Sentences with phrase «fifth of what»

Markets, after nearly a decade of low rates and low growth, are adjusting to the new normal and corresponding volatility — and while China may own over a trillion dollars of U.S. debt, that's less than 20 percent of all debt owned by foreign nations, and a fifth of what America owes itself.

But now that it's under 10 MB (a fifth of what Messenger weighs) and supports video calling, there's no reason why you shouldn't consider switching.

The average North Carolina customer on Compare.com pays just $ 1,029 in annual premiums — that's less than a fifth of what Michigan auto insurance rates cost.

In another energy IPO of similar size, Brazilian electricity company Renova Energia raised $ 98 million in an offering on the São Paulo exchange earlier this month — roughly a fifth of what it had sought after shelving an earlier IPO in March.

Figures provided for Legal Week's annual UK top 50 rankings show CMS, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Gowling WLG, Watson Farley & Williams and RPC all paid the partners at the bottom of their equity less than a fifth of what their top earners received for 2015 - 16.

We could give housing and clean water to the entire world, and eliminate all major diseases, for just a fifth of what proposals such as the Kyoto Protocol and the British Stern Report might end up costing.»

In all, that means 18 plants — a fifth of what many people used to see as a cornerstone industry of America's energy future and a key ally in the global fight against climate - altering greenhouse emissions — have been closed since 2013 or will be closed over the next seven years.

Certainly, I doubt that available $ $ has dropped to one fifth of what it was before...

«I've been paying attention to what's been happening to the music business and I think someone told me recently that the people involved in the music industry are maybe a fifth of what they were ten years ago.

That was a gift, because the cost went to a fifth of what I thought it would cost!

Vanguard, for example, the largest purveyor of index funds today, charges about one - tenth to one - fifth of what the typical actively managed fund charges for expenses.

It has the power, speed, grip, and the looks that make it an impressive sports cars, and with a starting price of $ 63,435, it costs one - fifth of what supercars offering comparable levels of performance cost — a stupendous bargain.

Those higher math scores were equivalent to roughly a fifth of what kids this age typically learn in a school year.

The plant's current workforce of 4,000 workers is about a fifth of what it was in its heyday.

I picked it up at Jayson Home's warehouse sale last year for a fifth of what it normally retails for.

And the price is a fifth of what you would pay, $ 28 vs $ 129!

Even the much hyped açaí berries contain only about 300 mg — one fifth of what is found in aronia or elderberries.

At the end of this summer, only a quarter of the Arctic Ocean was still covered in ice, a record low in modern times, and the total volume of ice was just a fifth of what it was three decades ago (see «Record Arctic ice loss»).

The vast majority of African farmers are still planting low - yield seeds without even the benefit of fertilizer, and the harvests that they're getting are a third or a fourth or a fifth of what they ought to be getting, and the result is mass hunger.

«We had asked for at least $ 1.5 billion in flexible operating aid, so hence the statement that what the governor proposes is about one - fifth of what are needs actually are.»

Malliotakis has raised just $ 18,965 from outside the five boroughs, though that's still about a fifth of what she's gotten in all.

Cameron: «Bank bonuses are about a fifth of what they were when he was in the Treasury.»

Those higher math scores were equivalent to roughly a fifth of what kids this age typically learn in a school year.

P.S. Rooney isn't worth a fifth of what he's been signed up on this week!

He doesn't realise that Wenger's valuation if him is one fifth of what another club will happily end up paying for him.

Mean serum cholesterol levels in France for example are almost identical to that of Americans, yet their heart disease risk is but a fifth of what America endures.

You end up with just over 6 grams of fiber per serving, which may not sound like much, but it's nearly a fifth of what you need from just one serving.

• Cisco sold its video business back to Permira for $ 1 billion, a fifth of what it paid in 2012.

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.

Under a previous editor of the Forbes 400 list, the magazine had valued Trump's assets at $ 200 million, only a fifth of what he claimed to own in interviews.

Fifty - six - year - old Amie Crawford, who graduated with an associate's degree in interior design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and had a successful 30 - year career as an interior designer, never thought she'd be in a job where the average take - home pay was less than a fifth of what she had made before.

«The average American has less than $ 5,000 in a financial account, a quarter to a fifth of what you should have, and those aged 55 to 64 who have retirement savings only carry $ 120,000 — which won't last long in the absence of paychecks,» the survey reports.

Interest on the debt, at 9 % of annual budget spending, is now nearly half of what the province spends on each year on education and more than one - fifth of what's spent on healthcare.

if at all he transfers to big clubs like Real or Barcelona they will pay about three fifths of what he cost from Juve.Disappointing.

It claims charter students receive only three - fifths of what school district students receive.

In fact, the inequity is even worse in Buffalo, where children in charter public schools receive only three - fifths of what children in city schools receive.

The suit says New York's funding system is unconstitutional because charter students receive as little as three - fifths of what public districts receive to educate students.

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In speaking with analysts who have covered Michael Dell and his company for several decades, what emerges is a portrait of a founder so completely enmeshed with his business that many liken Dell (the company) to his fifth child.

The Kardashian game's total bookings, which includes the cut Glu must pay to app store owners like Apple, fell to under $ 8 million in the second quarter, less than one - fifth what it brought in at the height of the game's popularity.

There is the danger of blaming some of these trends on the overt side effects of technology, which is what the media did in 2011 with stories that implicated Facebook in playing a role in one - fifth of all divorces.

I was swigging what must've been my fifth cup of coffee that night, and the numbers on my Excel spreadsheet were starting to blur in front of my eyes.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

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Titled «Hyperloop Alpha,» the paper contained notes toward what Musk called the fifth mode of transport — the other four being planes, trains, automobiles and boats.

Last weekend, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett spent roughly a fifth of his latest annual letter talking about what he calls «The Bet.»

After a rollercoaster APEC summit, where news on the Trans - Pacific Partnership felt at times more like a soap opera than trade talks, and a fifth round of NAFTA talks getting underway this week, Episode 002 of What the West?

Chairman - CEO Fisk Johnson, fifth - generation family leader of the company, says in a statement that the company wants people to know it's «committed to doing what's right for our consumers, communities and the environment.»

Fifth Street Asset Management provided commentary on capital markets in Q3 / 16 and a forecast of what's to come in 2017.

Every walker on Fifth Avenue has to decide for himself or herself when and how to walk on the basis of his or her best guess of what everyone else will do.

For what Davies seems to be doing in this book, and in all his fiction since Fifth Business, is catching the reader's attention through marvels of storytelling to bring him or her to the point of undertaking a similar journey toward individuation.