Sentences with phrase «at about a tenth»

The heel on them looks very similar to the Stuart Weitzman Thighland boots, but at about a tenth of the cost.

That said, the company's $ 4 billion in revenues in 2011 put it at about a tenth the size of Amazon with its $ 48.08 in revenues.

At about a tenth of an inch thick, the LG W7 4K TV practically dissolves into your wall.

Not exact matches

About 400,000 ticket holders — equivalent to nearly one - tenth of Ireland's population — had purchased tickets to the July 25 - 29 dates at Dublin's 83,000 - capacity Croke Park Stadium.

LLC document preparation starts at $ 149 (about one - tenth of what an attorney would charge) and includes all filing fees and a custom operating agreement.

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Lake levels have fallen about one - half a foot in the last two hours and stand at 901.35 feet, about four - tenths of a foot above the level where water flows through the emergency spillway, state figures show.

In fact, if we agree with him that human experiences of as brief a duration as one - tenth of a second may be distinguished in consciousness, and if we disregard the problem of whether a sleeping person also experiences at about the same rate of ten occasions per second, then simple arithmetic enables us to conclude that the concrete reality of a human being that lives seventy years is well over two billion individual «selves»!

Although at their height constituting about a tenth of the population, the Protestants had determined and much of the time able leadership.

«I'm not concerned about it at all,» she told a small group of reporters on the tenth floor of the New York Athletic Club.

Duffy spoke to a crowd of about 1,400 charter school parents, children advocates who were bused up to Albany by the New York City Charter School Center for its tenth annual charter advocacy day at the Capitol.

Absolutely nobody thinks about the country first; we all think about ourselves first, our families second, our parties third, maybe, our communities fourth and Ghana comes a distant fifth or sixth or even tenth,» he said at a lecture to open the National Democratic Congress» Institute of Social Democracy at the party's headquarters in Accra on Friday.

Tenth Ward Common Council member Leah Golby was at the casino project briefing - she found this morning's Times Union article about the proposal very informative.

This only works in about a tenth of cells, and hardly at all in non-dividing cells like brain cells.

At least for the top programs hiring this year, sources say, about a tenth of job applicants in physics volunteer this statistic, up from practically zero just a couple of years ago.

Now, however, astronomers know where to look to reliably see at least one: a patch of sky about one tenth the size of the full moon in the direction of the constellation Auriga.

At that point it is about 2 degrees warmer than the water at the seafloor and three - tenths of a degree warmer than the water surrounding the plumAt that point it is about 2 degrees warmer than the water at the seafloor and three - tenths of a degree warmer than the water surrounding the plumat the seafloor and three - tenths of a degree warmer than the water surrounding the plume.

In tests, the researchers dispersed nanodiamonds in mineral oil and found that a very small concentration — one - tenth of a percent by weight — raised the thermal conductivity of the oil by 70 percent at 373 kelvins (about 211 degrees Fahrenheit).

Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov at Princeton University found that showing people an unfamiliar face for just one - tenth of a second is long enough for them to form judgements about the person's attractiveness, likeability, trustworthiness, competence and aggressiveness.

The researchers found IMS J2204 +0112, a billion - solar - mass black hole eating at a tenth of its speed limit and hailing from when the universe was about 940 million years old.

But despite earlier pollen analysis that pegged the movement of some tree species (that is, average advancement via seed dispersal) at about a kilometer per year after the last ice age, genetic studies have reduced that estimate to a pace closer to a tenth of a kilometer per year, Loarie says.

This star has at least eight tenths of Sol's mass (Bell et al, 1977, page 32), a slightly larger diameter (106 + / - 11 percent of Sol's)(Perrin and Karoji, 1987, page 236) and about 1.5 times of its luminosity.

The second planet from the Sun at about seven tenths of the Earth - Sun distance, Venus is the sixth largest planet but has no moon.

It took years for me to warm up to Arcade Fire, and even then it was a heard - but - not - seen proposition: Their early exaggerated stage enthusiasm / pretension reeked of unknowing self - parody, and chanteuse Regine Chassagne has always (to me, at least) had about one - tenth of the stage presence that she thinks she has (I see a cross between my aunt Jane, a junior - high talent show, and maybe Phoebe Snow's niece).

