Sentences with phrase «percentage points behind»

This would put Microsoft only 1.4 percentage points behind Apple in a market where much larger changes are common.

It was a neck - and - neck race till the very last hour, but in the end, Los Angeles law firm Kottler & Kottler emerged victorious, with Harrison Pensa only a few percentage points behind.

Nearly 30 percentage points behind — and more than 10 points off the average — Zenfolio (70 %) and Viewbook (69 %) did not fair as well.

Through December 13, Value has fallen 4 %, putting it 11 percentage points behind the S&P and in the bottom 2 % of its peers.

It all comes down to what you mean by â $ œthe market.â $ Youâ $ ™ re absolutely right that the Couch Potato has lagged a couple of percentage points behind the red - hot Canadian stock market over the past decade.

In emerging markets, the gap was even wider, with value stocks over 16 percentage points behind growth.

They are 12 percentage points behind those in households earning $ 75,000 or more in e-book reader ownership.

But the main issue is cost: For a lot less money, the Velocity Micro Z30 comes with the same processor (slightly lower clocked) and «only» one lower - spec GeForce GTX 260 graphics card, yet is within a few percentage points behind the Talon (Core i7 - 860) in terms of performance.

It scored well for adult protection and solidly for child protection, falling just a few percentage points behind rivals such as the X-Trail and Sorento.

And about that styling dice roll: Ram sold 30,000 more pickups in 2016 than the previous year, and it's only a few percentage points behind the Chevy Silverado for second place in the truck segment.

In the second quarter of the year, Ford edged out Chevrolet by less than one percentage point to become the vehicle with the most online exposure in the U.S. Honda came in third place, almost five percentage points behind Chevrolet.

Another report blows away the myth of safety in schools: Rural students are almost as likely as urban students are to report that their school is unsafe, with suburban students only a few percentage points behind.

Those scores are 30 percentage points behind their English - only peers, the report says.

Only 68 per cent met the expected standard — which is still a number of percentage points behind the other subjects, though it is an increase of 3 percentage points on last year.

Overall scoring patterns in New York State remained largely unchanged, with black and Hispanic students making small proficiency gains but remaining at least 20 percentage points behind white test - takers.

Perhaps the only comfort the United States can take is that it is only 5 percentage points behind its mother country, the United Kingdom (48 %).

The final estimate of the International Comparison of Productivity, released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), confirms that output per hour in the UK lagged 18 percentage points behind the G7 average in 2014, and a staggering 36 percentage points behind Germany.

There were 38 state Senate races where both a Republican and Democrat ran, and the Democrats ran, on average, 8.6 percentage points behind the president (nine points median).

On average, Democrats ran 5.9 percentage points behind the president, with a median drop - off of 6.4.

(A recent survey from NY1 and Marist College puts him second to last among likely mayoral candidates, just ahead of Manhattan Media president Tom Allon, and 14 percentage points behind establishment favorite Christine Quinn.)

Earlier this week, a Kos poll showed Hall two percentage points behind his GOP challenger, Nan Hayworth, with 14 percent of respondents undecided.

Democratic consultant and CapTon «Insiders» contributor Bruce Gyory sent over a (rather exhaustive) analysis debunking yesterday's Q poll that showed GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino a mere six percentage points behind his Democratic opponent, Andrew Cuomo.

The Siena poll showed Hochul 5 percentage points behind Corwin, with Davis at 23 percent.

And Weprin received 47 percent, a mere 28 percentage points behind the most prominent New York Democrat.

The Bruins are percentage points behind Stanford in the PAC 12 right now and have a great shot to host a regional.

They also report that social media is the second most likely way U.S. Millennials will learn about a new product (26 percent of respondents), just 3 percentage points behind TV advertising (29 percent).

Rent growth is pacing almost a full percentage point behind the overall rate of inflation, which stands at 2.4 percent as of the latest data release, and is even further behing the growth in average hourly earnings which have increased by 2.7 percent over the past twelve months.

