Sentences with phrase «rate than the previous year»

This is, however, a slower growth rate than the previous year.

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While the high level of existing debt means rate hikes will have a stronger impact in cooling demand than they did in previous years, it is still too soon to know just how much of an effect the bank's three rate hikes have had, Poloz said.

The city still needs to work on hiring of new employees, however, as respondents rated this factor lower in 2015 than in the previous two years.

The rate of serious injuries, requiring time off or a work restriction, was 30 percent worse than the previous year's industry average.

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

While there is a strong correlation between growth in gross domestic investment and growth in real GDP, the slope of that relationship is only about 0.2, meaning that even if the growth rate of real gross domestic investment was driven from the recent growth trend of zero all the way back to the previous post-war growth rate of 3.5 %, the overall impact on real GDP growth would only be about 0.7 % annually, placing the level of U.S. real GDP about 2.8 % higher 4 years from today than it would otherwise be.

A new forecast for the Los Angeles housing market suggests that home prices could rise considerably slower over the next year than the previous 12 months, settling into a historically average rate of growth.

With low money and credit growth persisting, inflation below target and growth slower than in previous years I now expect the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee to keep interest rates unchanged during this year.

That «s much faster than the growth rate of previous years.

After repeated episodes stretching back to 2013 when the Fed had failed to deliver predicted rate rises, market participants were now faced with a specific warning from Fed Chair Yellen that policy accommodation would be removed more quickly than in previous years.

In contrast, prices rose over the year to the March quarter in Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Hobart, albeit at a slower rate than in the previous few years.

While there is a seasonal pattern in auction clearances, such that they tend to decline over the second half of the year, the fall in clearance rates in November and December 2003 was noticeably greater than in the previous two years (Graph 31).

The reality is that utility rates have increased, there was additional baby - related laundry, and we used the air conditioners more in the summer of 2007 than we had in previous years.

«Of the nonprofits we analyzed, spam rates during the last week of the EOY fundraising push were more than double the previous year's rates, climbing to 23.61 % from 8.60 %.

The property - tax cap for counties, towns and other local governments will rise 1.84 percent next year, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced — a mildly higher rate of growth than in previous years.

E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a business - backed think tank, testified that there was no other state pushing for an increase so large, and said that the minimum hourly rate would climb from $ 9 to $ 15 in six years — a faster rate than previous hikes.

This date is 20 million years younger than suggestions from previous studies which used molecular data from living mammals and assumed a near - constant rate of evolution.

Though it continues to grow smaller, it appears to be doing so at a slower rate than in previous years.

The deceleration in rising temperatures during this 15 - year period is sometimes referred to as a «pause» or «hiatus» in global warming, and has raised questions about why the rate of surface warming on Earth has been markedly slower than in previous decades.

Twitter provided a more sensitive warning signal for syphilis rates in US counties than the previous year's disease levels

Run 15 will produce higher collision rates than in previous years, thanks to a number of machine upgrades at RHIC.

For many of the matchmakers» clients with whom I spoke, Internet dating had curdled (last year, the online dating business grew at a much slower rate than it had in the previous two years.)

The enrollment growth rate of Bay Area charter schools peaked in 2012 - 2013, with more than 18 percent additional students enrolled than in the previous year.

New schools continue to open each year, but the rate slowed considerably from its peak in 2012 — 13, when more than 18 percent additional students enrolled compared to the previous year.

Measures of teachers» value added in previous years are an even better predictor of future gains in students» achievement than are principal ratings.

We do find, for example, that the average achievement gains in a teacher's classroom in 2002 — 03 is a modestly stronger predictor of the principal's rating than the gains in any 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 graduation rate, which has risen 1.7 percentage points from the previous year and more than 7 percentage points in the past decade, has reached its highest point since the late 1970s.

The following year, however, the city's Independent Budget Office released another report that overturned the previous report's findings, indicating that children with disabilities stayed at charter schools at a slightly higher rate than they did at traditional public schools.

Ed Week looks at Common Core testing this year: «States face big drops in proficiency rates if the new tests are, as expected, tougher than the previous ones.»

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.

Adding an additional year of data to its analysis and switching to «a broader definition of special needs students than we did in the previous report... yields results that are quite different from our previous findings regarding the relative attrition rates of students with special needs.»

Last June, the graduation rate climbed to 67.9 percent, or 1.3 percentage points higher than the previous year.

This year's principal vacancies, however, pale in comparison to previous years — particularly under city schools CEO Andres Alonso, when the district had a turnover rate of more than 90 percent, and more than 40 principals were being appointed in one summer, 15 in the week before school started.

This figure is an improvement on the previous year's rate of 93 %, and an even greater achievement than 2013's rate of 88 %.

Indeed, data from the previous year shows that white students are opting out of CPS schools at rates much larger than other minorities (Moore 2014).

More importantly, however, is the fact that the 2016 Honda Pilot should be safer than the outgoing model, earning «good» ratings for moderate overlap frontal offset, small overlap frontal offset, side impact, and roof strength, which was an improvement over the previous gen model, which received a «poor» rating for small overlap frontal offset and a «marginal» rating for roof strength for the 2009 to 2011 model years.

Though the 2017 Escape does better than previous years, it still does not earn the top safety rating from IIHS, something that almost every one of its competitors does.

Specifically, the Optima SX trim's notable rating of 57 - percent of original manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) for 24 months of ownership is a full 10 points higher than the previous year.

Hence, the business in 2013 is forecast to outperform the previous year and the growth rate will be no less than 7 % of which can be calculated as 24,200 million Baht in terms of market value.

There was an 11 % rise in print ISBNs in 2016 from 2015, which is a lower rate of growth than the previous year's 34 % increase.

If your new interest rate is not sufficiently low, the extra years of interest charges will make your new mortgage finance charge greater than your previous one's.

Past records of the companies were, and are, very good with most growing NAV (after adding back dividends) at compound rates during the previous five years of better than 10 % — in fact closer to 15 %.

Remember, if you own 33 companies that make up 3.3 % of your portfolio's income each, you could have two companies go completely bankrupt provided the dividend growth rate for the rest of your portfolio is 7 %... and you would still be richer than you were the previous year.

The rating agency said the percentage of Alt - A loans that are 90 or more days delinquent in 2006 is 2.5 times higher than the previous year's figure and more than 4 times that of 2004.

Rates are much lower on these accounts than in previous years.

Regardless of what the rates might be in the future, the rate can go no higher than five percent above the initial rate and no more than one percent over the previous year's rate.

According to lenders and mortgage experts, all types of homeowners are attempting to decrease their monthly payments especially with the rates for 30 - year mortgages decreasing to less than 4 percent ever since October of the previous year.

The government interest rates are tied to the previous auction of the ten year treasury note rather than tied to the market.

When P / E is 10 times greater than the 138 - year average, and 3 times its previous all - time peak, when interest rates are already zero, we are in totally uncharted waters.