Sentences with phrase «percent in the decade»

The price of a benchmark home has risen 91 percent in a decade.

The number of women owning cars in the U.K. jumped 66 percent in the decade through 2016, official figures show, almost triple the rise in for men.

The information supply had increased by 400 percent in the decade from 1960 to 1970.

Meanwhile, the Chinese population in Manhattan's Chinatown has dropped 17 percent in a decade, making it the city's third - largest Chinese neighborhood behind Sunset Park in Brooklyn and Flushing in Queens.

November 20, 2013 • The blood mercury levels in women of childbearing age dropped 34 percent in the decade between 2000 and 2010, according to new research from the EPA.

When I saw that enrollment in Matteson - based Rich Township High School District 227 had plunged 26 percent in a decade, I wondered how the district might adjust the size of its workforce in response.

But when rising tuition rates and increasing cost of living drive up student loan debt by 100 percent in a decade, we have to begin worrying as much about our overall economic prosperity as well.

«It's stunning that any mature commodity could expand nearly 50 percent in a decade and speaks to the strong appetite for the products we fuel, as well as coal's abundance and stable cost,» he said.

And he said a previous assault weapons ban had some positive effect; «mass shootings went up 200 percent in the decade after the assault weapons ban expired.»

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The market for PCs is shrinking — global demand dropped 11 percent in the last quarter alone — and Dell's market share has been on the decline for nearly a decade.

It was nudging up at 2.96 percent on Tuesday, which also left the gap between U.S. and German 10 - year benchmark bond yields just off its widest level in nearly three decades.

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

Three decades after accounting for only 10 percent of the death care industry in the U.S., the number of cremations surpassed the number of burials in 2015, according to the Cremation Association of North America.

The decline in the formation of new businesses (with one to four employees) in areas where student debt increased by 2.7 percent over a decade, according to 2015 research by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve.

In just a decade Millennials — people born sometime between the early 1980s and early 2000s — will make up 75 percent of the workforce worldwide.

In fact, if you launch a business today, you have only a 10 percent chance of still being in operation a decade from noIn fact, if you launch a business today, you have only a 10 percent chance of still being in operation a decade from noin operation a decade from now.

In its spring forecast, the European Commission said it expects economic growth across the 28 - country EU to dip to 2.3 percent this year, from last year's decade - high rate of 2.4 percent.

«As a nation, we have been under - investing in infrastructure for the last two decades,» Mills said, adding that investment in the public sector has dropped to 3.6 percent of U.S. output, compared to 5 percent after World War II.

Safety experts point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the rise, with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent from 2014, according to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.

In the last couple decades, the growth in the number of women's businesses (up 68 percent), employment (up 11 percent), and revenues (up 72 percent) blows past the growth rates of all but the largest publicly - traded businesses, and tops growth rates among all other privately - held businesses over this perioIn the last couple decades, the growth in the number of women's businesses (up 68 percent), employment (up 11 percent), and revenues (up 72 percent) blows past the growth rates of all but the largest publicly - traded businesses, and tops growth rates among all other privately - held businesses over this perioin the number of women's businesses (up 68 percent), employment (up 11 percent), and revenues (up 72 percent) blows past the growth rates of all but the largest publicly - traded businesses, and tops growth rates among all other privately - held businesses over this period.

(Repeats to additional subscribers) NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters)- The U.S. benchmark 10 - year Treasury yield topped 3 percent for the first time in more than four years on Tuesday, a milestone that reflects the durability of the U.S. economic expansion and stokes the view the three - decade - old bull market in bonds is numbered.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

Bad loans comprise a staggering 9.86 percent of all loans on bank balance sheets, the highest level in nearly two decades.

U.S. two - year Treasury yields reached 2.453 percent on Friday, the highest level since September 2008 as the two - year's spread versus two - year German Bunds grew to 302 basis points, the widest in more than three decades.

With a nearly 16 percent stake in Dell and ties going back three decades to the creation of the company out of his college dorm room, Michael Dell is seen as having much more at stake in the deal going through than Silver Lake, a financial investor that often walks away from deals.