It took years for me to warm up to Arcade Fire, and even then it was a heard - but - not - seen proposition: Their early exaggerated stage enthusiasm / pretension reeked of unknowing self - parody, and chanteuse Regine Chassagne has always (to me, at least) had about one - tenth of the stage presence that she thinks she has (I see a cross between my aunt Jane, a junior - high talent show, and maybe

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), between 1990 and 2012, the scores of nine - year - olds at the tenth and twenty - fifth percentiles increased by roughly two grade levels (about twenty points).

Russlynn Ali, the former assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education, talks about the district where a black Kindergartener gets suspended for pulling a fire alarm while a white tenth grader does the same thing and gets off with a warning.

But at Mann, UCLA is taking on a school where only about a tenth of students are proficient in English and math.

The difference in test scores between these «young» 5 - year - olds and «old» 5 - year - olds was remarkably stable, the study found, at about two - tenths of a standard deviation.

The rate at which children die as passenger vehicle occupants has decreased 55 percent, while the rate at which they are killed as pedestrians and bicyclists is about one - tenth of 1975 rates.

So while it feels quicker than the IS F and about as rapid as the RS 5, its 4.5 - second 0 - 100 km / h time is at least a couple of tenths slower than the other two Germans.

The 2016 Honda Civic is available now here at Motor Werks Honda, and the critics are already raving about the new tenth generation of the famous compact car.

As long as you're at about seven - tenths or less you'll enjoy driving it.

Another editor in 1995 complained to me that she was spending 80 % of her time in meetings talking about electronic publishing that only accounted for less than one tenth of one percent of all sales at that time.

Brad Meltzer is the bestselling author of about nine books at the time of writing, including the # 1 The Book of Fate, as well The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The Zero Game and The Book of Lies.

Granted, the Amazon Appstore is about one - tenth the size of Google Play or the Apple App Store (at about 100,000 apps) but the convenience and breadth of Amazon's content and service ecosystem should satisfy most consumers.

I don't know anything about their formulas for some of these estimations but generally speaking, a lot of people (including myself) agree with the figures, at least within a couple of tenths of a point.

At first I found myself wanting to love the announcer ironically but after starting out the level of «DO A BARREL ROLL» for the tenth time in about thirty minutes I just couldn't take it anymore.

Not far apart, about two minutes or a bit more by foot, depending on what friends you see along the way, are the two present exhibitions at Paul Kasmin Gallery, at 293 and 297 Tenth Avenue.

Pieces of the history have been gathered before, most notably in Joellen Bard's «Tenth Street Days: The Co-ops of the 50's,» a small 1977 book about the formation of the D.I.Y and at times gonzo gallery district near Cooper Union largely built by artists banding together against commercial and critical indifference.

The reclusive artist's works, which were then selling at $ 500,000 - $ 800,000, about a tenth the price of Bacon's.

Most of what I know about art I learned by listening to artists in their lofts; at The Club (which I ran from 1957 to 1962), where the Abstract Expressionists met for panel discussions, lectures, drinking, and dancing; the Cedar Street Tavern; and the Tenth Street cooperative galleries, notably the Tanager Gallery (which I managed from 1956 to 1959).

The annual rise in CO2 seems to be occurring at around 2 to 3 ppm, which would imply only about a tenth of this carbon remains in the air (which is not my understanding).

On the subject of awareness and how it leads to change — I started measuring my consumption across the board about nine months ago, and just by changing the way I travel, spend, and do things at home, brought my footprint down to where it is less than a tenth of the US average.

The late tenth to early thirteenth centuries (about AD 950-1250) appear to have been exceptionally warm in western Europe, Iceland and Greenland (Alexandre 1987, Lamb, 1988) This period is known as the Medieval Climatic Optimum China was, however, cold at this time (mainly in winter) but South Japan was warm (Yoshino, 1978) This period of widespread warmth is...

Looking at the satellite images pixel by pixel (with each pixel representing 900 square meters, or about one - tenth of a football field) and matching them with on - the - ground observations, they were able to draw a detailed mortality map for the entire landscape, which had never been done before.

Very - rural sites are located at least one tenth of a degree of latitude or longitude (about 11 km) away from the urban areas defined on the MODIS map.

When unlocking the Xiaomi Mi 5 from sleep, the lock screen is visible only for about a tenth of second, if at all.

We weighed the system at two and seventh - tenths pounds, which is slightly less than the 13 - inch MacBook Air, and about on par with the Surface Book Pro 4 (when the Type Cover is attached).

It weighs in at just 2.16 pounds, which is about a tenth of a pound more than the MacBook, and a half pound lighter than the Dell XPS 13.