Sentences with phrase «at about a million»

He explained: «We set the dyneins running along their tracks and then we froze them in «mid-stride» by cooling them at about a million degrees a second, fast enough to prevent the water from forming ice crystals as it solidified.

The cost of long - term care for an infant who has suffered a birth injury is now estimated at about a million dollars.

Today, the cost of long - term care for infant child with a birth injury is estimated at about a million dollars.

Not exact matches

The National Business Group on Health last year surveyed 133 large companies employing 15 million Americans about their benefit practices: An astounding 90 % said they expect to make at least some telemedicine services available to their workers this year.

The same survey was also carried out in Indonesia and Malaysia, where the intended spend per person came in at about 10 million Indonesian rupiah (about $ 800) and 4,201 Malaysian ringgit (about $ 1,000), respectively.

At least 35 companies, among them Anheuser - Busch InBev, BP, and BASF, have been told to pay back taxes of about 700 million euros to Belgium because of their participation in an illegal tax scheme.

Before the Hogan lawsuit, Gawker founder Nick Denton estimated the company's market value at about $ 250 million.

Icahn Enterprises» 4.7 million Apple shares are valued at about $ 2.5 billion.

German media giant Axel Springer is acquiring a controlling stake in media startup Business Insider for $ 343 million, which values the New York - based company at about $ 450 million.

There were 2.1 million factory jobs at the start of 2007 compared with about 1.7 million now.

Still, there is some debate in the venture capital community about whether the overall need for capital is greater at the Series A stage (where rounds are typically between $ 5 million and $ 10 million) or at the next stage, Series B, where bigger amounts are required.

Some media insiders have estimated the site's revenue at about $ 50 million.

Hubble was about 400 - 500 million miles away from Jupiter at the time, and it was taking pictures of Europa's backlit silhouette as it moved across the gas giant's surface:

«In my paper, I read about a mattress company that floated on AIM yesterday and raised # 35 million, is now valued at # 140 million, but last year made an EBITDA loss of # 11 million,» Walsh said at Tuesday's conference.

Her contract with Fox comes up for renewal next year (she reportedly makes more than $ 6 million a year at Fox), and there has been much talk about the opportunities that might await her.

That number came in at $ 137 million — up about 150 % over last year.

Much less sexy, but it turns out that's where our market is: millions of people who just want better information about their medications, at the right time.

The EU competition enforcer estimated a tax bill of about 400 million euros a year ago, two people familiar with the matter had told Reuters at the time.

I'm not just talking about Square's losses ($ 154 million in 2014, which the company's on track to match this year), its disastrously expensive deal with Starbucks (which cost it $ 28 million in 2014), or Dorsey's other CEO job at Twitter (which, as the Square prospectus drily notes, «may at times adversely affect his ability to devote time, attention, and effort to Square.»

A trustee of defunct Tokyo bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox sold more than 35,000 bitcoin, worth about $ 400 million at the time, to pay off creditors, according to details of the sale published by a company trustee last week.

Adam Alter: «Nomophobia» is a new word that's being coined to describe no mobile phobia, and it's the idea that a lot of us, in thinking about not having our phones, experience something like a phobia, and this is supposed to describe hundreds of millions of people today, and I'm sure that number is growing at the moment.

Given the way our platform worked at the time this meant Kogan was able to access some information about tens of millions of their friends.

If those viewers had each paid the national average movie - ticket price of about $ 9, that would've been a $ 99 million debut at the box office — roughly what Universal Pictures» «The Fate of the Furious» did in April.

When Facebook took on its first round of financing in 2005, for $ 13 million, Parker pushed for a high valuation of the company»» about $ 100 million at the time.

The company prints about a million business cards a day.It is a similar story throughout the broad range of others products, including brochures, catalogues and corporate reports.Such growth has not been without its problems.Expansion has meant six complete moves in 10 years and after being at Balcatta just a year, there is a need to move again — to more than double the size of just the print operations to more than 2,000 square metres.

