The General Lifestyle Survey found in that time the proportion owning a house with a mortgage fell from 40% to 35%.
At the same time, the proportion of those 65 years old and above will increase to 39.9 percent.
Over time, the proportion of the population living in poverty, as measured by some objective and absolute standard, should be declining.
Most mothers do not work full-time anyway (though the proportion who do is growing), and their part-time jobs are ill-rewarded.
About 18% of American workers hold part-time jobs, a proportion that has barely changed in 15 years.
Over time, your original proportion of investments (i.e. your selected percentage of stocks vs. bonds vs. commodities) will need adjustment.
My PV array allows me to avoid buying any of the expensive afternoon power, so the payback time is reduced in proportion to the pricing ratio in the power rates.
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This will manifest itself in companies devoting a lower proportion of pay in time-based equity, like restricted stock, and a higher proportion of pay in performance-based equity, like performance shares.
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However, the remaining quarter spend a greater proportion of their time on private work.
According to Nielsen, after staying stable for a while, the proportion of prime time audience watching sports programming has increased substantially in the past few years.
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The last time we devoted a lesser proportion of our resources to defense, we were well protected by the oceans, in the midst of a depression, and without major international responsibilities, and even then it was a dereliction of duty.
But since 1994 the proportion of part-time jobs has started to decrease once again, following the normal pattern in an economic recovery.
As firms cut back, the proportion of full-time contract jobs has fallen from almost 80% of the labour force in 1990 to 66% in 2007, according to the OECD.
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The existence of a previous acquaintance also affected behaviour: both the amount initially sent, and the percentage returned by the second player, rose in proportion to the length of time the players had known each other.
The writeup at the Economic Policy Institute noted above says Novy-Marx averages the returns of stocks and bonds when he should assume that higher-yielding stocks will become a larger proportion of the fund over time and increase the expected return, even if fund managers rebalance periodically.
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The proportion of women in part-time employment has actually been falling, albeit gradually, since the mid-1970s.
The reset has, by this point in time, attracted media attention out of all proportion to its observable real-world impact.
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This system should allow minorities and small political entities to be represented while at the same time rewarding larger political entities with seats in proportion to the larger number of votes received.
The museum collection--featuring bronzes, pottery, porcelain, paintings and calligraphy--is so vast that only a small proportion can be displayed at one time, while the remainder is stored in vaults within the hills behind the museum.
Since HFR and 3D have only been together in a handful of IMAX films and theme-park rides, seeing both must have been a shock to CinemaCon viewers, and the rest of us might also need time to adjust -- probably in direct proportion to our film-going experience.
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The proportion of drivers reportedly distracted at the time of a fatal crash has increased from 7 percent in 2005 to 11 percent in 2009.
The proportion in full- or part-time education in Britain fell from 18% to 17% over the time, whereas the OECD average rose from 18% to 25%.
Spending last year on housing, the biggest expense for most Americans, continued to rise, but shrank as a proportion of overall spending for the first time in three years.
Last year, research by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that, for the first time in decades, the newcomers included a lower proportion of Republicans than the South as a whole.
Marilyn Moon of Washington's Urban Institute calculates that the average Medicare recipient already spends nearly 19% of his or her income on health care and that in a generation's time, if the system remains unaltered, the proportion will rise to almost 30%.
With the passage of time, the typical state university has received a smaller proportion of its budget from state government.
Indeed, over-75s in those countries save a larger proportion of their incomes than at any other time in their lives.
As shown in Figure 2, the proportion of female board chairs remained stable over time 3.7% in 1997 and 4.0% in 2010.
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This time no less than 35% were, the highest proportion since 1918.
But, among the possible pitfalls: a government unable or unwilling to meet the conditions of its program, and a central bank that becomes increasingly anxious over time to limit possible losses as it owns a growing proportion of Italian and Spanish government debt.
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