Sentences with phrase «good fraction of it»

It is part of the meta - level sub-debate, which is the debate over why there is a debate, which accounts for a good fraction of the comments.

To the contrary, I am interested in science, and have spent a good fraction of my time doing (and publishing, in peer - reviewed journals!)

So you total control of a good fraction of the nation's free market economy is sectioned off and put under regulatory control to benefit a small number of insiders.

A molecule of CO2 from coal, in a certain sense, is different from one from oil or gas, because in the case of oil and gas, it doesn't matter too much when you burn it, because a good fraction of it's going to stay there 500 years anyway.

Re: # 45 and the pull quote «a good fraction of it's going to stay there 500 years»: One of the main points regarding AGW which I took from AIT and have relied on since that time is that CO2 is highly persistent in the atmosphere.

I spent a good fraction of last night's dinner discussing creativity with my three boys (Mighty Mite, 10yo, Worm Burner, 12yo, and Dark Omen 15yo).

Today, we have cataloged about 1000 confirmed planets (plus over 3000 planet candidates of the Kepler mission), a good fraction of which are in more than 130 multi-planet systems.

At the moment of their explosion, supernovae emit a good fraction of their energy in a burst of X-rays.

«These electric dipoles interact with each other over fairly large distances, a good fraction of a micron, or 1,000 nanometres.

Unless other receiver stations can be set up, a good fraction of data the telescope will collect will be lost.

But many of the objects were cast into exile in the Oort cloud, a spherical haze of objects that stretches far beyond Neptune and a good fraction of the way toward our nearest stellar neighbors.

Many of the scientists on the Cassini team have waited a good fraction of their professional careers for this moment.

In the good fraction of the universe that we can see, there's no antimatter.»

So, if you want to get the most out of a weeklong conference — and you do — plan to skip a good fraction of the program right from the beginning.

It may become a slippery slope to dedicating a good fraction of your content more towards online business creation.

I'm at best a fraction of the equation.

Not exact matches

It works just as well for a fraction of the cost.

Just revel in the hope that if even a fraction of the population soaks up the wisdom in this book, America will be in a far better place.

Of the fraction of customers who do defect, 80 percent cite a bad experience as the reason, but satisfied customers will also leave if they find a better alternative elsewherOf the fraction of customers who do defect, 80 percent cite a bad experience as the reason, but satisfied customers will also leave if they find a better alternative elsewherof customers who do defect, 80 percent cite a bad experience as the reason, but satisfied customers will also leave if they find a better alternative elsewhere.

Food and beverage are a fraction of the cost, since I make good use of being at home.

In a letter to staff on Wednesday, Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly said that the stores, a small fraction of its business generating 1 % of sales, had simply become unprofitable.

Meetups as well as conferences enable you to build your real world network, while LinkedIn, AngelList and other business - focused social channels can help you build and maintain your network from your desk — all at a fraction of the cost of an MBA.

Imagine if everyone in the U.S. had heard of a product and universally agreed it to be the best on the market, but only a fraction of consumers had actually tasted it.

That's a standout for Vogue but just a fraction of the circulation for mass reads such as Family Circle and Better Homes and Gardens.

The good news is that we have an amazing mobile connector framework that allows a non-technical business user to do the same thing in a fraction of the time.

Ward and Maes, who met while attending Wharton Business School, knew there had to be a better way for savvy brides who wanted a designer wedding dress at a fraction of the cost — and brides who wanted to sell their dresses post-wedding.

Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a platform where companies can hire users to perform «Human Intelligence Tasks» — intuitive operations like labeling images, or weeding out duplicate data, that, so far, we are still better at than computers — for fractions of a penny apiece.

It is also because of the backlog of drilled but uncompleted wells that are being brought on production at a fraction of the incremental cost of drilling new wells.

When opportunities like this present themselves, you need a source of income outside of the stock market to generate cash for you to take advantage of the situation, as well as insulate you from the painful possibility of having to surrender your stock certificates at a fraction of their true worth just to pay the electric bill.

Understanding full well that most investors only earn a fraction of what is available in any investment strategy, simple math says that a fraction of George or Warren's performance is far superior to a fraction of the S&P 500 performance.

