Sentences with phrase «points over the previous year»

According to an October 2013 Gallup Organization poll, 58 percent of Americans now favor legalization of marijuana - a jump of ten percentage points over the previous year.

Globally, 17 % of its tech employees are women, an increase of one percentage point over the previous year.

The report said the 71,174 black students taking the 1983 - 84 test raised their mean verbal score to 342, up 3 points over the previous year's level.

In the 2009 - 2010 school year, the KIPP Bridge earned an API score of 864, a jump of 75 points over the previous year, making it the second most improved middle school in the Oakland Unified School District.

Also for 2013, the cost - value ratio of remodeling projects nationwide averaged 66.1 percent, up 5.5 points over the previous year — which is, like median price, the largest increase since 2005.

Not exact matches

It also reported a 1.01 per cent postpaid subscriber churn rate, which was a seven - basis - point increase over the previous year.

Comparing the most recent distribution of estimates with previous points in history (see chart below), there is greater clustering around the mean and noticeably shorter tails, suggesting a lower likelihood of major price swings over the next year.

However, as noted, the starting point for this new objective is significantly different from that over the previous six years.

Even so, this rate remains 1.9 percentage points under the previous cyclical low early in 1994, reflecting the trend decline in bond yields over recent years.

At one point, it was stated that in 2015, police killings were up by 7.9 % over the previous year.

Further, places in the draw for the group stage are allocated not on the basis of whether a club happens to have won a title the previous season, but on their UEFA coefficient, a rolling points average based on a team's performance in all European competitions over the last five years.

Our research found that over the past eleven years, teams who lost their previous game by at least 4 - points after closing as a favorite of at least 4 - points have gone 79 - 46 ATS (63.2 %) with +28.97 units won.

The Baggies hadn't managed to take a single point off of the 18 - time English champions in nine previous Premier League encounters, failing to even register a goal during those nine meetings, but two second - half penalties from midfielder Chris Brunt cancelled out Martin Skrtel's opener for the visitors and sealed the Midlands club's first win over Liverpool for 30 - years.

Coefficient calculation Clubs» coefficients are determined by the sum of all points won in the previous five years, plus 20 % of the association coefficient over the same period (33 % before 2009).

It's been over six years since the Trotters last beat Liverpool in the league, losing each of their previous eleven Premier League meetings with the Anfield outfit, while at home Owen Coyle's side have registered a measly four points from the thirty that went on offer.

Shadow Treasury minister Chris Leslie pointed out it that previous ministerial claims that the RBS board was contractually bound for many years over bonuses were false.

But Prime Minister David Cameron insisted the changes were necessary, pointing out that Housing Benefit for working - age people had increased by 50 % over the previous five years.

In 2012 in Lancet, a CTT meta - analysis of 27 randomized trials found that even among people with no previous vascular disease, those who had a 39 - point decrease in LDL had a 9 percent lower overall mortality risk over about five years.

This marks a decrease of 7.3 percentage points over the previous study year (2015 - 16), when loss rates were found to be 40.5 percent.

As he points out, comparable warming periods occurred many times over the previous 2 million years, yet body and brain size regularly increased.

A year ago such projections seemed plausible, as public support for learning over the Internet jumped 10 points, to a total 52 percent, from where it had been the previous year.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

• The average difference between the proportion of students achieving proficiency on NAEP and state tests decreased from 30 percentage points to 10 percentage points nationwide, which the authors describe as «a dramatic improvement over the previous two - year period (2011 - 13), in which the difference dropped only from 35 to 30 percent.»

Because measures of test - score growth are less stable over time than measures of test - score levels, we average the points awarded to each school based on levels and growth over the previous three years.

We will discuss what can be done over the summer to ensure you are fully prepared for the upcoming school year and how you should analyze the previous year to serve as a jumping - off point for improvement.

The number is a two - point increase over the previous year, which was also a record high.

Under Deasy's leadership, the projected graduation rate for the 2013 — 2014 school year is 77 percent, an increase of 12 percentage points over the previous school year, and almost 30 points higher than the rate for 2008.

But while publisher Hachette UK's overall sales dropped a couple of percentage points for the third quarter of the year, its digital sales increased an astounding 80 % over the previous August, and 32 % over the previous July.

Overall, it seems the Amazon range of products saw significant gains over previous years and generations and Amazon believe this is likely to continue and especially in regards to the price point that they have managed to hit with their Fire tablet.

A good starting point is looking at the earnings stability over the previous 10 years or more.

By doing this over the period of the previous year, you will get a better understanding of where your money has been going and why you have landed in a situation where the debt is overpowering you and points directly on why your credit and credit rating is suffering.

A real estate agent will normally go over this document with the buyer and seller and explain the fees or costs, including previous years» property taxes, points, insurance, title insurance, commission fees, and loan and financing fees.

Painting's popularity has ebbed and flowed over the years, reaching something of a low point by the late 20th century in the wake of the conceptual and «anti-retinal» movements of previous years.

However, lest the previous sentence is taken out of context, we should point out that there is clear evidence that total cloud cover has changed over the past 150 years (Palle and Butler, 2001, 2002).

In 2004, as they correctly point out, Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes published an essay in Science magazine in which she examined the abstracts of 928 articles on the subject of «global climate change» published in scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, and «found that 75 % supported the view that human activities are responsible for most of the observed warming over the previous 50 years while none directly dissented.»

In early 2006, James Hansen, director of NASA GISS, pointed out that five of the warmest years over the last century were in the previous eight years: 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

The current sea ice extent in the Greenland Sea (Figure 4) differs only a little from the previous years and as Gerland et al. point out, different mean positions of the ice edge over one to three decades do not show substantial differences.

A point I made on a previous post: Sven Teske is founder and board member of Greenpeace Energy which turns over well over $ 100 million per year in supplying electricity from «renewables».

I wrote to the BBC at the time pointing out that the audience was likely to have been severely misled by this question, that the warming over the previous 16 years reached a conventional threshold of statistical significance (p < 0.05), and that over a short timescale natural causes of variability (ENSO, volcanoes, the solar cycle) tend to predominate, so the short answer is «15 years is too small a sample to demonstrate statistical significance.»

@Gavin Fair point... maybe over the last 50 years, sea level has risen faster on average than the previous 50.

Instead, ice cover was up more than 50 percent over the previous year, and Antarctic sea - ice cover hit its highest point since records began.

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Screen makers have improved in this regard over the years, but the iPhone X looks to be a serious step up from the previous standard - bearer up to this point, Samsung's Galaxy S line.

You can see we quickly recovered and we soon exceeded our highest point over the previous 10 years.

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AvalonBay Communities, which has communities on both the East Coast and West Coast, reported rental increases of 3.7 during the first quarter 2014 compared to the previous year and 20 basis points sequentially over the prior quarter.

This is a slowdown of 20 basis points over the previous quarter and 40 basis points year over year.