Sentences with phrase «per cent improvement»

As we mentioned briefly previously, Sony has upgraded the front - facing speakers in the Xperia XZ1, claiming they are now its loudest speakers with a 50 per cent improvement over the Xperia XZ and X Compact.

«A mere 1 per cent improvement in defense energy efficiency would have meant 6,444 fewer convoy missions, one of the most dangerous roles in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.»

From January to July 2012, Portugal accounted a 4.1 per cent improvement when comparing with the same period in 2011.

The SDV6 engine, on the other hand, sees a 7 per cent improvement over the outgoing version.

Compared to the old car's 9.9 L / 100 km, that is a 21 per cent improvement, says BMW.

Chalk this up to a 21 per cent improvement in fuel economy due to a more efficient engine and much better aerodynamics.

Alto 800 now delivers a superior fuel efficiency of 24.7 Km / l of petrol, around 9 per cent improvement over the earlier version.

Premium design cues, the choice of all - wheel - drive models and a raft of new technology in itssector has elevated its appeal to not only fleet customers, but also toretail buyers, who now account for 35 per cent of all sales — a 16 per cent improvement over the Vectra.

Combined fuel consumption for the entry Maxx 2.0 - litre manual rises by 0.5 L / 100 km to 6.9 L / 100 km, while the diesel now consumes 6.0 L / 100 km (up 0.3) and the 2.5 petrol 7.5 L / 100 km (up 0.1), although Mazda is claiming a four per cent improvement in real - world economy.

Mazda has a new engine technology it says could even go as high as a 30 per cent improvement over its current gas engines.

Headlining the range is the six - cylinder 225kW / 400Nm TwinPower Turbo 335i that benefits from a substantial 17 per cent improvement in fuel economy.

Its claimed combined cycle fuel consumption of 8.3 litres per 100 km represents a 6.7 per cent improvement over the MY12 VE Omega, and puts the new price leader within 0.2 L / 100 km of the four - cylinder Ford Falcon EcoBoost.

It averages 6.3 L / 100 km with the aid of auto start - stop — a 16 per cent improvement from its predecessor — and emits 165g / km of CO2.

With these enhancements, Honda promises a 10 per cent improvement in fuel economy.

The A6 allroad's direct - injection 3.0 - litre DOHC 24 - valve engine averages 6.3 L / 100 km — a 16 per cent improvement from its predecessor — with the aid of an automatic idle - stop system and emits 165g CO2 / km.

Kia's R&D teams have targeted a 3 - 5 % improvement in acceleration (0 to 100 k, / h) and 5 - 7 % per cent improvement to fuel efficiency.

It's a world - first for a three - cylinder and it offers up to a six per cent improvement in efficiency.

Aston Martin claims that fitting a newer eight - speed box would only deliver a two per cent improvement in economy, for an unjustifiable engineering cost, but in our opinion it would make a major difference to the powertrain's responses.

Internal engine modifications were also made − including a new and innovative thermal management system − contribute towards the noted 19 per cent improvement in fuel economy in the 2.0 - litre TSI manual.

Alongside tweaks to the 3.8 - litre twin turbo V8 and electric motor powertrain, the lower and wider GTR gets a 10 per cent improvement in downforce.

The exhaust is tuned for maximum performance with a 42 per cent improvement in flow.

Even more impressive is the 25 per cent improvement in efficiency: fuel consumption is now 32.8 mpg and CO2 emissions are just 199g / km.

Further cleaning up comes via the regular petrol Panamera S and all - wheel - drive Panamera 4S; their 4.8 - litre naturally aspirated V8 is replaced by a 3 - litre twin - turbocharged V6 engine with more power and torque (414bhp and 384 lb ft versus 394bhp and 368 lb ft) and an 18 per cent improvement in fuel economy, which now tops 26mpg.

The latter figure represents a 44 per cent improvement and is produced at 1750rpm, 2500rpm lower than before.

That's a 30 per cent improvement on its predecessor's efficiency, yet its 0 - 62mph sprint is also nearly half a second quicker than the outgoing SL350's, at 5.9 sec.

All told, the Senna generates an incredible 800 kg of downforce even by the time it has reached just 155mph, some way short of its maximum velocity, equating to a 40 per cent improvement over the P1 hypercar.

