Sentences with phrase «for at least a third»

We love this, and I'm making it right now for at least the third time.

They have so much pitching, they'll begin the season with a long reliever who could start Opening Day for at least a third of the teams in the league.

For at least the third year in a row, Cuomo successfully beat back attempts by the two houses to increase transparency of state economic development spending.

ALBANY — Many of the major parameters that Gov. Andrew Cuomo will announce in his executive budget proposal on Tuesday afternoon are already known: continued growth in Medicaid and education spending, a suite of tax cuts worth $ 2 billion over the next several years and a to - the - bone spending posture that holds state agency budgets flat for at least the third year in a row.

Indeed, analysis shows that for at least a third of the past century, the country was governed by parties which had failed to win an election in their own right but had created temporary mergers with another party in order to form a ruling coalition.

With good foresight and strategic planning, it could develop into a premier regional center for the study of drug response in Asians — a timely development toward better therapeutics for at least a third of the world's population.

Unfortunately, standard types of medication used to treat major depression take a long time to work, and for at least a third of people, the medication will not work well enough to provide any real help.»

Same thing when I was fighting full time, my coach had me doing footwork for at least a third of my workouts.

Not exact matches

In the Vancouver area, for example, a third of agents said non-Canadians owned at least 30 % of luxury homes.

The problem for Nintendo is the NX's launch is at least a year away — likely more, as the company reportedly just started talking about it with third party partners at this year's E3.

In fact, according to a Marketing Donut survey last year, nearly two - thirds of leads won't be ready to confirm a purchase for at least three months, with 20 % needing over a year.

Sales at stores open for at least one year fell in the third quarter by 2.3 % at company - owned restaurants.

While Pew reports that one - third of 25 - to 29 - year - olds in the U.S. had completed at least a bachelor's degree in 2012 (a record number), a survey by Braun Research for staffing firm Adecco found that 66 percent of hiring managers do not believe college grads are ready for the work force.

It was a volatile close to the third quarter for the stock market, as evidenced by the fact that the Dow fluctuated by at least 100 points in either direction for five days in a row last week.

The survey of more than 2,000 individuals found that nearly two - thirds of people between the ages of 18 and 34 were at least somewhat more likely to want to work for a company that gave to charity than one did that not.

But now, for those blessed to be free of family constraints or serious debts, a rising marriage age and longer career onramps can make the third decade of life seem — from the outside at least — like one big party.

Otherwise, at least a third of job seekers are using their hand - held devices to do some form of research — for instance, read reviews, look up salary information, or familiarize themselves with recent company news.

Mark Kalinowski, the Janney analyst, raised his forecast for sales at Wendy's restaurants open at least a year to 5 per cent in the third quarter, citing the possibility that the burger would be released during that period.

Third - best market for first - time buyers: Chicago Chicago is at least America's Second City when it comes to entry - level housing, offering the second - largest supply of starter homes of any city that Zillow analyzed.

Any company in the business community can be considered for the award, provided the company is a Canadian - owned private business in at least its third year of operation as of December 2016, with minimum annual revenues of $ 5 million and meets all eligibility criteria.

In the olden days when customers would pay for a desktop app once (or at least the EULA that let them use it), software vendors could only prosper by getting every more first - time customers, or angering at least a third of their user base every year by offering a paid «upgrade» of either features that should have been in the software to begin with or added as developerd, or features nobody wanted.

However at least one third - party provider, NAV, offers SBSS scores for free.

For about two - thirds of the elderly, Social Security is their major income source; for 36 percent, old - age benefits account for at least 90 percent of their income and these shares are even larger for minorities and for womFor about two - thirds of the elderly, Social Security is their major income source; for 36 percent, old - age benefits account for at least 90 percent of their income and these shares are even larger for minorities and for womfor 36 percent, old - age benefits account for at least 90 percent of their income and these shares are even larger for minorities and for womfor at least 90 percent of their income and these shares are even larger for minorities and for womfor minorities and for womfor women.

