Sentences with phrase «up over a quarter»

With Labour out of office, the recovery is now underway, the latest figures showing that housebuilding is up over a quarter under the Coalition.

No doubt you have heard of dark matter, which is thought to make up over a quarter of the universe.

The 5 % category bonus can really add up over the quarter, leading to big rewards.

In Sotheby's upcoming auction on the 8th of March, German artists make up over a quarter of the entire number of lots on offer.

The 30 - year fixed rate mortgage is up over a quarter of a percentage point (27 basis points) from the first week of the year.

Not exact matches

For example, if the second quarter GDP is up 3, percent this means that the economy has grown by 3 percent over the first quarter.

Fortescue Metals Group has reported increased iron ore shipments over the December quarter, but the benefits have been offset by costs of expanding and ramping up operations.

Total Aircraft Controls segment sales in the quarter were $ 311 million, up 8 % year over year.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at the end of the first quarter of 2015, real hourly compensation was up 1.8 % over the previous year and jumped at an annualized rate of 5.5 % compared to the last quarter of 2014.

Revenue in China was $ 17.96 billion over the quarter ending in December, up 11 percent from a year ago.

Revenue from free, advertising - supported services which Spotify uses to woo new listeners to the service in order to eventually convert them to paying members, grew to 102 million euros in the first quarter, up 38 percent, year - over year.

For the week it finished up 1 percent and saw a mild climb of over 2 percent for the whole quarter.

Sales for the last quarter of 2001 were up 35 % over the same period the previous year, surpassing a projected increase of 20 %, which Marchica considers outstanding considering that his sales reps were grounded for weeks after September 11.

GE said Tuesday after a review of its GE Capital insurance portfolio that it will take a $ 6.2 billion after - tax charge for the fourth quarter of 2017 and expects to contribute $ 15 billion over the next seven years to shore up the portfolio's reserves.

The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun - dials and brick walks and burning gardens — finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.

Revenue for the first quarter of 2013 was up 58 percent over the same period last year.

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In the second quarter — results were released on May 13 — it posted revenues of $ 21.7 million, up 16 % over the year before.

Sales for the first quarter were up 144 percent year over year, revenue is on track to top $ 1 billion this year and its paid active users has grown from 600,000 in 2012 to 9.5 million in the first quarter of 2015.

«We have had consistent growth, and, you know, whether it's an up quarter or a down quarter, whether it's highly competitive or not, our growth continues and I'm very, very pleased that we now have over 73 million customers,» Legere said.

The stock is already up by 54 % since that lowly September day, and Facebook's third - quarter revenues of $ 1.26 billion (up 32 % year over year) beat Wall Street expectations of $ 1.23 billion.

First quarter sales of $ 15.2 billion were up 10 percent over the prior year, including 6 points of organic sales growth and 3 points of foreign exchange.

Though «Daily Show» host Trevor Noah's ratings ticked up in the first quarter of the year and «The President Show» resonated with audiences, if not with some critics, network representatives still remember fondly Stewart's and Colbert's domination of the 11 - t0 - midnight time slot among key demographics pined over by advertisers.

The median sale price for existing homes is just under a quarter million dollars, up 4.7 % over the past year.

Revenue of $ 8.9 million in the first three quarters of 2011 was up more than 170 % over the same period in 2010.

Perhaps more surprising is Buffett's second - best pick over the past year, as it has recently been known more for controversy than outperformance: United Airlines stock, up almost 44 % since the investor bought it in the third quarter of 2016.

The stock jumped more than 10 % on Nov. 9 on news that net income was up 54 % year over year through the first three quarters of 2017.

It should be noted, however, that PC shipments plummeted over 10 % year - over-year during the fourth quarter of 2015, which means that although fourth quarter PC shipments fell only slightly in the latest quarter, they're still far from making up for the big drop in shipments last year.

Sherwood has been putting his money where his mouth is too, ploughing over $ 330,000 into the company's stock to pick up 5.15 m shares at 6.5 c a share during the quarter.

But not everyone is over the moon about the tie up that will let one company control more than a quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides.

Pesos now account for between 5 to 10 percent of sales, and same - store sales are accelerating, up 34.5 percent year over year for the first 10 weeks of 2007 — versus 30 percent for the quarter before the promotion.

San Francisco rents increased 1.5 percent from February to March and were up 3.3 percent over the last quarter.

Advertising and content distribution comprised roughly 75 % of Roku's gross profit in the most recent quarter, up from a little over 50 % last year, says CEO Anthony Wood, a Silicon Valley veteran and a former vice president at Netflix.

Finally, on Feb. 26, 2014, Penney reported its first glimmer of good news: increases in same - store sales for the first time in two years, up 2 % over the prior year's fourth quarter (which, let's not forget, was down 32 %).

Apple's gargantuan net income has piled up over the years, resulting in a cash reserve of $ 267.2 billion as of the March quarter.

Last quarter was the best quarter for blockchain and bitcoin VC funding on record, more than doubling the amount raised in the first quarter and up 89 % year over year, according to CBInsights.

«Often in the hands of entrepreneurs or families, small businesses with up to 99 employees are typically more flexible when economic shifts occur but can lack the deep pockets to survive a major decline in the economy,» notes the Index besides a graph showing a sharp decline in wages during the worst years of the economic crisis and a steep increase over the last three quarters of last year.

Total mortgage debt at the end of the third quarter stood at just over $ 1.1 trillion, up 1.8 per cent from the second quarter.

On its first quarter earnings call, Oracle's executive triad of Larry Ellison, Safra Catz, and Mark Hurd once again touted strong cloud growth, noting that total cloud revenue for the quarter hit $ 969 million, up 59 % year over year.

The private sector is deploying more capital — according to Thomson Reuters, global merger - and - acquisition activity in the first quarter of the year is up 10 % over a year earlier — and U.S. consumer housing starts are up.

Commentary: «New equipment orders at Otis were up 19 percent over the year ago third quarter including favorable foreign exchange of 7 percentage points.

Tesla reported first - quarter revenue of $ 3.4 billion, up 26 % year over year.

In February Echelon reported Q4 2017 revenue of $ 8 million (up slightly vs. Q3's $ 7.8 million) and guided to a roughly flat Q1 2018, with operating cash burn disappointingly continuing at a bit over $ 1 million per quarter.

More than 81 million subscribers pay Netflix $ 8 to $ 12 a month, and slowly but unmistakably these consumers are giving up cable for internet television: Over the last five years, cable has lost 6.7 million subscribers; more than a quarter of millennials (70 percent of whom use streaming services) report having never subscribed to cable in their lives.

Up to now, the available indicators show the Chinese economy still growing strongly, at 11 per cent over the year to the December quarter (Graph 5).

Total Funding Debt at the end of the second quarter of 2017 was $ 719 million, up 30 % over the prior year period and down 9 % sequentially, primarily reflecting the changes in Unpaid Principal Balance.

Chinese authorities had been propping up the yuan, contributing to an almost $ 300 billion drop in foreign - exchange reserves over the last four quarters, as policy makers sought to deter capital outflows and encourage global usage of the currency.

In the fourth quarter of 2017, the number of closed luxury home sales was up 7.6 percent year over year.

Over 90 % of ads were purchased programmatically during the quarter, up from 80 % in the third quarter.

Digital subscriptions were up more than 25 percent year over year, helping to offset the first quarterly decline in digital advertising since the second quarter...