Sentences with phrase «rate than in past years»

Young teachers — those with less than five years of experience — are leaving the Appleton School District at a noticeably higher rate than in past years, according to an analysis by the Appleton Post-Crescent.

Young teachers — those with less than five years of experience — are leaving the Appleton School District at noticeably higher rate than in past years, according to an analysis by the Appleton Post-Crescent.

«Vehicles are also being scrapped at higher rates than in past years.

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Oklahoma has seen a massive spike in earthquakes in the past few years, registering 2-1/2 earthquakes daily of magnitude 3 or greater - a seismicity rate 600 times greater than before 2008, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

The more complex debt market has worked wonders in the past few years allowing somewhat riskier companies like Valeant amass more debt, at lower rates, than they would have been able to past.

Moreover, the rate of growth in the fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run by women has been higher than the rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.

The rate of women who had their first child between 40 and 44 has more than doubled in the past 20 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Their average five - year growth rate of 1,933 % is also higher than that of any other class in the past five years.

In the past six years the company has amassed more than 100,000 customers, revenue upward of $ 55 million and an enviable product return rate of only 5 percent.

Venture investments in Canada have fallen over 70 % in the past 10 years, and are less than half the rate of the U.S. (as a percentage of GDP).

In fact, the rate of greenhouse gas emissions have increased globally more in the past 20 years than it has in the previous 100 yearIn fact, the rate of greenhouse gas emissions have increased globally more in the past 20 years than it has in the previous 100 yearin the past 20 years than it has in the previous 100 yearin the previous 100 years.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

Yet on the whole, given their positive experience both with receiving more income than they could get from the fixed - income sector in recent years and the potential for capital appreciation over the long haul, dividend stocks and the ETFs that own them have demonstrated their long - term value to the investors who've gravitated toward them during the low - rate environment of the past decade.

Step 4: On February 11, 2010, with Treasury backing in place, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (whose delinquency rates have more than doubled over the past year) announce the purchase of $ 200 billion in delinquent mortgages that they had previously guaranteed.

This leaves roughly 1.4 % of historical long - term returns which can be attributed to past expansion in the Price / Earnings multiple (i.e. over the past 50 years, prices have grown somewhat faster than the 5.7 % average rate of earnings growth).

When investors begin to focus on the potential for Fed rate hikes, short - term bonds will almost certainly begin to experience lower returns and — depending on the type of fund — greater volatility than they have in years past.

The payment of GST on insurance premiums has boosted those components of CPI inflation over the past year; the method of measurement based on premiums net of claims means that the recorded price of insurance in the CPI has increased by more than the GST rate.

Recent movements in the exchange rate have also been reflected in indexes of trade prices; the export price index rose by more than 16 per cent over the past year, with higher prices for base metals, chemicals, and petroleum aided by higher world prices and increased demand.

The 5 year dividend growth rate was around 5.9 %, much less than in the past.

British households now conserve significantly less than # 1 in every # 20 of cash flow — half the rate at which they put money away forty many years in the past British households now conserve just four.8 pc of their income — significantly less than half the fee at which men...

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

These tables also illustrate, however, that exporters have made some gains in sales to other countries; over the past year, growth in exports of manufactures and services to many countries outside the Asian region have been stronger than trend growth rates recorded earlier in the 1990s.

The more general forces that have influenced the exchange rate over the past year or so have been the relative strength of the Australian economy, the associated yield differential in favour of Australian dollar assets, and the continued improvement in Australia's terms of trade, which are now at their highest level in more than 25 years.

In fact, over the past few years, credit unions» average personal loan rates have been approximately 1.24 percentage points less than those offered by banks.

Investors are more optimistic than in the past few years, cheered by better global economic growth and the anticipation of lower tax rates.

Indicators of investment intentions point to continued healthy growth in business investment, but at a more moderate pace than the rapid rate of the past year.

Donor - advised funds grew further in 2016, albeit at a slower rate of growth than in years past, setting a new record in every key metric.

