Sentences with phrase «percentage than a smaller one»

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Amid all the angst about the small percentage of women who work in computer science, a new research paper has a surprising finding: Women may actually be better coders than men.

According to the most recent Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index, big banks are granting a higher percentage of loan requests than at any time since the mid 2000s.

Still, though China has managed not to rely on any single country for more than a small percentage of its oil needs, its imports are still quite concentrated in terms of geographical region and in unstable regions at that, namely the Middle East and Africa.

And while 41 percent of small business owners say they don't see any indications that the recession is over, that's actually three percentage points lower than the number of consumers who say economic conditions have not improved.

Apple told Business Insider at the time: «The diagnostic data we've received from upgraders shows that for this small percentage of users experiencing the issue, we're seeing a more than 80 % reduction in iPhone 6s and over 70 % reduction on iPhone 6 of devices unexpectedly shutting down.»

Aimee Eyvazzadeh, a reproductive endocrinologist, has ordered more than 100 Fertilome tests, although she says she is careful about using the test with the small percentage of her patients who have severe anxiety disorders.

«I think Azure overall is growing faster than AWS in percentage terms, from a smaller base, of course,» said Dave Bartoletti, an analyst at Forrester Research (forr) via email.

Did you know that out of the current crop of «Unicorn» companies, less than 10 have a woman on the founding team, and only a small percentage include any women in their advisory boards?

While that seems like a small percentage, it's still one in 11 households, which means a millionaire could be tucked away in your neighborhood rather than leading an extravagant life peppered with luxuries and indulgences.

A recent survey of small - business owners conducted for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Harris Interactive reported an 11 percentage point rise in the last year in the number of owners who are unsure of whether their business will be better off in the future than it has been in the past.

This requires additional testing, but enables the contribution that the small business owner receives to be greater on a percentage basis than the contribution that the employees receive.»

In - house research by the bank showed that Detroit residents, on average, channeled a significantly higher percentage of their spending through small businesses than city dwellers nationwide.

Wyoming residents pay a smaller percentage of their income — 17.7 percent — than residents in most states.

Residents of the smallest state have a smaller percentage of their paychecks left over after expenses than residents of most states.

Among them: more modest growth, low - for - long interest rates and a household sector that comprises a relatively smaller percentage of the economy than it did at the peak in 2007.

A small set of institutional investors — BlackRock, Fidelity, Vanguard — holds stock in a vast percentage of public companies, so even sectors that look somewhat competitive are less so than they appear.

It is critical to allocate only a small percentage of your overall portfolio to private companies, typically no more than 5 - 10 %.

This drop is slightly smaller than the percentage decrease recorded in the Q1 2012 -LRB--3.1 %), and slightly smaller than the average percentage decrease recorded over the previous eight quarters -LRB--2.8 %).

In the small - cap space, the Russell 2000 is now off by more than half a percentage point.

The recent widening of this spread is, of course, much smaller than was seen in 1994 in the previous episode of globally rising bond yields, when the yield on 10 - year bonds in Australia moved from 1 percentage point to about 3 percentage points above the comparable US yield.

The total percentage change in the retail petrol price, however, is always much smaller than the percentage change in the crude oil price.

Underscoring the mixed - to - lower tone that emerged over the course of the day — not only was the NASDAQ off by nearly 50 points at its nadir — but the small - cap Russell 2000 had turned down by more than a full percentage points, as well, as losing stocks held a strong lead over gaining issues throughout.

In practice, it barely budged more than a small fraction of a percentage point each day.

The YC documents are probably fine in situations where the investor (i) wishes to purchase equity rather than convertible debt, (ii) is otherwise somewhat indifferent on terms other than percentage ownership of the company, liquidation preference and right of first offer in future financings, (iii) is investing at a fairly low valuation (i.e. a couple of million dollars), and (iv) is only investing a small amount (i.e. a couple hundred thousand dollars or less).

2 % over your small business's total credit card spending will likely be higher than 5x the points earned on a small percentage of your bill.

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

As smaller companies, they are more likely to grow, but carry a greater percentage of risk than the large cap funds.

If cash flow has been flowing less than you'd prefer, here are a few of Durand's suggestions for amping it up: Establish regular invoicing procedures (and to boost cash flow, consider switching from a monthly invoicing cycle to a biweekly invoicing practice); offer incentives to customers for paying invoices early, such as small percentages off; and finally, don't let past - due invoices fester.

We do not believe that the direct effect on the U.S. will be significant, as U.S. exports to Britain exposure represent only a very small percentage (less than 1 %) of total exports.

This may affect smaller companies more than larger ones as there is a larger percentage of companies that pay more than the «new» 30 % cap on interest expenses in the Russell 2000 than in the S&P 500.

The latest ABS projections, based on Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) estimates, indicate that farm GDP fell by around 30 per cent over the year to the June quarter 2003, subtracting a little under 1 percentage point from GDP growth, which is a slightly smaller subtraction than previously expected.

As shown in Table 2, the smallest companies (less than $ 25 million) are expected to experience the biggest percentage change in marketing budgets in the next year (10.5 %).

This percentage decline is smaller than the trailing 5 - year average of -11.1 % and trailing 5 - year median of -7.8 % for the index.

In the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decade.

The former effect reflects the narrowing of margins on housing and small business loans: the rate on standard variable rate housing loans has fallen by 1.3 percentage points more than the cash rate since mid 1996; in 1998, the average variable - rate on small business loans has fallen by 0.7 of a percentage point relative to the cash rate.

The unemployment rate has fallen less in NSW than in the smaller states, and it is now above the national average for the first time since the early 1990s, whereas Queensland's unemployment rate has fallen almost 2 percentage points to be the lowest across all states.

That may seem like a small number, but it's still considerably higher than the percentage of paid apps currently on the store, which currently sits at about 16 percent.

The individual here is a small percentage of gay men and women that care more about themselves than the greater good.

If you want to really search for the truth; you will find that the percentage of priests that abuse children is smaller than you'd think (try less than 1 % worldwide; google it and check multiple sources).

Step 5: Reflect on the fact that the number is very small; in fact it's quite a bit smaller than the percentage of non-believers in the population.

As is the accumulating evidence that gays constitute a far smaller percentage of the population than Kinsey had suggested.

The money is repaid from the new business, so that those who invest in the «private equity» company do not have to put up more than a small percentage of the cost.

Gay marriage will affect a small percentage of people - far smaller than divorce.

If we went by your logic (how a small percentage of people doing a bad thing means all of them are like that) than heres what also should be true.

Ever since, no Republican presidential nominee has gained more than a small percentage of the black vote.

The new nation which arose to the north of the United States, in British North America, while much smaller in population than its neighbor, had a larger percentage which claimed a church connection.

It embraced but a slight percentage of even civilized mankind, a percentage smaller than in the fourth and fifth centuries.

(24) The CBN organization in 1978 was drawing more than 55 percent of its partners from the conservative and evangelical denominations, even though as a group they formed a much smaller percentage of the general population.

The Top 500 chains, accounting for over half of total industry sales, brought in a cumulative $ 298 billion in sales, which is a 3.6 % increase from 2015, but a smaller growth percentage than in years past.

Half of adults older than age 60 have the bacterium in their body, but only a very small percentage of them develop ulcers.