Sentences with phrase «half times more»

In other words, companies run by men got more than 16 times more funding than companies run by women.

We've been posing it to young people through Venture for America and we already have ten times more applicants than we have spots.

So Falcon 9, particularly when [you] factor in payload, Falcon 9 is many times more — on the order of 30 times more payload — than Falcon 1.

Believe it or not, using the phrase «I don't» is up to eight times more effective than saying «I can't.»

Methane is the second-most prevalent greenhouse gas according to the EPA, and is believed to be 20 times more potent as a heat - trapping greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

According to Forest Research, it costs five times more to find a new customer than to retain a current customers.

A Georgetown University research cited 2005 data that found that small companies were four times more likely to offer flexible working arrangements such as job sharing.

Research finds that children of the top 1 % are ten times more likely to become inventors.

Chris Severson - Baker, Alberta director of the Pembina Institute, said reducing methane emissions is critical because the gas is 25 times more potent as a climate warming agent than carbon dioxide.

The company saw six times more orders over the past weekend than it did over a weekend one month prior, according to Woo.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 29 years ago on 26 April 1986, releasing radioactive particles into the air that were 250 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

This allows me to use my time more effectively, but also saves my mental energy for the big problems we're trying to solve.»

Singapore - headquartered bank DBS declined to reveal total digital red packet numbers, but said that there were five times more e-hongbaos sent last year compared with 2016.

«It brings up the question of work time more broadly.»

The study's authors found that on days when participants hit the gym, they reported managing their time more effectively, being more productive, and having more cheerful interactions with colleagues.

Mark Zuckerberg's picture of his family dressed up for Halloween got ten times more likes than his post about Facebook two days later.

In 2014, men owned 1.5 New York City businesses for every one owned by women, and male - owned companies made nearly 5 times more revenue, on average.

Not long ago, Google spent more than $ 400 million to buy industry - leading startup DeepMind, and scored a major tech and marketing coup when the computer AlphaGo defeated grandmaster Lee Sedol at the possibility - lush game of Go — an achievement hundreds of times more complex than when Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess.

DENVER — Western Colorado has 40 times more natural gas than previously thought, but an immediate boom is unlikely because of low gas prices, government and industry experts said Wednesday.

Five minutes spent fully engaging with one person as if he or she is the only thing in the room at the moment is worth 10 times more than 15 minutes half - heartedly tittering on about the dullest subjects.

«In 2016, renewables received about 100 times more in federal subsidies than nuclear plants,» Michael Shellenberger, founder of the Berkeley, California - based, pro-nuclear advocacy group Environmental Progress, wrote in an email to Grist.

By output, the company claims a Bowery farm is more than 100 times more efficient per square foot than a traditional farm.

Foursquare users who unlock specials spend three - and - a-half times more money than the average RadioShack customer.

The result, according to AeroFarms, is wild efficiency: The growing method is 130 times more productive per square foot annually than a field farm, from a crop - yield perspective.

The top 40 % also spend four times more on education than the bottom 60 %.

A widely - cited 2007 study by the University of Arizona found the average office desktop carries 400 times more bacteria than the a toilet seat.

(Instacart research shows that shoppers spent 2.5 times more online than in stores).

It's long been the case that advertisers paid up to two to three times more for a top - rated sports event compared to a top - rated drama or sitcom, and sports value as real - time programming and its finite availability have only caused its status to grow, says Michael Neale, a managing partner for investment at Mediacom, a global media agency that co-ordinates and purchases advertising space on behalf of marketers.

Retailers — and we've done a lot of studies on this — can get three to five times more marketing advantage with digital flyers than they can with print, at half the cost.

Twitter said it is «taking action» against 10 times more abusive accounts than it was at the same time last year, which means the company is levying account suspensions — or, limiting users» ability to use the service — on «thousands more abusive accounts» per day.

In fact, an existing customer is three to 12 times more likely to buy than a new prospect.

Today's consumers value their time more than ever.

Studies show that people who are able to pursue their passions at work experience flow, a euphoric state of mind that is five times more productive than the norm.

The increased computational power that is making all this possible derives not only from Moore's law but also from the realization in the late 2000s that graphics processing units (GPUs) made by Nvidia — the powerful chips that were first designed to give gamers rich, 3D visual experiences — were 20 to 50 times more efficient than traditional central processing units (CPUs) for deep - learning computations.

Diesel, the North's crucial fuel, is three times more expensive than it was when the mines opened.

«We know that people who choose beer when they become of legal drinking age are two times more likely to continue drinking beer throughout their lifetime, and as an organization, we have an opportunity to regain ground with this group,» said David Kroll, MillerCoors» chief marketing officer, in a statement.

Users who participate in live chat are 3.5 times more likely to convert than those who aren't.

The CEOs of the largest companies in the U.S. earn three times more than they did 20 years ago and at least 10 times more than 30 years ago, according to a new report.

Regulators accused Trader Joe's of failing to promptly fix leaks of R - 22, which is used as a refrigerator coolant but also depletes the ozone and has 1,800 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide.

On top of the problem of unfair pay for women, a Harvard study revealed that, when it comes to annual performance reviews, women were 1.4 times more likely to receive critical subjective feedback, not positive feedback or critical objective feedback, and that traits that were considered negative in women were often interpreted as positive in men.

He then, perhaps inadvertently, gave Clinton some advice: «If they don't have any more staff, and they're paying five times more?

Her comments follow media reports that the EU's Commission President Jean - Claude Juncker left London «10 times more skeptical» than he was before after a dinner with Prime Minister May last week.

There are all sort of techniques to reduce the amount of time you spend in useless meetings, from team - wide initiatives like having employees «pay» for meetings and simple gizmos that nudge people to use their time more effectively, to personal strategies for winnowing the number of meetings you're obliged to accept.

One study found that college students who drank four to five drinks at a time more than once a week were more likely to overeat after drinking compared to students who drank one to two drinks at a time (18).

This ranges from $ 357 per capita in Alberta to $ 1,245 or about 3.5 times more per person in Ontario.

Moreover, as China, India, and other nations develop, they'll find ways to keep their top students from leaving and spending hundreds of times more for an American education.

According to Barbara L. Fredrickson, PhD, director of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology (PEP) Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, «our research shows that if a new wellness behavior evokes positive emotions, people are 4.5 times more likely to be continuing with that new behavior 15 months down the road, enjoying all of its healthy benefits.

In a study of 16 countries, Americans had the greatest disconnect on the income gap, believing that top executives make about 30 times more than average workers.

Research shows that people in a flow state are five times more productive than they otherwise would be.

Hemp could help address climate change, since it absorbs four times more carbon dioxide than trees while growing in just a fraction of the time.