Sentences with phrase «from less than a fifth»

Analyst Forrester is predicting tablet ownership in Western Europe will quadruple by 2017 — with the percentage of online adults owning a slate projected to increase markedly from less than a fifth (14 per cent) last year to more than half (55 per cent) in 2017.

Analyst Forrester is predicting tablet ownership in Western Europe will quadruple by 2017 — with the percentage of online adults owning a slate projected to increase markedly from less than a fifth -LRB-

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Fifty - six - year - old Amie Crawford, who graduated with an associate's degree in interior design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and had a successful 30 - year career as an interior designer, never thought she'd be in a job where the average take - home pay was less than a fifth of what she had made before.

A large number of computer software companies from the United States are developing software in Bangalore, India, at less than one - fifth of the price in other countries.

At issue was not control of the NEC, because the constituency section makes up less than a fifth of the NEC seats, but the elimination of all possible dissent from the leading bodies of the party.

Page Six exclusively revealed in May that the Spitzers were living apart, with Eliot staying at 800 Fifth Ave. — less than 20 blocks from the home he shared with Silda at 985 Fifth.

Although the percentage of doctorates awarded to women in life sciences increased from 15 to 52 percent between 1969 and 2009, only about a third of assistant professors and less than a fifth of full professors in biology - related fields in 2009 were female.

For the 20 schools with near - zero kindergarten readiness gaps, test score gaps in grades three and five range from less than two - fifths of a standard deviation to more than a full standard deviation.

Less than a fifth of primary school packed lunches contain any vegetables or salad, according to new research from the University of Leeds.

Using information from Chetty et al's results and Gormley et al's results, I calculate that in Tulsa, the predicted effect of pre-k on adult earnings would be about one - fifth greater in dollars for reduced price lunch students than for free lunch students, and the predicted effect on adult earnings would be about one - fifth less in dollars for full price lunch students than for free lunch students.

The graduation rate has climbed from 55 percent to more than three - quarters, and the percentage of students attending failing schools has fallen from three - fifths to less than one - fifth.

For a sports car that accelerated to 150 mph in the same time it took a Porsche 911 to hit 100 mph; that in sixth gear zoomed from 180 mph to 200 mph in less time than a Ferrari 512TR needed to go from 50 mph to 70 mph in fifth, the term supercar no longer seemed adequate.

This is Volkswagen's smaller performance hatch offering, the Polo GTI; freshly revised for 2015 and priced to please from under $ 27,500 — $ 500 less than before thanks to the availability of a manual transmission for the first time (well, in the current fifth iteration at least).

The fifth - generation Audi A6 executive sedan is less than a year away from launch, but that doesn't mean the automaker is willing to reveal anything about the model's design.

The company expects big things from the new cars — smart has sold less than a fifth of the original smart sales targets since its 1998 launch.

Keep in mind that from the standpoint of compound returns, less than one - fifth of the S&P 500 total return in the half cycle since 2009 has been accrued since mid-2014.

Disturbingly, Focus Oklahoma research revealed that an estimated less than one fifth of rural shelters comply with the 1986 state law requiring sterilization of animals released from shelters.

Manhattan's famed shopping avenues, Madison and Fifth, are less than a half - block from the Avalon, a 100 - room hotel in the Murray Hill neighborhood.

That means we're less than 1/2 block from Times Square, the Theater District and Fifth Avenue, 3 to Restaurant Row, 4 from Rockefeller Center and just a bit further to the Empire State Building, Central Park and Greenwich Village.

According to data compiled by 24/7 Wall Street for all 50 states from 2009 - 2010, Ohio ranked fifth in the nation for energy used, with less than 1 percent coming from renewable resources.

The Climate Research Unit only directly obtains less than one third of its station records from the Historical Climatology Network (1617 out of 5583), and the Berkeley Earth group gets less than one fifth of its records from them (7280 out of 39028).

Yet China's per capita emissions remain a fifth that of the United States, and its historical cumulative per capita emissions from 1960 to 2005 are less than one - tenth that of the United States.

Trace amounts of the poison can take less than a week to reach Oregon, where research suggests that about one - fifth of the mercury entering the Willamette River comes from abroad — increasingly from China.»

Meanwhile, bitcoin gold is less than a month old, but that didn't stop it from recently leaping confidently into the rankings as the fifth largest cryptocurrency.

From feedback received, a quarter of those who left within the first three years of employment with an organisation did so to change careers, with almost a fifth moving on for a better salary, and less than a sixth not happy with their rate of progression.

Close to two - fifths report receiving medical coverage from their employers and slightly less than one - half collect dental insurance.

HBC said it expected minimal impact on its earnings from the sale because the store is «many times less productive than the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship building.»

Less than one - fifth of the company's online bookings come from outside online distributors, and the distributors» share of total reservations has been flat in recent years.