Indeed, the majority of devices are still on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, though Android 7.0 Nougat is just a fraction of a percentage point behind.

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Surprisingly, Detroit, which has been the poster child for the dilapidated and abandoned properties left behind by the foreclosure crisis, leads the country in increased flipping activity with a 4.8 percentage points jump between 2015 and 2016.

«MSCI estimates some $ 17 billion will flow into Chinese markets — both from passive funds that automatically track its indexes and active fund managers — when the country's stocks are included a year from now,» giving indexers something like a quarter of a percentage point of China's stock market, which is the second - biggest in the world behind America's.

The Federal Open Market Committee has raised its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, in its attempt to leave zero rates behind.

A slow - to - adapt Fed found itself «behind the curve,» and the result was the worst single - day percentage - point plunge for the Dow in history.

LHV now has more points than any other team in the AHL and rank 2nd in points percentage behind Toronto.

A recent Siena poll found Hanna trailing Arcuri by just eight percentage points, but 14 points behind him with independent voters, who could prove to be a crucial swing voting bloc.

He finished fewer than a thousand votes (less than 1 percentage point) behind Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter in the 25th District in 2014, but doesn't look poised for victory this year unless Donald Trump's presidential candidacy floats all GOP boats.

But most field organizers I've spoken with over the years talk about even the best grassroots outreach being good for maybe two or three percentage points, enough to win a tight race but not enough to close the gap if the fundamentals put you behind by a whole lot more.

Ted Cruz holds second place in the Republican delegate count, but lags behind Trump in New York by 34 percentage points.

Earlier this year, Mayor Bill de Blasio hailed the fact that high school graduation rates ticked up two percentage points, but this data point obscures the fact that college readiness in NYC high schools lags far behind graduation rates.

Asurvey published on October 19th showed Michaud and LePage nearly even, with independent candidate Eliot Cutler behind them by a few percentage points.

Astorino, who is behind Cuomo by 20 percentage points in the most recent poll, believes the governor seeing things through rose - colored glasses.

It was interesting to see that tactical voting boosted Norman Baker's percentage from 25 % to 37 %... and without that LDs trail 8 % points behind the Tories.

The ACGR, which states use to fulfill accountability requirements under the No Child Left Behind law, has climbed 2 percentage points since 2011, when the Education Department first started requiring states to calculate and report graduation rates using this method.

RSD schools have been the main driver behind that increase, having grown 20 percentage points.»

They rated student engagement on a 6 - point scale that asked teachers to estimate what percentage of the class was actively engaged, and authentic instruction was measured on a 9 - point Likert Scale that contained seven items corresponding with the principles behind the concept of authentic instruction and piloted during the Fall 2007 semester.

Overall, OUSD continues to lag behind statewide proficiency rates at 16.6 percentage points below state ELA proficiency and 12 percentage points below state Math proficiency.

In 2013, the percentage of students scoring proficient in language arts lagged behind the rest of the state anywhere from 11 to 19 points, depending on the grade being tested, while math proficiency lagged from 5 to 21 points behind.

While the overall U.S. performance fell far behind top performers, such as Singapore, Japan, and Canada, the United States made the biggest improvement in equity from 2006 to 2015, increasing its percentage of «resilient students» — defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than predicted by their socioeconomic status — by 12 percentage points, as shown in the below image from the report.

Used - car financing rates typically are several percentage points higher than on new - car loans and used - car loans usually don't run as long as 60 months based on the simple fact it is a used car and some of its useful life is behind it.

But the point that I think your piece is missing is the fact that, although there is always a small percentage of passionate, informed, vocal and tech - savvy people who will rail against DRM and closed technology look for any way to circumvent such things, the majority of consumers out there don't understand most of the technology behind * any * of this, and more to the point, don't honestly care.

The SPD lags behind the CDU, its coalition partner, by about 15 percentage points in polls.