Sentences with phrase «about figure eight»

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According to 1996 figures, some 13 % of female - owned companies — about one in eight — were owned by minority women.

The incoming replacement typically has about eight weeks to figure out what's wrong at the venture and how to fix it.

David Allen, shipping $ 47 million worth of product in 10 months, may worry about an eight - figure cash flow, while Jim Cox strips cars for $ 20 bills.

Thankfully, economist Josh Bivens, who wrote about all of the above for CBPPs full employment project, figured out that if x were, say 1 percent — i.e., if average compensation grew 1 percent faster than productivity growth — it would take over eight years for the gap to get back to its pre-recession level.

I figured it out when I was about eight and the things adults were saying in sunday school made absolutely no sense.

Gurnee's population is about 26,000, twice what it was just eight years ago, according to U.S. Census figures.

Ed Miliband This is actually plasticine, and the figures are about eight inches tall.

Fayose said, «The reality is that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government has destroyed the economy within eight months in power and rather than look for solutions to the problems facing Nigeria, Lai Mohammed and his cohorts are branding bogus figures about stolen money just to cover up their lack of solution to the country's economic problems.»

According to one study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled climate change's effects on them, human - caused climate change accounted for about 55 percent of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an estimated 4.2 million hectares of forest fire area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average of 9 additional days per year of high fire potential due to climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.

Figure Eight - I wonder about your diet.

On a more ambivalent note, I sometimes think that questions of Oscar relevance are really covert dismissals of the significance of Hollywood and the kind of movies the Oscars are all about, films that often (but not inevitably) have eight - or even nine - figure budgets and unashamedly aim for mainstream acceptance.

Instructed to return to the train and investigate the passengers to figure out the identity of the terrorist detonating the bomb, Colter is sent back time and again, handed eight brief minutes to gather information about the incident, while deducing his own purpose within this enigmatic military operation.

EXCLUSIVE: After an all night auction in Cannes, Annapurna Pictures has won U.S. rights off promo to buzzed - about Nicole Kidman crime - thriller Destroyer in what we understand to be a mid seven - figure deal for U.S only with a significant release commitment taking total pact to eight figures.

Those figures are based on testing about 62,500 students in grades three, four and eight, including new requirements to test students attending private voucher schools.

After about eight months I still can not figure out some of the options.

Figure if a traditional publisher makes an offer and you can work a good contract, you will sign over control of the book for about eight years.

So start thinking about the eight ways to make your biceps bulge, the five things you need to know about sex after 60, or how to sell your business for seven figures checklist.

In another survey, about four percent of kids under three in the UK have been found to have a tablet exclusive to them, a figure which doubles to eight percent for three - year - olds.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Bella Andre spoke to GoodeReader about her recent seven - figure advance book deal with contemporary romance publisher Harlequin MIRA, who will handle the print editions of the eight books in Andre's award - winning Sullivans series.

While most Americans state they believe owning a home is part of the American Dream, only about eight percent of the population reports having the basic knowledge to figure out... more

Rally exercises include left and right turns, U-turns, circles, about turns, figure eights, finishes, recalls, and a stand for exam.

We've watched people run agility courses and figured it was pretty easy, but it has taken about eight months for Mom and Madison to even start to get the hang of it all!

After about eight or so hours, once I figured out what was going on and started crafting new weapons and equipping abilities, I found myself enjoying the game a lot more.

Auctions are not so much about selling art as about breaking records, with the bulk of the effort, profit and publicity each season centered on a handful of eight - figure transactions.

Then a palpably frustrated tone emerges at the prospect of having to write 1300 words describing the fortnight of sales in London: «What else is there to say about this procession of anonymous seven - and eight - figure bids for bankable brands such as Jean - Michel Basquiat, Lucio Fontana, Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol?»

About one - third of the public says the government is doing the «right amount,» while nearly 1 in 5 think it should be doing less, a figure that has grown from 1 in 10 eight years ago.

The figure also highlights the more recent additional focus on non-hydro renewables, which have grown by about a factor of eight over the same period — and by about 30 % in 2017 alone.

While I don't like the eight year exclusivity for one private vendor any more than anyone else, I understand it, because I've been trying to figure out how to get someone to care enough about this problem to fund it for at least the last five years.

When I finally figured out what worked for me, my search results ended up usually being about eight screens long.

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