Sentences with phrase «for about a tenth»

I'm making the biscuits this morning, for about the tenth time.

I only had to think about this for about a tenth of a second before I enthusiastically agreed.

That was my thought process after Dark Souls» most notorious pair of bosses slaughtered me for about the tenth time.

Recent paintings by Marden sell for about a tenth of that price.

When unlocking the Xiaomi Mi 5 from sleep, the lock screen is visible only for about a tenth of second, if at all.

Not exact matches

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U.S. bank reserves, for example, have (as seen in the next picture) gone from being equal to a bit more than a tenth of demand deposits to being about twice the value of such deposits!

«The difference between everybody from tenth place to the last one is about five points so, as I said, we know every match is going to be a final for us.»

Tenth grader Perla says she's already talking to her young daughter about what she wants for her.

Other events occurred earlier this month, both educational and social, including the Tenth Annual Athletic Trainer River Run in Pittsburgh; which has served to educate the runners about athletic training and to raise money for an athletic training scholarship in SW Pennsylvania.

The project has been stuck in neutral for seven years because the county doesn't own the land, about two - tenths of an acre.

Duffy spoke to a crowd of about 1,400 charter school parents, children advocates who were bused up to Albany by the New York City Charter School Center for its tenth annual charter advocacy day at the Capitol.

That was about one - tenth the cost of the other two options: about $ 40,000 for MVD and $ 38,000 for SRS.

It consists mostly of light - sensing cells, but one tenth of a millimeter of its thickness is populated by image - processing circuitry that is capable of detecting edges (boundaries between light and dark) and motion for about a million tiny image regions.

At least for the top programs hiring this year, sources say, about a tenth of job applicants in physics volunteer this statistic, up from practically zero just a couple of years ago.

A star that weighs about one - tenth as much as the sun, for example, has a projected lifetime of roughly 12 trillion years — more than 800 times the current age of the universe.

The Wilds of New Guinea Even though it is only about one - tenth the size of the United States, New Guinea has 7 percent of the world's biodiversity, making the island a living laboratory for evolutionary biologists like Christopher Austin, who observes firsthand the adaptive mechanisms that spark the creation of novel species.

Market squid, for instance, contain less than half the calories and about one - tenth the fat content by weight compared to sardines.

But when the figures flashed for just four tenths or two tenths of a second, the chimp trumped all, still hitting about 80 percent of the time, whereas his human challengers» success rate plummeted to 40 percent.

The geographer's cone snail, for example, only injects about a tenth of a milligram of venom when it stings, and yet, this is more than enough to kill a person in under an hour.

When the numbers were displayed for about seven tenths of a second, Ayumu and the college students both scored correctly about 80 percent of the time.

The doses for the troops will be about a tenth of the amount, per unit bodyweight, that was administered to the guinea pigs.

Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov at Princeton University found that showing people an unfamiliar face for just one - tenth of a second is long enough for them to form judgements about the person's attractiveness, likeability, trustworthiness, competence and aggressiveness.

«There is a lack of strategy from political actors about how emissions from these industries should be reduced, even though these industries are responsible for a tenth of emissions of carbon dioxide in Europe and nearly 20 percent in Sweden,» says Johan Rootzén.

By the time we reach adulthood, we are snap - judgement specialists, jumping to conclusions about a person's character and status after seeing their face for just a tenth of a second.

Strikes of all three snake species lasted less than a tenth of a second, about half the time it takes for a human to blink.

Dawson says that she won't be willing to give up on the hope for something new until the LHC has collected about a tenth of the aimed - for data set, sometime around 2020.

So that [is] all it does, it goes straight and it tumbles, straight tumbles, about a second usually of swimming straight and then tumbling for a tenth of a second.

About one - tenth as expensive as typical phototherapy machines, the device folds into a small shipping tube, and can run for a month on a 12 - volt battery.

For now, the bugs still produce only about one - tenth of the enzymes they need to break cellulose and hemicellulose, and the amount of fuel they generate is low.

The number of so - called safety - significant events reported to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, for example, averaged about two per plant per year in 1990 but had dropped to less than one tenth of that by 2000.

Our brains, which weigh an average of 2.7 pounds (1,200 grams), account for about 2 percent of body weight, compared with an elephant's under one - tenth of a percent.

As the energy output of the helium fusion process per unit mass is only about a tenth the energy output of the hydrogen process, this stage will only last for about 10 percent of a star's total active lifetime.

When I was in tenth grade, my dad took me to Annapolis to see the Navy band play a concert, and for about three weeks, I was determined to get in shape so that I could apply to the Naval Academy.

But a person with a functioning pancreas could avoid carbs completely (I'm not suggesting you do it) and only be in «ketosis» — a level of ketones about a tenth of what's required for ketoacidosis.

According to a psychological study, once a person sees a face, it takes about one - tenth of a second for them to form a lasting first impression.

If all it takes is one - tenth of a second for someone to decide what they think of you, posting one photo is basically telling them you don't really care about online dating and don't have anything interesting to share about yourself.

It only takes about one - tenth of a second for someone to form an opinion about another person, according to Psychological Science.

It only takes one - tenth of a second for someone to form an opinion about you, and a blurry, far away, or inappropriate photo is going to make him or her form a bad opinion of you.

It took years for me to warm up to Arcade Fire, and even then it was a heard - but - not - seen proposition: Their early exaggerated stage enthusiasm / pretension reeked of unknowing self - parody, and chanteuse Regine Chassagne has always (to me, at least) had about one - tenth of the stage presence that she thinks she has (I see a cross between my aunt Jane, a junior - high talent show, and maybe Phoebe Snow's niece).

It took years for me to warm up to Arcade Fire, and even then it was a heard - but - not - seen proposition: Their early exaggerated stage enthusiasm / pretension reeked of unknowing self - parody, and chanteuse Regine Chassagne has always (to me, at least) had about one - tenth of the stage presence that she thinks she has (I see a cross between my aunt Jane, a junior - high talent show, and maybe

You'd think it would've been easier on the budget if Stone had just paid for Oldman's cab fare to the library, but, then, the library wouldn't have provided Oldman with a tenth of the information about the man he was portraying that he ended up getting from his meeting with Oswald's widow, Marina.

Gaston has about one - tenth the ego, and Crazy Old Maurice isn't an outcast until it's necessary for plotting.

Both sides offered arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit this month about the intent and...

Russlynn Ali, the former assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education, talks about the district where a black Kindergartener gets suspended for pulling a fire alarm while a white tenth grader does the same thing and gets off with a warning.

While they're funded with public money, they generally operate outside of collective bargaining agreements (only about one - tenth of charter schools are unionized) and other constraints that often prevent principals in public schools from innovating for the good of their students (so the argument goes).

By the time the enrollment for the course was official, 550 students - a tenth of the school's undergraduate population - had signed up to learn about that thing that is, variously, an aspiration and a scourge and a mystery: popularity.

It automatically checks for spelling and grammar and that kind of stuff, which is nice because it actually allows me to talk about the writing rather than these minutiae of mechanics that, to me, aren't really the focus of tenth grade English... [But] it's sometimes hard... a kid quoted a bible [sic] verse... and his was a mess because it came up with so much because it was like «chapter 1.»

For these slowest growing metro areas, the economic development benefits of early childhood programs will be about one - tenth lower.

Instead they are very deliberate about exactly what students are to learn, in tenth grade English for example, and what it looks like when they get it right.