With the best credit card for travel, you'll be on your way to your next beach, mountain, or exotic foreign city before you know it, and at a fraction of the cost of paying full price out - of - pocket.

If we terminate Mr. Drexler's employment without cause or he terminates his employment with good reason, Mr. Drexler will be entitled to receive (i) a payment of his earned but unpaid annual base salary through the termination date, any accrued vacation pay and any un-reimbursed expenses, and (ii) subject to Mr. Drexler's execution of a valid general release and waiver of claims against us, as well as his compliance with the non-competition, non-solicitation and confidential information restrictions described below, (a) a payment equal to his annual base salary and target cash incentive award, one - half of such payment to be paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date and the remaining one - half of such payment to be paid in six equal monthly installments commencing on the first business day of the seventh calendar month following the termination date, (b) a payment equal to the product of (x) the last annual cash incentive award Mr. Drexler received prior to the termination date and (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days of service completed by Mr. Drexler in the year of termination and the denominator of which is 365, such amount to be paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date, and (c) the immediate vesting of such portion of unvested restricted shares and stock options as provided and pursuant to the terms of the relevant grant agreements under our 2003 Equity Incentive Plan.

Did they miss the part where lots of well intentioned «investors» bought Facebook shares at $ 80B, $ 90B, $ 100B, only to see the shares trade down to a fraction of that value?

While the price of getting extensive — or even simple — work done at home can be frightening, there are many overseas options that offer just as good a service, and at a fraction of the cost.

At best, the dynamic revenues from growth could pay for a fraction of the tax cut's cost.

We've worked with the likes of LG, Barilla, Philips and the world's best agencies to design innovative products and product packaging, for a tiny fraction of the cost those companies and agencies would otherwise pay (not to mention a fraction of the time such design would normally take).

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

Surviscor provides firms with knowledgeable, un-biased, cost - effective third party competitive and industry benchmarking and best practice analysis at a fraction of the cost of expensive FTE departments.

Unless you really need or especially value the human touch that those services provide, you're probably better off simply choosing low - cost index fund options at a fraction of the bank cost through robo - advisers, which use algorithms to provide automated investment advice, or investment companies (examples of which include Charles Schwab or Vanguard).

There's really no telling what the price of a coin will be once mining rewards are in fractions of a coin level, but it seems that during that time more and more people will enter the market with interest and vigor, and those people will help raise the price as well as stabilize it by having a far greater number of people who can decide if and when Bitcoin is losing value.

I'll bet he chooses Rubio and loses because Rubio only represents a fraction of the Hispanic vote, the Caribbean based Hispanics (and maybe only the Cuban part of that as well).

Chuck, I concur, this thing does not fly well in the South... funny how a tiny fraction of society seems to occupy some much space in the talking heads world.

It can not be the universities, since they touch only a small fraction of the population at best and, furthermore, many universities reject the notion that they are responsible for the spiritual life of their students.

In the first fleeting fraction of a second, the universe expanded exponentially, stretching far beyond the view of our best telescopes.

Now unless someone can say that they have even done a fraction of the good this simple woman did for the poor, no one really has the right to contend that statement.

In the experience of anger, we have the sense of the anger of a fraction of a second ago welling up into the present, exacting some degree of conformity with the past.

And though I didn't manage more than a pitiful fraction of what he had to teach, that offbeat educational outing did convey a lifelong lesson: There are times when the simplest of ideas are best explained — indeed, most effectively explained — by the most extraordinary of minds.

Gee, with all these examples of how guns save lives, gun related homicides in the US should be a fraction of other countries where there are strict gun laws, I mean there only the bad guys have guns so they must be having a field day with their guns and the unarmed populace... oh, completely the opposite, strict gun law countries have a fraction of the gun homicides of the US... oh and a fraction of knife homicides as well, and other method homicides as well... oh well, forget it.

It is fairly evident that Simon Magus, for example, is not a good witness for early Christian life; for one thing, he regarded himself as the saviour of mankind, or rather of a small fraction of mankind, the spiritually élite.

Well worth the money and a fraction of the price of Vitamix.