Sentences with phrase «around a fifth of»

«The Department is responsible for around a fifth of the work streams the Government must complete as the UK leaves the EU.

The survey suggests that more than half of Christian men and around a fifth of Christian women in the UK are using porn on a regular or semi-regular basis.

The Cabinet Office said just less than 100,000 civil servants were on strike - around a fifth of the workforce.

At best, around a fifth of children still live below the poverty line before housing costs, and more than a quarter once housing costs are taken into account.

most Labour voters didn't vote on the basis of Brexit - only around a fifth of surveyed Labour voters named Brexit as their most important election issue

Around a fifth of the discretionary fund is set aside for so - called «member items,» projects sponsored by individual Council members.

And under a recent consultation document EDF would only have to pay around a fifth of the eventual cost for dealing with waste, leaving the government and the taxpayer facing the liability after the power station shuts down.

Somewhere around a fifth of people normally tell pollsters they don't know how they would vote in an election tomorrow.

«Around a fifth of unvaccinated ethnic school girls in UK think they don't need HPV jab.»

The researchers found that firewood accounts for around a fifth of the income that comes from forests, with timber coming in second at 10 %.

But the same approach might work for other dominant forms of inherited deafness, which account for around a fifth of cases.

Eczema affects around a fifth of children in the UK.

And what, if anything, can be done to stop it in countries like the UK, where ashes account for around a fifth of all trees?

Data from Ofcom and EU Kids Online shows around a fifth of parents do not speak with their children about online safety, are not confident they can protect their children and have no rules relating safe internet use.

Lighting Lighting is one of the biggest opportunities for investment in new equipment, as it makes up around a fifth of a typical school's energy costs.

Already renewable technology is supplying around a fifth of Britain's electricity, and its growing.

A spokeswoman for the DfE said: «A third of state schools have a faith designation compared to around a fifth of open free schools.

For around a fifth of children in the U.S., key needs include health, food and housing.

While Jaguar believes it isn't taking a big risk with the manual transmission, and around a fifth of UK sales could be the manual model, it's still flying in the face of an industry that's increasingly heading towards automatic transmissions.

The majority of his gains came from stocks (AMEX for instance resulted in around $ 20 million profit, which was around a fifth of the total value of the partnership when he wound it down).

Serious Health Concerns Around a fifth of all Mongolians, especially younger animals, have seizures, ranging from mild to violent convulsions.

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., which issues around a fifth of the nation's credit cards, announced earlier this month it will stop offering higher - points earning American Express cards alongside its Visa cards.

New coal power stations in countries other than China make up around a fifth of these 700 new coal plants, Urgewald said, including some in countries that currently burn little or no coal.

Deforestation also accounts for around a fifth of all global emissions, and scientists warn that it must be reduced by 50 % by 2020 for the best chance of staying below a 2 °C temperature rise.

Around a fifth of the population, based on the Kerguelen, Falkland and Tierra del Fuego Islands, will face ever greater foraging distances.

In fact July may be right down around normal, to up around a fifth of a degree above normal, «world wide.»

The oil in question, representing around a fifth of Ecuador's reserves, sits under Yasuni National Park.

In terms of contamination around a fifth of the control group in South Wales received the Family Links Nurturing Programme or another parenting support programme before the end of the trial.

Around a fifth of Australian children — approximately 44,018 children — speak a language other than English at home, and linguistically diverse students who were not yet proficient in English when they began school were significantly more likely to be developmentally vulnerable on four of the five AEDI domains.

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Merkel is on track to easily win her fourth term in September, giving her leeway to criticize the executives of a sector that, according to government figures, accounts for a fifth of the country's total industrial revenue and employs around 800,000 people.

While shoppers can easily enter Tiffany's store through its 57th Street entrance, the heavy security around Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue a block away has lowered visits by shoppers, many of whom are tourists from Europe and China who are already staying away from Fifth Avenue's luxury stores because of a strong U.S. dollar.

Clustered around Kerrisdale Arena and Point Grey Secondary School, the residents here are craft beer enthusiasts (16 % of them drank one in the past month) and more than a fifth are downhill skiers.

In mid-February the company recorded a fifth consecutive quarter of sluggish sales, and comparable sales at Tim Hortons restaurants around the world slipped 0.1 per cent for the 2017 financial year.

Subtracting the cost of policy announcements to date would increase the deficit to around $ 2.0 billion in 2015 - 16, followed by three more years of deficit and a surplus of around $ 2 billion in the fifth year.

In a scene structured around pre-existing gang rivalries, crews bang out not for their city or their borough, but for the fifth and sixth digits of their phone number.

Asset - backed securities (ABS) account for around one - fifth of non-government debt securities on issue.

China is the fifth largest source country in respect of the stock of foreign direct investment, accounting for around 4.4 per cent of the total stock.»

Despite accounting for about a fifth of Tesla's revenue or around $ 2 billion, China merited few mentions in Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk's earnings calls until recently.

Our Risk Leaders comprise around one - fifth of global respondents.

Millions of workers around the world could enter retirement with savings diminished by a fifth or more after getting into debt or financial difficulty, HSBC warned in a new report.

Around four - fifths of prostate cancer patients have tumors with lots of PSMA for the therapy to bind to.

For the fifth anniversary of Benedict XVI's papacy on Monday, the Vatican is expected to do everything it normally does to celebrate such milestones: the pope will lunch with dozens of Catholic cardinals from around the world and deliver remarks from his window above St. Peter's Square, while Vatican employees will receive an anniversary bonus in their paychecks.

If telescopes make it clear that heavenly bodies are not perfectly spherical and furthermore reveal moons rotating around a planet, then the old notion of the æther, a refined fifth element admitting only the potentiality for perfect circular motion on the part of perfectly spherical bodies, no longer has a role to play.

By 1991 the percentage of heads of households in the bottom fifth who worked (even part - time) had fallen to around one - third, and only 11 percent worked full - time throughout the year.

With a wealth of experience gained from many installations around the world with producers, both large and small, LOMA have introduced the fifth generation of X-ray Systems, the X5 Series.

He's brought in some of the largest accounts in the company's history and grown his annual sales from around $ 1 million three years ago to a record - breaking $ 5.2 million last year — representing roughly one - fifth of total company volume for the year.

I suspect Akpom won't get much more time than Sanogo was getting — he's still fifth or sixth on the pecking order if everyone is healthy — but it would be a fantastic silver - lining in an otherwise very forgettable season if he shows he can translate his u21 form (although the ghosts of Sanchez - Watts, Jay Simpson, JET and Chuks Aneke are rattling around in my keyboard as I type this)

As Yurtchenko whirled around the uneven bars, fifth - place Maxi Gnauch of East Germany followed Agache off the beam.

Granite Bay is a newer program, heading into its fifth season in 2014, but every program is seeing growth regardless of how long it has been around.

They also went out of the Capital One cup to League One's Sheffield United this week and must be feeling pretty low as they have slipped from third place in the Premier League to fifth and look like sliding further unless Ronald Koeman can turn things around pretty quickly.