Sentences with phrase «per cent of the residents»

In February, 48 per cent of residents supported the project compared to 40 per cent who opposed.

Families receiving public assistance represent 20 per cent of the residents.

Only 2.4 per cent of households have access to electricity and only 18 per cent of the residents can read and write, compared to the national average of 66 per cent.

The City of Manchester is the third most deprived local authority area in England, with 20 per cent of residents claiming income support - twice the national average.

And 9.3 per cent of residents had no formal qualification at all, compared to 8.3 per cent in Great Britain as a whole.

Groningen, in the Netherlands, and Renne, in France, finished top, both achieving 88 per cent of residents satisfied with their local educational provision.

Almost 90 per cent of residents are of Aboriginal descent and you can meet some of them on a range of cultural and wildlife tours.

Seventy - one per cent of the 632 documented jurors were white in cities where more than half the population identifies as non-white (In Toronto, 51.4 per cent of residents identify as visible minorities; in Brampton, the figure is 73.3 per cent).

A conference session on palliative care in aged care talked about the «rich tapestry» brought by cultural diversity in aged care, with an estimated 31 per cent of residents and 32 per cent of staff born overseas.

Census figures show 27 per cent of the resident Australian population were born overseas.

Not exact matches

April 13, 2014: Residents of Kitimat, site of the proposed marine terminal, vote against Northern Gateway in non-binding municipal plebiscite with a vote of 58.4 per cent opposed and 41.6 per cent in favour.

Alberta was the only province where a majority of residents surveyed said they approved of the government's handling of the environment, with 55 per cent saying they agreed the Tories are protecting the environment.

The report points to a recent survey that found 70 per cent of Lower Mainland residents are in favour of allowing ridesharing services to operate in B.C. and notes that the municipalities of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody and Langley Township have all come out in favour of ridesharing in recent weeks.

It announced that the employee rate for all residents, with the exception of Quebec, would be set at $ 1.83 per $ 100 of insurable earnings for 2012, an increase of 5 cents from the rate for 2011.

While 29 per cent of Metro Vancouver residents — higher than the national average — say they have a negative opinion of Airbnb, some 52 per cent say they have a positive one.

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

A board would be permitted to appoint a defeated director in only two circumstances: to ensure compliance with CBCA requirements that at least 25 per cent of directors be resident Canadians and to ensure that at least two directors of the public corporation are not officers or employees of the corporation or its affiliates.

With tax reduction through pension splitting, they would pay tax at an average rate of about 17 per cent as B.C. residents and so would have about $ 8,750 per month to spend.

The effect of this fall was compounded by a sharp drop in spending by domestic residents with retail sales falling by 8 1/2 per cent in Hong Kong in April.

It boasts nearly 2.5 million residents and in 2014 produced goods and services valued at $ 119 billion — 58 per cent of British Columbia's real GDP.

The Mayors» Council Plan will cut traffic congestion by 20 per cent, shortening commute times by an average of 20 to 30 minutes per day, and give 70 per cent of Metro Vancouver residents more frequent transit service.

More than 85 per cent of these poverty victims are rural residents, whose sole hope lies in the development of widespread subsistence farming.

For example, the water from the Sea of Galilee has been diverted for Israeli agricultural use in the Negev while West Bank residents now rely for some 60 per cent of their water on supplies controlled by Israel, which has prevented the digging or repairing of wells by residents in the occupied territories.

Over 90 kilograms of organic waste per resident is collected every year, with Milan now achieving over 50 per cent separate waste collection.

Despite the majority of its residents» opposition, Philadelphia became the first major U.S. city to approve a 1.5 - cent - per - ounce tax on soda and other sugary drinks.

Residents of the district already pay a tax rate of 74 cents per $ 100 of equalized assessed valuation, one of the highest around, and there are questions of what will happen when the number of taxpayers decreases.

If the Dundee Township Park District agreed to annex Algonquin, residents there would pay an additional tax of 32 cents per $ 100 of assessed valuation, Whitehouse said.

Forming the park district would cost east side residents nothing for the first year, but will increase property taxes by an estimated 12 cents per $ 100 of assessed valuation during the second year.

Voters on March 19 gave a resounding thumbs down to the park district plan, which eventually would have increased property taxes for east side residents by 12 cents per $ 100 of assessed valuation.

The deceased, according to a Senior Resident at the Korle Bu Reconstruction, Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit, Dr. Nyigba Edem suffered a 100 per cent total body surface area burn, which means every part of the skin was badly affected.

«So if they said «we appreciate it's going to irritate you so we're going to widen the road and put traffic lights on that junction, and ten per cent of the net profit from it will be split among the residents in a quarter of a mile radius - we think that amounts to # 200,000 each» — that is compensation.»

The Turkana county council recently demanded that exploration should be halted until residents are guaranteed that they will receive at least 25 per cent of the proceeds.

«Ladies and gentlemen, you should know that all of the residents and shoppers in New York City will have some relief for at least one year, and will not have to pay the 5 cents (5 cents) per plastic bag while shopping for groceries and other items,» Diaz wrote in the emailed statement.

But there are more acute concerns within the city region: in Liverpool 14 percent of residents have no formal qualifications and in Knowsley it is close to double the national average (16 per cent).

Across the city region 12 per cent of working age residents have no formal qualifications, compared with nine per cent nationally.

The Resident Engineer, Mr Ahmed Massoud, who led a team of engineers and other officials of the contracting firm, Euroget De-Invest on the inspection, said works on the health facility were over 80 per cent complete.

Residents in the Upper West, Upper East and Northern Regions and those in the upper part of the Volta, Brong Ahafo Regions as well as some communities in the Western Region, could pay cents 0.6755 per kilowatt / hour — a jump from cents 0.22 per kilowatt / hour.

Ladies and gentlemen, you should know that all of the residents and shoppers in New York City will have some relief for at least one year, and will not have to pay the 5 cents (5 cents) per plastic bag while shopping for groceries and other items.

The bill would charge residents outside of New York City 50 cents per trip.

This added 58.8 cents per $ 1,000 of assessed value to residents» county taxes.

One study of RGGI found that, on average, New York State residents would see power prices increase by 78 cents per month (because power companies are allowed to pass along to consumers increased costs), according to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.

Gough Island might have been largely uninhabited by humans, but 50 years later, residents of nearby islands raised questions about the unusually vicious mice that now roam the island (50 per cent heavier than wild mice anywhere in the world) and devastate the bird population.

Residents of Auvers - sur - Oise can expect their water bills to jump by at least 10 per cent, mostly because of the extra cost of the electricity needed to pump the water through the membranes at a pressure of 10 bars.

Under the proposal, states would be eligible to receive grants totaling $ 50,000 plus 4 cents per state resident for the development of model foreign - language programs at the precollegiate level.

Between 2002 and 2015, Gonzales studied a group of young people, between the ages of eighteen and thirty - two, in California, where undocumented residents make up seven per cent of the population and nine per cent of the workforce.

When the province of Quebec mandated winter tire use for their residents, the number of collisions dropped by almost 20 per cent.

With tax reduction through pension splitting, they would pay tax at an average rate of about 17 per cent as B.C. residents and so would have about $ 8,750 per month to spend.

McDonald says 2.6 per cent of Canada's growing population of residents 55 years of age and older are financially abused, making it the second most common form of elder abuse.

Eby said he supports a BC Affordability Housing Fund, proposed by the Sauder School of Business at the University of B.C., to collect a 1.5 - per - cent real estate surcharge from non-resident property owners, with the money generated to be distributed to residents.

If decide to cash in your RRSP after you have become a resident of another country, 25 per cent of the proceeds will be withheld in Canada.