Sentences with phrase «about more than a quarter of»

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More than one third of business owners said they expect to decrease capital spending in the year ahead, an increase of about 10 percentage points from the previous quarter.

While Tesla expressed confidence about the second half of the year, negative free cash flow was more than $ 1 billion for the third time in the last four quarters.

There was a lot of money made on residential property sales around Australia in the June quarter, but the joy wasn't spread around evenly, with more than 10 per cent of all houses and about 20 per cent of all units sold in Western Australia during the quarter selling at a loss.

According to global market research firm NPD Group, LCDs now account for more than 90 % of TV sales — bad news for Panasonic, whose sales dropped by about 25 % in the second quarter of this year.

Just more than one half of Canadians think Alberta demonstrates good stewardship of its natural resources (54 %), and about one quarter agree strongly (27 %).

Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jMore than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jmore concentrating on the Games instead of their jobs.

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

The business is more complex than it may appear, he said: Groupon has salespeople in 47 countries, negotiating deals with a quarter of a million merchants, and «at the same time, [we are] innovating [and] thinking about what Groupon will become in three or five years.

The options market is implying about a 7.5 percent move in either direction for the streaming giant, which is more than the average 5.5 percent move over the past four quarters, but less than the long - term average move of about 13 percent.

Conservative Solutions, the pro-Rubio super PAC, raised more than $ 14 million in the second half of 2015, about as much as Rubio's campaign committee did in the fourth quarter.

But not everyone is over the moon about the tie up that will let one company control more than a quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides.

Despite accounting for only about 13 percent of the population, immigrants now start more than a quarter of new businesses in this country.

Foreigners spent more than $ 5.4 billion on travel in the first quarter, compared with about $ 5 billion over the same period a year earlier and $ 4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2014.

Results showed that more than three - quarters of participants humblebragged, usually about being a perfectionist or working too hard.

Instead, about three - quarters of the submissions I received read more like brand positioning documents or press releases than actual editorial content.

Dahl adds: «That's why, if we were looking at a company with a longer track record, we might ask more questions about how the business handled the slowdown of»91 than how it performed during a single quarter in» 99.

But the company that shows up next quarter could be a very different one: Layoffs of more than 1,700 people will be well underway, offices will be closed and assets sold, and Yahoo could be in discussions with «qualified strategic entities» such as Verizon about a sale of some or all of its core properties.

Among micro-business owners, or those who average about eight employees, more than half expected the third quarter of 2013 to exceed expectations.

For example, over the past three months, payroll gains have averaged about 150,000 per month, as compared to an average of more than 200,000 per month over the course of 2015 and the first quarter of this year.

«As we continue to focus on quality and efficiency rather than simply pushing for the highest possible volume in the shortest period of time, we expect to have a slightly more gradual ramp through Q1, likely ending the quarter at a weekly rate of about 2,500 Model 3 vehicles,» Tesla said in a release.

Hackers stole Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses, credit card and driver's license numbers of 143 million people — more than half the adult population in the U.S., and about three - quarters of all Americans with a credit history.

Indeed, data shows about a quarter of more than 360,000 investors who synched their portfolios with online tracker SigFig sold stocks when the Dow tumbled nearly 1,900 points in one dismal week last August.

This net position in turn consisted of foreign currency asset holdings equivalent to about 20 per cent of GDP, with more than three - quarters of this in the form of equity investment (including direct investment by multinational companies in their offshore operations).

I guess, I guess, if you could just talk about what is perceived to be somewhat of a share fallback here for the second quarter in a row now or well, it's a little bit more pronounced in this quarter than it's been in quarters past, you're pretty much in line with the category in the last quarter.

By 2020, half of China's digital shoppers — or more than a quarter of the country's population of about 1.4 billion — will be buying foreign products online, eMarketer estimates, with total sales of $ 157.7 billion.

Looking at the sector - wide performance of Corporate America in the second quarter of this year, more than 80 percent of the companies in information technology, healthcare and the financial - services space reported higher than estimated EPS growth, closely followed by the consumer staples industry producing food, beverages, household articles, while about 60 - 70 percent of the companies listed under the energy, utilities and materials sectors reported better than expected EPS numbers.

