Sentences with phrase «more than a quarter of people»

Twenty years from now, it will have about twice as many - and they'll represent more than a quarter of all people on earth, according to a new study released Thursday.

More than a quarter of people filing bankruptcy are divorced or separated at the time they file.

Not exact matches

The Freelancers Union, which represents 165,000 people nationwide, found that more than three - quarters of its members reported having been cheated by a client, with an average loss of $ 6,000.

The company tells investors to focus instead on the percentage growth of people who use it daily, which has increased more than 10 percent in each of the last three quarters.

The company has more people on the in - house talent team than they do working in sales — seven people working full time in recruiting and roughly an additional 12 people who devote a quarter of their jobs to recruiting.

Nearly a quarter of the companies surveyed said that managing cash was their top concern, more than factors like the costs of running a business, hiring talented people, and following government regulation.

All told, around 500 people were fired — more than a quarter of the company.

Despite shuttering a few of its offices and laying off more than 600 people last quarter, Zynga still has 2,300 employees.

Research identified that while just 47 percent of people are creative thinkers, the percentage jumps to more than three quarters when looking at entrepreneurs.

But the company that shows up next quarter could be a very different one: Layoffs of more than 1,700 people will be well underway, offices will be closed and assets sold, and Yahoo could be in discussions with «qualified strategic entities» such as Verizon about a sale of some or all of its core properties.

The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, bringing together more than 90 cities representing over 650 million people and a quarter of the global economy, has several initiatives underway.

Still, while McDonald's sales grew more than expected, the number of people visiting its U.S. restaurants fell in the first quarter.

Roughly One in Four Americans is Online «Constantly» More than a quarter of U.S. adults consider themselves online «almost constantly» according to survey data recently released by the Pew Research Center, a figure that jumps to nearly 39 percent for younger people in the 18 - to -29-year-old age group, and Kurt Wagner looks closely at some of the survey's fascinating statistics.

Hackers stole Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses, credit card and driver's license numbers of 143 million people — more than half the adult population in the U.S., and about three - quarters of all Americans with a credit history.

Impacting more than a quarter of a billion lives Ziglar strives to be the difference - maker in people's personal, family and professional success.

Considering Japan's aging population (people over 60 constitute more than a quarter of the population), the political landscape has turned into one in which political candidates focus solely on the elderly demographic.

For example, after explaining how their research shows that three - quarters of young outsiders and half of young churchgoers describe present - day Christianity as «too involved in politics,» this is what Kinnaman concludes: «To address the deep challenges that are facing people in our nation and around the world, Gabe and I have come to the conclusion that being politically engaged is more important than ever.»

Precisely because the inspirations of modern religious liberalism now come from all quarters, the person in the pulpit is as likely to quote Erich Fromm as Theodore Parker, and more likely to quote either than Augustine or Aquinas.

The Salvation Army's call came ahead of the budget announcement on Wednesday afternoon and after new figures from the charity found three quarters of people across the UK think that more families are struggling financially today than they were five years ago.

If, instead of gospel, what is proclaimed in the churches is nothing more than the kinds of «musts» and «shoulds» and «ought to's» that one can hear from many other quarters — along with the ubiquitous language of «rights» — then we can not expect church people to be any more receptive to such exhortations than are their counter parts in society at large.

Furthermore, this is the number of people watching one - quarter hour per week — not very much when the average viewer spends more than 30 hours per week watching TV.

More than a quarter (27 percent) of the doctors said they would kill an elderly person «with medical grounds for suffering but in the absence of severe physical or psychiatric disease.»

A question I raised before is what to make of the contention that increased benefits and tax credits in the past decade have successfully raised many people from just beneath the poverty line (60 % of median income) to just above it; However, these gains are said to disguise real and more entrenched increases in poverty - if the poverty line were 40 % of median income rather than 60 %, three quarters of a million more people would now be in poverty than in 1997 -LRB-?)

Conducted by the Retail Action Project, a community organizing group co-founded by the union RWDSU, the survey of more than 110 people on 14 CUNY campuses — or one - quarter of all CUNY food service workers — reported numerous instances of what it says are workers being served «a steady diet of low wages, few benefits, precarious schedules and labor violations.»

