Sentences with phrase «big a margin as»

if he did miss the target, it wasnt by as big a margin as youd think.

Whoscored.com rates him the best player of Ligue 1 and with a big margin as well, a lot better stats than Cavani or Ibra or anyone else there.

Assemblyman Phil Ramos won a challenge from Giovanni Mata after receiving 71 percent of the vote, and incumbents Kimberly Jean - Pierre and Earlene Hooper survived by big margins as well.

He wants to drum up as big a margin as possible, the better to make the case that he's got what it takes to run for national office.

The Q7 is significantly more expensive than many of its direct rivals, such as the BMW X5 and Benz GLE, and although it does move the game forward it's not by as big a margin as you might imagine.

Not exact matches

In the West, we know the big Android makers as Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson and Motorola, but for most of the world, the manufacturers making and selling Android devices are Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE, which are more interested in moving sheer volumes of units than reaping fat margins on them.

Rometty has been steering Big Blue toward areas such as cloud - based services, security software and data analytics, while trimming its traditional hardware business by exiting low - margin businesses.

It recently took its biggest single - day tumble in nearly eight years after Plank warned that the company's margins wouldn't be as high as they have been in recent years.

Despite the Liberals» big margin in Canning, the government is taking nothing for granted as the by - election nears.

China's biggest lenders are in the midst of a revival, posting faster profit growth and generally healthier net interest margins after years of rising bad debt as economic growth slowed down.

My focus, as a business owner, was to produce the best product I could and get as many customers to buy it as possible (with a big enough margin to make a profit).

One big reason was the cost of avocados, which jumped and «took a bite out of our margins last year,» as Chief Financial Officer Jack Hartung said, noting that nearly 50 percent of transactions include guacamole.

At the same time, Sorrell may have become a liability, at least symbolically, in an era when big clients under pressure to grow profit margins amid sluggish sales growth turned to agency fees as a seemingly bottomless bucket of cost savings.

MUMBAI Infosys Ltd, India's second - biggest IT firm, plans to renew its focus on digital services as it looks to boost growth amid shrinking profit margins in its legacy business and rising competition from local and international rivals.

As seen in Figure 3, MFRM's ROIC ranks well below most competitors and its margins hardly surpass big box retailers better known for selling products with razor - thin margins.

Overall, there was a bullish tone to trading, as advancing issues led decliners by nearly two - to - one on the Big Board and the margin was slightly positive on the NASDAQ Exchange.

But just as religiously committed Evangelical and Mainline Protestants were much more likely to vote Republican than their nominally religious brethren, regularly attending white Catholics gave Bush a narrow plurality over Clinton (41 percent to 39 percent), while less - observant Catholics gave Clinton a bigger margin (44 percent to 33 percent).

Treasury chief executive Mike Clarke said the company had exited lower - margin categories in preparation for an even bigger tilt towards higher - margin sales under brands such as Penfolds and its newly - acquired California premium brand.

Supplier dealings with the big supermarkets have been under the spotlight as supplier margins decline due to the intense battle between rivals Woolworths and Coles.

Big games can be decided on narrow margins, and it hasn't gone Arsenal's way today as Pep Guardiola's side will surely now go on to collect all three points to maintain their title charge.

They got one of the biggest Wins of the Season (based on margin of victory) on Sunday Night as they took down Team Deutsch.

It's a shame really, we were known as the best attacking team in the league at one point then through Wenger's delusion we don't even play good football let alone winning by big margin.

The WVU - OU Fiesta Bowl wasn't quite the NOBODY BELIEVED IN US shocker it's remembered as, other than the big margin.

Considering how few points both teams will probably drop over the course of the campaign, that would be a significant margin and leave Real as big outsiders — even in October.

Personally I would be amazed if we break our wage structure by such a large margin, although it may seem obvious that if we want to keep pace with the big boys then we have to match the wages that stars if they go elsewhere, especially as we are a club that doesn't really win too many trophies.

Going gungho was the main reason for us losing by those big margins last season in the league as well.

It was lost when we went down big and as is always the case there is no margin for error It was lost because NO took us out of our game and imposed their will upon us.

