Sentences with phrase «around at least a quarter»

The research also suggests that habitable - zone super-Earth planets (where liquid water could exist and making them possible candidates to support life) orbit around at least a quarter of the red dwarfs in the Sun's own neighbourhood.

Not exact matches

Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the transformation of human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate beings — to see «victory» when «loss» is flashing all around them.

With the news last week that Nokia lost $ 1.9 billion last quarter and rumors of bankruptcy swirling around them, I am more convinced then ever that Microsoft will buy at least Nokia's handset business.

Lisbon was home to a quarter million, at least 60,000 of whom perished, both from the initial tremor (reckoned now, like the Sumatran earthquake, at a Richter force of around 9.0) and from the tsunami that it cast up on shore half an hour later (especially murderous to those who had retreated to boats in the mouth of the river Tagus to escape the destruction on land).

And at least 60 Democratic candidates have outraised their Republican counterparts around the country in the first quarter of 2018.

Iran's 2010 reform was welcomed by the IMF and, at least initially, by the Iranian public, while halving the world's largest energy - subsidy burden, valued at around $ 100 billion or a quarter of the 2010 gross domestic product.

The team found that around a quarter of medications with human targets, and 27 percent of the drugs over all, at least partially inhibited growth in one or more of the bacteria species.

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.

After a bit of scene - setting around Lonely Mountain, the film settles down to an extended and devilishly complex battle sequence that lasts at least three quarters of an hour.

At least Nissan's ever - amazing Around View Monitor multicamera system is optional — it makes particularly good sense on large pickup trucks and is a stress saver in close quarters.

Thanks to its supercharged 6.2 - liter Hemi V8 that produces 707 horsepower and 650 lb - ft of torque, the Hellcat can run from 0 to 60 mph in around three seconds and complete the quarter mile in the 10 - second range (at least when you're using drag radials).

Around a quarter of UK households have at least one canine chum — that's a lot of dogs!

Estimates vary widely, but at least 400 million dogs and roughly the same number of cats exist worldwide and around 300 million (three quarters) of each are unwanted.

Displays should be changed out at least once a quarter, and stores should consider adding additional furniture product displays around sales.

An early arcade game offered a similar approach: side - scrolling beat - em - ups were certainly the rage around this time, and I remember pumping at least a few quarters into this game back in the day.

So Australia's BOM data and NZ's NIWA data, both «adjusted» out of their cotton picking minds whether needed or not and generally butchered [and thats being polite,] around with until it bears little relationship with reality accounts for at least one fifth and close to nearly one quarter of the total global land surface temperature data.

«Narrative is a difficult art; narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands, its course changed by every bowlder it comes across and by every grass - clad gravelly spur that projects into its path; its surface broken, but its course not stayed by rocks and gravel on the bottom in the shoal places; a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes, and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe three - quarters of a mile around, and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path it traversed an hour before; but always going, and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law.

Which means that around a quarter of the pro-terrorist accounts did manage to get out at least one terror tweet.

Only a quarter of people living in Sweden say they use cash at least once a week and a boom in mobile, card and online payments has resulted in the proportion of cash transactions in the retail sector dropping from around 40 % in 2010 to 15 % today, according to the central bank.