Sentences with phrase «percent over the course of a few years»

Just one additional hour of sleep a week increased wages by 1.5 percent over the course of a season and 4.9 percent over the course of a few years.

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Even the earnings you make over the course of a year using a money market account with a two or three percent interest rate can be wiped out with a few bad fees.

Based on our main specification, teachers work roughly two fewer hours than other professionals during a typical workweek and about 94 percent as many hours as other professionals over the course of a school year.

Given that interest rates are currently pretty low, that means that over the course of your five - or 10 - year consolidation loan, your APR could increase significantly and negate the few percent in interest that you would have saved by refinancing.

Over the course of a year each of testing the original and Series 1 and 2 Apple Watches, and a month testing the Series 3 LTE models, we've encountered very few drops to Power Reserve during a normal day's non-LTE use (more on that below), usually having at least 30 percent of a full charge remaining.