So we see anomalies such as an academy with a 100 per cent improvement in A * - B grades, but a 15 per cent drop in its five A * - Cs (including English and maths).

The European Union set «20-20-20» targets — a 20 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from 1990 levels; increasing energy generation from renewable sources by 20 per cent and a 20 per cent improvement in the EU's energy efficiency — and it is expected that public sector buildings lead the way.

MacDonnell therefore created a Life Skills program specifically for girls which has seen a 500 per cent improvement in girls» registration in life skills programmes that were formerly dominated by boys.

The results show nationally there has been a 0.72 per cent improvement in reading results and a 0.81 per cent increase for numeracy for students across years 5, 3, 7 and 9.

In a famous study by Tabata et al, participants who undertook a four - minute interval training session comprising eight 20 - second hard efforts broken by 10 - second recoveries five days a week showed a 28 per cent improvement in fitness in just six weeks.

«If you've gone from doing nothing to doing half an hour a week, I'd say that's a 100 per cent improvement,» says Hunt.

After a month of the participants applying these three principles, we saw a whopping 41 per cent improvement in behaviour in the home.

When Dunstan had office workers interrupt their sitting with regular activity breaks, they experienced a 30 per cent improvement in their body's response and sensitivity to a meal containing glucose — which means the movement was helping to reduce risks of diabetes type 2.

When we started out we thought it would be a huge achievement to show a five per cent improvement, so to actually be seeing normal or near normal factor levels with dramatic reduction in bleeding is quite simply amazing.

«There was around a 30 per cent improvement in the memory task,» Gabrieli says (NeuroImage, DOI: 10.1016 / j.neuroimage.2011.07.063).

A new study has revealed traditional Chinese acupuncture treatments are no better than fake acupuncture for treating menopause symptoms., But in a surprise finding, both the real and sham treatments showed a 40 per cent improvement in the severity and frequency of hot flushes at the end of eight weeks of treatment.

Based on more online ratings, they found a 26 per cent improvement in selfies taken with Waterloo's app.

The Tetra Pak ® E3 / Speed Hyper filling machine is able to reach 40,000 portion packs per hour, a more than 60 per cent improvement compared with the existing Tetra Pak ® A3 platform, resulting in a saving of up to 20 per cent in operational costs.

However, time and time again, graphics - bound scenarios continually hand in 14 per cent improvements - it's enough to get Tomb Raider Definitive Edition to more consistently deliver 60 fps, but not enough for a locked 1080p60 experience.

Not exact matches

Thus, the solar electricity producer with storage might have a total cost of 5.5 cents per kWh, assuming no further improvements in the photovoltaic cells.

Mid-tier nickel miner has posted a strong half - year with a 782 per cent surge in profit to $ 23.6 million thanks to lower costs, along with productivity and efficiency improvements.

Perth - based waste management company Tox Free Solutions has posted a 30 per cent boost in first - half profit to $ 12.4 million on the back of improvements in its industrial services operations.

The drop is an improvement from the 29 per cent decline in April.

With strong investment growth and an expected improvement in exports, our forecast for the economy overall is that annual GDP growth will pick up modestly during 2006 to about 3 1/4 per cent.

More than all of improvement in the current fiscal results of $ 2.9 billion is due to higher revenues (up $ 3.0 billion or 3.7 per cent).

South Carolina, however, recently raised its sales tax per gallon from 16.75 cents to 28.75 cents to fund road improvement projects over the next six years.

A score of 100 would indicate maximum improvements across the SME Health Check Index's eight indicators (business costs, capacity, employment, GDP, lending to SMEs, net business creation, revenue and SME business confidence), down 48 per cent since 2014 and the fifth consecutive quarterly fall The SME Health Check Index fell from 48.4 in the third quarter of 2017 to 42.0 in Q4 2017, suggesting a worsening business and macroeconomic environment since the EU Referendum in June 2016 and the ongoing Brexit negotiations.

The leap is not all explicable by the 36 per cent jump in crude oil prices in the interim, nor by the significant improvements on costs and break - even levels made under chief executive Kevin Gallagher.

For the full fiscal year, Mitel's revenues reached $ 1.06 billion compared to $ 987.6 million in 2016 while adjusted earnings were $ 81.1 million (65 cents per share), an improvement over adjusted earnings in 2016 of $ 74.9 million (60 cents per share).