Sentences with phrase «bored about a quarter»

«If a guy has a sprained ankle, he's only bearing about a quarter of his body weight on it [when he's running in water].

On 24 May, the Senate's finance committee expressed concern that the MIRES is to bear about a quarter of the payment credit cancellations in the decree.

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After two quarters, Borne says, the new system has elicited about 95 % of the effort he was hoping to see from his staff.

Only about one - quarter of families have only one child, so usually as soon as the first baby is born, parents start think...

Out of the 4 million children born in the United States each year, about a quarter of them are fed soy.

The researchers tracked the bears for about 10 days and found they walked for more than a quarter of that time.

One of the state's largest spills to date occurred in 2014, when an underground pipeline leak caused approximately 1 million gallons of brine to flow down a ravine and into Bear Den Bay, about a quarter mile upstream from a drinking water intake on Lake Sakakawea.

A recent survey by The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that three - quarters of Americans who have heard at least a little about the Zika virus are aware that the virus is linked to birth defects in babies born to infected mothers.

Although about 8 in 10 newborns started to breastfeed in 2011, only half of infants born that year were still breastfeeding at 6 months old, and just over a quarter at 1 year.

First, bear in mind that you're talking about having an average of ~ # 2000 saved up at any given time (if you spend all your stipend every quarter at a steady rate you'll start out with all of it and have none left at the end of the quarter), along with any long - term savings you manage to build up over time.

This is about a quarter of the rate of sterilization of all other dog breeds combined, and is fairly obviously the leading reason why the numbers of pit bull born each year and the numbers surrendered to shelters or impounded are approximately equal, amounting to about a third of the total pit bull population.

One of the earliest works in this survey of 25 artists who have engaged with the human figure over the past quarter century is Bear and Policeman by the controversial American Jeff Koons, who is about to be the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York.