Sentences with phrase «about an eighth of»

Enright said on the podcast that only about an eighth of what she and Koenig uncovered during their separate investigations made it onto «Serial.»

Blackstone Group generated $ 100 million in net transaction - fee revenue last year, or about an eighth of its private - equity revenue, and the firm has collected $ 305 million in such fees during the past three years.

I only used about an eighth of a cup or more, instead of a fourth of a cup, of cream de menthe, and I think it was a lot better that way.

It still has about an eighth of a mile to go.

Blueberry Spherules - «Blueberries,» ancient mineral deposits about an eighth of an inch wide, dot many areas.

The only thing standing between the escape of nuclear steam and a possible chain of events leading to a meltdown was an internal liner of stainless steel just three sixteenths of an inch (0.48 centimeter) thick that had slowly bent out about an eighth of an inch (0.32 centimeter) into the cavity due to the constant 2,200 pound - per — square - inch (155 - kilogram - per - square - centimeter) pressure.

That might sound large, but it only accounts for about an eighth of the globe's total forests.

That's about an eighth of the time in which conventional cell culture methods, which rely on viral gene expression, can detect infection.

An asteroid measuring between 30 feet and 100 feet is set to pass Earth on October 12 at a distance of 27,000 miles — about an eighth of the distance to the Moon.

In addition to two recently discovered small moons, Pluto has a moon, Charon, that is roughly half it's size, with about an eighth of its mass (more).

With some 380bhp, 310 lb ft of torque and just a claimed 1100 kg to propel, the Tuscan should feel ballistic, but as TVR fresher Henry rightly points out, «You wonder where all the power is - until you discover you've only been using about an eighth of the seemingly endless throttle travel.»

Regardless, the V8 weighs about an eighth of a ton less.

The screen is deeply inset from the bezel — by about an eighth of an inch.

Attaching the keyboard dock adds about another eighth of an inch in thickness and a pound in weight.

A study released this year by the World Resources Institute and the Rights and Resources Initiative found that rates of deforestation are, on average, 11 times lower in community forests with strong legal recognition, and indigenous people have official rights to about an eighth of the world's forest area.

The carbon dioxide they produce will equal about an eighth of China's current total carbon dioxide emissions, which come mostly from coal - burning power plants and factories.

According to the report, there are 513 million hectares of legally recognized community forests, which account for about an eighth of the world's forests.

Equally offputting is the placement of the sensor, about an eighth of an inch below the camera and a good half - inch away from where my finger naturally rested, and I often had to readjust my grip to reach it.

About an eighth of a teaspoon is sufficient; not more.

After the jobs report on Friday, lenders started coming in with much lower rates — in some cases, about an eighth of a point lower, says Matt Graham, CEO of MBS live.

Not exact matches

About a half - dozen members of Hydro One's senior team huddled around the long, rectangular table in the executive committee boardroom on the eighth floor of their downtown Toronto office.

Some customers waited in line for about three hours to purchase cannabis legally at $ 64.90 for an eighth of an ounce.

The eighth installment of Tyler Perry's «Madea» movies, this Christmas - themed iteration about the titular character bringing two unlikely families together was poorly received.

It was the eighth most - viewed viral video of all time, and gave Dove the kind of awareness leverage content marketers fantasize about.

Williams and Turner are currently about halfway through filming for the eighth and final season of «Game of Thrones.»

Yet despite emerging market stocks representing about one - eighth of global equity market capitalization, the vast majority of investors has much smaller allocations to them, dramatically underweighting the asset class.

I can get dozens of feeds on HootSuite for about one eighth the cost.

The company name was taken from the family of Hannibal Barca of Carthage, about whom he first learned in his eighth grade ancient history class.

Now there are times that the yield curve is inverted because we are predicting a slowdown in the economy but I don't think, you know, here we are into the eighth year of economic expansion, ninth maybe, and it doesn't really seem to be any particular reason that that economic expansion is going to die any time soon, so the traditional inverted yield curve «we're about to go into recession» I don't see.

FCR's assets total about $ 11 billion and include projects that formed its legacy as one of the city's most ambitious developers: MetroTech in Brooklyn, the Frank Gehry - Designed 8 Spruce Street and the New York Times Building at 620 Eighth Avenue.

The increase in the number of churches (between 1990 and 2000) was about one - eighth of what is needed to keep up with population growth.

Jesus gave us a clear picture of what that was all about as did others say Peter for example 2 Peter 2:4 - 6: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample to those that after should live ungodly;

This kind of talk about the eighth day underscores the in - breaking of the divine into the movement of history to bring it to a final consummation.

These prophets all appear within the span of about two centuries, between, roughly, the middle of the eighth and the middle of the sixth centuries.

Associate editor Julia Yost talks with Senator Rónán Mullen of the Irish Parliament about the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

With the Protestants it was, in most countries, Luther or Calvin, but England became Protestant by the action of Henry the Eighth, and who in the 19th Century knew or cared about his theological view?

The rapid rise and spread of Communism must be accepted by Christians as the most seriously challenging deviant form of the Judeo - Christian heritage, just as, in the eighth century, the rise of Islam came about because of the tendency for Christian Trinitarian doctrine to revert to polytheism, adding weight to Mohammed's call for a pure monotheism.

We have noted that the Old Testament prophet on whom Jesus seems most to have patterned his life work was the one whom he knew as Isaiah, though we may now speak of him as Second Isaiah, since he wrote during the exile and about one hundred and fifty years after the Isaiah of the eighth century.

By the beginning of the eighth year before the Hijrah there were scarcely forty men and about ten women who were Muslims in Mecca, and they met in secret.

The other day a colleague of mine, who came to America from Russia via Israel, told me a story about her son who is in the eighth grade in a renowned progressive school in Cambridge, Massachusetts (than which no community could be more progressive).

At that scale, you would have to walk about seven eighths of the way down the field before you would come to what paleontologists call the Cambrian period (2).

In the Middle Ages (at least by the time of the eighth century), those who were about to die were laid on the ground on top of sackcloth sprinkled with ashes.

They included the Donation of Constantine, composed about the middle of the eighth century and purporting to have Constantine as its author.

The prophet Amos performed his mission about the time of the great earthquake in the middle of the eighth century.

There is a story about the election of Timothy I as Nestorian patriarch in the eighth century.

I looked at the ingredients on my jar of best foods mayonnaise in the refrigerator and added several dashes of salt, a pinch of sugar, several drops of fresh lemon juice, and about an eighth teaspoon of white vinegar.

Roll an eighth of chickpea mixture into about a nugget or cylinder shape (see photos).

I'd like to say about a quarter of an inch to (minimally) an eighth of an inch.

This is the equivalent of about one - eighth of a teaspoon of flour, says Center's registered dietitian Pam Cureton, RD, LDN.