Mobile advertising represented just over half of all Facebook's marketing dollars in the last quarter of 2013, and for the same period in 2014, analysts expect mobile ads to make up at least two - thirds of all ad revenue, making Facebook primarily a mobile ad company.

The market has become increasingly confident that the Fed will raise rates at least two more times this year, and could even go for a third, causing the Dollar to rally strongly in recent weeks.

Nearly two - thirds (63 percent) of contractors report at least moderate demand for these building materials.

U.S. auto sales are on pace for the best showing since 2007 and a third straight year of at least 10 percent gains, only the fourth such streak since the Great Depression, as more - confident buyers return to showrooms.

Wal - Mart lowered its full - year profit forecast on Thursday and warned sales would be flat through the end of January, after sales fell for a third straight quarter at U.S. stores open at least a year.

While the CPS shows that Social Security is practically the sole source of income for over one - third of seniors, the authors estimate only about one - sixth of seniors rely on Social Security for at least 90 percent of their income.

Regarding economic data, the positive tone that has been in place for several months continued, with third - quarter gross domestic product (GDP) figures coming in ahead of consensus estimates at an annualized rate of 3 %, marking the first increase of at least 3 % in consecutive quarters since 2014.

By the recent statement of Facebook, it's clear that every user has used one or multiple third - party apps for some reason at least once, which makes all users more vulnerable.

It speaks to an incredible failure of Wall Street to learn from its mistakes (or at least the mistakes that it foists onto unsuspecting investors), and the likelihood of making nearly the same mistake for a third time in just over a decade.

That Act would further restrict the Fed's 13 (3) lending operations by requiring that they be approved by at least two - thirds of the FOMC (as opposed to the present 5 - member requirement); by disallowing the use of equity as collateral for 13 (3) loans; by requiring that loans be approved not only by the Federal Reserve Board but by all Federal banking regulators having jurisdiction over the prospective borrowers; and by allowing emergency lending to be extended beyond a term of 30 days only by means of a joint resolution approved by Congress.

Stopping short of calling for cathedral governing bodies - Chapters - to be scrapped, the Church of England said at least two - thirds of members should not be clergy, to ensure people with necessary skills are there.

In fact, the researchers report that «if similar success could be achieved for all minority students nationwide, it could close the gap between white and minority test scores by at least a third, possibly by more than half.»

First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

The potential leadership of at least the persuaders among the Christian R&D professionals is problematic, considering the weight of empirical evidence accumulated against liberationist diagnoses and prescriptions for the Third World's woes.

As Blackish wraps up its third season, with a likely fourth one on the way, you can't help but wonder if the creators had any idea how pertinent the show could be for all Americans as we seek a path out of stark polarization, or at the very least, into a good laugh with someone we hadn't expected to share one with.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

A plurality of self - identified Christians who go to church at least once a month favor Trump (41 %), while 34 percent plan to vote for Clinton, 18 percent are undecided, and 6 percent support a third - party candidate.

This is at least the third time I've read where you've referenced South Park for knowledge on a subject!

You said,» This is at least the third time I've read where you've referenced South Park for knowledge on a subject!»

It was at least the second or third marriage for each of them, and they had 10 kids between them.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

«Reading Zealot was a very troubling experience for me because there was an historical error on at least every third page.

But there are two points at least that emerge in this essay — and perhaps a third — that I consider to hold promise for future discussion.

A study by LifeWay Research reveals that «more than two - thirds of young adults who attend a Protestant church for at least a year in high school will stop attending church...

At least 45 minutes before making the pizza, place a baking stone either on the floor of the oven (for gas ovens), or on a rack in the lower third of the oven.

Any time you need at least a third of a cup of grated hard cheese, whether for Artichoke Dip or Sun - Dried Tomato Pesto, I recommend putting down the grater and grinding cubes of Parmesan in your mini prep.

An exception is made for harvest of breeding stock and where replacement animals are not technically possible from organic sources — in this case they must be maintained under organic conditions for at least two - thirds of the production cycle before they are sold as organic.