Sentences with phrase «comprise almost»

As a matter of fact, Downey is home to 11 parks, which comprise almost 100 acres of space.

The three northern territories (Yukon, NWT, Nunavut), while they comprise almost 40 % of Canada's geography, have a combined population of < 115,000.

Fathers comprise almost 85 % of the non-custodial parents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

In 2018, community solar is projected to comprise almost a third of the non-residential solar market.

The paintings on view comprise an almost overwhelmingly complex array of signs, symbols, logos, colors, textures, and shapes, all of which are digitally distilled from snapshots of suburban sprawlscapes (Edwards has gathered more than 1000 images on various road trips).

These basic interactions comprise almost the entirety of The Long Reach «s gameplay mechanics; you'll also be having plenty of conversations with the various wacky individuals roaming the lab corridors with you, but if they're not driving the plot these tend to serve the same function as those mundane objects.

Skin tumors are the most common type of tumor and comprise almost 50 % of the tumors found in dogs.

, this ETF (& its rivals) obviously represent a quick / easy way to gain exposure... albeit it's large - cap exposure, as the top 5 holdings comprise almost 75 % of NAV!

Through assiduous research (the endnotes comprise almost a third of the book and are often very interesting reading), Lepore unravels a hidden history, and in so doing links her subjects» lives to some of the most important social movements of the era.

Internet video is slated to comprise almost 70 % of all consumer internet traffic by 2017 according to a recent Cisco survey.

The rest of the top 100 funders in 2012 comprise almost 53 percent of total K - 12 giving.

Member Organizations Our members comprise almost 300 private and public grantmaking organizations that work locally, regionally and nationally to improve outcomes and opportunities for all learners.

While women comprise almost half of the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) PhD graduates, less than 20 % of senior academics in STEM disciplines at Australian universities are women.

This model has been labeled as «illiberal democracy» or «electoral authoritarianism» in the past, yet regardless of the title these regimes comprise almost one - third of all existing governments found across the globe.

Together they comprise almost 5 % of the complete gene catalog.

These cells comprise almost half the brain, but they're poorly understood.

«Most women, for example, do not realise that two large glasses of wine, containing 370 calories, comprise almost a fifth of their daily recommended energy intake, as well as containing more than the recommended daily limit of alcohol units,» she explains.

Ninety - three percent of Democrats (they comprise almost half of major - party enrollees in Faso's district) disapproved of the way the president is handling healthcare.

(Children, seniors, and those with disabilities comprise almost two - thirds of all program participants and do not have work requirements.)

«48 Thus, these minority communities comprise almost three - fourths of the Christian population.

Books and journals therefore are stock in trade in theological education and comprise almost the entire collection of most theological libraries.

Francis has often criticized Neo-Pelagians — his term for rigid rule - followers, a category that for him seems to comprise almost exclusively pious, orthodox Catholics.

The combined market caps of Apple (AAPL), Alphabet / Google (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), Facebook (FB), and Amazon (AMZN) now exceed $ 3 trillion — that means these five companies comprise almost a quarter of the entire $ 12.5 trillion index containing more than 3,100 companies.

The recent improvement in the outlook for world growth and the recovery in the prices of oil, gold and base metals, three sectors that comprise almost half of total mining investment, have contributed to an improvement in the mining sector's perceptions of business conditions and expected profitability.

The turnout increase seems to be comprised almost entirely by Trump supporters.

The archive comprises almost 400 hours of interviews with 64 native Southerners representing a mix of ethnicities, social classes, education levels and ages.

The royal complex covered about 50 by 60 meters, comprising almost 50 rooms on the ground floor alone.

The photons comprising this almost - uniform radiation background are the universe's oldest, having journeyed nonstop for nearly 14 billion years.

A team of astronomers, led by Yale University's Professor Pieter van Dokkum, has located a galaxy comprised almost fully of dark matter.

Crustaceans claim top spot in the sheer number of varieties among the planet's ocean life, comprising almost a fifth of the known species.

They therefore rival beans and peas in the protein stakes, comprising almost a quarter protein.

The constituent amino acids found in elastin are: proline, glycine and the three BCAAs leucine, isoleucine and valine; glycine comprises almost one quarter of the make - up of the elastin.

2 is an anomaly, a cathartic sequel comprised almost entirely of backstory, in which the characters (and they can only be called characters: no middling everyman or woman composites reside in this filmic universe of bittersweet revenge) can engage in the most contradictory of human acts.

Long takes of the wild ones throwing switchblades at one another, of Dafoe smoking a cigarette, and of a sex scene comprised almost entirely of televised scenes of a race riot betray the influence of the French New Wave.

However, when director Ridley Scott mounted his own production of the Moses story, titled Exodus: Gods and Kings, quite a few heads were turned by the fact that the principal cast - which includes Christian Bale as Moses, Joel Edgerton as Rhamses and Aaron Paul as Joshua - was comprised almost exclusively of white actors.

The formalist challenges she took on in the fashionista thriller Rage — comprised almost entirely of confessional close - ups — seem to have resulted in the huge emotional payoffs in the intimate scenes in the current film.

Exacerbating matters is a cast comprised almost exclusively of terrible actors, though to be fair, they're not given a whole lot to work with (Edward Norton would be hard - pressed to inject life into this material).

Actually, those scenes comprised almost all of the spark found in Nicky.

fails to provide a single action sequence to match either of them (despite the fact that it consists of a third act comprised almost entirely of battle scenes).

Comprised almost solely of a recent interview, photos, and clips from De Palma's body of work, De Palma doesn't really feel like a movie, it feels more like an amazing special feature you'd find on a collector's edition of a DVD or a Blu - ray; I feel like there just should have been more to it.

Filmmaker Francis Lawrence, in attempting to expand Suzanne Collins» novel into two features, employs an aggressively lethargic pace that's compounded by a tedious, uneventful opening hour, with the movie's first half comprised almost entirely of sequences in which characters plot their next move.

It seems that the Corps, led by the exceedingly purple Abin Sur (Temuera Morrison), have defeated and imprisoned, Parallax, a being so evil that he's comprised almost entirely out of slow - growing firework snakes.

Though the cast is comprised almost entirely of unknown actors, the film boasts a simple but classic premise (the hunted becomes the hunter) and promises to deliver more than its fair share of scares, thanks in part to those creepy animal masks.

Though comprised almost completely of a handful of characters talking, the knockout performances of the small cast, committed to John Patrick Shanley's resonant script, elevate this to standing as one of the best films of last year.

The professional in - house facilities management team at Edge Hill University comprises almost 300 permanent members of staff, funded by the university and operating within the context of an extremely competitive and financially challenging higher education sector.

She has demonstrated that schools comprised almost entirely of English learners, in some of the city's poorest and densest neighborhoods, can achieve extraordinary results and serve as models of excellence.

For decades, most tests — especially end - of - year state tests — have been comprised almost exclusively of multiple - choice questions.

This year's TQP grantees join a cohort of 64 grantees comprising almost $ 400 million invested since 2009.

In her role as CEO of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy she has demonstrated that campuses comprised almost entirely of English language learners, in some of the poorest and densest neighborhoods of our city, can excel.

They find that the bulk of the «invisible» authors behind the very lowest sales records are indies whose aggregated work comprises almost a million titles: