Sentence examples for by almost a point from inspiring English sources

Earlier, the spread in the secondary market had increased by almost a point.

Last Sunday, October 28th, the day before Sandy came roaring ashore, Romney was still ahead by almost a point in the Real Clear Politics poll of polls, which averages out the individual surveys.

Ohio State had 218.125 points, the Buckeyes' highest total this season by almost a full point.

The spread paid by higher-risk European firms has increased by almost a percentage point since mid-June.

Ten-year American Treasury-bond yields have risen by almost a percentage point since mid-June, to close to 4%.

Five years later, at the start of 2001, the rate had risen by almost a percentage point, to 67.2 per cent.

Yields on ten-year Italian bonds jumped by almost a percentage point in two trading days: on July 12th they breached 6%, their highest since the euro was created.

Video games, spun off from Abertay University, are a new industry for Dundee and biotechnology is now well established in Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh home of Dolly the sheep.But Scotland's annual economic growth rate over the past ten years has on average lagged behind the United Kingdom's by almost a percentage point, and no forecasters expect it to catch up soon.

Also, the more upscale customer is spending relatively more (Neiman's was up 12%), which helps Bloomingdale's and the Internet business is booming, moving the total comp by almost a full point".

If "public sector" employment had instead increased under Obama's tenure at the same pace it had during the Bush years, we would be looking at nearly 1.5 million more jobs on the books, which would lower the unemployment rate by almost a single point to 7.1percentt.

FMS independently increases DAS28 scores by almost a full point, resulting in the overestimation of RA disease activity in 63% of RA-FMS patients.