Sentence examples for amount of discount from inspiring English sources

In 2012, the government increased the amount of discount councils could offer in order to make the right-to-buy scheme affordable for tenants in a period of rapidly rising house prices, particularly in London and the south-east.

He concedes that SportSetter does retain an element of "flexibility", in that it can set "a certain amount of discount" itself — to manage supply and demand on its platform.

Objective function (1), which minimizes the total costs, includes fixed opening costs, production cost, outsourcing cost, inventory holding cost, transportation and processing costs, alliance costs between opened facilities, and shortage costs as well as the amount of discount, is maximized to improve competitiveness of the agile supply chain network.

He argued that Congress had no right to override that by "doubling" the amount of discount it wanted from Big Pharma to $160 billion.

The amount of discount applied to each promoted item was determined through formative research with wholesale staff (as the minimum discount required to result in increased sales), and with storeowners (as the minimum discount required by retailers to agree to stock the foods and pass through savings to customers (known as channel or retail pass-through).

"The number of freebies, the amount of discounting has clearly been dissipating," he said.

"There is a fair amount of discounting taking place, and there are deals out there that weren't available last year.

"People were the most pessimistic in three years, so you already have had a certain amount of discounting," Mr. Dorsey said.

However, the better than expected figures, which followed a dire December, were partly due to pessimistic retailers cutting back on stock levels to limit the amount of discounting.

The law, which applies to all online booksellers, does allow for a small amount of discounting – as long as it is no more than 5%.

He told the Tribune, "An alleged victim, I think — much like anybody else who has a bias in this situation — there's a certain amount of discounting in what they have to say".