Sentences with phrase «at least a small percentage»

It's a shame that whoever the true agnostics or atheists are in Congress can not come out and signify themselves as such, because there is guaranteed to be at least a small percentage of them.

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A small percentage even admitted they waste at least half of an eight - hour workday on nonwork - related tasks.

According to this model, a small amount of deceleration in credit growth can occur as additional credit efficiency is squeezed out of the system, but without a sharp decline in GDP growth, substantial and sustainable credit growth deceleration can not occur except after a major transformation of China's growth model, one condition of which is net wealth transfers from local governments to median households of at least one to two percentage points of GDP annually.

The majority is Christians do respect or at least ignore the rest but unfortunately a small, loud and noticeably annoying percentage want to force their faith down everybody's throat.

We were at least eighteen million in 1940 and we are perhaps fifteen million today, and in that time the population of the world has risen from three to five billion people, so our relative percentage of the world's population is smaller still.

How far could tens of millions of dollars go in smaller, less expensive states where Democrats have a better chance to make pickups, such as Arizona and Nevada, or the five states where incumbent Democratic senators face electorates that favored Donald Trump by at least 17 percentage points in 2016 (Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia)?

A Climate Central report found that at least 58 percent of more than 2,000 weather stations reported a trend toward a smaller percentage of all winter precipitation falling as rain instead of snow, with the Northwest and Upper Midwest registering the largest decreases.

An analysis by the National School Boards Association's Center for Public Education (CPE) suggests that «yes, we do,» revealing that (at least in recent years) the percentage of high school graduates who don't go on to a two - or four - year college is surprisingly small.

But a small percentage of students are educated at private schools, most often because the district has deemed that facility to be the most appropriate and to provide the least restrictive environment, given the nature and severity of the child's disability.

The higher the threshold — say, requiring a subgroup to represent at least 15 percent of the student body, as opposed to 5 or 10 percent — the lower the failure rate will be for schools with small percentages of disadvantaged minority students.

Overall scoring patterns in New York State remained largely unchanged, with black and Hispanic students making small proficiency gains but remaining at least 20 percentage points behind white test - takers.

No matter what you drive it has a negative impact on the environment, yes even if you have no tail - pipe at all, at least these are diesels and represent a very small percentage of what's on the road anyway.

If you're fortunate enough to get a small percentage to give your fiction a try, you're at least on the right track.

Self - publishing is making it easier than ever before for more authors to make at least some money, if not a lot of money, on their writing, but these authors are a small percentage of the whole.

There are a lot of smaller financial institutions who are likely more than happy to lend you a mortgage — and at rates often at least one percentage point lower than what one of the big five banks offered you.

«The management fee the robo - advisors charge tends to be around the half per cent range because they build portfolios using ETFs, which is at least a third or maybe even a smaller percentage of what you'd typically pay with mutual funds,» says Heath.

Instead, the city earned its ranking with a highly educated population — 30.9 % of residents have at least a bachelor's degree — and the second highest percentage of residents employed by small businesses of all cities in the top 10.

Of the 124 small cities considered for these rankings, Boulder boasts the highest percentage of residents who have attained at least a bachelor's degree, at 57.9 %.

The percentage yield is calculated by dividing the dividends paid by the share price, and thus as share prices rise, the dividend paid becomes a smaller percentage of the share value, at least until the next dividend is announced / paid if earnings have increased.

If you really want to buy a condo, and you plan on living in the unit for at least five years, you may be alright buying in the areas with a higher concentration of foreign owners, however, you may want to consider other areas with a smaller percentage of investor - owned condos.

The majority of cash back credit cards offer at least a small, unlimited flat - rate cash back percentage (typically 1 %) that is good on most everything you purchase with your card.

The bathroom is at once the most and least important room in the house; it accounts for a large percentage of building costs and is used by all of a home's occupants, yet it is granted one of the smallest spaces.

John Carter August 8, 2014 at 12:58 am chooses to state his position on the greenhouse effect in the following 134 word sentence: «But given the [1] basics of the greenhouse effect, the fact that with just a very small percentage of greenhouse gas molecules in the air this effect keeps the earth about 55 - 60 degrees warmer than it would otherwise be, and the fact that through easily recognizable if [2] inadvertent growing patterns we have at this point probably at least [3] doubled the total collective amount in heat absorption and re-radiation capacity of long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases (nearly doubling total that of the [4] leading one, carbon dioxide, in the modern era), to [5] levels not collectively seen on earth in several million years — levels that well predated the present ice age and extensive earth surface ice conditions — it goes [6] against basic physics and basic geologic science to not be «predisposed» to the idea that this would ultimately impact climate.»

Under the ACA, all individual and small group plans have to cover a variety of services that are deemed essential health benefits, and all plans (including large group plans) have to cover at least 60 percent of average health care costs (this applies to a standard population; the percentage of costs covered for a given individual depends on the amount of health care the person needs over the course of the year).

In order to be eligible to exercise this rider, the insured must be at least 75 years old, the policy must have been in - force for at least 15 years, the Death Benefit Option must be Option A Level, the policy must be in corridor, and the outstanding loan balance must be the smaller of 93 % of the policy value after monthly deductions or (100 % minus the OLPR charge percentage) of the policy value after monthly deductions.