Sentences with phrase «about a quarter of»

Yet, while surveys have found that most small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are aware of CRM's potential benefits, only about a quarter of them have adopted it.

About a quarter of all uploading on mobile is social media - related, but the category doesn't even warrant its own mention on fixed connections.

In the second quarter of 2013, tech IPOs represented about a quarter of all IPOs — and plenty of analysts are saying that we're going to start seeing a lot more tech companies (especially enterprise software) go public in the next several months driven, in part, by a backlog generated in a sluggish 2012.

The softer soup business would fall to about a quarter of the business.

But this deal would put Tweed on top, responsible for about a quarter of the registered patients in Canada.

Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp said the agreement is important because methane is responsible for about a quarter of today's warming, and the U.S. and Canada are the world's second - and fourth - largest emitters of oil and gas methane respectively.

Sawyer, a farmer and regional director of the Alberta Barley Commission, lost about a quarter of his fields to flooding about two weeks ago.

Similarly, about a quarter of the respondents reported they intend to hire new employees, up from about 16 percent a year earlier.

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

In the United States, about a quarter of the population lives alone.

As oil prices have fallen, defaults in the sector have risen — about a quarter of all corporate bond defaults in 2015 were energy related, according to Moody's — and that's made traders even more reluctant to buy.

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

The cost of acquisition of the customer alone is about a quarter of that 40 percent.

Investing in the bonds means that as long as Tesla is worth about a quarter of its current value, «We're guaranteed not to lose money,» Palihapitiya explained.

China already represents about a quarter of the index, a far bigger share than any other country.

Considering boomers make up about a quarter of the population, there's a wealth of business opportunity in serving this aging demographic, particularly when it comes to health care.

Generation Z is about a quarter of the U.S. population, and are starting to make a difference in our communities and around the world.

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.

About a quarter of the money will be from private investors, the rest will be public funds.

But about a quarter of the time, you can have a P / E reset, if you will, while the market generally stays up.

About a quarter of young adults say they personally have insurance through their parents, while another 1 in 10 have purchased insurance through an exchange.

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.

You spend hundred of thousands on a car that can legally achieve about a quarter of its performance potential.

Only about a quarter of young people want «Obamacare» repealed.

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.

«When we surveyed elders 20 years ago, about a quarter of them thought they might do remunerative work after reaching retirement age,» he says.

Right now, LinkedIn has about a quarter of a billion users and about 4,200 employees.

About a quarter of Panera's orders come in digitally via its in - store kiosk, website, or app.

While overall low inventory has led to competition in some markets — about a quarter of 2017 home sales yielded sales prices higher than the asking price, according to Zillow — it's a different story for some sellers.

Sears attributes about a quarter of its lost revenue to having fewer stores in operation, with more than 300 locations gone since 2010.

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.

Japan's No. 3 lender also said it was looking to cut 19,000 employees or about a quarter of the total workforce in 10 years.

While the economy has rebounded from the Great Recession, Biz2Credit found big banks still only approve about a quarter of the small - business - loan applications.

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.

But while Digit has saved about a quarter of a billion dollars for its users, CEO Ethan Bloch says the company has earned only «a tiny amount» in the current interest - rate environment.

The hackers also claimed to have control of 2,112 computers, or about a quarter of the 8,656 computer on the agency's network, Hoodline reported.

Yet Beliefnet cost about a million dollars to design and build — LifePosts will cost about a quarter of that.

To drive down energy costs for businesses and families, we've focused on inexpensive and cleaner - burning natural gas, and last month, Calpine Corporation broke ground on a new power plant in Dover that is expected to serve about a quarter of a million homes.

Blend makes digital tools for mortgage lenders and tells LinkedIn that its clients control about a quarter of the $ 10 trillion mortgage lending industry.

,» he mused, before continuing, «we work on it, we work on it, and nope... The real problem is that it's so power - inefficient it would get about a quarter of a mile per gallon.

Yet, only about a quarter of all U.S. businesses have a «well - implemented ethics and compliance program in place,» according to Harned.

Shares of Apple, which generates about a quarter of its sales in China, tumbled nearly 4 percent as worries about the country's economy intensified.

About a quarter of people who land in Sarah Vermunt's coaching office have some kind of unexplained ailment their doctor calls «stress - induced»: headaches, neck pain, back pain, insomnia.

I just dumped the baggie into the bowl (saving the baggie for reuse, of course), added about a quarter of a cup of skim milk, and microwaved it for about sixty seconds.

To this number, we added 25 % of reported «other» debt as of December 2017; the New York Fed Consumer Credit Panel / Equifax said that about a quarter of «other» debt is outstanding retail credit card debt.

According to an analysis released in December by the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy, half of American college freshmen «seriously underestimate» the amount of student - loan debt they have, and about a quarter of students with federal loans do not even know they have such loans.

Even though the bots are voice - equipped and «speak» several languages, only about a quarter of people try talking to them.

Looking back in time, global steel production grew strongly in the 1960s and early 1970s when Japan was industrialising, but then was relatively flat for about a quarter of a century (Graph 8).

Trading on the NYSE floor makes up about a quarter of consolidated tape volume, or trading of all NYSE securities on all platforms, based on a recent 30 - day average.