As Dowsett passed Bottrill, his four minute man, it became clear that the 26 - year - old Movistar pro was headed for a record - equalling fourth title — it was just a case how big the winning margin would be.

You can back Newcastle to win by a one - goal margin for 13/5 as it probably won't be by a bigger margin than that if they win.

Chelsea have only scored more than one goal in four of their last six home games and a Chelsea to win by a one - goal margin because of that will have some big appeal as well as Chelsea 1 - 0 correct score.

Jürgen Klopp got his tactics spot - on as the Reds romped to a comfortable 2 - 0 win; the margin of victory would have been much bigger were it not for a sublime performance from David De Gea.

As the season progressed, the majority of Madrid's big league wins (4 and 5 goal margins) were by the B team, as the A team often found itself scrapping it out against inferior teamAs the season progressed, the majority of Madrid's big league wins (4 and 5 goal margins) were by the B team, as the A team often found itself scrapping it out against inferior teamas the A team often found itself scrapping it out against inferior teams.

He did not win by the biggest EC margin as he claims — a quick Google search proves that and many (real) news organizations have reported that.

The latest one sided campaign will not necessarily produce a one sided result as it did in 1975, when the advocates of «In» won by a big margin.

The result of these questions should be of concern to Philip Hammond, the Transport Secretary, as well as Number 10 (The margins are big enough to be meaningful, despite the fact they are loaded questions):

Pol to Watch: One more from N.C.: Roy Cooper rolled up increasingly big margins in four terms as state attorney general, and is now running against Governor Pat McCrory, who has overseen North Carolina's recent and fairly unpopular legislative lurch to the far right.

Giuliani emerged as the biggest beneficiary — he collected 27,000 more votes than in 1989, about half his victory margin.

They revised an earlier HIPPARCOS parallax estimate of l02 ly made in the 1990s that had an error margin (Plx = 31.92 + / - 0.51 mas) just big enough to suggest that the star may actually lie about 100 ly away, in agreement with Earth - based parallax measurements computed before 1978 as reported by Robert Burnham, Jr. (1931 - 93).

Which raises the question of why researchers even bother to do these big «what did you eat and how sick did you get» kind of studies; they must have error margins big enough to to drive a truck — sorry, a lorry — through, even if the researchers aren't up to some shady manipulation of the numbers, as you show that they were here.

At around # 160,000 it undercuts the # 186,700 LP610 - 4 by a big margin and it's also a shade slower, has steel brakes instead of ceramics as standard and seems like a de-contented version of the full fat model.

The production strategy, and separation from the Titan, make sense as the big sport - utility vehicle segment is low on numbers — Nissan sold just 12,737 in the U.S. last year — though still high on profit margins.

The Audi Q5 is still the king in this area, but the margin isn't as big as you may have first expected.

The 2016 RX is a big deal for Lexus, because it is the best - selling Lexus by a wide margin as well as the best - selling luxury SUV overall.

Amazon — for everybody except the former Big Six — insists on the wholesale model which gives them 50 % of the publisher's set price to divide as customer discount and margin as they choose.

This time, the tablet PC is back in the news again with a fresh launch schedule and though the tablet won't make it to the market as had been stipulated on the 7th of September, the good thing is it isn't deviating from that by a big margin either.

The biggest houses may shrink some as ebooks grow, but the higher margins involved and the lower overhead costs associated with producing and shipping physical books may actually increase publishers» margins and having money to pay authors in the form of advances will remain a significant advantage for publishers in pursuing the biggest authors.

With margins optimized to fit as much content on each (out of the box), how much more reading per page can I get with a bigger screen?

«I think part of it could be margin, though the bigger point is that Wal - Mart and Target view Amazon as a competitor,» Tilghman said.

«We're not seeing the investment pay off yet,» an analyst at Evercore Partners told Reuters, adding «I think investors are impatient as to how long will it take...» Though he didn't directly mention the Kindle, it's clearly been one of Amazon's biggest investments in 2011 — and another executive at a sales software company specifically pointed to its impact on Amazon's profit margins.

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