Permanent life insurance is an option that could help meet all of these needs; however, fewer than half of those with a financial professional have permanent life insurance and one - quarter don't currently have it, but would like to learn more about it.

Quarter Review Despite more than usual market worries about geopolitical events, the S&P 500 managed a small advance of 1 % in the qQuarter Review Despite more than usual market worries about geopolitical events, the S&P 500 managed a small advance of 1 % in the quarterquarter.

At the Houston - based company, production from the Marcellus has risen about 85 % over the past year and now accounts for more than one - quarter of its total output.

More than half (57 percent) said the national economy has improved over the last year, and about a quarter of business owners said their businesses had benefited a great deal from the improved national economy over the past year.

At the retail level, prices of imported consumer goods fell in the year to the March quarter by just over 1 per cent; domestically produced goods prices are also rising more slowly than a year ago, but the slowing is less pronounced and, in the year to March, domestic goods prices rose by about 3 per cent.

Everyone talks about US companies hoarding cash but as of the 3rd quarter last year Japanese companies were holding $ 2.17 trillion in cash (and that is after the Yen devaluation), roughly 60 % more than US companies — in a smaller economy.

They also crow about: «with millions of Americans set to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, a new survey finds more than a quarter of Americans believe that God «plays a role in determining which team wins» at sports events».

Twenty years from now, it will have about twice as many - and they'll represent more than a quarter of all people on earth, according to a new study released Thursday.

We know a good deal more today about «what is in man» than we could claim to know half or even a quarter of a century ago.

After a review of about 200 food recalls in the first quarter of 2015, FSM has found that more than half were due to undeclared allergens — primarily peanuts.

For these reasons, about three - quarters of coffee cultivated worldwide is C. Robusta strains also contain about 40 — 50 % more caffeine than others.

For these reasons, about three - quarters of coffee cultivated worldwide is C. Robusta - strains also contain about 40 — 50 % more caffeine than others.

Fruit compressed, more or less ribbed, about two inches and three - quarters in diameter, and two inches in depth; skin smooth and glossy, when ripe, of a brilliant coral - red; flesh thick, mild and pleasant to the taste, though possessing more piquancy than the Large Bell or Sweet Spanish.

Clemons did cause fumble in the third quarter when he got great penetration on a play where Heron dropped the toss just as Clemons was about to hit him, but other than that there weren't many more flashes out of him that day.

It's been more than a quarter - century since the hit movie «A League of Their Own» brought the All - American Girls Professional Baseball League back to life, and since then, the players from that league have used the platform to create more awareness about girls and women playing baseball.

Hot tap water actually accounts for about a quarter of all scald burns, but causes more deaths and hospitalizations than any other hot liquid.

I love and care about her, I'm a mother figure to her, I've been around for more than three quarters of her life, and I plan on continuing to be around for the rest of that life.

A little more than half of the infants were exclusively breastfed at one month of age, a figure that declined to about a quarter of the infants by three months.

More than three quarters of women (77 %) aged 16 - 24 want a contraceptive method that they didn't have to think about every day or plan for during sex, but just 1 % are aware of all four of the most reliable methods of contraception (injection, IUD, IUS and implant) that once fitted, women don't need to worry about for up to 10 years.

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

Asked about acceptable ways for candidates to raise money, more than three - quarters of Americans say that raising campaign money from contributions made by Washington lobbyists is unacceptable, putting it at the bottom of a list of six ways for raising money.

That sum, collected in the first three months of this year, is about $ 1 million more than her previous best quarter, said a campaign aide for Gillibrand, a Democrat and the junior senator from New York.

Three - quarters of those tickets, worth about $ 11,500, were in default at the time of the Roll Call survey, having gone more than 60 days, and in some cases years, without payment.

Hanna, 59, of Barneveld, Oneida County, disclosed he raised more than $ 358,000 in the first quarter of the year, eclipsing Arcuri, a two - term incumbent by about $ 150,000, according to disclosure reports filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission.