Sentences with phrase «as a quarter of»

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

For all the grand visions of men on Mars, SpaceX's pitch is straightforward: The company says it will send your satellite into orbit for as little as a quarter of the going rate.

Commerce at the three centers reportedly accounts for as much as a quarter of all retail trade across the country and exceeds the volume of formal - sector retail trade in the city.

On Tuesday, in a tense hearing about the the island's slow recovery, he told lawmakers that the Isla del Sol now wants solar energy to provide as much as a quarter of its electricity, transmitted across microgrids and backed up by batteries.

During the Obama election years, as many as a quarter of evangelicals voted Democrat; with Clinton, it was nearly 10 percentage points less than that.

Allies of Jeremy Corbyn believes that as many as a quarter of newly registered Labour supporters could be barred from voting in the upcoming leadership contest.

Research by Basex, a knowledge - economy advisory firm, indicates that knowledge workers in the United States lose as much as a quarter of each working day to information overload.

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).

Other animals may be able to detect sounds too high or low pitched for us to hear, but our ability to discriminate between sounds as close as a quarter of a musical tone apart appears to be unmatched among mammals, with the possible exception of bats.

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.

Coral reefs occupy only one percent of the ocean floor, but they are home to as much as a quarter of all described marine species in the world.

The oil can be as much as a quarter of the total mass of a diatom cell, and if a way could be found to efficiently wrest it from diatoms, he adds, a hectare of «diatom cultivation could produce 10 to up to 200 times the oil that is produced by soybean cultivation,» Ramachandra says.

But there is an element of unpredictability as a quarter of these recordings are not of actual birds but are instead people imitating the birdsong they have heard.

You have probably heard of «coral bleaching» — that is, coral dying — which is very bad news, because reefs support as much as a quarter of all marine life and supply food for half a billion people.

At the time, a CVS test found that as many as a quarter of the cells in the placenta that joined her and her developing baby were abnormal: could the developing baby also have abnormal cells?

A 2011 study by scientists from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies found that as much as a quarter of Arctic warming is caused by black carbon.

It is estimated that as many as a quarter of schools in the UK still contain some asbestos.

With the UK still in the grip of an economic slump, yet decent university degrees increasingly necessary for anyone wishing to enter the country's fiercely competitive job market, private tuition is a rapidly growing sector with as much as a quarter of 11 - 16 year olds benefitting from it some form1, as families do all they can to better their children's prospects.

Overall grade point averages went up by as much as a quarter of a point in many subjects.

With the UK still in the grip of an economic slump, yet decent university degrees increasingly necessary for anyone wishing to enter the country's fiercely competitive job market, private tuition is a rapidly growing sector with as much as a quarter of 11 - 16 year olds benefitting from it some form

In New York, the union's well - funded program has provided needed support for parents and students, which, in turn, has helped to boost the number of students opting out from around 40,000 last year to as many as a quarter of a million this year.

In his 2011 State of the Union address, President Obama noted that «America has fallen to ninth in the proportion of young people with college degrees» and that «as many as a quarter of our students aren't even finishing high school.»

As much as a quarter of fiction e-books sold in the UK could be from self - published writers, as UK publishers scramble for rights to Amazon's bestselling self - published author Kerry Wilkinson's books.

As much as a quarter of fiction e-books sold in the UK could be from self - published writers, as UK publishers scramble for rights to...

As many as a quarter of the top 100 Kindle books on Amazon.com are from indie publishers, according to data revealed at a trade presentation by the retailer.

A dividend can produce as much as a quarter of your total return over long periods.

As a quarter of the UK's most popular breeds are now affected by brachycephaly, we look at the rise of the French Bulldog and other flat - faced dog breeds French Bulldogs are currently experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity.

As long as a quarter of your total purchases falls within the 5 % bonus categories, you'll be walking away with a net rewards rate of 2 %, which is very good by most standards.

EA boss John Riccitiello recently stated that Wii games could typically be made for as little as a quarter of the budget of PS3 and 360 games.

As much as a quarter of the world's remaining oil and gas resources are believed to exist in the Arctic.

The Arctic could hold, it is estimated, as much as a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil (and natural gas) reserves.

Europe's coal industry continues its downward spiral as a quarter of European Union countries have now closed their doors to the dirty energy source.

The sunspace can also be built as a quarter of a cylinder against the house's south wall, rather than the full half cylinder version shown above.

During the past 50 years, the amount of the seasonal swings in CO2 has climbed by as much as half, and a research team has shown agricultural production may be generating as much as a quarter of the increase in the seasonal carbon cycle.

The average British shopper estimates that they bin almost 10 % of the food bought in their weekly shop, while 8 % admit to throwing away as much as a quarter of their food on a regular basis, according to new research on Monday.

Although they make up only 1 % of all tropical forest areas, the thickness of this carbon - rich layer means mangroves hold as much as a quarter of the carbon of tropical peat lands.

This is down considerably from the downturn, when as many as a quarter of mortgaged homes in the US had negative equity.

We see more than half the class making $ 45 - 65k and then a trough and then another large group, as many as a quarter of the class, making $ 160 - 180k without very many salaries in the middle.

BDS has one of the largest Padilla practices in the country, as a quarter of BDS criminal clients are foreign - born.

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.

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

An advisor to President Vladimir Putin has claimed that as many as a quarter of computers in Russia are infected with cryptocurrency mining malware.

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

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

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Nearly three quarters of the respondents believe that a hacker could «easily» steal personal details, such as bank account and social insurance numbers, from their employer's servers.

The company recorded a net loss of $ 93 million in the first quarter, but Toutant believes it'll make up for the rocky start as the company continues its big push to expand in the United States.

MILAN — Carmaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles reported Thursday a 60 percent rise in net profit for the first quarter of the year as sales improved, particularly in the Americas, and demand rose globally for its Jeeps.

Apple's service stream revenue has never been quite as important as it became in the second quarter of 2018, CNBC's Jim Cramer argued on Wednesday.

The next quarterly release on September 1 release is particularly important, as it will not just contain the data for the final month of the quarter (June), but may also contain significant revisions to past releases.

Mobile payment accounted for approximately 56 % of Company sales in the first quarter of 2018, as compared to 31 % in the prior year period.