Sentences with phrase «almost zero in»

The variations can range anywhere from almost zero in 1993 to 1995 when the market was down but relatively stable to 15 percent in 2008 when the commercial market suffered a sharp decline.

This rate could be cut to almost zero in new housing through sound climate responsive design.»

In a computer model, Whitehead found that a theoretical cultural behavior that gives a 10 % reproductive advantage and is passed to 95 % of daughters will reduce mtDNA diversity to almost zero in 300 generations.

To a buyer who had almost zeroed in on getting himself the Kindle 2, The Nook appeared and made him rethink.

Not exact matches

I have 91 million active users on BBM and I expect to make almost $ 100 million in revenue next year from zero.

Co-founded by Che Voigt, an engineer and investor based in Sonoma, California, the on - wheels station can adjust into multiple modes, including a «zero - G» mode where you ergonomically shift backward into a position where you're almost laying down.

On a Zero, he was able to ride fast and record almost pure wind noise in a real - world environment (here at Pigeon Point), which in turn allowed the company to isolate the sound of wind and then design firmware that could all but eliminate it from recordings.

It took almost no time for my boss to zero in on it.

Two of the groups — the purple and blue ones — passed news between their respective networks but shared almost zero with those in the red group.

Zero to almost $ 1 million in her first year successful.

The citizens of the host country expunge all cynicism and find their eyes filling with tears; television viewers around the globe are inspired by a new generation of fresh - faced athletes, many of them competing in events which would draw almost zero interest in any other context; the networks and sponsors breathe a great sigh of relief knowing that their massive investment was sound; and the folks in Lausanne smile a secret smile.

And in some cases, a best picture win yields almost zero additional box office earnings.

Glickman, 27 at the time, quickly zeroed in on phone costs: like almost all countries other than the United States, Argentina had a state - run phone company that charged an arm and a leg for international calls, and Amex Argentina was running up a monthly bill of $ 25,000 in international calls.

There's a couple reasons for this: after massive sleep deprivation and zero separation between work and personal life, taking a step back often reminds a founder of the things that they want in their personal life and gives motivation to the work life and while in a lull this can upset investors or look like avoidance, its in almost every case helped the company and lets be honest, if a company is going to die it isn't going to die in one week but be surprised at how much sleep a founder might need and you probably wouldn't want many friends around.

If you haven't read Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty - First Century, if you haven't read The Zero Marginal Cost Society [Jeremy Rifkin's account of how extreme gains in productivity are disrupting capitalism by rendering many goods and services almost free], you can not even have a conversation with me about what the future is holding.

«It is thus important to realize that in the current environment of low long - term interest rates, fiscal prudence does not require bringing the annual budget balance to zero almost immediately,» he wrote in a paper for the Bennett Jones law firm.

And SpiderOak has been a trusted company in the backup space for almost a decade, known for their Zero Knowledge privacy practices.

70 % of it's companies are listed on the mainland stock exchanges and currently have almost ZERO exposure in your EM index fund.

Global monetary policy remains broadly accommodative — and in some areas more and more so — propelling equity markets ever higher and leaving a record amount of sovereign debt around the world (almost US$ 12 trillion by midyear) yielding at or below zero (source: Fitch Ratings, as of 6/29/2016).

Many (including me) believe the reason that both stock prices and real estate prices are currently trading at historically high valuation ratios is tied to the Feds current «experiment» in holding interest rates at almost zero for half a decade and running....

With rates far from zero, «removing accommodation» by ending reinvestments would then proceed in «a very predictable almost automatic way.»

While base rates kept at or close to zero for almost seven years and three massive asset - buying programs by the Fed have undoubtedly helped stabilize the US (and world) economy during and after the recession that followed the global financial crisis, the continuation of expansionary monetary policies is now supporting a growing excess of global liquidity that has been distorting the market signals sent by stock and bond prices and thus contributing to the growing volatility seen in recent weeks.

Incidentally I never understood why some firms show zero fee — they are almost rubbing you in the face with the fact that they make money in a less transparent way which is bound to irritate many customers.

Selling gold short has therefore been an alternative to the «yen - carry» trade which saw market participants fund investments in various markets by borrowing yen (at almost zero cost due to the low interest rates in Japan) and selling it for other currencies, mostly US dollars.

In Krugman's view, debt spending is a stimulus package of sorts with almost zero downside.

After the liquidations that inevitably followed Humps 1 and 2, the Bernanke Fed instigated the mother of all monetary inflation attempts as ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) was initiated in December 2008 and remains an accepted, almost forgotten part of the macro landscape to this day.

