Sentences with phrase «around a quarter»

Together with farming practices, trees loss accounts for around a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Today's engines are pretty inefficient, converting only around a quarter of the energy contained in fuel into motion; the remaining three - quarters is lost as heat.

Around a quarter think private work meetings with colleagues of the opposite sex are inappropriate.

This means around a quarter of teachers now leave the profession after only three years.

Maybe management will be able to turn things around this quarter.

Start small, around a quarter teaspoon per meal.

Around a quarter committed new crimes while being tracked.

Around a quarter of women feel unable to breastfeed for various reasons.

In addition, large hydropower capacity is also planned to grow by around a quarter in the same timeframe.

At the brewery's four San Diego taprooms, Grapefruit Sculpin is the top - seller, accounting for around a quarter of production.

Gina Hanrahan, Acting Head of Policy at WWF Scotland commented: «With around a quarter of Europe's offshore wind resource in Scotland, it's great to see the world's first floating wind farm inaugurated off our coast».

On or about March 15, 2013, Richard Kocher, an investor in MSMB Healthcare, complained to Shkreli about the redemption of his MSMB investment: «For some reason you are giving me Retrophin Stock that is not tradable and is worth around a quarter of what I am owed....

From a humble gathering of around 400 bibliophiles, it has become a staple for the community that expects to draw in around a quarter of a million guests over its ten day run this year.

A series of polls conducted following the debt - ceiling debate indicates that while support for the small - government movement remains firm at around a quarter of eligible voters, opposition to the movement has roughly doubled, to about 40 %.

The output suspension is the latest in a string of earlier ones, most focused on Sharara, which supplied around a quarter of Libya's total — 1.02 million bpd as of July — before production started gradually being reduced after two vehicle thefts that led to a tightening of security measures at the field including limiting access of personnel to some parts of the field.

The rear end is clean and sharply chiseled, with LED taillamps that wrap around the quarter panels to provide a continuous styling line from any angle.

The result was quite predictable — around a quarter fewer trade unionists opted in to the political levy, though the impact on Labour's finances was mitigated in part by unions raising the affiliation fee for those who continued to pay into the political fund.

The ex-wife of former Cabinet minister Chris Huhne's has served around a quarter of an eight - month sentence for taking speeding points for him.

This is important, they emphasise, as around a quarter of all strokes are recurrent, and targeting treatment of conventional risk factors among the lonely and isolated might help stave off further heart attacks and strokes, they suggest.

Throughout my deployment, we (servicemembers from my unit and those who lived around our quarters) gathered every weekend to cook and grill meals together, share recipes, and relax from the daily stresses of our occupations.

Those who now started to worry how to wrap their heads around quarter or even half circle movements in this setup can relax: Those actually always work as if on a 2D plane.

It is difficult to find a clearly articulated case in Catholic social teaching for modern - style welfare states involving huge government intervention in the lives of families combined with enormous transfers totalling around a quarter of national income.

While cryogenic treatment would also see a 25 percent drop in efficiency, and therefore result in electricity costs increasing around a quarter, the researchers believe these would be offset by benefits to society, such as reductions in health - care and climate - change costs.

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Among the examples: «How many ridges are there around a quarter?»

The company's share price fell by around a quarter so far this year, though it jumped more than 5 % on the news of Vestberg's departure.

He added Highland derives around a quarter of its roughly $ 5bn in mutual fund assets from independent B - Ds.

That alliance will own around a quarter of Activision.

Benefits this rich, backed by no assets, put MPs in no position to fix other federal employee pension plans — whose collective deficit around a quarter of a trillion dollars creates a serious burden for taxpayers, and lessens the urgency in Ottawa to make the changes other Canadians struggling for a secure retirement badly need.

The report «Doing Good Better» outlines the growth in community work and suggests faith based organisations make up more around a quarter of the entire third sector.

Barcelona then had a scare as Rodrigo headed against their bar around the quarter - hour mark.

«I normally say that Champions League dreams start around the quarter finals.

Personally I think Europe would help players gel and develop (if managed right) and get us into big name games which occur around the quarters.

In November I found around a quarter of voters expecting a Labour government, another quarter expecting a Conservative government, one eight expecting a Labour - Lib Dem coalition and another eight expecting a Conservative - Lib Dem coalition.

The politico had no problems on the track, avoiding an accident as he participated in the «standard race,» a 14 - lap run around a quarter - mile track, equaling out to a full 3 1/2 miles of fast — if you choose — riding action.

Between them, the anti-EU far left and hard right had been expected to take around a quarter of the vote.

During my introductory session, my trainer made me do a light jog around the quarter - mile track in town.

IUI is much easier than IVF, and often around a quarter of the price.

They found that activity seemed to spike around a quarter of a second after an eye flicker, just as it does after seeing an image when awake (Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038 / ncomms8884).

VANDAM was able to make out the disks around a quarter of the stars in the survey.

Nielsen research has found that generic brands (also referred to as «store brand» or «home brand») now represent around a quarter of supermarket sales.

Collagen is the most abundant protein in the human body, comprising around a quarter of your overall protein makeup and as much as 80 % of the protein in your skin alone.

The research is ongoing, and several studies have suggested that being on an elimination diet may help around a quarter of those who have ADHD to cure or lessen at least a small number of symptoms.

To create gorgeous spirals at home, wrap small sections in opposite directions around a quarter - inch curling iron, and leave the tips straight, says celebrity hairstylist Larry Sims.

Boyer showed the girls proudly around his quarters, with its thick carpeting, polished wood furniture, drapes in hues of mint and terra cotta, and two - story desk nook...

Some clevel soul's about to tell me I don't know what I'm on about but this to me looks like it's worth around the quarter mill mark..

Today's list will include around a quarter - of - a-million Nissans, about 20,000 Mazdas, 5,600 Hyundais, and a couple thousand VWs.

Although around a quarter of the van's parts are carried over, efficiency, cabin quality and the driving experience are now more than a match for most rivals, while a series of well - judged features help make the van brilliantly easy to work with.