Sentences with phrase «years it drops by»

Korn notes that state aid to schools in the last two years dropped by more than 8 percent, or by more than $ 1 billion a year.

Within < 5 years from introduction, the rate of hospital admission due to rotavirus diarrhea in children younger than 2 years dropped by 78 % and that of children < 2 years with X-ray proven pneumonia dropped by 46 %.

The percentage of respondents who expect their financial situation to remain the same over the next year dropped by 4 percentage points from last month to 42 percent, while only 18 percent say their household income has improved (also down 4 percentage points).

In Calgary, real estate sales in the first three months of the year dropped by almost 18 per cent from the same period a year ago.

Not exact matches

Over the same period, the proportion of American workers employed by companies less than five years old has dropped, from over 20 percent to less than 11 percent.

Once dominant in the smartphone industry, the company has lost significant ground to the competition: RIM's chunk of the U.S. market dropped to just 12 % by year - end from 44 % in 2007, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.

The main stock index dropped by as much as 2.4 percent earlier, while the benchmark 10 - year government bond yield rose to 6.944 percent, the highest since August 2017.

Revenue from its broadcasting unit dropped significantly, but that was mostly because the network had the Super Bowl last year, and so most of its broadcasting numbers looked worse by comparison.

Perth has suffered the biggest drop in house prices, falling 2.4 per cent in the June quarter, as capital city house prices across Australia decline by the sharpest rate in nearly than three years.

That figure drops by about 50 % in a non-movie year, Hasbro said, underscoring just how important film and television content can be to drive sales for toys.

Most of the big law firms in Perth have shrunk in size over the past year, with Ashurst experiencing the biggest drop in staff, while only a couple of smaller firms have achieved significant growth, research by Business News has found.

A new survey by the Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) reported that the number of fund managers that expect the value of oil firms to drop in the next few years has doubled.

The drop isn't devastating, but it is significant: while fitness tracker sales slumped 7 % in the first quarter of 2017 compared to the same timeframe one year ago, smartwatches boomed by 25 %, the vast majority of which were Apple Watches.

Sometimes when I pick up my three - year - old daughter I'll drop by the yard to check in on the business.

The region in recent years has seen investor sentiment rattled by developments such as the drop in oil prices, the war in Syria and a sudden corruption purge from Riyadh.

Expedia's stock had dropped by more than 22 percent over the past year through Thursday's close, compared with a roughly 12 percent rise in the S&P.

By 4 p.m. the Dow had fallen 4.4 %, a one - day drop the market hadn't seen in six years.

In 2009, venture capital investing in Canadian tech companies and fundraising by Canadian VC firms dropped to the lowest levels since the mid-1990s (though there has been a slight uptick this year).

Exclude that, and other charges, and the bank's operating earnings actually dropped last year by about 2.5 % to $ 23.5 billion.

BP has defended its stance on boardroom pay, despite the rising ire among investors, who have seen the value of their shares drop by 24 % in the last year.

Gorman's pay dropped by less than 7 % last year, which was the biggest pay drop among the top bank CEOs.

AMZN shares have risen by nearly 39 percent over the last year while TSLA has climbed by about 43 percent and XOM has dropped more than 9 percent.

Ministry of Finance data showed exports fell 2.9 percent in February from a year earlier, more than a 1.9 percent drop expected by economists in a Reuters poll, after a revised 6.3 percent rise in January.

Globally, sales of luxury goods are expected to drop by 8 % to approximately US$ 225 billion this year, according to consulting firm Bain & Co..

And in Beijing — where the Games cost an estimated US$ 40 billion — hotel bookings in August 2008 (the month China hosted) dropped by 39 % over the previous year.

Apple's 2.4 percent drop year - to - date in 2018 is its steepest since 2016, although in that year the company had already reported by the end of April.

Still, there was no shortage of critics, and in addition to being the butt of more late - night jokes, this time by Conan O'Brien, holiday revenue dropped 54 % from the previous year, from $ 185 million to $ 85 million.

After fighting unsuccessfully to reverse generic drug laws last year, and the sudden resignation of its CEO, Shoppers Drug Mart has suffered a 17 % drop in «brand value,» to $ 2.6 billion, according to a study conducted by researcher Interbrand.

The percentage of American workers represented by unions has dropped from 23.3 percent in 1983 to 12.5 percent last year, according to the Labor Department.

In its first year, the Zune captured a 9 % unit share of the portable media device market, but by 2010 it had dropped to 0.5 %.

One American study found that divorced respondents experienced a 77 % average drop in wealth, while their married counterparts saw their wealth increase, on average, by 16 % for every year of their marriage.

By the end of the school year, Dell had dropped out and started his company.

The supply of new bitcoins will continue to drop by half every four years.

For a nation that isn't officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and research associate Jennifer Wilson.

If the market has a big downturn, you will owe tax on the full amount at conversion even if the account value drops by 30 percent before year - end.

Capital spending on major mining, energy and infrastructure projects in Australia is set to drop more than 60 per cent over the next three years, according to analysis by ANZ Banking Group.

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Poor performance and high fees drove money out of the money managers» funds by about $ 70 billion last year, the biggest drop since 2009, according to data tracker HFR.

Federer kicked off the year by winning the Australian Open, then won his eighth Wimbledon without dropping a single set.

Last year, Flirtey made the first Federal Aviation Administration - approved drone delivery in a rural area by dropping off emergency supplies to a health clinic in Virginia.

According to global market research firm NPD Group, LCDs now account for more than 90 % of TV sales — bad news for Panasonic, whose sales dropped by about 25 % in the second quarter of this year.

In 2013, the number of use - of - force complaints in Oakland, California dropped by 1,350 compared with four years earlier before VieVu equipped every officer in the city with a camera.

A study cited by local media suggests the number of Norwegians who listen to the radio on a daily basis has dropped by 10 % in a year, and the public broadcaster NRK has lost 21 % of its audience.

Stephen Orlins, National Committee on US - China relations, discusses the report commissioned by his firm that says Chinese investment in the US has dropped in recent years.

Despite the 6.2 percent drop in the benchmark S&P 500 from its Jan. 26 high to Feb. 6, investors are still expecting mild to moderate gains by year - end.

Since last year, the near - term price of WTI crude, in Canadian dollars, has dropped by almost $ 25 per barrel, and the long - term futures price by $ 10, when you take into account futures market prices for Canadian dollars as well.

President Donald Trump's net worth has declined by a whopping $ 600 million over the last year, according to a new analysis by Forbes, causing him to drop 92 spots on the magazine's list of the richest people in America.

Germany, by comparison, has much less to complain about: Its goods trade deficit with China remains on a steeply declining trend, falling last year to 14.2 billion euro, a 21.5 percent drop from 2016.

The total value of digital currencies has dropped by more than 50 percent this year, according to CoinMarketCap.

There are any number of theories explaining the sudden drop in crude oil prices after two years of stability: America's increasing supply, the world's faltering demand, an undeclared price war being waged by Saudi Arabia, the rising U.S. dollar.