Sentences with phrase «tenth of a percent while»

· Lower transaction cost — Commission for trading a futures contract is one - tenth of a percent while it is as much as one percent for trading stocks!

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And while wages fell slightly for the second month in a row (down a tenth of a percent from April), pay is still up 0.2 percent year - to - date, giving us confidence that it is, for the most part, stable.

According to estimates from the Tax Policy Center, the top fifth of earners receive nearly three - quarters of the benefit of the deduction, while the top tenth of earners receive half percent of the benefit.

Because white flour is enriched with iron and calcium propionate, a plain bagel provides 6 milligrams of iron and nearly one - tenth of the calcium you need daily, while a whole wheat bagel provides half as much iron and 2 percent of your daily value for calcium.

Because Paedae taught advanced math to eleventh and twelfth graders, while the Florida FCAT only tested students through grade eight, 50 percent of her evaluation was based «on the school - wide performance of students taking the tenth - grade FCAT reading test — a test in a different subject administered... to different students in an earlier grade» (p. 3).

«These (50) schools serve about one - tenth of a percent of the nationwide student population while raising around 10 percent of the estimated total $ 425 million raised by all PTAs...

The rate at which children die as passenger vehicle occupants has decreased 55 percent, while the rate at which they are killed as pedestrians and bicyclists is about one - tenth of 1975 rates.

One - tenth of one percent of petitions filed by individuals with predominantly consumer debt were filed under chapter 11, which allows businesses and individuals to continue operating while they formulate plans to reorganize and repay their creditors.1

While at first sight that might appear to be the more relevant statistic, it actually is a case like rolling the dice only twelve times: as Emanuel's calculations showed, the number of landfalling storms is simply far too small to get a meaningful result, as those data represent «less than a tenth of a percent of the data for global hurricanes over their whole lifetimes».

(04/22/2013) While the month of March saw colder - than - average temperatures across a wide - swath of the northern hemisphere — including the U.S., southern Canada, Europe, and northern Asia — globally, it was the tenth warmest March on record in the last 134 years, putting it in the top 7 percent.

It is easy to see that you don't need a great increase from natural sources to totally overwhelm any contribution man may be making (a 4.2 % natural increase equals the total contribution of man while a 4.2 % increase in mankind's contribution would increase the total by less than 2 tenths of a percent).