Sentences with phrase «for around a fifth»

«The Department is responsible for around a fifth of the work streams the Government must complete as the UK leaves the EU.

The researchers found that firewood accounts for around a fifth of the income that comes from forests, with timber coming in second at 10 %.

But the same approach might work for other dominant forms of inherited deafness, which account for around a fifth of cases.

And what, if anything, can be done to stop it in countries like the UK, where ashes account for around a fifth of all trees?

For around a fifth of children in the U.S., key needs include health, food and housing.

Deforestation also accounts for around a fifth of all global emissions, and scientists warn that it must be reduced by 50 % by 2020 for the best chance of staying below a 2 °C temperature rise.

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For some it might be hard to believe that it hasn't been around longer, but Apple's App Store is celebrating its fifth anniversary today.

Merkel is on track to easily win her fourth term in September, giving her leeway to criticize the executives of a sector that, according to government figures, accounts for a fifth of the country's total industrial revenue and employs around 800,000 people.

In mid-February the company recorded a fifth consecutive quarter of sluggish sales, and comparable sales at Tim Hortons restaurants around the world slipped 0.1 per cent for the 2017 financial year.

In a scene structured around pre-existing gang rivalries, crews bang out not for their city or their borough, but for the fifth and sixth digits of their phone number.

Using the Plausible Deniability defense, they claimed that they weren't even in the loop when it came to paying AIG enough to turn around and pay Goldman Sachs and other arbitrageurs 100 cents on the dollar for securities worth about a fifth as much.

Asset - backed securities (ABS) account for around one - fifth of non-government debt securities on issue.

China is the fifth largest source country in respect of the stock of foreign direct investment, accounting for around 4.4 per cent of the total stock.»

Despite accounting for about a fifth of Tesla's revenue or around $ 2 billion, China merited few mentions in Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk's earnings calls until recently.

Around four - fifths of prostate cancer patients have tumors with lots of PSMA for the therapy to bind to.

For the fifth anniversary of Benedict XVI's papacy on Monday, the Vatican is expected to do everything it normally does to celebrate such milestones: the pope will lunch with dozens of Catholic cardinals from around the world and deliver remarks from his window above St. Peter's Square, while Vatican employees will receive an anniversary bonus in their paychecks.

If telescopes make it clear that heavenly bodies are not perfectly spherical and furthermore reveal moons rotating around a planet, then the old notion of the æther, a refined fifth element admitting only the potentiality for perfect circular motion on the part of perfectly spherical bodies, no longer has a role to play.

He's brought in some of the largest accounts in the company's history and grown his annual sales from around $ 1 million three years ago to a record - breaking $ 5.2 million last year — representing roughly one - fifth of total company volume for the year.

Isn't Anthony Barr's cap hit for this year already somewhere around the $ 12.5 M range now that he's on his fifth year option?

Wannstedt's fifth season as Chicago's coach has been an unmitigated disaster, and he may not be around to coach a sixth, but give him credit for staying the course.

Marcine, 14, a freshman at Wisconsin Dells High, won a state all - around cowgirl title for the fifth straight year.

The 28 - year - old has moved for a fee of around # 40m — or four - fifths of a Torres — and has signed a three - year deal with an option to extend for an extra year.

«Lumpy is a laid - back, fun - loving guy who's fun to hang around with, but the fact is, he practices hard,» says Brandel Chamblee, a fellow resident of Scottsdale, who tied for fifth at Bay Hill.

AfterJohnson had roared around the 2.5 - mile superspeedway for his two qualifyinglaps and placed fifth for the next qualifier, NASCAR inspectors discovered thatthe car's rear window had been slightly raised sometime between theprequalifying inspection and the qualifying runs.

Whilst Ronaldo will have turned 30 they are confident that the fact the experienced campaigner has largely steered clear of lengthy injuries and is supremely fit mean that they can happily hand the player a four year contract worth around # 320k a week, with an option for a fifth season also included, which has been accepted «in principal» by agent Mendes.

Indeed, it's Ericsson who's been confirmed for a fourth season with Sauber and fifth in total (yep, he really has been around that long), leaving Giovinazzi to be the team's third driver.

Laura Halford is the highest placing Brit in the women's rhythmic gymnastics all - around final, finishing fifth for Wales.