But then again, the S&P 500 lost about 5 % annually in the decade following the 2000 peak, and even including the recent advance, has achieved an annual total return since 2000 of almost exactly zero.

«Right now it's not millions, but this money has been made in three weeks at almost zero cost... this analysis well illustrates the whole web, so it's safe to say that one of every 40 websites currently mines cryptocurrency.»

The chance for me to lose the money invested in the S&P 500 (for example) are almost zero.

The last I had heard, we have a real unemployment rate that essentially makes it so that seven times as many people are making almost zero income... that is a far larger issue, in almost everyone's opinion.

So it's no surprise whatsoever that The Post takes a clear side in this debate, purposefully exercising almost zero nuance, undoubtedly because Spielberg worked this script into a movie during the last 9 months.

takes a clear side in this debate, purposefully exercising almost zero nuance, undoubtedly because Spielberg worked this script into a movie during the last 9 months.

Republican Presidents have used the nomination process in an effort to change the direction of the Court with almost zero results on the major issues.

In probability theory, a probability of one is referred to as «almost surely» and a probability of zero is «almost never».

On the other hand, almost all smallholder cocoa is grown without irrigation in high - rainfall areas, so the water used in production of the cocoa is close to zero (apart from a small amount of water used in processing).

There doesn't tend to be any small crashes in NASCAR — especially in the «restrictor plate» races at the superspeedways of Talladega and Daytona where «the big one» is almost inevitable — but this horrifying wreck at the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona surely has to be one of the biggest of recent times.

Arsenal fans are charged more than any other football fans on this planet, for mediocre football, almost ZERO trophies in 11 years, and never within a million miles of a major trophy.

We do not know for sure, but the reports are also suggesting that there is no release clause in the new deal, so the chances of any club, including our own, signing the Algerian international this summer are now almost zero.

As reported by the Evening Standard this week, Paul Doswell has declared that his hopes of guiding the National League team to one of the biggest ever upsets in the tournament's long history will be almost zero if Arsene Wenger decides to name his strongest Arsenal XI on Monday evening.

While I understand the sentiment of offering Sanchez a massive contract to keep him at the club, it would also be prudent to ensure that we don't end up with a Wayne Rooney problem — namely that a forward player heading into 30's on a massive long term contract who would be incredibly hard to move in a few years (with almost zero sell value and no club willing to pay for his wages).

But in what Dietschy said might have been the most important play of the game, Blake Thorpe rebounded a missed Robinson free throw that allowed Las Lomas to run another possession down to almost zero — and then after Robinson missed a tough jumper, J. T. Estes wound up with the ball and Palo Alto was forced to foul.

I pray Real, man city n chelsea fail miserably next season.its nothing personal, just that i utterly ditest how they've cheapend football by overblowing transfer fees and wages not to mention their almost zero input in youth development.a win of a major trophy for any of these would be a vindication of this mercenarism and a blow to true football.

But for an unheralded team composed of players with almost zero title - winning know - how, their success in leading from the front represents an astonishing feat of fortitude and sporting courage.

Now, the Merseyside outfit will have learnt that there is almost zero chance of Can staying in extending his contract with the club.

Blackburn were offering basically zero threat at this point, and Laurent Koscielny and Thomas Vermaelen were spending more time forward than in their own half, almost.

And yet, in almost every case, the effect of Fryer's incentive programs has been zero.

• 8 out of 10 people (80 %) think fathers should feel as able as mothers to ask for flexible working • 8 out of 10 women (80 %) and more than 6 out of 10 men (62 %) agree that fathers are as good as mothers at caring for children • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 42 % strongly, that society values a child's relationship with its mother more than it values a child's relationship with its father • Almost 6 out of 10 (59 %) agree with the statement that society assumes mothers are good for children, fathers have to prove it • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that there should be a zero tolerance approach if fathers do not take on their parenting responsibilities • Almost 7 out of 10 (67 %) agree that dads should be encouraged to spend time in school reading with their child • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that dads should be able to stay overnight with their partner in hospital when their baby is born.

Even when Parliament does try to scrutinise things in advance, it has few resources and almost zero power to prevent «blunders» happening.

That's right, very simply John Faso wants to spread the safety burden to people who work in construction, on the job sites, even though if you've ever been on a construction site you know darn well labor has almost zero control over how safely the site's run.

«We now have almost 55 % women staff, up from 30 % in 2005, 17 % disabled staff, up from 5 % in 2005, and 26 % heterosexual staff, up from zero... If you're thinking of employing a member of heterosexual staff in your workplace, they can be very good!»