Sentences with phrase «staggering rate of»

Consider, for example, the proverbial «Hollywood marriage» and its staggering rate of failure.

Biologists say that they «uncovered a staggering rate of local extinctions in the mammal fauna, with only 767 from a possible 3,528 populations still persisting.»

Julie Menin, the Commissioner of New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs, said that subprime auto loans «are growing at a staggering rate of more than 130 % since the financial crisis.»

Ultimately what happens is that you either get rejected for the loan or you are offered far more than you need with a long term for repayment and a staggering rate of interest.

The state of Washington had the second highest rate of complaints per million residents in 2017 (96.07), surpassing only Washington, D.C., which had a staggering rate of 222.77 student loan complaints per million residents.

Satisfied LES MILLS participants have recommended their current facility to friends and family at a staggering rate of 93 %.

In the July issue of the International Journal of Parasitology, Miller's team reports a staggering rate of Toxoplasma exposure: 42 % of the live otters and 62 % of the dead ones.

On Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), we honor those whose lives were lost to anti-transgender violence, and we work to raise awareness around the staggering rates of brutality that still face transgender people.

As the National School Lunch Program changes gears to address staggering rates of obesity in addition to hunger, how easy will it be to wean today's kids off of the salty, fatty foods they've learned to love?

One of the saddest things about adult illiteracy and ESL language learners is not the staggering rates of adults who are still classified as functionally illiterate, or the numbers of immigrants who may learn to speak a language with some level of comfort and fluency but never develop basic reading skills; it's the... [Read more...]

One of the saddest things about adult illiteracy and ESL language learners is not the staggering rates of adults who are still classified as functionally illiterate, or the numbers of immigrants who may learn to speak a language with some level of comfort and fluency but never develop basic reading skills; it's the quality — or lack thereof — of instructional materials for adult learners.

According to a report by the Georgetown Law Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, U.S. law firms saw revenue and profits per equity partner grow at staggering rates of 37.5 percent and 25.6 percent respectively.

The reports came as Canadian First Nations woman Carol Hopkins told the World Congress on Public Health, held in Melbourne this month, that staggering rates of suicide among Indigenous communities worldwide could only be reduced by strengthening culture, rather than just focusing on issues such as drug and alcohol abuse.

Not exact matches

To explain this year's staggering growth rates, Duncan Stewart, director of Deloitte Canada's technology, media and telecommunications research group, points to the humble beginnings of those at the top.

The staggering growth rates of this year's Fast 50 — the average of the top five was a record - smashing 43,000 % — reflects how high - tech startups have evolved in the face of austerity.

Persistence Research has forecast that global HPA demand will soar from 25,315 tonnes in 2016 to 86,831 tonnes in 2024, representing a staggering annual compounded growth rate of nearly 17 %.

Nunavut has the highest rate of out - of - province Workopolis job searches in the country, at a staggering 87 %.

Along with a sky - high employment rate, Defy graduates have a recidivism rate of around 3.2 percent — a stark contrast to the staggering 76.6 percent of former prisoners who land back in jail within 5 years of their release.

Holographic video has been held back by requirements for ultrafine screen resolutions and staggering data rates — a crisp, moving, holographic image can burn through terabytes of data in a fraction of a second.

In addition, based on the relatively unusual combination of overbought, overbullish conditions, inflation pressures, and the like, I once again staggered our put option strikes, which results in a lower «implied interest rate» earned on our hedges, in return for tighter protection in the event of an abrupt market selloff.

Public opinion is with this government when it heads abroad: Insights West's poll found that a staggering 67 per cent of Canadians rate the Liberals as «good» or «very good» at representing Canada internationally.

For example, if you have a credit card balance of $ 7,800 with an interest rate of 15 percent and you make a 3 percent minimum payment of $ 234 each month, it would take 44 months to repay the debt entirely, plus you'd pay a staggering $ 2,353 in interest.

Staggering the maturities of your fixed - income holdings to take advantage of rising interest rates (bond ladder).

