Sentences with phrase «percentage point would reach»

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In other words, demographics alone have shaved two percentage points off participation, as the large baby boomer generation started to reach retirement age around the start of the recession.»

We would need to see an average of two percentage growth points each year to reach this goal.

Currently, 22 % of consumers say they have bought Tide in the last 30 days, one percentage point higher than where it reached after the Super Bowl.

Despite some monthly volatility, the unemployment rate remains on a downward trend and has fallen by 1/2 percentage point over the past year to reach 4.4 per cent in December.

Since 2010, it has increased by eight percentage points - equivalent to 46,000 more pupils reaching the expected levels.

What kind of percentages were they that said it thought it would be too hard, bearing in mind they presumably had reached a point where they could have selected it?

The graduation rate, which has risen 1.7 percentage points from the previous year and more than 7 percentage points in the past decade, has reached its highest point since the late 1970s.

So we had Tuck, a no - name candidate, without a ground game, whose messaging failed to reach a low - information populace and who suffered a poor voter turnout, fighting against a man backed by the most powerful state teachers union in the country — and Tuck still lost by only four percentage points.

Ofsted notes the «more demanding key stage 2 SATs and new measures have resulted in a gap of 21 percentage points in the percentage of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics between pupils eligible for free school meals and their peers.

By 2015, when the majority of those same students likely had reached sixth grade, the percentage of proficient black sixth - graders had inched up 2 points while that of white sixth - graders had increased more than 4 points.

Our young readers are among the best in the world, the proportion of primary pupils reaching the expected standards in reading, writing and maths is up 8 percentage points and the attainment gap has narrowed by 10.5 % since 2011.

The performance gap between boys and girls has now reached its the widest ever - 6.7 percentage points - at the top grades of A * and A.

In 1990 the state reached its high point of funding 45 % of the costs — the number now is between 38 - 40 % depending on how you calculate it — but the formula has been «corrupted» to the point where wealthy towns do much better (as measured by percentage growth) now than they did in 1990 and poorer towns do much worse.

Since that point in 2005, the percentage of New Orleans students performing on grade level has doubled, reaching 62 percent in 2014.

Launched in September of 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) first annual Green Power Community Challenge has already reached the halfway point, with Washington D.C. in the lead for its total green power usage and Brookeville, Maryland taking the number one spot for the percentage of its total electricity that comes from green power, each community working hard to earn the lead in these respective categories.

They key, scientists explain, lies in ensuring that a sufficiently high enough percentage of organic carbon produced during the blooms reaches middle - depth waters, at which point it would remain in deeper underwater currents for decades.

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.: 30 April 2012 — The auto insurance shopping rate has reached the lowest point in the past five years, with only 25 percent of insurance customers indicating they shopped for a new insurer in the past 12 months, down eight percentage points from 2011, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 U.S. Insurance Shopping StudySM released today.

With Bitcoin reaching all - time highs and nearly tripling this year in value while ETH has seen growth in the thousands of percentage points, many people are looking to take advantage of the cryptocurrency rush.

The new Surface Laptop gains 2 percentage points to reach 0.6 %, while the Surface Book has a 7 % share (of the Surface market).

In the US, iOS has almost reached Android and both operating systems are now divided by only 1 percentage point.

Median expected spending growth is more than a percentage point below its June 2015 level and has reached a new series low.

The seniors housing annual inventory growth rate in the third quarter of 2017 was 4.1 %, down 0.1 percentage point from the second quarter, when it had reached its fastest pace since NIC began reporting the data in 2006.

The share of sales financed with FHA - backed mortgages has dropped 4 percentage points since reaching a peak in the second quarter of 2015.