay increase from 2002 to 2008, compared to 58 cents for private sector workers.

According to Statistics Canada, full - time undergraduate students paid $ 6,191 in tuition fees in 2015/2016, up more than three per cent from a year earlier, and continuing to grow each year.

According to FreshBooks, «A simple «please pay your invoice within» or «thank you for your business» can increase the percentage of invoices that are paid by more than 5 per cent!»

«Their New Year's MSP increase will have families paying 80 per cent more than they did before the Liberals took office.»

Under the rules, a buyer paying more than 20 per cent down on their home purchase must prove they can carry their monthly payments at either their contract rate plus two per cent, or at the Bank of Canada's benchmark rate — whichever is higher.

This week, the premier announced that as of next week, anyone who admits to being a foreign citizen will have to pay 15 - per - cent more than Canadian citizens when they buy a home in Metro Vancouver.

«Today, many ferry users are paying 100 per cent more than they were in 2003, when the B.C. Liberals brought in the Coastal Ferry Act.

The net result was that 81 per cent of middle - class taxpayers saw their taxes rise, and on average pay $ 840 more annually.

«Today, many ferry users are paying 100 per cent more than they...

The central bank obediently issued GKOs (government treasury bills) paying interest rates higher than 100 per cent annually, subsequently scaled back to a more «Latin American - type» level of about 25 percent.

In April of this year, a resident of Regina paid over 50 per cent more for their power than a resident in Calgary.

Research from VanCity credit union shows that British Columbians are turning to payday loans more than in any other province, with a 58 per - cent increase in the number of borrowers between 2012 and 2014, and with most borrowers saying that they need emergency cash just to pay for necessities.

If the amount of debt available reduces by 30 - 40 per cent, it either must be replaced by more equity or by a reduction of demand (i.e. the price a purchaser is willing / able to pay).

If no more equity is available, we should expect the ability to pay to reduce by 22.5 - 30 per cent (assuming a loan - to - value ratio of 75 per cent).

«I think the American people are willing to pay a cent - and - a-half more for a 6 - pack of beer to have an aluminum and steel industry,» he said on CBS News's Face the Nation.

The money will pay for an eight - per - cent increase in bus service, seven - per - cent increase in HandyDart and more than 150 new buses.

Present welfare plans across Canada not only pay less than the poverty line — sometimes 20 to 40 per cent less — but also discourage work by clawing back benefits if more than $ 100 or so are earned.

In practice that means that for every pre-tax dollar you earn each month, you should dedicate no more than 36 cents to paying off your mortgage, student loans, credit card debt and so on.

People will pay more in the more expensive store just to get points on their card, and a nice lump sum pay - out later, rather than save the odd cent or two now.

Many co-ops rely on federal subsidies to ensure that members pay no more than 30 per cent of their income towards housing costs.

Hydro — Despite telling voters ahead of the election that hydro rates wouldn't necessarily go up, as soon as the election was over the Clark government announced a massive 28 - per - cent hike, which will make customers pay $ 477 more on their bill.

While agreeing that Campus Crusade had no obligation to pay film royalties to him, Heyman said ruefully: «Had [Campus Crusade] paid a one - cent royalty for everyone they claim to have led to Christ by showing the Jesus film, we would have been able to translate Acts of the Apostles onto film and we would have had a much more «Christian» world than we do — but they did not and so we could not.»

In the «mid upper» job range, women make 9 per cent more than men but while for half of staff there is no gap in pay between men and women, there are significantly more women in junior roles than men.

(Mine is a little wobbly / loose / cheap so I'm always afraid it won't cut a straight line but I suspect that most people pay more than 99 cents for theirs.)

In fact, our own market research has discovered that between forty and fifty per cent of drinkers are willing to pay more for a premium taste and natural flavours.

The report quotes a consumer study of 204 Chinese organic buyers, which showed 71 per cent of shoppers were prepared to pay up to 50 per cent more for organic food.

The company paid $ 15 million in electricity costs alone last year; energy costs in Puerto Rico average more than 25 cents per kilowatt - hour, versus the 12 to 15 cents per kilowatt - hour paid on average in the United States.