Sentences with phrase «for more than a quarter of»

A group calling itself the Gangster Disciples was responsible for more than a quarter of the 400 murders that were reported in the city through Sept. 25, according to The Chicago Tribune.

The research cluster in B.C. centred around early developer Ballard Power still accounts for more than a quarter of fuel - cell industry revenues worldwide, said B.C.'s job, tourism and skills training minister, Pat Bell.

Glencore accounts for more than a quarter of the world's cobalt output, most of it from Congo, which itself is the source of 60 percent of global supplies.

Indian immigrants were responsible for more than quarter of those start - ups — followed by newcomers from Britain, China, Taiwan, and Japan.

Moreover, we took into account statistical analyses of the John Jay findings, including the fact that only 149 priests accounted for more than a quarter of all accusations, that can lead to the conclusion that the sex abuse crisis was significantly exaggerated.

Global launch activity continued to be dominated by beverage categories, with soft drinks alone accounting for more than a quarter of claims relating to antioxidants.

Look how well he was playing when Cazorla was on the pitch, ever since his and Alexis's injury Mesut has had to carry this team on his own, you can't expect him to be pulling off assists each game when the players that allow him to be comfortable on the ball get injured for more than a quarter of the season.

As shown in the chart, falls account for 50 % of all stroller related injuries while tipovers account for more than a quarter of all stroller injuries.

For older kids who are out playing for more than a quarter of an hour, cover any exposed areas 15 to 30 minutes before going out with sunscreen of at least SPF 15.

Boris Johnson has been able to make things happen in the capital precisely because he's been a close — and I mean close — friend of the PM and Chancellor for more than a quarter of a century.

Formal backing for more than a quarter of a million civil and public servants to join a public sector - wide strike on 30 November puts the Public and Commercial Services union on a «war footing».

The European Science Foundation has been in existence as an association of the national research funding agencies for more than a quarter of a century concentrating on coordination mechanisms and support.

Authors Luca Pasquini (ESO, Garching, Germany) and Massimo Della Valle have been looking for evidence of lithium in novae for more than a quarter of a century.

For more than a quarter of a century, Baltimore has balanced his long hours as a leading scientific administrator — founder of the seminal Whitehead Institute, president of Rockefeller University and later, for nine years, of Caltech — with groundbreaking work in cancer, immunology, and AIDS research.

The researchers tracked the bears for about 10 days and found they walked for more than a quarter of that time.

It was Gardner's first publication of a skeptical nature (he was the math games columnist for Scientific American for more than a quarter of a century).

The foundation was endowed by Alfred Sloan (1875 - 1966), president and chairman of General Motors for more than a quarter of a century.

Foreigners account for more than a quarter of American professors in the sciences, and more than half of the postdocs now working in the U.S. are born outside the country.

It accounted for more than a quarter of all birds in North America, with an estimated population of 3 billion to 5 billion.

The question had been a subject of raging debate among astronomers for more than a quarter of a century.

This single variant may thus account for more than a quarter of the incidence of kidney stones, and in women carriers it is also associated with decreased BMD at the hip and spine.

For more than a quarter of a century, America's schooling system has remained stagnant, and pupil performance indicators continually reflect this condition.

As a pediatrician in this western Maryland community, Charles E. Wright has ministered to the physical needs of children for more than a quarter of a century.

Let me admit to a prejudice: I have known John Merrow for more than a quarter of a century and greatly admire his single - minded interest in national school reform.

Newark's charters also account for more than a quarter of all charters in New Jersey.

And that's before you add $ 84,000 for the weight - trimming Weissach package; it bumps the price up to a breathtaking $ 929,000, yet it has proven necessary for more than a quarter of 918 customers so far.

But despite having been built in the UK for more than a quarter of its life now, the Civic has never featured among Britain's top 10 annual best - selling new cars.

Cole added: «In Europe, the Sportage is Kia's flagship car, clearly demonstrating our brand values best and consistently accounting for more than a quarter of our European sales.

At the height of the housing bubble, residential construction and related activities accounted for more than a quarter of the economy in metro areas like Las Vegas and Orlando.

After all, people born in the 1980s and «90s, count for more than a quarter of America's population and are shaping the world for everyone in new ways.

University Animal Hospital has been providing the highest quality, state - of - the - art medical care, possible to pets and their owners in New York City for more than a quarter of a century.

The Green Mango Club Samui has been the most famous and iconic nightclub on the island for more than a quarter of a decade.

«Accurate and timely data on deaths and causes of death are essential... But for more than a quarter of the world's population — largely in Africa, South - East Asia and the Middle East — there are no recent data available...»

Democracies played an outsize role in creating the climate problem, the U.S. and Europe each responsible for more than a quarter of the excess CO2 in the air, and they must play a major role in the solution.

Dr. Willie Soon is an independent solar physicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who has been studying the Sun and its influence on the Earth's climate for more than a quarter of a century.

As I outlined last week, scientists have been studying the links between bushfires and climate change for more than a quarter of a century.

The award was for more than a quarter of a million dollars.

That is, for more than a quarter of the articles and chapters in the course - pack, the university had already paid for access at an institutional price and in a form that could be readily utilized by the largest of classes.

For more than a quarter of a century, the personal injury and wrongful death attorneys at Galligan Law have been a strong and effective voice for injured or killed Iowans and their families.

Together, those two contingents of fresh faces account for more than a quarter of all the firm's partners.

He has been a member of the IBA Management Board since 2003 and a member of the IBA for more than a quarter of a century, initially representing the Czech Bar Association on the IBA Council.

The deadliest jobs involve transportation and moving materials, accounting for more than a quarter of all work - related deaths.

BCH / USD trade volumes have exceeded $ 2.5 billion over the past 24 hours, with South Korea's Bithumb accounting for more than a quarter of the daily turnover.

South Korea is highly active in LTC trades, with Bithumb accounting for more than a quarter of Litecoin trade flows worldwide.

World's biggest cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb accounts for more than a quarter of LTC trade flows globally.

BitGrail is currently responsible for more than a quarter of the overall RaiBlocks trading volume for the past 24 hours.

What's worse is 46 percent say positions remain this way for more than a quarter of a year.

Allowing our Domestic Adoption program to be successful for more than a quarter of a century.

Yet by sector, tech companies accounted for more than a quarter of the 83 largest office leases signed in the US last year, and nearly half of those deals were in San Francisco and Seattle.

Not exact matches

For more than a quarter century the federal government has approved almost all foreign takeovers of Canadian companies.