Sentences with phrase «percent over the course of the year»

Then it flattens out to about 15 - 20 percent over the course of a year.

At an Alzheimer's conference in Chicago, the drug, made by TauRx Therapeutics, was reported to slow the progress of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease by 81 percent over the course of a year.

According to the ZDNet article, the number of Koreans accessing the web via mobile devices topped 14.7 million in November, marking a rise of 35 percent over the course of the year.

The Outlook projects the economy will perk up 2.2 percent over the course of the year, up from the 2.0 percent initially reported.

The Outlook maintains the economy will grow 2.0 percent over the course of the year, even with possible setbacks on the horizon.

Not exact matches

Over the course of a year, the number of listings increased 16.2 percent to 802 homes from 690 in 2016.

Through this, 60 percent of the mentees advanced their careers at the company over the course of a year.

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.

The Economist extrapolates that even a 2 percent bump on a $ 45,000 a year salary can lead to as much as an extra $ 67,000 over the course of a 40 - year working career, if you were to set aside your language bump in savings and figure in compound interest.

The Center for American Progress estimates that a 26 - year - old woman who is earning $ 30,253 and takes off five years to provide care is losing $ 467,000 over the course of her career — a 19 percent reduction in her lifetime earnings.

One loan from Cash Loans Now in early 2008 carried an annual percentage rate of 1,147 percent; after borrowing $ 50, the customer owed nearly $ 600 in total payments to be paid over the course of a year.

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.

«Given XRP's ~ 4000 percent increase over the course of the year, R3 suddenly wants to tap into the value of XRP, though the facts are clear that they did not earn any option based on our agreement.»

Sixty - eight percent of economists polled by Bloomberg said the Fed chairman's third round of quantitative easing will last until late next year or beyond, creating a median estimate of 116,000 jobs over the course of 2013.

That adds up to a difference of 25 percent over the course of 30 years.

«In a horrible, truly worst - case scenario, a high - quality bond index fund is still less risky over the course of a year than stocks are in one day,» says the investment adviser Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic in Colorado Springs, alluding to the 20 percent decline in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index on Oct. 19, 1987.

China's benchmark 10 - year government bond yield traded just shy of 4 percent in early December, up almost 100 basis points over the course of 2017.

But we do know that over the course of various market fluctuations over the years, and especially this past 70 percent dip, many of them have become much larger fish in the sea of bitcoin wealth distribution.

When we're talking compounded interest, every percentage point counts as over the course of 40 or 60 years, one to two percent can result in millions of dollars lost.

Of course, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod has suffered its own membership losses in recent years, experiencing a membership decline about half that of the ELCA over the same time period (down 12 percent, compared to the ELCA's 23 - percent dropOf course, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod has suffered its own membership losses in recent years, experiencing a membership decline about half that of the ELCA over the same time period (down 12 percent, compared to the ELCA's 23 - percent dropof the ELCA over the same time period (down 12 percent, compared to the ELCA's 23 - percent drop).

Over a span of 18 years, 3,100 students (47 percent of which were athletes) at UNC took advantage of these courses which allowed them to receive quality grades without having to show up for class, turn in papers or take tests.

Over the course of the four - year election cycle, only 0.71 percent of the governor's money has come from donors who contributed $ 1,000 or less.

Over the course of 12 years, the Bloomberg administration rezoned 140 neighborhoods, or 40 percent of the city, and opened up the development floodgates.

10 Over the course of a year, about 10 percent of an adult's fat cells die.

U.S. risk assessments generally assume that bridges may collapse when a 100 - year flood — a streamflow with 1 percent probability of being exceeded in any given year, or 63 percent over the course of a century — occurs.

Researchers found that over the course of five years, vaccinating 200,000 stray dogs a year would reduce rabies incidence by 90 percent.

With 3.5 percent of U.S. adults estimated to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) over the course of a given year, an effective new treatment would mark a mental - health milestone.