In the past decade, nearly 54,000 factories have been shuttered or moved offshore, including 40 percent of facilities with payrolls of more than 1,000, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Second, approval rates by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have steadily risen over the past two decades, climbing from 23 percent in 1994 to 89 percent and 77 percent in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

In the three decades it's taken him to build a company with a market cap of more than $ 2 billion and capture 1 percent of the U.S. beer market, Koch has been building an internal «craft culture» that mirrors processes for making the company's signature Samuel Adams Lager.

Over the next decade it is predicted that immunotherapies will be the backbone of cancer treatments in 60 percent of cancer types.

The euro zone economy expanded at its fastest rate in a decade in 2017 and European equities are set to end January with gains of around 3 percent.

Sales of vacation homes slumped nearly 22 percent in 2016 to the lowest level in three years, even as overall home sales hit their highest level in a decade, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

Over the last two decades, such loans as a percentage of total bank commercial loans, have dropped to 30 percent of bank portfolios from 50 percent in 1995, according to recent research compiled by former Small Business Administration head Karen Mills and Harvard University.

According to the Solar Energy Industries Association, solar energy has grown by an average of 68 percent per year in the past decade.

In return, Kim will pay investors 6 percent of her income for the next decade.

But it was only in the last decade that the state began taking advantage of its vast wind - energy resources, growing from less than 1 percent of net electricity production in 2005 to nearly 30 percent in 2016.

* The share of all bridges deemed structurally deficient has been falling for decades, down from 22 percent in 1992 and 12 percent in 2009.

«In the past decade, the Atlanta region's Asian population surged 74 percent, while its Latino population grew by 101 percent,» the article notes.

In 2011, the Census Bureau noted that Detroit saw a 25 percent decline over just a decade, to 713,777.

As a matter of fact, a report by Bankrate.com revealed that almost 40 percent of people under 30 years old preferred cash for their investment of choice in money they won't need for at least the following decade.

As of Dec. 31, Omaha, Nebraska - based Berkshire also owned a 15.6 percent stake in American Express Co, having crossed the 10 percent threshold two decades earlier.

Since it first appeared more than a decade ago, approximately 30 percent to 40 percent of small businesses have adopted some form of Internet - based faxing, according to Peter Davidson, a long - time fax industry watcher and head of Davidson Consulting in Sturgis, Mich..

As a result, income tax revenues have fallen 30 percent in the last decade.

While immigrant - led entrepreneur activity peaked in 2010 during the economic slowdown and has since fallen to 0.43 percent, activity among native - born entrepreneurs essentially has been flat at 0.3 percent or below during the past decade.

Russ Lombardo, a sales consultant based in Cary, North Carolina, was working with a company about a decade ago (during the dot - com bubble) when the company's CEO made an announcement to his employees: «He said there was no reason we couldn't do 70 percent growth for the next two years,» Lombardo recalls.

Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners, expects apparel will lead holiday sales growth, with a year - over-year increase of 7.6 percent — its strongest showing in more than a decade.

Another example, Macy's, which is popular with value investors for a high dividend combined with a low valuation multiples, also saw its worst single - day stock performance post earnings in over a decade, falling 14 percent.

A 2009 study found that 66 percent of employees do not max out their allowed vacation days, and today, fewer Americans are taking vacation than at any point in the last four decades.

While Nintendo shares jumped more than 10 percent in Tokyo, according to a CNN report, China's gaming market has proliferated for over a decade in the absence of consoles through the popularity of PCs, mobile devices and online gaming — leaving questions as to whether consumers will choose to re-adapt.

Small Business Accounting is unlikely to make a dent in Intuit QuickBooks» 80 percent - plus market share; nothing has in more than a decade.

Mobile Vaani estimates that roughly 65 percent of the poorly - literate / low - income population in India is unlikely to have access to the internet in the next decade, but 40 percent of those already have access to mobile phones.