Sentences with phrase «at about a quarter»

With Bumi's shares at about a quarter of their IPO price, the Bakrie family in October offered to buy the stakes in Bumi Resources and Berau from Bumi.

Love, never one to bang them home, sent hisball toward the hole at about a quarter mile an hour.

The supernova remnant's grains collectively weigh in at about a quarter of the sun's mass, Indebetouw reported January 6 at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

«We can do this at about a quarter of the cost at a different type of plant.

So at about a quarter of an inch up, I'm at the cusp of where my heels are just about to raise up.

And it does so at about a quarter the cost to taxpayers of DC's public schools.

The plastic back features another slight angle at about a quarter - inch from the edge.

Now that the ebook market has plateaued at about a quarter of the overall book market, we're starting to see how the gain in efficiency of ebooks can also mean a loss of deep comprehension.

Pabrai expects Dakshana's growth rate to be about 40 % or 50 % over the next four to five years — and that his family's contributions will eventually end up at about a quarter of the total contributions.

All at about a quarter the price of an electric - powered automatic box.

At about a quarter of a mile long, with over 700 seats available, the Eurostar train immediately grabs your attention and takes you on a seamless and relaxing journey from city centre to city centre.

Not exact matches

Nanos Research, which conducts a weekly survey for Bloomberg, found that almost a quarter of respondents at the end of September said their personal financial situation had worsened over the past year, compared with about 20 per cent in early August.

In addition, while the iPhone X is the most expensive Apple phone to date, starting at about $ 1,000, Tim Cook said during the conference call that the phone was also the most popular phone sold in China during the quarter.

Look back at that first graph: about a quarter of millennials listed the professional or skilled trades as their goal.

«We spend about a quarter of our lives at work,» says «Originals» author Adam Grant.»

Even the Wall Street Journal and New York Times recently said that their print advertising revenue fell by about 20 % in the latest quarter, and as a result both companies are looking at layoffs and restructuring.

Citigroup also took at one - time, noncash charge of about $ 22 billion for the quarter.

About 3 percent of that is going through messaging, but messaging is growing at 100 percent a quarter.

Only about a quarter of those sites contained any content at all, which leads the agency to believe they are serving as placeholders for future crowdfunding portals, perhaps readying to launch once the SEC implements its investor guidelines.

Of course, the money came at a price: although the majority of the chief executives today retain at least 50 % of the equity in their companies, only about a quarter of them own the whole show.

Meanwhile, it's clear that other chains are winning: In the third quarter of 2014, while McDonald's same - store sales were falling about 3 %, those at Chipotle Mexican Grill, the big cheese of the burrito world, were soaring 20 %.

This new rule is also coming at a time when 401 (k) plan investors are about to see all - time highs in their portfolios when fourth quarter statements come out in early January, Glassman said.

Penegor is certainly right about the downturn in sales at restaurants, as we have previously noted, and other fast - food chains such as Burger King and Taco Bell also saw sales declines in their most recent quarters.

The Montreal - based firm is RIM's sixth biggest investor (10.2 million shares at the end of the first quarter, worth about $ 361 million yesterday), and just sold over half its holdings.

In an interview on the Time's podcast The Daily, reporter Michael Schmidt explains that about three - quarters of the 49 questions are intended to glean Trump's motivations behind decisions, statements and tweets about various topics — and indicate that investigators are looking at a potential obstruction of justice case.

There was a lot of money made on residential property sales around Australia in the June quarter, but the joy wasn't spread around evenly, with more than 10 per cent of all houses and about 20 per cent of all units sold in Western Australia during the quarter selling at a loss.

(Free cash flow on a per share basis is up 2 % year - over-year and stands at a strong $ 559 million for the quarter, despite a very high debt ratio of about 78 %.)

This is about the producer who works tirelessly to innovate and create, just like the innovators and creators at Apple are pioneering in their field... but will not get paid for a quarter of a year's worth of plays on his or her songs.

Some market watchers buy that line, noting the two firms have used only about a quarter of the US$ 400 billion put at their disposal after Washington seized them in September 2008 due to losses from rising home foreclosures and falling home values.

About a quarter are awarded benefits on their initial claim, while another 2 percent are approved on appeal and 11 percent at hearings.

FIFA 17, the newest version of EA's top - selling soccer franchise, debuted at the end of September, towards the end of the second quarter, pushing about $ 75 million in digital revenue to the third quarter.

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), seniors in this country experience poverty at a rate that is about a quarter of that experienced by their American and Japanese counterparts.

We already know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens set records at the box office, but on Tuesday we will find out more about the blockbuster film's ultimate impact on Walt Disney's (dis) bottom line in the first quarter of the entertainment giant's fiscal year.

In 2016, Canadian exports to the U.S. stood at $ 454 billion, according to Export Development Canada, about three - quarters of all outward trade from Canada.

Prior to the market correction, which has reduced Tesla's 2018 gain to about 3 % ahead of earnings, there was no real major dip, so you could argue that the staggering losses and the capital obliteration — over $ 1 billion per quarter at his point — are, well, somehow rationally priced in.

EA forecast adjusted revenue of about $ 2.04 billion for the current quarter, at the start of which it launched the highly anticipated Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 shooter games.

Millner also pointed out that the quarter came a year after a mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which led to an increase in gun sales due to worries that about potential new gun restrictions.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Yum Brands Inc. reported a 19 per cent increase in second - quarter profits, boosted by rebounding business at KFC in China where worries about food safety have eased.

The business is more complex than it may appear, he said: Groupon has salespeople in 47 countries, negotiating deals with a quarter of a million merchants, and «at the same time, [we are] innovating [and] thinking about what Groupon will become in three or five years.

With the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes each kicking off the fourth quarter at record highs, most investors are either cheering, wondering if the market is too expensive to put more money into or worrying about a possible correction.

About a quarter of U.S. workers in the technology sector, which has faced criticism for a lack of diversity, said they felt discrimination at their workplace in a survey released on Tuesday by job site Indeed.com.

Now look at desktop OS sales: the ratio stands in the most recent quarter at about 91:8:1 between Microsoft's Windows, Apple's Mac OSX, and «self - build» machines which probably get Linux.

The original mine plan finished in June, however production is now expected to continue to the end of 2018 at about 2,500 ounces per quarter.

About a quarter to a third of the teams in Blank's Lean LaunchPad classes at Haas actually launch a startup, Blank says.

About a quarter of the engineering and technology companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one key founder who was an immigrant.

Icahn Enterprises, which owned about 1.4 million Netflix shares at the end of 2015's first quarter, made the move after Netflix (NFLX) announced approval of a 7 - for - 1 stock split, according to CNBC.

Some 86 % of employees at the leading businesses agree that «promotions go to those who best deserve them,» compared to about three - quarters of employees at peer companies.

As of Sept. 30, Tesla said it had about $ 3.1 billion in cash and cash equivalents, compared with $ 3.2 billion at the end of the second quarter.

The bad: Total VC funding across all technology sectors was roughly 40 percent less than it was at the end of June» 08, with about $ 4 billion in funding received in the second quarter of 2009 versus $ 7 billion in Q2 2008.

Berkshire Hathaway sold all of its nearly 9 million shares of Twenty - First Century Fox (foxa) during the first quarter of 2017, a stake that would have been worth about $ 290 million at the end of March.