Sentences with phrase «percentage points of time»

For both math and science, the study finds that a shift of 10 percentage points of time from problem solving to lecture - style presentations (for example, increasing the share of time spent lecturing from 60 to 70 percent) is associated with a rise in student test scores of 4 percent of a standard deviation for the students who had the exact same peers in both their math and science classes — or between one and two months» worth of learning in a typical school year.

Put in priority order, and then assume that you have a 100 percentage points of time.

Not exact matches

The share of employees who failed to use all their vacation time was actually down one percentage point from 55 % in 2015.

Forty - eight percent of them used all their vacation time last year, up three percentage points from 2015.

Brian Wieser, a Pivotal Research analyst who reviewed Nielsen digital consumption data, said Google properties, including YouTube and Waze, combined to account for 27.4 percent of all time spent on digital media — up 3 percentage points from the previous year.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

Among their findings is that robots contributed 0.37 percentage points annual to gross domestic product growth, or one tenth of total GDP expansion in the time period.

The survey has a claimed margin of error of plus or minus 5.6 percentage points 19 times out of 20.

Instead of worrying about bargaining for a few percentage points off the rate, spend time negotiating the lease's term and thinking about the company's true needs for the future.

The last time the U.S. went through a partial government paralysis in 1995 - 1996 — for roughly three weeks in two separate instances — economic growth slowed by a quarter of a percentage point during the last three months of 1995.

Avon gained only 1.1 percentage points of share in the direct - selling industry during the same time frame, with 11.4 % of the market in 2011.

It is considered accurate with 2.35 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

Have you devoted any time to considering how you could improve your business by an order of magnitude rather than a few percentage points?

The latest index, compiled from six trillion data points, measured congestion between April and June of this year and is expressed in percentages that illustrate additional driving time.

The share of part - time work among university - educated Canadians also rose from 10 per cent in the 1990s to 13.5 per cent today, with the gap relative to high - school graduates narrowing to only one percentage point.

That doesn't mean that every time customers call or send E-mail, they should get a «little five - point questionnaire,» adds Seybold, who recommends that companies start slowly by polling a percentage of their customers each week.

The resulting statistics have a credibility interval of 2.52 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

And that's how, over time, you can lose a few percentage points of fat even if you don't change your exercise routine and don't change what you eat; keep all the other variables consistent and intermittent fasting will cause you to lose fat.

While statistical margins of error are arguably not applicable to online panels / online studies of this nature, we have assumed that the same margins of error apply as if it were a true unweighted random probability sample with a margin of error of + / - 3.7 percentage points, nineteen times out of twenty.

At the same time, the number of those overweight equities has tumbled by 17 percentage points in one month.

It is really about picking up nearly 2 percentage points more of yield while waiting for Mr. Carney to act on rates, at which time, it would be best to switch to shorter duration holdings.

At about the same time, APRA acted to ensure that the interest rate «buffer» used in the serviceability assessments for all loans was at least 2 percentage points above the relevant benchmark rate (with an interest rate floor of at least 7 per cent).

In this case, the poll is accurate to within ± 3.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, had all Canadians aged 55 - 75 been polled.

«One female case study cut her body fat 3 percentage points in roughly four weeks with only five minutes of kettlebell swings three times a week,» he says.

The Bank of Canada has already raised interest rates three times since July, but the benchmark rate is still three - quarters of a percentage point below the 2 - per - cent inflation target.

Pricing decreased 0.4 percentage points reflecting timing of trade promotion recognition in the prior year that more than offset price increases in cheese.

Interest rates may increase but probably not enough to make an impact to a CD that is up for renewal, Real estate income should increase over time but mostly a few percentage points here and there, I suppose you could manufacture more income by paying off one of the rentals assuming your income numbers are after expenses and not gross income.

The Teranet — National Bank National Composite House Price IndexTM was unchanged in March — the first time outside a recession when the March composite index was not up at least 0.2 percentage points from February and the first time outside a recession when March indexes were up for only four of the 11 metropolitan markets of -LSB-...]

Pricing was 0.4 percentage points lower as timing of promotions in North America and Europe more than offset price increases in Rest of World markets, primarily Latin America.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

Bitcoin's share of the total crypto market is at 45 %, which is about 12 percentage points higher than January's all - time low.

The overall index for the euro zone also rose by only 0.9 percentage points after its all - time low of the previous month.

That represents an increase of around 12 percentage points from January's all - time low.

The level of intermediaries» interest rates for households and small businesses remains historically low — in particular, notwithstanding the fact that the cash rate exceeds by 1.5 percentage points its level at the previous cyclical trough in 1993/94, rates paid by borrowers, especially for housing, typically remain below their level at that time.

The extra 1 % is splitting hairs to gain an extra fraction of a percentage point here or subtract one there; it's just not worth my time.

She found that, all else equal, for every one - percentage - point increase in the national unemployment rate, the starting income of new graduates fell by as much as 7 percent; the unluckiest graduates of the decade, who emerged into the teeth of the 1981 — 82 recession, made roughly 25 percent less in their first year than graduates who stepped into boom times.

Because mortgages are such big dollar amounts — the Mortgage Bankers Association reported the average loan request in March 2017 hit an all - time high at $ 313,300 — even a fraction of a percentage point can make a big difference in your monthly payment and how much you will spend on your home in the long run.

The poll, which was conducted by telephone June 3 - 12, is considered accurate to within 3.2 percentage points 19 times out of 20.

This percentage is above the 5 - year average of 64 %, but below the percentage at this same point in time for Q4 2013 (86 %).

The graph below showcases that user queries by time of the day and the line chart in red represents the percentage points of the tweets replied by the brands.

Falls in mortgage interest rates detracted 0.5 of a percentage point from the quarterly headline rate and, on a year - ended basis, interest rate reductions that have already occurred will keep the headline inflation rate below the underlying rate for some time.

At the same time, the worst 15 performers in China trailed their benchmarks by an average of just 3.2 percentage points, with the biggest loss at 8.6 percentage points.

A Search for Personal Fulfillment (Westminster, 1980), points out that in more recent times, a higher percentage of clergy wives has been employed outside the home than is the case for the general public.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

«That has brought about the re-emergence of the economy category, which is a larger percentage of the overall beer business now, especially for us considering at one point in time 95 percent of our business was coming from the premium category and above,» he notes.

His supporters point at his Super Bowl XI ring, five straight conference championship games and the fact that he is one of only three quarterbacks who played in the 1970s who are in the all - time top 50 of completion percentage (59.8 percent).

this definitely isn't the first time i've seen people use shooting percentages as a definitive measure of how good of a shooter a certain player is, but i just wanted to point out why that's faulty.

They've played seven times without Benteke starting this term, winning one, drawing three and losing three, with a win percentage of 14.3, and an average of 1 goal per game and 0.9 points per game.

Highest point total in premier league history last season for Spurs, best winning percentage of all time for Spurs, etc. etc..

At the same time, there was an 8 - percentage - point increase in the share of Hispanic moms with exactly three children — suggesting that many mothers were opting for three kids instead of four or more.