Sentences with phrase «for lesser number»

I was excited to be able to play more puzzles while in the adventure world which somewhat made up for the lesser number of puzzles included in the story level.

Not exact matches

Face it: none of these numbers are reassuring to cable companies that are seeing users desert them in droves for less costly and more flexible options like Netflix (NFLX), Hulu and Apple (AAPL) TV.

And while overall life expectancy has decreased, the numbers are slightly less grim for women: female life expectancy remained the same at 81.1 years, while it dropped to 76.1 years for men.

Apple shareholder Ross Gerber said on Thursday that Apple sold a «perfectly fine» number of phones during the quarter, but earnings were a bit less than he was hoping for.

He has been outspoken on a number of issues lately, particularly regarding the gridlock in Congress and the need for less regulation and tax reform.

Average annual core return on equity over a period is the ratio of: a) the sum of core income less preferred dividends for the periods presented to b) the sum of: 1) the sum of the adjusted average shareholders» equity for all full years in the period presented, and 2) for partial years in the period presented, the number of quarters in that partial year divided by four, multiplied by the adjusted average shareholders» equity of the partial year.

The company took advantage of a number of U.S. programs meant to spur «orphan drugs,» or treatments for the kinds of disorders that afflict less than 200,000 Americans each year.

Q: How do I compensate my salespeople when I can't afford to pay a big base salary, equity counts for less than it used to, and the reps aren't making their numbers?

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

It put out a clarification statement after the report, giving two clues about the number: that daily users make up less than 50 percent of monthly users, and that there's a lot of room for growth.

The company said the letter «was a conditional indication of interest that contemplated substantially less value to the estate, and did not include a purchase agreement, a financing commitment, a deposit, or a number of other requirements for a qualified bid.»

Although 400,000 migrants did travel through Hungary in 2015, the number of people applying for asylum in the country was small, perhaps in part because of its less - than - welcoming attitude.

Tools like online dashboards and online strategic planning tools allow your accountant to spend more time strategizing for your business and less time running reports and crunching numbers on a moment's notice.

Analysts say some of the rebound is a result of what happened last year, when large numbers of advertisers put less into the upfront market and kept more of their spending for what is called the short - term «scatter» market, where ads are bought on an as - needed basis.

Compared to men working the same number of weekly hours, women earn less; 16 % less when they worked 40 hours a week, and 18 % less for those who worked 45 hours a week.

Still, «range anxiety» — the fear of getting stranded with a dead battery — is the number - one worry for people considering an EV (despite the fact that 80 % of Canadians drive 50 kilometres or less each day).

Though the number of companies expanding their paid parental leave benefits is rising, Sandberg acknowledged that it's less common for employees to get paid time off to care for sick loved ones, saying that the US needs public policies «that make it easier for people to care for their children and aging parents and for families to mourn and heal after loss.»

«With fewer bargain - priced properties to choose from and a growing number of traditional buyers, finding a home for vacation purposes became more difficult and less affordable last year,» he said.

There is perhaps room for a distant number three competitor in smartphones and tablets, but that less - than - prestigious title is likely to go to Microsoft, which has never - ending mountains of cash that will allow it to literally buy its spot.

Why buy a fancy HP server for your company's data center, technologists now asked, when you could just crunch your numbers on a rented server in an Amazon facility, for less?

Google, despite its less than stellar diversity numbers, should be applauded for their long - term thinking in this regard.

Of that number, about 4,000 were sentenced to prison — nearly all of them for less than three years.

With every passing quarter, however, that behavior becomes less of a bogeyman and more of a painful reality — and the latest survey of cable subscriber numbers has a little something for both sides of that debate.

For those who prefer less analytical monitoring, you can utilize Daily Planners or apps like Trello to manually input your business numbers.

And since there is a finite number to be accounted for, there is less of a chance bitcoin or fractions of a bitcoin will go missing.

For any individual who signs up, there will be a bit of luck involved; the size of a pool will depend on the number of folks who sign up — and if more folks have trouble conceiving in a particular pool, there will be less money available to split among them at the end of the period.

The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.

The number of computers linked to the Internet is also uneven, ranging from more than one for every 10 people to less than one for every 10,000.