It calls for 200,000 square feet of gaming, 1,250 rooms at three different hotel concepts and about one million square feet of office space, plus nature trails.

The study, published by the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20 % annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011.

At Thursday's auction of a 7.37 percent 2023 bond, the Reserve Bank of India was only able to sell about 430 million rupees out of the 30 billion on offer into the market, with the remainder having to be bought by primary dealers.

A 2010 University of Brasilia study found that 1 in 5 Brazilian women under 40 — more than 5 million women overall, or about 22 % of Brazil's population — had had at least one abortion.

Once valued at more than $ 1 billion, the current market cap for Playboy Enterprises is roughly $ 96 million, about one - third of its asking price on the market.

«Soylent is a community of people who are enthusiastic about using science to improve food and nutrition,» Chris Dixon, who works at venture - capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, wrote in a 2015 blog post after the firm invested $ 20 million in Soylent.

As an example, a cap of $ 500,000 in tax - free capital gains on any principal residence means that a home sold for $ 1 million that was purchased for $ 100,000 in 1985 say, would have $ 400,000 taxed at the owner's tax rate at the time of the sale (about 35 % for the average middle class Canadian).

Estimates suggest the trilateral attack, with a cost of about $ 1.4 million per missile, cost at least $ 147 million.

Facebook gave the ads to the Senate Intelligence Committee, which were viewed by about 10 million U.S. users, and will testify at a public hearing on Nov. 1.

(Price's $ 1.1 million salary was about 23 times the $ 48,000 average at Gravity.)

The deal values the company at about $ 500 million.

Of those four to six million people who are on Twitter looking at tweets about the NFL game on a Thursday night, they're talking to each other having a conversation,» Noto said.

The labor market is tighter than it has been in decades, with unemployment near an all - time low at 4.1 % and unfilled job openings near an all - time high at about 6 million.

There are about 50 employees at Moon Express, Jain said, and the goal is to complete its moon launch during the second half of 2015 for under $ 50 million.

The company has 60 million paying subscribers, just renegotiated long - term licensing deals with three major record labels, and is valued at about $ 15 billion.

Spokesman Frank Shaw likens the deal to Microsoft's $ 240 million investment for a 1.6 % stake in Facebook in 2007 — now worth roughly $ 1.3 billion based on reports that put Facebook's value at about $ 80 billion.

It was widely reported earlier this month that the reality television star was held up at gunpoint in Paris by five masked men who robbed her of about $ 10 million worth of jewelry.

According to video game research firm Newzoo, game sales of Activision's (ATVI) 2013 title Skylanders Swap Force sold about 3.9 million copies to date, slightly lower than the 2012 Skylanders Giants version at 4.65 million, which was comparable to Skylanders Spyro's Adventure sales in 2011.

«Idol,» which averaged more than 30 million weekly viewers at its 2006 peak and ranked No. 1 for nine consecutive years, averaged about 11 million last season (still enough by today's standards to land it in the top 20, but with fewer advertiser - favored younger viewers).

Speaking to the CIA on Saturday, Trump gave inaccurate figures about the crowd at his inauguration, saying it «looked honestly like a million and a half people» and said «it went all the way back to the Washington Monument.»

One of the first African - American newsstand covers: Playboy was at its peak, with about 10 million subscribers, when Hefner put Darine Stern on the October 1971 cover.

To make sure employees are thinking about the long term when they refer prospects, Brett Brewster of Mitec Controls, a $ 5.5 - million fire - and life - safety company in Norcross, Ga., spreads the bonus payments out: the employee gets half at the referral's 90 - day mark and the rest when the referral has been working for six months.

Abraaj Group, which backs Libstar, is considering a $ 300 million IPO, which would value to company at about $ 1 billion, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

Qualtrics has raised about $ 220 million at a valuation that puts the company well above the $ 1 billion unicorn threshold.

The company says it plans to offer shares at between 10.25 euro to 11.50 euro, helping the company raise about 30 million euro.