Sentences with phrase «percent in a single year»

Eyeglass design company Warby Parker proved without a doubt that there is a better way and was able to grow by an astonishing 500 percent in a single year.

One review found that the price of digoxin (a commonly prescribed heart medication) increased by 2,800 percent in a single year.

According to the 2010 EdNext - PEPG Survey («Meeting of the Minds,» features, Winter 2011), support for online coursework jumped 8 to 10 percent in a single year.

Ninth grade failure rates in math, science, social studies, English, and physical education are all down substantially, with math failures down almost 40 percent in a single year.

Even more stunning, in Los Angeles the graduation rate grew from 54 percent to 75 percent in a single year when credit recovery was introduced in 2015.

2009 saw just 17,700 auto thefts, down from 22,300 in 2008; this represents a decrease of twenty percent in a single year.

Did you know that investing in content for your website could boost your inbound traffic by 3000 percent in a single year?

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In all, the figure for this year's Singles» Day is up 60 percent from 2014.

Last year, single female homeowners made up 18 percent of household composition in the association's Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, compared to 10 percent for single men.

Not only were ecommerce sales up 17 percent from last year, they reached $ 2.04 billion, the first time online sales have surpassed $ 2 billion in a single day.

By 2013, the most current year data is available, the percentage of single - person households soared to 27.4 percent, the highest in U.S. history.

SR: Eighty - five percent of our growth in next five years will come from our own stores and online, while wholesale [department and other big - box stores] will grow single digits [percentage].

Nearly half of these hedgies posted only single - digit returns for their investors in 2016, «a lackluster sum in a year when the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index was up 12 percent, accounting for reinvested dividends,» writes The New York Times.

Sales of both single family homes and condominiums in metro Detroit were down 3.1 percent in February from a year ago, according to Realcomp, the area's multiple listing service (that encompasses Oakland, Wayne, Livingston and Macomb counties).

First - time buyers comprised 38 percent of single - family home purchases last year, their biggest share in the market since 2000, according to Bloomberg.

And, earlier this year we moved nearly a billion dollars in electronic rent payments in a single day, beating the previous record from May 2014 by 24 percent.

However, because the income return in each of these years was sizable, no single year resulted in a total return loss greater than 3 percent.

«With just a few more days left until Friday's deadline, we think enrollment is tracking towards a single - digit percent decline (if renewal rate holds consistent with prior years and year - over-year growth in new sign - ups seen to date is sustained), but it all comes down to an uncertain final surge,» Newshel wrote in a research note.

Shares fell 10.2 percent on Tuesday to post its biggest single - day percentage drop in 30 years.

Zooming in on the five risks presented in this year's Global Opportunity Report, 42 percent of the leaders we asked across the world singled out youth unemployment as the most pressing issue to solve.

Since its low of 666 in March 2009, the S&P 500 has climbed a whopping 260 percent, with not a single year of losses.

During the best periods in history, the return has been 32 percent for a 50/50 mixture of stocks and bonds in a single year.

Dividends per share have grown consistently in the mid single digit percent range over the past 7 years.

According to a March 2016 article in The Seattle Times: «Single - family home prices in the city... jumped 24 percent over the year to a median $ 644,950.»

Combined with modest growth from its Fios segment — where increases in Fios Internet customers have more than offset losses in Fios Video connections — as well as sales from its Oath subsidiary, which encompasses more than 50 media and tech brands including Yahoo!, tumblr, TechCrunch, HuffPost, and AOL, management says investors can safely expect Verizon to deliver solid low - single - digit percent growth in both revenue and adjusted earnings this year.

«Distressed homes — foreclosures and short sales — represented 8 percent of August sales, remaining in the single - digits for the second straight month and down from 12 percent a year ago.

Sales of existing single - family homes in California had a strong bounce back in February, with sales of 422,910 units (up 1.1 percent year to date year to date and up 5.4 percent year to year).

Sales of single - family homes in Santa Rosa in March 2018 included 142 units, up 4.8 percent year to date, and up 2.9 percent year to year.

