Sentences with phrase «found at least a quarter»

survey of 1,000 recent patients found at least a quarter had been forced to bring in their own food, while one in five hospital staff said they would not eat the meals offered to patients.

Not exact matches

A Federal Reserve working paper from last year found that at least three - quarters of the decline in new charters is attributable to the weak economy and low interest rates.

Five diabetes treatments were among 27 branded drugs showing price gains of at least 20 percent in typical dosages since the first quarter of 2014, a survey for Bloomberg found.

The Voicebot Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report found that nearly two - thirds of device owners use them daily and over three - quarters at least weekly.

Turning to any page at random, you will find gleefully sarcastic observations that ring at least as true today as they did three - quarters of a century ago.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

Furthermore, the survey has found that more than 60 - percent of Europeans view a nice piece of fruit is the ideal snack, and up to a quarter of Europeans consume at least one avocado per week.

Washington is a weapon find away to get the ball in his hands at least once a quarter.

United now find themselves in the quarter - final stages of the competition for the first time, getting at least a round further than last season when they were beaten at this stage by finalists Liverpool.

The study found the presence of other medical personnel, such as team doctors, or EMTs, less common, with one quarter reporting a physician attending at least half the games and one - quarter reporting the same attendance for an emergency medical technician.

As evidence, she pointed to a 2011 study in the United Kingdom which found that three - quarters of the 6,000 young adults ages 18 to 22 years interviewed about their experiences in sports earlier in adolescence reported at least 1 incident of emotional harm playing sports, one third of whom identified their coach as the main source of harm, and to a 2005 study - one which I cited in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage (Harper Collins), and in articles adapted from that book for MomsTEAM.com - finding that 45 % of children reported verbal misconduct by coaches, including name - calling and insulting them during play.

A 2014 study [1] by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that only about a quarter (24.8 %) of youth aged 12 to 15 years engaged in moderate - to - vigorous physical activity, including activities both in school and outside of school, for at least 60 minutes daily.

According to the findings, all participants had detectable concentrations of at least one - quarter of the analyzed chemicals, despite the fact that they have been banned for more than three decades.

Dr Twigg said: «We found that just over three quarters of the women used some form of medication to treat at least one common condition experienced during pregnancy.

A recent survey by The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that three - quarters of Americans who have heard at least a little about the Zika virus are aware that the virus is linked to birth defects in babies born to infected mothers.

In mice without Phr1, they found that about 75 percent of the severed axons remained at five days, with a quarter persisting at least 10 days after being cut.

The team found that around a quarter of medications with human targets, and 27 percent of the drugs over all, at least partially inhibited growth in one or more of the bacteria species.

Recent surveys found that three quarters of children spend less than an hour each day playing outside; and more than one in nine children in England haven't set foot in a park, forest, beach or natural environment for at least twelve months.

I'm thinking of a study done on giving to charity: the researchers found that people who were at the poverty line who gave a little donation of something to someone made them feel «at least I'm better off than they are and I can afford to give him a quarter.»

Unsurprisingly, a very large number of these series have failed to find an audience: roughly a quarter (25) were canceled with 10 or fewer issues published; at least another seven books (7 percent) launched in late - 2016 / early - 2017 appear to be very likely to meet the same fate, even if their cancellation has not yet been formally announced.»

According to our findings, two - thirds of U.S. adults used at least one mobile media device in their daily lives during the first quarter of 2012.

Apple's view is likely to find support in at least some quarters.

That means you can find a deal that's at least a quarter of a percentage point below the national average of 15 - year home loans — 2.97 %, according to our latest survey of major lenders.

Joy Global recently reported a solid quarter and it appears the mining equipment market at least found a bottom and may have turned the corner at Joy.

Consumers can typically find credit cards that offer at least 1 % cash back on various purchases, but look further, and you can find cards like Discover it that pays 5 % cash back at different places each quarter like gas stations, grocery stores, restaurants, Amazon.com, or wholesale clubs up to the quarterly maximum each time you activate.

But the main idea for DRIPs / SPPs investors is to find companies who regularly pay a dividend, quarter after quarter, and increase that dividend at least once per year.

They found that almost a quarter of the dogs (23 percent) had at least one copy of the gene mutation.

More than a quarter of Americans (26 %) travel internationally at least once a year, on average, the survey found.

The survey found that more than 60 percent of those polled have downloaded at least one major hotel chain's smartphone apps within the past year, while one - quarter of them have downloaded three or more.

A 2016 report from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), Woods Hole Research Center and the World Resources Institute reported that indigenous peoples and local communities hold at least 54,546 million metric tons of carbon in the tropical forests they live in globally — just under a quarter of the total carbon found above ground in the global tropics.

The study, published in Nature Geoscience found that humans have caused at least three - quarters (74 percent) of current warming, while also determining that warming has actually been slowed down by atmospheric aerosols, including some pollutants, which reflect sunlight back into space.

I think it's important to find people in similar situations.I make sure I go to one event a quarter at least to get me out of a rut and see what others are doing.»

The Voicebot Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report found that nearly two - thirds of device owners use them daily and over three - quarters at least weekly.

Importantly, states were required to spend at least three - quarters of the federal funds on home visiting models that met federal standards of evidence - based effectiveness.1 As many policy scholars have noted, that a national initiative brought the importance of evidence - based practice to the forefront of public policy is a triumph for social science and demonstrates the importance of rigorous program evaluation.2 With that triumph, however, comes a responsibility to ensure that the public's expectations for success of these programs are consistent with what researchers understand about the empirical evidence — will the same positive outcomes found in programs» randomized controlled trials emerge when those programs are taken to scale?

We found that two - parent recipient families in MFIP were as likely as those in a comparable group of welfare recipients who were not eligible for MFIP to have at least one parent work; but the MFIP sample was less likely to have both parents work, leading to an overall reduction in their combined earnings of approximately $ 500 per quarter.

In a sample (n = 1,015) drawn from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, we found that a quarter of sample members experienced at least one family transition between birth and age 6.

The survey also found a reluctance to engage in multiple - offer situations: seven in 10 of those surveyed said they'd encountered competition on at least one offer, and 31 percent said they'd back off when faced with multiple - offer situations, up from 28 percent during the second quarter.