Sentences with phrase «than the percentage expecting»

The percentage of firms expecting employment growth (27 percent) was greater than the percentage expecting employment declines (11 percent).

Not exact matches

Sales growth and operating profit growth reported in Danish kroner are now expected to be 6 and 9 percentage points lower than in local currencies, respectively, compared with a previous forecast of 7 and 10 percentage points lower.

More than one third of business owners said they expect to decrease capital spending in the year ahead, an increase of about 10 percentage points from the previous quarter.

Large percentages of respondents expect to see lower profits this year, and contend consumers will be far more price sensitive than in the past.

Because of the surprising bias we discovered, their finding of only a negligibly higher field goal percentage for shots following a streak of makes (three percentage points), was, if you do the calculation, actually 11 percentage points higher than one would expect from a coin flip!

At these levels, Canadian energy companies are expected to reduce investment again, albeit by less than half 2015's drop in percentage terms.

As you might have expected, the $ 5 offer converted over 30 % more customers than the percentage offer.

«The higher percentage of sales in the hardware category resulted in better than expected comps, but lower gross margin dollars during the holiday selling period,» said GameStop's chief financial officer, Rob Lloyd.

«A profitable firm at which 30 percent of leaders are women could expect to add more than 1 percentage point to its net margin compared with an otherwise similar firm with no female leaders,» the report notes.

Nearly one in four investors (23 percent) expect allocations to rise by less than 5 percentage points.

«By the end of the first quarter (of 2015) inflation will stand by around 3.5 (percentage points) higher than we expected.

Average hourly earnings rose by a better - than - expected 0.3 percentage point in August.

As a percentage of total spending, Boomers are expected to spend 3.4 % more on health care than their parents did, and through 2060 will contribute to a 1.04 % annual growth rate in this sector by sheer number of new customers alone.

Rather than existing on a blockchain, as most have come to expect of cryptocurrencies, the E-Coins were located on QUID PRO QUO's own servers, and in spite of the Association's claim that 80 percent of the currency was backed by tangible assets, «the actual percentage was significantly lower.

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).

Budgetary revenues to the end of February are running about one percentage point below that forecast in the Match 2011 Budget, due primarily to lower - than - expected personal income tax and other revenues.

Even if one is able to attain this best case return target, most retirees will have to learn to live on much lower income than they are expecting, and / or continue working at least part time well into their 70's, and / or start saving a much higher percentage of their income asap so as to increase their savings to the target level of capital needed.

The latest ABS projections, based on Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) estimates, indicate that farm GDP fell by around 30 per cent over the year to the June quarter 2003, subtracting a little under 1 percentage point from GDP growth, which is a slightly smaller subtraction than previously expected.

As shown in Table 2, the smallest companies (less than $ 25 million) are expected to experience the biggest percentage change in marketing budgets in the next year (10.5 %).

Citing emerging domestic price pressures and stronger - than - expected household spending and housing market activity, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand raised its policy rate by 1/4 of a percentage point in January to 5 1/4 per cent.

Overall, Australia's trading partners are expected to grow by 4.1 per cent in 2004, around 1/2 a percentage point faster than the average of the past decade (Graph 1).

Strong product revenue, which was $ 74 million above our expectations and was up an impressive 50 % year - over-year, contributed roughly $ 0.03 in earnings upside, with better - than - expected services gross margin and lower operating expense as a percentage of sales each contributing $ 0.02 of upside.»

Fairly priced doesn't mean sell, it means you should expect returns consistent with historical returns, or something like 4 or 5 percentage points more than bonds.

Similarly, I expect that in the event of a general bull market in stocks, the fund will not shine so brightly in terms of relative performance., The math of investing would favour the fund, however, over several bull and bear market cycles because, on a percentage basis, lost dollars are simply harder to replace than gained dollars are to lose.

«For less expensive private label products, the percentage increase will be greater than for more premium products so you'd expect to see some differential impact,» she said.

Similarly, our Smart Money approach might be expected to achieve a winning percentage a few percent lower than the syndicates, on average.

For each team, the public betting percentages are actually LOWER than their expected odds to win.

Even at that point, his completion percentage wasn't much worse than expected.

I expect the data to be partial, and very slickly presented to put the best spin on it all [something like «90 + % of homebirths are uncomplicated», not that a certain percentage, much higher than hospital births, result in death or morbidity].

Not one poll has shown Gillespie ahead in the race, one year after Clinton won Virginia by 6 percentage points — a closer - than - expected margin in a state with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators and that's voted for the Democratic nominee in three straight presidential contests.

The Labour candidate in the second seat could expect a 2010 vote share almost 9 percentage points higher than the candidate in the first.

Schools with no religious character have on average 0.8 percentage points more «Asian» pupils than would be expected for schools located in their areas.

Jewish schools have on average 13 percentage points fewer «Asian» pupils than would be expected for ethnically inclusive schools located in their areas.

Overall, Muslim schools have on average 34 percentage points fewer «white British» pupils than would be expected for ethnically diverse schools in the areas in which they are located.

Rice defeated Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman by a closer - than - expected 4 percentage points.

Sean Coffey's campaign strategist Bruce Gyory sent out a statement earlier today, dismissing the Siena poll that showed his candidate in third place and invoking the closer - than - expected 2009 NYC mayor's race in which Bill Thompson defied predictions and came within less than 5 percentage points of ousting Mayor Bloomberg.

Recent polls have shown Gillibrand leading Long in head - to - head matchups by more than 30 percentage points, though analysts expect the gap to narrow now that Republicans have chosen a candidate.

«I don't know what percentage of ours would opt in but if you looked at normal ballot procedures etc, I wouldn't be expecting much more than 20 - 25 % of people to be opting in,» he told BBC Radio 4's World at One.

In the US, the drug is expected to reduce the percentage of infected children born to these women from more than 14 per cent to 7 per cent.

New estimates released from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) project that aggregate health care spending in the United States will grow at an average annual rate of 5.8 percent for 2012 - 22, or 1.0 percentage point faster than the expected growth in the gross domestic product (GDP).

The expected drop in HIV incidence would require that 40 percent of those who are good candidates for PrEP actually be prescribed the medication, a significantly higher percentage than are currently on PrEP.

From 2000 to 2050, the percentage of Mexicans over age 65 is expected to increase more than fourfold, from 5 percent to 22 percent.

They ran statistical analyses to uncover the risk of having two diseases together, identifying pairs of diseases for which the percentage of people who had both was higher than would be expected if the diseases were uncorrelated — in other words, a patient who had one disease was more likely than the average person to have the other.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

And only 2 of the 29 patients who took red yeast rice in the study developed myalgia — a far smaller percentage than could have been expected had they tried another statin.

While I expect a few not quite truthful answers in a dating profile (I always assumed more people than not probably round down their weight), I was surprised at the percentage of men she found who lied about their marital status.

If the dropout rate is an additional 2 percentage points, or roughly one standard deviation, higher than expected, a state experiences a 1 - percentage - point increase in charter school enrollment.

Schools with a greater percentage of cross-ethnic friendships than expected are considered to be internally integrated.

Moreover, if an income gap made America unique, you would expect the percentage of American students performing well below proficiency in math to be much higher than the percentage of low performers in countries with average test scores similar to the United States.

While this sounds both noble and egalitarian, it in fact expects those schools that had a lower percentage of students scoring at the proficient level in 2002 to make more rapid progress over the ensuing years than those with higher - performing students.