Beekeepers who responded to the survey lost a total of 33.2 percent of their colonies over the course of the year.

Steve: You — in the cystic fibrosis section of the book — you profile a doctor who is explaining to one of his patients that the difference between feeling good 99.5 and 99.95 percent of the time on any given day, works out to completely different outcomes over the course of a year.

H: In men with normal cholesterol levels, the risk of death for those between ages 45 and 65 over the course of the next five years is only a fraction of 1 percent lower than it is for men with high serum cholesterol in the same category.

The atlas, which covers over 80 percent of the world, was created over a course of over 10 years using data gathered by the NOAA — NASA Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite and verified through ground - based measurements.

Researchers followed 136,000 people in the U.S. and Japan for seven years and learned that those who reported feeling a strong sense of meaning in life had a roughly 20 percent lower risk of death over the course of the study than those who didn't.

In fact, women who sleep five hours or less a night are 15 percent more likely to become obese over the course of 16 years than those who sleep for at least seven hours.

Over the course of one year, NMSA's overall proficiency on PARCC math tests went from 29 to 40 percent.

In 2003 — 04, there were 8,400 enrollments in Apex's AP courses; by the 2006 — 07 school year, that number was 30,200, a compound annual growth rate of over 50 percent.

To have an 80 percent chance of detecting the impact of an intervention that raises student achievement by an average of 2 percentile points over the course of a year in elementary math classrooms in New York City, one would need roughly 200 classrooms.

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.

20 Over the course of a year, Sodexo trains and monitors the progress of mentors and mentees, who meet monthly.21 A survey of participants found that for every dollar spent on the mentoring program, there was $ 2.28 realized in retention and increased productivity.22 A similar study also found that 72 percent of mentees and 79 percent of mentors cited increased job satisfaction as a benefit of the mentoring program, while 72 percent of mentees and 74 percent of mentors cited increased organizational commitment.23

«And over the course of those four years, parents have organized and passed this law in California... and passed this law in a number of states across the country to the point where almost 25 percent of American parents live in a state where there is a parent trigger.»

Chronic absenteeism — Defined generally as a student missing 10 percent or more of school over the course of the school year for any reason, including excused and unexcused absences.

Just one year with a teacher ranked in the top five percent can mean $ 50,000 of additional earnings over the course of that student's career.

Edweek.org posed the example: «Even if a school of 200 students with 95 percent average daily attendance, 30 percent (or 60) of the students could be missing nearly a month of school (i.e. chronically absent) over the course of a school year.»

Over the course of a year, only 9 percent of elementary mathematics teachers had more than 24 hours of professional development in mathematics.

«Over the course of the year, for example, the number of our fourth - grade students performing at benchmark increased by 33 percent.

Over the course of eight years, this multifaceted approach has shown encouraging results, with the graduation rate rising to reach almost 85 percent in 2013.

The College Board has released the 2013 SAT scores, which show that only 43 percent of this year's SAT - takers graduated from high school prepared for college - level course work, a statistic that has remained steady over the past five years.

The letter grade is based 80 percent on the school's achievement score (which uses various data including student performance on end - of - grade and end - of - course standardized test scores) and 20 percent on students» academic growth (a measure of students» performance in relation to their expected performance based on the prior year's test results), resulting in a grade of A, B, C, D, or F. «Low - performing districts» are those with over 50 percent of their schools identified as low - performing.

This article briefly addresses findings by the Library Research Service that 45 percent of students in grades three through ten increased their CSAP test scores over the course of a year, compared with just 29 percent of students who did not have a school librarian at their school.

At work in over seventy colleges during this initial testing year, some schools saw as much as a 24 % increase in students» completion of higher math courses, as well as a ten percent decrease in the numbers of students dropping math classes due to unpreparedness.

They approach a bank to act as a lender, who agrees to lend them the $ 2,000 at an interest rate of 4 percent, which is scheduled to be paid off over the course of 5 years.