The bottom line is that more than a quarter of households, not 1 per cent, have wealth far beyond the reach of most people.

Green supporters share with those of Ukip a certain populist disillusionment with the political mainstream (for example, three - quarters agree with the statement that «politicians don't care what people like me think»), but there is a crucial difference: they are much more likely to have a sense of political efficacy than Ukip's followers.

More than half of Scots and three - quarters of people from North West England are harmed by another person's drinking, according to a new report released today.

In Scotland more than half of people (51 %) have experienced harm from another person's drinking, while in North West England this figure rises to more than three quarters (79 %) of people.

But Lord Ramsbottom warned the probation service was already struggling to supervise more than a quarter of a million people without the staff or resources.

From April, working - age people renting from councils or housing associations face losing up to a quarter of their housing benefit if officials decide they have more bedrooms than they need.

More than a quarter of young people do not trust Muslims and believe the country would be better off without them, according to a new poll exposing the scale of discrimination across the UK.

More than a quarter (28 per cent) of people who left the armed forces early cited too many deployments as an important factor, 32 per cent named the quality of equipment and 33 per cent said they did not feel valued.

More than 700 people have left the EPA since Trump took office, a wave of departures that puts the administration nearly a quarter of the way toward its goal of shrinking the agency to levels last seen during the Reagan administration.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

Long a talented fund - raiser, Ms. Gillibrand has cultivated a flourishing network of small donors, raising nearly $ 3 million in the first three quarters of 2017 from people who gave less than $ 200, more than she had in the previous eight years combined from such donors.

And among people who abuse drugs and alcohol, more than three - quarters use tobacco, which means tobacco is still the leading killer of the drug - dependent, not hard drugs.

Ten years after infection with HIV, a typical person has progressed to where tens if not hundreds of thousands of copies of the virus can be found in a single milliliter of their blood and more than three quarters of their CD4 immune cells are destroyed, if they have not started drug therapy.

The result of genetic analysis was a big surprise for the research team: the ancient individuals carried no trace of ancestry from people who settled Papua New Guinea more than 40,000 years ago, in contrast to all present - day Pacific islanders who derive at least one - quarter of their ancestry from Papuans.

Douste - Blazy announced his plan last June, saying that France has more people with AIDS than any other country in the European Union, and that about a quarter of those people are between the ages of 20 and 29.

More than a quarter of a million people die from sudden heart failure in the U.S. each year.

More than a quarter of the avoidable deaths in the developing world are already caused by TB, a disease that kills 3 million people a year — making it a bigger killer even than malaria.

The Third Pandemic in Asia early in the 20th century killed 10 million people, the medieval black death probably killed more than a quarter of Europeans, and Justinian's plague, which broke out in A.D. 542, raged for about 50 years, killing 100 million people.

More than 10.6 million people worldwide fell ill and 1.7 million died from tuberculosis last year while a quarter of the world has latent TB, which will develop into active tuberculosis for one in ten victims years or even decades later.

Although a majority of working Americans (60 percent) indicated that people at work are generally respectful toward others with differing political views, more than a quarter (26 percent) have witnessed or overheard their coworkers arguing about politics, and about 1 in 10 (11 percent) have gotten into an argument themselves.

Bioinformaticist Mark van der Linden had been working at Europroteome AG just outside Berlin for a little over a year when he and more than a quarter of the 40 - person staff were made redundant.

Yet more than three - quarters of people taking statins take them for primary prevention — meaning that many patients stand to gain no benefit at all.

People who consume more than a quarter of their daily calories from added sugars have nearly triple the risk of cardiovascular disease compared to those who consume less than 10 percent of their daily calories from added sugars, the researchers note.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that by 6 p.m., people with night eating syndrome consumed a little more than a third of their daily calories, while a control group had consumed almost three - quarters.

That's likely because more than three - quarters of the salt (sodium) that people eat comes from processed or packaged foods, and restaurant food.

Although older adults are often targeted — more than three - quarters of complaints to federal agencies came from people 40 and older — fraud experts say people of all ages and backgrounds can fall prey to romance scams.