Sentences with phrase «percent during the same year»

According to their findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a 1 percent rise in GDP raises a nation's so - called metal «footprint» by as much as 1.9 percent during the same year.

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Related: How Tech's Richest People Spend Their Vacations Last week, The Washington Post Company reported $ 138.4 million in revenue during the second quarter for its newspaper publishing division, down 1 percent compared to the same period last year.

Their consumer loans in the year to February increased by about 3 percent, while non-bank lending to households during the same period soared by 9 percent, showing that banks» sluggish consumer lending is not a question of a weak loan demand.

Consumer - powered social - review site Yelp exceed analyst expectations this week, posting a net revenue of $ 55 million during the second quarter — almost 70 percent year - over-year growth compared to the same period in 2012.

During the first four months of the year, mine production fell 8.1 percent from the same time a year earlier due to declines in Australia, India, Peru and Ireland, according to the International Lead and Zinc Study Group.

Data from Real Capital Analytics (RCA) shows that acquisitions from HNWIs during the first three quarters of the year dropped 45 percent to $ 3.1 billion, compared to the same period last year.

Volume was 21 percent lower than during the same week a year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Since its launch in 2005, it has returned an annualized 9.8 percent, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has climbed an average 6.7 percent per year during the same time.

During the Obama administration, F.B.I. background checks on prospective firearms buyers — a rough proxy for sales — surged nearly 50 percent in the month of the Sandy Hook attack in 2012, compared with the same month a year earlier, as calls rang out for tighter legislation.

Fort Lauderdale - based Universal Property & Casualty Co., the state's largest insurer, saw the largest increase both by overall numbers and percentage — from 1,095 suits in January through March 2017 to 2,829 during the same period this year — a 158.4 percent jump.

That's a testament to the cost control practiced at PwC, where the U.S. employee base in fiscal year 2016 grew 8 percent and the global headcount during the same time frame grew 7 percent.

During the same six - year period, Royal Gold gained 21 percent, Franco - Nevada 82 percent.

Also, Adobe said that merchants spent 47 percent more on Google Shopping Ads year - over-year last quarter, meanwhile they decreased spending on text - based ads by 6 percent during the same period.

Quick - service restaurants were the top performer based on same - store sales in the third quarter with a growth of 2.2 percent, and have posted the highest total sales growth during the first half of this year, at a rate of 4.7 percent.

Affordability has been on a downtrend for a number of years, noted Yun, as «home prices have risen a cumulative 48 percent since 2011, yet during this same timeframe, incomes are up only 15 percent.»

These numbers might not spell all - out trouble if it weren't for Amazon's performance during the same period: The company's electronics and general merchandise business — basically the core of its retail operation — grew 35 percent in North America in the quarter, marking the segment's highest growth rate in several years.

While business owners are upbeat about growth next year, the survey also found that long - term growth plans are the same from the fall of 2016, when 51 percent of small business owners said they expect to grow during the next five years.

That is up 1.3 percent from the 24,089,000 net tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 74.4 percent.

After all, when you can get a 30 - year fixed mortgage at about 3.3 percent, as you could in 2012, why take on the risk of an ARM mortgage during the same time — at 2.74 percent?

During the first three months of this year, construction spending was 5.5 percent above the same period in 2017.

I found this surprising considering that during 2005, the most recent year for which the Center for Disease Control offered statistics, 10 percent of women in the United States between the ages of 15 and 44 were pregnant» about the same percentage of woman in the United States diagnosed with diabetes.

In the Gallup survey, for example, 90 percent of the public claimed to have thought about «living a worthwhile life» at least a fair amount (or a lot) during the preceding two years; 83 percent said they had thought often about their «basic values in life»; 81 percent gave the same response for «your relation to God»; and 70 percent gave similar answers for «developing your faith.»

During that same time period, those who think abortion is immoral stayed steady at 45 percent, with some years even rising above 50 percent.

A study released Tuesday by the Illinois Hunger Coalition found that only 16 percent of the students who get free lunch through the National School Lunch Program during the regular school year take advantage of the same program in the summer.

The state raked in $ 4 billion, or 11.7 percent, more in taxes during the first half of the fiscal year compared with the same period last year, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli...

Ellis said the testing rates among one - year - old children in Oneida County are up 31 percent from 2008 and 44 percent among two - year - olds during the same period.

