Changes in the number of houses for sale are widely seen as a good 'leading indicator' of price-changes: in a boom-period there are more buyers than sellers, so the number of properties for sale diminishes, and in a 'bust' period sellers exceed the number of those willing to buy at current prices, so prices tend to fall, as seems already to be happening in many areas.
By 2008 that figure had shrunk to 21%, though since the absolute number of globally mobile students grew by 50% over that period, the absolute number in America has flattened, not fallen.
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The comparable number for the same period in the 1996 election cycle was 4.30%.
Another key number is the incubation period--how long it takes one person to become sick after being infected.
But success is about besting the competition, in any number of contests, period.
This was 6% lower than the number in the same period in 2010.
Over the same period the number of young unemployed people living with their parents doubled, from 218, 000 to 429, 000 (see chart).
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Brazil's biggest city, Sao Paulo, saw 176 killings in October, more than double the number in the same period last year, official figures show.
There were 6.7 billion display ad impressions on Amazon.com in the third quarter, more than triple the number in the same period of 2011, according to comScore.
The report looked at the extra travel time for peak period travel during 2003 divided by the number of travelers who began a trip during the peak period (6-9 a.m. and 4-7 p.m.).
Over the same period, the number of credit-card transactions fell to 21.6 billion from 21.7 billion.
Over the same period, the number of mobile users exploded from 7, 000 to 87, 000.
The correction shows no change in the number of attacks during the period concerned.
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Over the same time period, the number employed by others fell, the data shows.
Over the same period, the number of higher-rate taxpayers has risen from 2.1m to 3.6m.
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Over the same period, the number of children adopted by Russian citizens was 7, 416.
It was in a number of ways a formative period, perhaps the formative period in European history.
During that same period, the number of searches for "heart shaped cake" surged 4, 900% and "healthy chocolate" 110%.
During the most recent reporting period, the number of RIMM shares sold short plunged by more than 19%.
During the same period, the number of brokers who sell its plans jumped from 252 to more than 1, 800.
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Drilling down to loans that are through their prepayment fee period, that number drops to a still muscular 38%.
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In the same period, the number of full-time Dorset Police traffic officers has fallen by 12 from 46 to 34.
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The company says that the expansion is expected during a period when a number of new mines have been put on hold.
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But over the five-year period, the number of people studying full-time at college rose by 19%, to stand at 81, 373 last year.
Over the same period, the number of convictions of suspected traffickers quadrupled.
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It added that sales of e-books so far this year were three times the number sold in the same period of 2010.
Meanwhile, over that same time period, the number of Americans who support same-sex marriage has gone up by almost exactly the same percentage.
The company has been closing stores in the United States, rationalizing the number of outlets after a period of overexpansion, while increasing its global presence.
The federal government has incurred budget deficits more than 80% of the time since 1930, a period when the number of governmental functions increased dramatically.
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