Sentences with phrase «percent of the number of persons»

Up to ten percent of the number of persons may be cancelled free of charge up to one day prior to arrival.

Not exact matches

The number of people using the online room rental service on the continent rose by 143 percent to about 765,000 guests in 2016 from the year before, said Nicola D'Elia, the firm's Africa and Middle East chief.

With U.K. life expectancy a long 80.75 years and the average retirement age of 65, a significant amount of people are working longer, however, with data from the Office on National Statistics (ONS) released last week showed the number of older people aged 65 - 74 who were economically active had almost doubled in the last ten years to 16 percent.

As a result, the number of people who say they have used heroin in the past year jumped by more than 50 percent between 2002 to 2011, according the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Now, contemplate that an estimated 105 billion people have walked the planet, with only a tiny 5.5 percent of that number alive today.

While that may be welcome news to the millions of people who use financial websites and apps, that number is rising, jumping by about 50 percent from the year before.

The number of patients at the clinic grew 40 percent in a year and people now wait several weeks for an appointment, Rashid said.

For example, one recent study showed that almost 60 percent of people surveyed said they wanted to change jobs, but of that number, almost half didn't know what their next chapter should be!

But, according to Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA), Rahimi said 73 percent of these people were men while Associated Press quoted Rahimi as saying that number was 95 %.

In an initial test market in the Phillippines, where Internet.org partnered with Globe Telecom to offer users free access to Facebook and messenger, Zuckerberg said, the number of people using Internet and data has doubled, and Globe's subscriber base grew by 25 percent.

Although the two most severely amnesic patients showed no benefit, the others tripled the number of words they could remember - from 14 percent to 49 percent, placing them almost within the range of healthy people with no neurological damage,» reports Robson.

Montevideo (AFP)- The number of people registering to buy newly legalized marijuana in Uruguay jumped by almost 50 percent in the first week of sales, according to official figures released Wednesday.

The company has seen the number of guest it seats grow to more than 2 million people a month, which is a 327 percent year - over-year increase for the period ending in October 2017.

The number of times per year people eat a morning snack — either at home or away from home — has increased by 17 percent over the past six years, according to NPD Group.

While it's a shock to get 89 percent of people to agree on anything (smaller numbers agree that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around, for instance), the fact that working together is less lonely than working apart is hardly a world - shaking revelation.

According to the survey, the number one reason people think they would be more productive working from home is the reduction of office politics (61 percent).

What I see in SurePayroll's January Small Business Scorecard is that the number of people on payroll dropped slightly (0.1 percent), optimism is low (57 percent), and the average paycheck is up (0.6 percent).

Research from Label Insights showed that transparency was the number one factor motivating brand loyalty, with 94 percent of people saying they'd be loyal to brands that show complete transparency.

«It's a model that allows young people with less capital and maybe with even less experience to get into an entrepreneurial experience,» said Joseph Mariano, president of the DSA, who said 2015 growth numbers should show an uptick of about 3 percent to 5 percent.

Starbucks says the number of people in its rewards program rose 12 percent to 14.9 million.

The number of people collecting unemployment checks has fallen 4.4 percent from a year ago to 2.16 million.

The total number of people without electricity in Puerto Rico is more than 120,000, and there remain municipalities where 45 percent of residents don't have power.

«[W] orkplace diversity proposals (which mostly concern rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and those seeking more diversity among corporate board members) account for 9 percent of the total number of shareholder resolutions filed so far this year.»

The unemployment rate has declined from a peak of 10 percent in October 2009 to 7.6 percent in March; however, much of the decrease is due to a fall in the number of people actively looking for a job.

As a result of this positive behavior, the number of people who are likely to afford at least their essential expenses in retirement jumped seven percentage points since 2013, from 38 to 45 percent.»

If, for example, a company has a quota of hiring 30 percent black women and stops when it reaches that number, it risks overlooking people who might be a great fit the company.

