Sentences with phrase «fifth of adults»

About a fifth of adults (22 %) have a relatively high level of science knowledge, answering at least seven questions correctly (including 4 % with a perfect score).

Only about one fifth of adults diagnosed with it survive two years or more after their diagnosis.

Nearly a fifth of adults are retired.

But fat supplies between a quarter and two - fifths of an adult's energy intake and half for a newborn.

Nearly three - fifths of adults in the South favor ESAs (58 %), which is more than the 52 percent of all adults.

She's probably right, but considering that romance novel sales make up for $ 1.1 billion dollars in 2013 (roughly one - fifth of all adult - fiction), this isn't quite the financial risk many might assume.

Not exact matches

According to a 2014 survey by the NCTE and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, about one - fifth of all transgender adults are veterans, making transgender people approximately twice as likely as others to serve in the military, The Washington Post reported.

The percentage of adults thankful for the economic situation in the U.S. is lower than in 2010 and about a fifth of what it was in the mid-1980s, according to a new poll.

What's interesting about this graph is the the fourth, fifth and sixth arrows collectively span a period of time which, for boomers and gen - Xers, represents a significant amount of their adult lifetimes and personal experience with what «normal» interest rates are.

Michael Cohen, the longtime attorney of President Trump, told a federal judge on Wednesday that he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself in a lawsuit brought by adult entertainer Stormy Daniels.

The Post's Emma Brown and Roz Helderman: «Michael Cohen, the longtime attorney of President Trump, told a federal judge on Wednesday that he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself in a lawsuit brought by adult entertainer Stormy Daniels.

A year and a half ago, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York began a program of adult education, offering classes on topics as demanding and varied as «The Nature of God the Father» and «Renaissance and Reformation: The Formation of the Protestant Tradition.»

Nearly one - fifth of the U.S. adult population — and one - third of those under the age of 30 — identify in this way; an increase from 15 percent just 5 years earlier.

By 1987, three - fifths of poor adults had no earnings at all.

A new survey has found that 51 per cent of adults in the UK say they pray, and a fifth of them are not... More

The Annual Woodland Faerie Trail is returning for its fifth year of delighting children and adults alike.

The reality about the fifth disease is that only 2 out of 10 infected children and adults will feel no symptoms at all.

A survey of 1,705 adults showed Britain was leaning towards remain - but almost a fifth of voters are still undecided.

The council can only meet the legal requirement to balance its budget by raiding # 3milion from its reserves while carrying out a raft of mid-year spending cuts, including cutting personal budgets for adult care users by a fifth and targeting high - cost adult care packages for reductions (appendices 4 and 5, pages 12 - 13).

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S. and a major cause of adult disability.

Love American style: Web beats sex every time One fifth of Americans spend less time having sex because of the Internet, according to a new survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults.

The study, published online May 19 in Prevention Science, surveyed 808 adults (parents and nonparents), a group the SDRG first identified as fifth - graders at Seattle elementary schools in the 1980s as part of a long - term research project.

It belonged to an adult male of the species Homo erectus, a.k.a. «Upright Man» and is called «Skull 5» because it was the fifth set of hominid remains recovered at the archeological site, Dmanisi, located in the Caucausus of the Republic of Georgia.

The neurological condition currently affects about 5.4 million Americans and is the fifth leading cause of deaths in adults 65 years old and above.

Stroke is the fifth - leading cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of serious long - term disability for adults.

Fifth, the Dietary Guidelines should emphasize the importance of physical activity in promoting good health and preventing chronic disease for both youth and adults.

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With Charisse L. Nixon, Davis recently published a study of 13,177 students in fifth through twelfth grades from 31 schools and in 12 states, focusing on giving students a chance to speak about school connection, peer mistreatment, and student and adult actions.

As adults, we are more aware of what it takes for us to learn something than say a fifth grader, who is only just beginning to learn about the concept of metacognition.

The number of pupils expelled for physically assaulting adults has risen by a fifth in the past year, statistics have shown.

Just five percent make it to the top fifth of earners by the time they're adults.»

When asked if they feel their school education prepared them for adult life, almost a fifth (18 %) of 18 to 24 year olds said they strongly disagreed that school set them up well for real life.

The report adds that although 96 per cent of parents are confident their child can ask an adult for help, almost one fifth don't believe they have friends they can call on.

The results also show that nearly a fifth (19 %) of adults felt pushed towards going to university, while just two per cent said they were pushed towards an apprenticeship.

Using information from Chetty et al's results and Gormley et al's results, I calculate that in Tulsa, the predicted effect of pre-k on adult earnings would be about one - fifth greater in dollars for reduced price lunch students than for free lunch students, and the predicted effect on adult earnings would be about one - fifth less in dollars for full price lunch students than for free lunch students.

Four - fifths of the 2,000 adults surveyed by the company ComRes for the NUT said they would not want their child going to a free school that did not employ professional teachers.

As a matter of fact, a few of us teachers put the questions on social media and gave adults a shot at these fifth grade ELA questions.

Millions of American adults read at or below the fifth - grade level, making it difficult for them to perform such everyday tasks as reading a newspaper, writing and addressing a letter or completing a job application.

The rest of the interior has loads of space for four adults and their luggage, while a fifth could squeeze in for shorter journeys.

Inside the SportWagen, there is comfortable seating for four adults (we made sure of that by taking our wives along) and a seatbelt and headrest for a fifth passenger in the middle of the rear bench seat if all cooperate.

Four 6 - footers fit happily inside, and a fifth adult won't be too cramped in the middle of the back seat.

There's plenty of room on board for four grown - ups, although a fifth adult may complain about the high transmission tunnel.

I have sold two plays, and The Body of Christopher Creed is my fifth young adult novel (I've hit VERY close).

According to Reuters, one - fifth of American adults read an eBook last year, with the number surely to keep rising over the next few years.

Analyst Forrester is predicting tablet ownership in Western Europe will quadruple by 2017 — with the percentage of online adults owning a slate projected to increase markedly from less than a fifth (14 per cent) last year to more than half (55 per cent) in 2017.

Washington (April 5, 2012)-- One - fifth of American adults (21 %) report that they have read an e-book in the past year, and this number increased following a gift - giving season that saw a spike in the ownership of both tablet computers and e-book reading devices such as the original Kindles and Nooks.

Here are a few facts about ebook readers... Over a fifth of American adults have read an eBook.

She was the president of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) in 2015 - 2016 and served as the chair of YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens Committee (the fifth chair since the committee's inception and the first chair of Asian American descent) in 2010 - 2011.

Since then approximately one fifth (21 %) of adults in the US have admitted to reading at least one e-book in the past year, a significant increase over last year's 17 %.