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.

That is the idea behind a bond ladder: Basically each year you buy one set of long - term bonds with a fixed high paying interest rate and then stagger them over a long period of time.

During the last 10 years the amount of information available to investors has increased at a staggering rate.

Investors are participating in crowdfunding campaigns at staggering rates, supporting projects well into the night pushing fund raising meters higher until they reach a tipping point of success.

Fifteen percent of the drugs entering this country are being confiscated, but «for the drug cartels, whose production capacities stagger the imagination, a 15 percent loss rate is more than acceptable.»

However, do a quick research project on the rate of these diseases in populations which consume a more traditional diet (aka natural, low carb) vs the staggering numbers in Western populations.

Tipped as the «future of Polish football», Milik's style of play mimics fellow Polish international and Bayern Munich goal machine Robert Lewandowski, incredible lay off play, disgusting left foot (I mean this in the positive sense, he literally looks like he would break the net whenever he shoots) and at 22 seems to be developing at a staggering rate, having made his international debut at the Euro championships, and featured in quite a few games at that, has attracted the attention of a few clubs in Europe needing a Centre forward, as he appears ready to take centre stage in one of Europes top teams.

That much was evidenced by strong ratings numbers and, according to the Associated Press, a staggering number of wagers placed.

Even if there is no apparent history of physical, sexual or verbal abuse unfortunately occurring at staggering rates (beyond 1:3 what is reported), most - people tell me they are one or more of the following:

The interesting thing that has to be mentioned is that 34 of them, a staggering majority, have rated it 5 stars.

As a result, aggressive marketing of breastmilk substitutes is undermining efforts to improve breastfeeding rates, with global sales expected to reach a staggering US$ 70.6 billion by 2019 (Paper 2, figure 2).

One particularly brutal leader last month stated: «Like the living dead in a second - rate horror film, the premiership of Theresa May staggers on oblivious.»

In the last decade, property taxes have increased a staggering 73 percent - that's twice the rate of inflation.

«It is no surprise that when you look at our staggering poverty rates, that we don't have the kind of educational attainment that we want,» Miner said.

He determined that the pregnancy rate among elk in the migrating herd was 19 percent lower than non-migrating herds nearby, and that from 1989 to 2009, the number of calves surviving to adulthood had declined a staggering 74 percent.

The researchers found that compared to measles - unvaccinated children, survival rates for measles - vaccinated children increased by a staggering 28 % in the first 12 months of follow - up and 18 % by five years of age.

The magnifications and staggered arrivals of the supernova images probe the cosmic expansion rate, as well as the distribution of matter in the galaxy and cluster lenses.

Only 14.1 percent of 12th graders see «great risk» in smoking marijuana occasionally, down from 17.1 percent last year and a staggering drop from 40.6 percent in 1991, but similar to rates when the survey was started in 1975 (18.1 percent).

Unlike electric power lines, which lose as much as 20 percent of energy in transmission, these bacteria transmit energy at a staggering efficiency rate of 95 percent or better.

In light of Georgia's staggering maternal mortality rates, Augusta University is working hard to provide life - saving care to pregnant women and new moms across the state.

With diagnoses of autism rising at staggering rates, the hunt for its causes continues, often with frustratingly inconclusive results.

In order to combat this staggering rate, the guidelines discourage getting any more than 10 % of our total daily calories from saturated fat — but they don't recommend against cutting down on total fat as they have so fervently in the past.

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The rate of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has increased 78 percent in the last decade, with autism now affecting a staggering 1 in 88 children.

«Students are tired of being told by the government that secondary education is important, and then being slapped with outrageous student loans and staggering interest rates,» he said.

The production cost of this movie has reached almost a staggering $ 185 million and was rated as one of the PG - 13.

So there was this jump with the children themselves, both in terms of rating themselves and rating the other kids in their classroom, everything was going along fine in First and Second Grade, and then the jump from Second to Third grade produced some staggering results that changed direction fairly precipitously.