The number of unemployed persons declined to 4.3 percent, unchanged from July, and from 4.5 percent in the March - to - May period.

By 2030, the number of Americans age 65 and older will reach 74.1 million people, an increase of 85 percent over 2010.

As for the rest of the list, Forbes says that it was a record year for wealthy people, as the number of billionaires saw a 13 percent surge from 1,810 to 2,043.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

The labor force participation rate, the number of people working or actively looking for work, has fallen since the Great Recession and has stagnated near 63 percent for the last four years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The study found that only 42 percent of millennials — people born between 1981 and 1997 — use complex passwords combining random capitalization, numbers and symbols.

By some calculations, as many as 48 million of Twitter's reported active users — nearly 15 percent — are automated accounts designed to simulate real people, though the company claims that number is far lower.

«Self - identified atheists and agnostics have tripled since 1990, from 1.1 million people to north of 3.6 million — but the number who now claim «no religion» is 34 million, or fully 15 percent.»

For example, it includes about 20 percent of the 4 million people killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's civil war, which significantly skews the 10 - year average that the number represents.

The numbers of people with negative views of the Bible are in the minority with 14 percent calling it outdated, 7 percent calling it harmful and 8 percent calling it bigoted.

Though more than 30 percent of people in the region report «never» attending religious services, Stezter notes this number is down nearly 10 percent since 2007.

The New York City Leadership Center, a coalition of Christian leaders from around the city, estimates the number of people identifying as Christians multiplied by more than 300 percent between 1989 and 2014.

Even by Professor Sigmund's highly optimistic assessment, the number of Latin Americans involved in base communities would amount to about three or four million persons, or between one to two percent of the population of Latin America.

In 1984, an Annenberg - Gallup study revealed that the total number of viewers who watch one hour or more of religious programs per week is about 4.84 million persons, or 2.17 percent of the total population.

The number of people in North America who say they very much like classical music stands at a substantial 14 to 20 percent across the generations, a more consistently favorable cross-generational response than for most other styles.

The two groups are also about equal in numbers, each constituting about 40 percent of the adult population (judging from the ways in which people categorize themselves).

While only about one half of 1 percent of Americans actually suffer from celiac disease — which involves damage to the intestines that has been related to gluten — the number of people who are following gluten - free diets far outstrips that number, perhaps out of a public belief that a gluten - free diet is generally healthier, according to a 2016 study published by the American Medical Association.

Not only did the number of Tea Party supporters drop from 32 percent in 2010 to 17 percent this year, the percentage of people who had no opinion one way or another went from 30 percent in 2010 to 54 percent today.

With more singles than ever, a 50 percent or so divorce rate, a tenfold increase in cohabitation and a growing number of people questioning whether marriage is still relevant, our nosy relatives and family friends can't help themselves from asking why we're not getting with the program.

In any event, saying «everybody» cheats seems to be a stretch; while it's hard to get an exact number of people who are cheating because it's all self - reported (and you have to think that those who are lying to their spouse are probably not going to be totally honest when it comes to a poll on infidelity), some studies indicate it's about 20 percent of married couples while others suggest it may be as high as 60 percent to 70 percent.

As Coontz tartly observes, «Twenty - five percent of the people polled in a recent national inquiry into American morality said that for $ 10 million they would abandon their entire family; a large number of people are evidently willing to do the same thing for free.»

«The number of people paying taxes in Lagos is less than 600,000 people and we are 22million and then 67 percent of the people living in Lagos are below the age of 35 and even the retirees, how much are they paying?

In the infamous Florida purge of 2000 — for which conservative estimates place the number of wrongfully purged voters close to 12,000 — Florida registrants were purged from the rolls if 80 percent of the letters of their last names were the same as those of persons with criminal convictions.

«Fortunately New York has an enormous number of really wealthy people who will contribute a substantial part of the cost and as a result 98 percent of New Yorkers would be spending less than they are today,» said Assemblyman Richard Gottfried.