Marítimo have kept their fifth place (despite a home defeat against Braga) comfortably, now with a 6 point cushion and look favorites to qualify to the Europa League next season, even after selling their star striker Baba to Sevilla for around 4.5 milion.

That was the theme for my daughter's fifth birthday, and her red bandana'ed guests had a ball riding around the perimeter of the big field.

Ivory seizures around the world hit record levels last year, with elephant poaching in Africa declining for a fifth year in a row, a report says.

Around a fifth of the discretionary fund is set aside for so - called «member items,» projects sponsored by individual Council members.

And under a recent consultation document EDF would only have to pay around a fifth of the eventual cost for dealing with waste, leaving the government and the taxpayer facing the liability after the power station shuts down.

NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill sent a letter imploring the local delegation to the House and Senate to get the city reimbursed for its ongoing protection of President Donald Trump «s eponymous tower — estimating the perimeter around the Fifth Avenue Xanadu currently costs his department anywhere from $ 127,000 to $ 146,000 a day, and the FDNY an average of $ 4.5 million annually so long as members of the First Family remain in the building.

Around one fifth of students statewide did not take the math and English tests required for third through eighth graders.

In a world of high - tech searches, Buffalo Police are continuing to apply the knowledge of decades of experience working on and around the Niagara River, as the search for Officer Craig Lehner continues into a fifth day.

According to a new report by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, the number of LIRR disruptions caused by problems in and around the East River Tunnels have increased by 72 percent since Sandy — accounting for nearly a fifth of the increase in all of the delays and cancellations throughout the LIRR, which includes 700 miles of track.

Fischbach is the epitome of the curious soul, constantly poking around at the edges of known physics in search of something that other people overlooked: a fifth force of nature, for instance, or a flaw in Einstein's theory of relativity.

Within those states, the areas directly affected by Harvey account for $ 155 billion in shipments (around one - fifth of total chemical industry shipments in the United States).

The shoulder - aches from carrying a DSLR + 2 lenses around with me like they're a fifth limb (even on vacation when I'm out for 12 hours at a stretch).

While going back to dating scene may seem like a daunting and horrendous task, especially for people over 50 who just recently become newly unattached and single, there is probably number of older people who are turning to online dating sites, especially online dating sites for over 50 to find love and romance the second (or third, or fourth, or fifth, etc.) time around.

Around the fourth or fifth episode of Schitt's Creek, the family's behavior starts to become a smidge less predictable: David decides to sell his pricey wardrobe; Alexis finds herself attracted to a bearded environmentalist; Johnny and Moira display genuine affection for each other.

Stars Ian Ziering, Tara Reid and Cassie Scerbo will return for a fifth movie, which the tornado - and hurricane - hopping sharks flying into cities around the world.

For the fifth time in twelve months (following «Flight,» «Iron Man 3,» «World War Z» and «The Lone Ranger «-RRB-, the actor feels like he's in a different, and much better, movie than the one around him.

Gary Oldman makes wedding vows for the fifth time in his life as it's revealed that he and his partner of around two years, Gisele Schmidt, tied the...

A fan brought this up and prodded Cumberbatch to agree onstage to come back for Seasons 5, 6 and 7, and after some joking around, Gatis said, «We can exclusively reveal that there won't be a fifth season... but there will be a sixth.»

Kojima also confirmed that Metal Gear's main character, Solid Snake, will be around for the fifth game.

It just never hooked me like it seemed to for everyone else around me, and I'd end up quitting before even reaching the fifth gym.

All told, nearly three quarters of the film is spent trying to decode Assange without much to show for it, but it's only in the final act that «The Fifth Estate» decides to engage and try to discuss the ethics, morals and consequences of WikiLeaks work — in particular around the release of the Afghanistan War Logs — in any substantive way, but again a lack of courage on behalf of the filmmakers to take any position renders the film narratively limp.

Musically, the director tends to rotate around a group of his favourite composers, and this film sees the return of Ulsterman David Holmes, scoring his fifth film for Soderbergh.

Yosemite (R for sexuality, nudity and profanity) Coming - of - age tale, set in Palo Alto in 1985, revolving around the partially - overlapping misadventures of a trio of fifth graders (Everett Meckler, Alec Mansky and Calum John) living in a suburban community with a mountain lion on the loose.