He hailed the fact that stops are down 79 percent during the first nine months of 2014 compared to the same timeframe last year, but made no mention of the current demographic breakdown.

During that same time, property tax growth averaged about 5.5 percent per year, which was faster than the 4.4 percent average annual growth for counties statewide and the 3.9 percent average annual growth for counties downstate.

DiNapoli's report states that in the last decade, federal and state aid grew an average of 2.2 percent a year, which was less than the inflation rate of 2.4 percent during the same time.

The 20/20 investment principle could be achieved over a three - year period by increasing the share of funding by approximately one percent in FY15, FY16, and FY17 for 6.1 basic research and by approximately one percent in total for DOD S&T during the same time frame.

The researchers also noted an increase in the antibiotic prescribing rate in emergency rooms, from 69 percent to 73 percent, during the same 14 - year period.

During the same year, 85 percent of public schools documented that at least one violent crime, theft, or other kind of crime occurred on their campuses.

Going forward, the foursome aims to achieve 100 percent participation during each year of their time at the Ed School and hopes to inspire future Ed.D. cohorts to do the same.

During our analysis period, roughly 15 percent of teachers in our data switched to a different grade within the same school from one year to the next, 6 percent of teachers moved to a different school within the same district, and another 6 percent left the district entirely.

In May 2016, the New York Post reported that school - safety agents and police officers had confiscated 26 percent more weapons from students during this past school year than over the same span in 2014 — 15.

In a DOE national study of school finance during the 2008 - 09 school year, the department looked at differences in spending between schools in the same districts and found that about 40 percent of Title I schools were underfunded relative to non-Title I schools.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

Part of Cuomo's frustration is that 95.6 percent of teachers in New York were rated «effective» or «highly effective» during the 2013 - 14 academic year despite less than 40 percent of grade 3 - 8 students being assessed «proficient» on their standardized tests the same year.

During the same 15 - year period, the ELL population grew by 46 percent in the Northwest.

Although charter schools that are not affiliated with a management organization continue to operate the majority of charters, that number fell from 74 percent to about 60 percent between the 2007 — 08 and 2010 — 11 school years, while EMOs leveled off at 19 percent and CMOs grew from 10 percent to 19 percent during the same time period (NAPCS, n.d. - b).

The percent of teachers with Master degrees is 62 % in State A and 41.6 % in State B. And, the average public school teacher salary in the time period 2010 - 2012 was $ 72,000 in State A and $ 46,358 in State B. Moreover, during the time period from the academic year 1999 - 2000 to the academic year 2011 - 2012 the percent change in average teacher salaries in the public schools was +15 % in State A. Over that same time period, in State B public school teacher salaries dropped -1.8 %.

The decline in the number of students interested in an education career is even more striking given the fact that the total number of ACT - tested graduates has increased substantially — up by 18 percent — during the same four - year period.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, 4.85 million English language learners, or ELLs, were enrolled in public schools during the 2012 - 13 academic year, representing nearly 10 percent of the total K - 12 student population.17 Nearly one student in four speaks a language other than English at home — the same is true for only about one in eight teachers.18 Teaching also remains a female - dominated profession.

(CMOs, on the other hand, managed just 16 virtual schools, accounting for only 1.3 percent of all CMO - managed schools and just 1.7 percent of CMO student enrollment during the same year.)

The Nissan brand is up 28.2 percent at 84,485 units sold, compared to the 65,900 units sold during the same month last year, while Infiniti rises slightly over last September, with sales of 8479 units compared to 8305 for a gain of 2.1 percent.

During the first eight months of this year, the company's U.S. volume rose more than 11 - percent over the same pre-recession period last year.

Veloster experienced sales gains during April 2016, up 69 percent, compared to the same time last year.

Year - to - date Infiniti sales of 71,879 are down 6.8 percent compared to the 77,151 units sold during the same period last yYear - to - date Infiniti sales of 71,879 are down 6.8 percent compared to the 77,151 units sold during the same period last yearyear.

Amazon took in 39.3 percent of e-commerce spending from Nov. 1 through Dec. 6, up from 37.9 percent during the same period a year earlier, according to Slice Intelligence, which gathers data through e-mail receipts of 3.5 million shoppers.

While its sales went up $ 12.83 billion, a jump of 29 percent, the company net income has tanked to just 7 million, which again represents a massive drop of 96 percent compared to what it was during the same period a year ago.