Sentences with phrase «as a quarter»

When the payment you take for a product can lose as much as a quarter of its value within a week, pricing becomes difficult.

As much as a quarter of our greenhouse gas emissions come from food production.

In just thirty days, twenty - five adult female fleas can multiply to as many as a quarter of a million fleas!

There may be compelling short - term reasons for doing so, such as quarter end results but they will not be acting in the best long - term interests of stakeholders.

A quick and simple way to test the tread on your tires is known as the quarter test.

The premiums for the year 2007 are one third of those for 1987 in many a case and in some cases as little as a quarter of the 1987 costs.

I know that's usually the case, but I've come across some brands of butter that have been packaged as quarter cup sticks.

Even if we pass the group stage, I don't think we can go as far as quarter final.

Global warming is likely to shrink the size of fish by as much as a quarter in coming decades, according to a groundbreaking study of the world's oceans.

Meanwhile, the witness segment is counted as a quarter of its original size.

This past month I've been going through what can only be described as a quarter life crisis.

The company has been in trouble for the last 1.5 years as every quarter they are basically losing money.

You'll have plenty of notice as each quarter bonus is announced in the previous quarter.

Dividend hikes, which can occur as frequently as each quarter, are clearly beneficial for those on fixed - incomes.

What began as quarter - eating arcade cabinets has grown into a massive industry, and casual games can now be found on phones around the world.

CDs can also be attractive when you open multiple CDs with different maturity dates — such as every quarter.

The original data segment would be counted normally, but the «witness» segment would, in effect, be counted as a quarter of its real size.

Yes many sportsbooks offer live wagering as well as quarter wagering such as reputable sites like 5Dimes or Bookmaker.

The average days on the market (DOM) declined as the quarter progressed ending Q1 with an average 22 DOM.

After an act of courage that puts Katniss between the whip of the Commander and a loved one, President Snow decides to play one more trump card up his sleeve and that is to change the treaty charter and initiate a new type of tournament known as the Quarter Quell.

For neighborhood and community shopping centers, the vacancy rate averaged 10.0 percent, the same as the quarter before.

The futuristic ninja action, the brightly colored sprites and the awesome boss fights is what drew me in and kept me playing as long as my quarters held out.

India has announced it will cut its carbon emissions intensity of its economy by as much as a quarter from 2005 levels by 2020.

It can also get close to a wall and avoid objects as small as a quarter inch, as it's fitted with an 11 - inch brush and fullview Sensor 2.0.

Although pricing for Europe brands, excluding Costa, is higher at the present time because there are more cabins to fill versus last year, we expect pricing for EAA brands to decline as the quarter closes.

Read on to see how each sector stacked up in our latest scorecard, and what to keep an eye on as the quarter unfolds.

«Catching Fire» is set to chronicle Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta's (Josh Hutcherson) brief celebration of victory that is cut short as the Quarter Quell puts the pair back into the «Hunger Games» for a second time.

Spending per transaction increased as the quarter progressed and rose 3 percent, but the number of transactions didn't budge.

All three were out of their domestic cups; in the case of Real Madrid as early as the quarter final by (hold your breath) 14th placed Leganes!

As the quarter ends, there are more questions than answers but I sincerely hope that the FED will begin to remove some of the haze that engulfs global financial markets.

«When the Fed increase goes through, it will affect our base rate, and it will be cleanly passed through as a quarter percent increase to our interest rates,» Dobi says.

Following an interest - rate hike by the Mexican central bank, the Mexican peso saw substantial gains as the quarter - point increase satisfied market expectations.

The first quarter of 2018 will be remembered as the quarter that ended the 9 quarter winning streak for the S&P 500 (TR).

I adore the concept of your blog as a quarter lifer myself!!

Crevices as big as a quarter are just as convenient of an entry point for rodents as an open front door.

This sweet - tasting cookie has about as much sugar as quarter cup of figs (8 grams).

Hill comes up two yards short as the quarter expires.

As the quarter pole flashed by and he straightened out for home, Perret felt his mount, Groovy, begin to weaken.

These charms began their life as a quarter - sized blob of gray clay.

The comments have been anchored on two major parts as some quarters wished her quick recovery, others took a swipe at her insisting she allegedly looted the country's fund therefore deserves her current status.

In what appeared denigrating as some quarters have described it is the stooping of some mornachs in the picture whom Alagbado of Agbado Oke Odo was part of.

This was just as some quarters shortly after the address yesterday criticized him over what they termed a wasted year of his administration.

Diverse insinuations have also trailed the incident as some quarters attributed it to attempt aimed at frustrating the supplementary election slated for tomorrow, others said it may have been as a result of indiscriminate bush burning by some youths on hunting expedition.

Stars with a metal content as low as a quarter of the sun's can host planets between one and four times the size of Earth, the team found (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature11121).

This is because the etching is only 10 to 20 micrometers deep — a layer as thin as a quarter of the diameter of human hair.

News outlets, including the Associated Press and USA Today, explained that, according to the study, the quarter of American kids who eat the most sodium are twice to three times as likely to develop high blood pressure as the quarter who eat the least.