After all, it was less than a year ago that The New York Times reported that magazine sales — in particular, celebrity magazine sales — were in a state of sharp decline, and the numbers they cited for the first half of 2014 were grim.

While there are probably a few things Millennials themselves can do to beat back perfectionism (for the love of all that is holy, spend less time on social media, for instance), the underlying causes of this shift suggested by the study, including an increasingly terrifying scramble for a shrinking number of slots in the middle class, are something we're all going to have to address together.

Having set numbers for the different aspects of your party will help you spend less money; otherwise, it's temping to just pick up more and more decorations (or food) in the spirit of throwing a fun get - together.

As well, companies like Bell argue that prices for individual channels will go up while the number of available channels will decrease, leaving customers paying the same amount of money or more for less TV.

While it's a shock to get 89 percent of people to agree on anything (smaller numbers agree that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around, for instance), the fact that working together is less lonely than working apart is hardly a world - shaking revelation.

This year's presidential election will go down in the books for many things, but perhaps one of the less appreciated reasons — thanks to millions of smartphone - wielding, social - networking Americans — is the number of images it has produced

When he ran the numbers for one client, Tallal calculated that putting away money early would result in significant savings: «By starting when his two children were infants and setting aside about $ 6,500 a year for each child, the business owner would wind up spending nearly $ 400,000 less.»

The 416 number is factually accurate but completely irrelevant for analyzing the policy; New Democrats have correctly pointed out that what matters is not how many federally regulated workers made minimum wage, but rather how many would be making less than $ 15 an hour.

That makes the mutual fund giant relatively expensive for very small businesses, but less costly for plans that have a large number of participants.

Strategically the sales professional must keep the focus off the offer and create an arena of fairness in mediating discussions about the numbers in a mutually beneficial fashion — one where she does not settle for less than what is desired.

Even if Le Pen wins, she'd likely have less freedom to act than President Trump, who has signed a number of executive orders calling for sweeping changes.

UPS is betting that if it can handle more volume it can increase the number of packages it delivers to households and improve profitability, versus pushing for higher prices and less volume, analysts say.

A number of concerns have been raised regarding the cryptocurrency and ICO markets, including that, as they are currently operating, there is substantially less investor protection than in our traditional securities markets, with correspondingly greater opportunities for fraud and manipulation.

For patients younger than 60, with a comparably high number of comorbidities, female patients have less diagnoses but take more drugs than males.

The $ 18 million investment is much less than the company was looking for last spring, when it was contemplating numbers that ranged from $ 35 million to $ 70 million.

«At that time, the relatively unpopular Rolex model — a chronograph with bold numbering designed for timing motorsports events — retailed for less than $ 400.

And for every 10 signups on average, I make a sale (sometimes more, sometimes less, 1 in 10 is a safe number) from my front - end VSL (video sales letter) I redirect them to.»

Some homes may be listed for eye - popping numbers, but they eventually sell for much less, Kirman said, estimating that homes listed for $ 60 to $ 100 million sell for tens of millions less, with only a few exceptions.

Pursuant to the Amalgamation, Huayra and Angel AcquisitionCo will amalgamate and the amalgamated company will become a wholly - owned subsidiary of Angel and Angel will acquire all of the 40,388,565 Class A common shares of Huayra that are expected to be issued and outstanding immediately prior to the implementation of the Amalgamation in exchange for a like number of post-Subdivision common shares of Angel at a deemed issue price per share of not less than Cdn.

Pursuant to the policy, as revised in February 2009, at each annual meeting of our stockholders, provided that the director has served on the Board for at least six months prior to the annual meeting, a non-employee director would be granted RSUs having a value equal to $ 225,000 divided by the lesser of (i) the trailing average closing trading prices of our common stock for the 180 - day period preceding and ending with the date of the RSU grant or (ii) such number of RSUs as the Board may determine based on additional criteria such as business conditions and / or company performance, outside director compensation practices at peer companies and advice from outside compensation consultants.

The number of RSUs was limited so that in no event would each annual grant be for greater than 125 % or less than 75 % of the prior year's number of granted RSUs.

I suggested a number of areas for expansionary fiscal policy both to make recession less likely and to respond when the next one comes.