While many people believe that growth in the years ahead will be lower than it has been in the past, we can also observe that cash per dollar of earnings has increased over the years for S&P 500 companies as returns on capital have increased, while the cost of capital has fallen with lower interest rates.

But thanks to what happens each December, coupled with the Fed's delay in raising interest rates until mid-month, there was a lot more volatility in the last month of 2015 than there has been in past years.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Although overall deforestation rates in the region are still lower than they are in parts of the Amazon and Southeast Asia, deforestation has accelerated over the past few years, driven mainly by the establishment of large - scale agricultural and mining operations.

In north America the rates of teen pregnancy have fallen over the years, but, interestingly, teen mothers are much more obvious in communities than they were in the past decadeIn north America the rates of teen pregnancy have fallen over the years, but, interestingly, teen mothers are much more obvious in communities than they were in the past decadein communities than they were in the past decadein the past decades.

Crime rates are soaring, and keeping your family safe is even more important than it may have been in years past.

I looked up the COLA for the past decade and found that on average the reimbursement rate for free has gone up 7 cents a year since the 2000 - 01 school year; in recent years it was higher than average (up 11 cents from 08 - 09 to 09 - 10, up 10 cents the year before that) but it was lower in other years (up 5 cents each year from 01 - 02 to 04 - 05).

18 deaths in 3 years, that's 6 per year and based on the fact that homebirth rates have been rising in the past 3 years and nearly 30 % of women are opting for homebirth I'd say those stats are pretty good and far better than your risks when walking through the doors of any hospital.

The rate of detainee deaths in custody this year is far higher than in past years.

Based on past results, any change in the numbers from these preliminary rates to the final scores released by the State next year will be negligible (expected to be less than one - tenth of one percent).»

The Fabians» report said that examining Labour's general election performance over the past 40 years showed that its share of the vote was eight percentage points lower than its poll rating in the second year of the preceding parliament.

The Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, has said that falling crime rates in past years have been due to increased prosperity rather than rising prison numbers.

Interest rates in the eighties tended to be much higher than over the past decade, although it's worth remembering, when Labour boasts of kickstarting interest - rate stability, that the trend of decline from double - digit rates started in 1992, four - and - a-half years before the party came to power.

But the bottom line is that aside from what anyone can say about what this administration has been doing here in Central New York — it's working: No region of the state has seen as large a decrease in the unemployment rate than Central New York over the past three years: 8.6 percent in December 2010, 6.5 percent today.

A certain kind of exploding star, called a supernova, turned out to be fainter than expected in the distant past, indicating that the universe is ballooning at an ever - faster rate, and has been for nearly half of its 13.8 billion - year existence.

In the past decade neuroanatomy has advanced at a higher rate, with more new and powerful techniques, than in the entire 50 years that precedeIn the past decade neuroanatomy has advanced at a higher rate, with more new and powerful techniques, than in the entire 50 years that precedein the entire 50 years that preceded.

Growth rates for concentrations of carbon dioxide have been faster in the past 10 years than over any 10 - year period since continuous atmospheric monitoring began in the 1950s, with concentrations now roughly 35 percent above preindustrial levels (which can be determined from air bubbles trapped in ice cores).

«As remarkable as it is that climate can change that quickly naturally, what is even more remarkable is that some of the rates of change we're experiencing today — increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide for example — are faster than anything we've been able to find in the past several million years of geologic history.

By 2050 the tally could reach as high as 86, an extinction rate that is about 877 times higher than normal and that has accelerated in the past 20 years, according to a study in the September issue of BioScience.

This attitude has resulted in tremendous progress in conserving the Brazilian Amazon, whose deforestation rate fell more than 70 % over the past 10 years.

At that rate, it would create an ocean more acidic than any seen in the past 100 million years.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

In terms of Match's success rate, over the past 21 + years, they've facilitated more dates, relationships, and marriages, than all of the other services in the dating industrIn terms of Match's success rate, over the past 21 + years, they've facilitated more dates, relationships, and marriages, than all of the other services in the dating industrin the dating industry.