Sentences with phrase «about fifth»

I think it's about the fifth year in a row we've gathered at the restaurant to sing happy birthday to my nephew.

It's about fifth in line on the to - do list though... after finishing the floors, putting the trim back, caulking and painting the trim, and repainting our banister.

I discovered in about my fifth year of selling real estate that multi-transactional business was the best path for me.

What about your fifth, tenth, or fifteenth?

And about a fifth (21 percent) simply aren't aware that online tenant screening is an option.

On the other end of the spectrum, about a fifth of respondents (21 percent) look after one property, while another 23 percent manage two or three properties.

In the process, an existing mortgage owed by the Kushners will be slashed to about a fifth of its current amount.

For example, about a fifth (20 percent) of the students enrolled in ACC's 68 markets live in on - campus housing.

In fiscal 2015, just over 1,300 families — about a fifth of that number — were served.

Chromebooks experienced a surge in popularity in 2013, rising from almost nothing to claim about a fifth of the commercial laptop market.

The electric - car manufacturer, backed by a Chinese billionaire rumored to be broke, scaled down the plans for its huge Nevada factory to about a fifth of the original layout over the week.

As a result, Messenger Lite is about a fifth the size of the full Messenger app (11 MB vs. 55 MB).

Thousands of agents across the country represent Foremost and are ready to talk to you about your Fifth - Wheel insurance quote questions.

See, for example, Michel - Adrien Sheppard's post about the Fifth Annual Link Rot Report of the Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group.

Its own Treasury estimates tax evasion at about a fifth of the country's GDP; Fabio Capello, Silvio Berlusconi and, collectively, the gondoliers of Venice (as the by - product of allegations made during a very nasty divorce of one of their number) are, or have recently been, the subject of investigation for tax evasion.

As of 2015, women constituted more than a third of the profession, but only about a fifth of law firm partners, general counsels of Fortune 500 corporations and law school deans.

Although only responsible for about a fifth of patent cases over the same period, NPEs, the report concluded, accounted for about half of the overall increase in defendants.

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Few (9 %) more or less disagreed and about a fifth (21 %) were indifferent.

Wind power was generating more than half SA's power (green) and rooftop solar was generating about a fifth (yellow).

«Yes, CO2 has an effect, but it's about a fifth or tenth of what the IPCC says it is,» Evans is quoted as saying.

That amounts to about a fifth of the total of all the nations that have signed the accord.

About a fifth of the corals died during the event.

Indeed, I was consulting [unintelligible] the other day, who is the world's greatest expert on sea level, and has written several papers on it, and he said he is not expecting it to rise very much more than the eight inches we saw in the last century, and that in itself is only about a fifth of the 4 feet per century which has been the average sea level rise per century over the last 10,000 years, with sea level rising over 400 feet in that time.

According to recent calculations, road transportation alone is responsible for about a fifth of all carbon emissions in Europe.

«Yes, CO2 has an effect, but it's about a fifth or tenth of what the IPCC says it is.

However, only about a fifth of the stations surveyed by the Surface Stations group received this rating.

While CO2 about a fifth, 350 to 400.

Road transport emissions, which account for about a fifth of total EU greenhouse gas emissions, increased for the second year in a row, by 1.6 %.

They noted that about a fifth of the population had left the islands between 1999 and 2011.

That's about a fifth of the UK's annual consumption.

Nearly 60,000 square kilometers have been cleared for agriculture in the Cerrado since 2003, and about a fifth of that land is being used for soy.

In fact, the use of air conditioners and electric fans already accounts for about a fifth of the total electricity in buildings around the world — or 10 % of all global electricity consumption.

Urgewald, a Berlin - based environmental group, calculates that Chinese companies are at present involved in plans to build about a fifth of new coal - fired energy capacity around the world — in countries including Pakistan, Egypt, Iran, Vietnam and Malawi.

About a fifth of adults (22 %) have a relatively high level of science knowledge, answering at least seven questions correctly (including 4 % with a perfect score).

About a fifth of the southern part of the delta, the heart of the tiger reserve, is already submerged!

Renewables generate about a fifth of the UK's electricity.

Using air conditioners and electric fans to stay cool already accounts for about a fifth of the total electricity used in buildings around the world — or 10 % of all global electricity consumption today.

Africa loses about a fifth of its maize crop because of drought.

But don't forget, road transport is responsible for about a fifth of CO2 emissions, it is a major part of the discussion.

Only about a fifth of the available solar energy is directly absorbed by the atmosphere.

I think it's very interesting that last November, Florida Governor Charles Crist — the governor of the state that produces more sugar cane than any other, and about a fifth of all American sugar — visited Brazil and proposed ending America's tariff on sugar ethanol from that country.

To be clear, the study finds that temperatures in about a fifth of this historical period were higher than they are today.

Richard Whelan interviews painter Dona Nelson about her fifth New York solo exhibition.

The university, which offers world - class instruction in art, architecture and engineering, but no expensive athletic programs, no tricked - out student centers, no plush lawns to sprawl on between classes, is currently losing $ 12 million a year, about a fifth of its overall budget.

Christophe Van de Weghe, a New York art dealer, told The Economist that if a good new catalogue raisonné of Modigliani drawings were published, sales worldwide would rise by about a fifth.

WHITEWALL: Tell us about your fifth solo show, «Cats not fighting is a horrible sound as well,» at Division Gallery in Montreal, which features some of your food sculptures.

«The market is quite big in North America — there is room to grow for us,» Nakatani said, adding that the company wants to put out more mobile and online games, which now make up about a fifth of all its titles.

About a fifth of the island is covered by the gorgeous Arikok National Park, which has several wild and beautiful beaches, and protects indigenous wildlife and unique landscapes.

This is about the fifth time I have used the Holiday Extras website and will do so again.