Sentences with phrase «about a fifth of»

In 2016, runway and taxiway excursions accounted for about a fifth of total accidents involving commercial aircraft.

Sequence Bio plans to decode the DNA of 100,000 people — about a fifth of Newfoundland and Labrador's population — and the provincial government is partnering with the company to help recruit consenting patients and provide access to their health records.

And rather than granting requests by seniority, he has a lottery to let about a fifth of his staff leave at noon on either Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve.

Some critics contend that Cook's stance domestically rings hollow when being gay is illegal in about a fifth of the 100 - plus countries Apple does business in.

Some 3.2 million Americans work at least part time for an on - demand service; for about a fifth of them, it's the primary source of income.

The cash - rich cartels, believed by the Mexican government to generate well over $ 21 billion each year, are an increasing threat to Pemex, which in 2016 reported revenue of about $ 52 billion and generates about a fifth of government income.

These moves have paid off; China now accounts for about a fifth of Apple's revenue, up from about 15 percent two years ago, and sales there are growing fast.»

«We have demand for 50,000 bpd and we can move about a fifth of that,» said Jarrett Zielinski, chief executive of Torq Energy Logistics, an Alberta company that owns rail loading facilities and 275 trucks.

The percentage of adults thankful for the economic situation in the U.S. is lower than in 2010 and about a fifth of what it was in the mid-1980s, according to a new poll.

That was on full display the weekend of March 17, as Bitcoin shed about a fifth of its value (dropping below $ 950 at one point, before bouncing back to about $ 1,050 on Monday) as an increasingly bitter split in the developer community behind Bitcoin threatened to split it into two competing currencies.

Energy represents about a fifth of Canada's market cap and earnings growth is very much tied to fortunes in the oil patch (nearly half of the expected 22 % earnings growth for the S&P / TSX Composite Index in 2017 flows from the energy sector, we calculate).

This was as a result of the fact that most of the insurance firm's portfolio is invested in debts as companies can only invest about a fifth of their revenue in equities.

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.

Assembling the cake: place one cake layer, top side down, on a cake plate and spread about a fifth of the frosting over the cake to cover evenly.

Last November the baseball commissioner's office paid a reported $ 7.5 million for about a fifth of Halper's stash of 100,000 items and donated those pieces to the Hall of Fame.

But six years after their high - school graduation, only about a fifth of KIPP's first class had completed a four - year college degree.

The top.1 % pay about a fifth of the overall taxes.

About 187,000 people — about a fifth of the population — were eligible to vote in the election, which was boycotted by some opposition parties.

His office estimated the new limits would cost about a fifth of the state's taxpayers $ 14.3 billion.

The Office for Fair Access has approved about a fifth of the total universities» proposals before the official deadline.

Holden has only represented about a fifth of the redrawn 17th district during the past 10 years.

Cameron: «Bank bonuses are about a fifth of what they were when he was in the Treasury.»

Malliotakis has raised just $ 18,965 from outside the five boroughs, though that's still about a fifth of what she's gotten in all.

About a fifth of the survey respondents were members of a national Young Academy, and slightly less than a third were in permanent positions.

Jennifer Turner, who directs the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said Guangzhou makes about 60 percent of the world's toys and about a fifth of all cell phones.

Those sales erased about a fifth of its earning power.

But in about a fifth of these cases, scar tissue reblocked the artery.

«However, our study showed that in the real world over a third of the patients with STEMI undergoing transradial PCI who receive heparin and about a fifth of patients who receive bivalirudin also receive GPIIb / IIIa inhibitors.»

In addition to different cancers being able to manipulate these anchors, it was also known that about a fifth of lung cancer cases are missing an anti-cancer gene called LKB1 (also known as STK11).

Such an in - depth analysis of gene expression may help clarify the course and origin of common liver disorders, including liver cancer and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which affects about a fifth of the population in developed countries.

Our first move removed about a fifth of the water flowing through that area, but we hadn't gone far enough — we still had to open up the next floodway, the Bonnet Carré, just upstream of New Orleans.

About a fifth of all U.S. children live in poverty.

About a fifth of the leaders of «LMB's more than 50 research groups are currently PLTs, with 80 % of the rest having already passed through the program.

The partnership, called GreenChill, now has 7,000 members, about a fifth of all supermarkets in the United States.

In a normal year, China accounts for about a fifth of global wheat production and consumption.

Translation: if people were otherwise identical, one copy of that variant would add about a fifth of an inch to a person's height, or double that for two copies.

Many foods, such as fruits and vegetables, also provide fluids and generally make up about a fifth of people's total daily water consumption.

An attosecond — the shortest time interval now measurable — would account for only a billionth of the trip: about a fifth of an inch.

Together, they confirm estimates from atmospheric chemists that natural tropical forests absorb about a fifth of our carbon emissions.

The department oversees 500 million acres in total, or about a fifth of the land in the U.S.

About a fifth of ovarian tumours contain foreign tissue, including hair, teeth and muscle.

The grizzlies now roam over 65,000 square kilometers (25,000 square miles) of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, with only about a fifth of the population inside the national park at its core.

In order for the black holes to merge, they must start out very close together by astronomical standards, no more than about a fifth of the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

First, it could be used to research the reasons that about a fifth of AML patients do not respond to first - line chemotherapy at all.

If we put it in another context, that amount is about a fifth of the energy requirements of a 30 - year - old woman who is moderately active.

Study found that only about a fifth of 12th graders who used an e-cigarette used a nicotine substance

Or if you cook for more than one person you can saute the vegetables and then take about a fifth of the vegetables to make a vegetable sauce.

I also like using Perfume Oils, which are the exact scent as your favorite perfume, minus the fillers and about a fifth of the price.

About a fifth of visitors to the online dating site Yahoo Personals, for example, are over 50.

The plant's current workforce of 4,000 workers is about a fifth of what it was in its heyday.