Sales of single - family homes in Petaluma in March included 35 units, down 35.5 percent for 2018 year to date and down 48.5 percent year to year.

Ticket sales for the infield at the Preakness Stakes — the state's biggest single - day event — are down 30 percent compared to this time last year, even as organizers are facing an Under Armour - sized gap in their lineup of corporate partners.

Alibaba said its sales for Singles» Day last year surpassed $ 2 billion in the first hour — including more than $ 1 million in Alipay transactions in the first 18 minutes — and 45.7 percent of first - hour sales were via mobile.

The median existing single - family home price in the Midwest grew 7.2 percent to $ 193,800 in the fourth quarter from the same quarter a year ago.

The popular real estate index, which tracks repeat sales of identical single - family houses as they turn over through the years, said San Diego home prices had risen 7.4 percent in a year.

The median existing single - family home price in the South was $ 221,600 in the fourth quarter, 5.0 percent above a year earlier.

Research indicates that «nearly three - quarters of white women eighteen and nineteen had had sexual intercourse in 1988, up from 64 percent in 1982»; 76 percent of single women fifteen to forty - four years of age said they were sexually active.3

Wicked Joe Organic Coffees, the family - owned, 100 percent organic certified, Fair Trade ™ coffee roastery known for its single origin varietals and blends such as «Wicked French,» has rolled out new packaging after more than 12 years in business.

There are 12 times as many cohabiting couples today as there were in the 1970s and 40 percent of first babies born to single mothers are born to cohabiting couples who rarely make it past five years; in fact some two - thirds of the unmarried moms split from the child's biological father and start a new relationship before the kid is 5 years old — how do we «save» those families?)

Similarly, sick days, 80 percent of low - wage workers can't earn a single paid sick day, but we know that the cost of «presentism» is greater to businesses than of having sick days, so I expect that to pass in the next 10 years.

And we want marriages to last — some 86 percent of 18 - to 29 - year - olds, single and married, expect their marriage to last a lifetime, according to a recent study, despite a 50 percent divorce rate and despite a different study of newlywed women in which half said they expected infidelity would be part of their marriage and 72 percent said they'd probably experience divorce.

(Single - parent families accounted for 30 percent of all adoptions from foster care in 2012, the last year for which data are available, according to data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, or AFCARS.)

Some 28 percent of poor New Yorkers said they or their families had trouble affording the fare — currenlty $ 2.75 for a single trip and $ 121 for a monthly pass — at some point in the prior year, according to a Community Service Society survey published in 2016.

That's less than 3 percent of what the state spends in a single year on education, experts say.

The 853 single - and multi-family housing permits issued in 2016 (the most recent statistics available) represented a 28 percent increase from five years ago.

«We made the single smartest investment that is going to pay dividends for generations, and will be finished by the end of this year, which is the first state in the country to have 100 percent broadband coverage,» he said.

Roughly 70 percent of NYC students who entered high school in the 2011 - 2012 academic year never took a single Advanced Placement exam, according to new Independent Budget Office data.

The Legislature also approved an estimated $ 1.5 billion in homeowner tax relief tied to local governments staying within a 2 percent tax cap the first year and enacting cost - saving plans the second year, benchmarks for Cuomo, who called his property tax relief «the single most transformative part» of the budget.

This year, his campaign is pushing for a single - payer health care system, 100 percent reliance on clean energy in 15 years, a «Green New Deal» to boost employment and fully - funded public schools.

Later, in May 2015, when de Blasio released his first 10 - year capital budget (which comes out every two years), he added $ 44.4 million for repair work at shelters for singles and $ 26.1 million for family shelters, a 58 percent increase compared with Bloomberg's final 10 - year plan, released in May 2013.

Men who stayed single showed a small age - related decline of about 12 to 15 percent in the male sex hormone, while the testosterone levels of new fathers — those with a baby between 1 month and 1 year — on average dropped about 30 percent.

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