Sentences with phrase «in about a fifth»

Some critics contend that Cook's stance domestically rings hollow when being gay is illegal in about a fifth of the 100 - plus countries Apple does business in.

Most of us learned those rules in about the fifth grade.

Princess Dymphna was a lovely Irish lass who lived in about the fifth century A.D..

After announcing Sunday he is running for the Republican presidential nomination to take on President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, Pawlenty is trailing in national polls which put him in about fifth or sixth place among Republican challengers.

But in about a fifth of these cases, scar tissue reblocked the artery.

To be clear, the study finds that temperatures in about a fifth of this historical period were higher than they are today.

I discovered in about my fifth year of selling real estate that multi-transactional business was the best path for me.

Not exact matches

Respondents considered Disney the second-most trustworthy of the 100 companies, they ranked it fifth for having the most positive global impact, and it landed in fourth place among companies that «care the most about you.»

In 2016, runway and taxiway excursions accounted for about a fifth of total accidents involving commercial aircraft.

Women filed about a third of all trademarks in recent years but fewer than a fifth of patents.

Just in time for the launch of the show's fifth season, here are seven timeless lessons about leadership that every entrepreneur should take deadly seriously.

Just as demand has jumped, stocks of lamb and mutton in New Zealand have fallen by about a fifth between 2007 and 2012 as farmers converted land into more lucrative dairy farms.

He said that he was talking about the idea of killing off the character since the fourth or fifth episode of season eight but that it was something the showrunner Scott Gimple could have had in mind for a while.

About a fifth (21 percent) think the answer is investing more money in IT systems, and 13 percent say they should spend more time planning and researching the best solutions for the company's needs.

The Center for American Progress reviewed 30 case studies in 11 of the most relevant research papers on the costs of employee turnover and found that it costs businesses about one - fifth of a worker's salary to replace that worker.

The cash - rich cartels, believed by the Mexican government to generate well over $ 21 billion each year, are an increasing threat to Pemex, which in 2016 reported revenue of about $ 52 billion and generates about a fifth of government income.

Nike has about a fifth as many users on its Nike + platform as Under Armour does on its apps, and in 2014 the shoe giant shut down its FuelBand fitness - tracker business.

According to a 2014 survey by the NCTE and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, about one - fifth of all transgender adults are veterans, making transgender people approximately twice as likely as others to serve in the military, The Washington Post reported.

Here's what it has to show for its efforts: In the past five years, its total share count is down by about one - fifth, and earnings per share are up 15 %.

For example, the team asked 88 undergrads to imagine the conclusion of 12 open - ended scenarios, or asked 109 fifth graders about how much they indulged in happy daydreaming about the future.

And that's too bad because sales is about tenacity, the willingness to push on through the «no's,» the «I'm not sure's,» to get to that fifth conversation and put yourself in position to make the sale.

About 30 % of London's construction workforce was also EEA - born — but a fifth of UK - born construction workers in the capital due to retire in the next five years, and there are currently 60,000 vacancies in the industry in London.

Parsons is a straight talker, whether it's about his handicap (now 9.1 with PXG clubs from a «12 to 14») or flunking fifth grade in his working - class Baltimore neighborhood.

It had about 2 million half a century ago, when it was the fifth - largest city in America.

The earliest programs in central Canada air at 6 a.m. and Atlantic Canada at 7 a.m. Numbers from the Television Bureau of Canada show that consistently for the past six years, the 4 a.m. to 5 a.m. slot has had the fewest viewers, with an audience size about one - fifth of the peak time between 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Still, Canadian broadcasters aren't overlooking the value of starting early.

Since he has the political power to enforce his rules, factory wages, which are about one - fifth of those in the U.S., help to keep Singapore products internationally competitive.

Novartis (NVS) shares have lost more than a fifth of their value this year, in part due to concerns about its lagging eyecare business Alcon as well as Entresto's prospects for meeting ambitious expectations.

For example, there's a scene in the book's fifth chapter in which Lyons discusses an article Shah has written on LinkedIn about the wisdom of bringing a teddy bear named Molly to meetings as a stand - in for the customer, so that staff will always remember to keep the customer top - of - mind.

Prince Harry, who is fifth in line for the throne (for now), made the reserved comments about his wedding to the BBC after he conducted an interview with Obama last week, during which the pair exchanged common views on social media use, and discussed Obama's thoughts on the day his term ended.

Match fell 22 percent its largest one - day drop ever and IAC, which owns more than a fifth of Match, fell nearly 18 percent in its biggest daily loss in about 13 years.

The percentage of adults thankful for the economic situation in the U.S. is lower than in 2010 and about a fifth of what it was in the mid-1980s, according to a new poll.

Toys R Us is planning to shutter roughly 180 stores across the country, or about one - fifth of its U.S. store fleet, in a bid to restructure the company and emerge from bankruptcy protection.

Our analysis reviews 30 case studies in 11 research papers published between 1992 and 2007 that provide estimates of the cost of turnover, finding that businesses spend about one - fifth of an employee's annual salary to replace that worker.

As recently as 2008, about half the electricity in the U.S. came from burning coal and one - fifth from burning natural gas.

Per the Journal, Elliott's investment is about 2 percent of EMC's total equity value of $ 55 billion and would make Elliott the fifth largest shareholder in the Hopkinton, Mass. — based company.

That was on full display the weekend of March 17, as Bitcoin shed about a fifth of its value (dropping below $ 950 at one point, before bouncing back to about $ 1,050 on Monday) as an increasingly bitter split in the developer community behind Bitcoin threatened to split it into two competing currencies.

According to Reuters, as of yesterday, about 3.8 million bpd in refining capacity remained shut down, representing a fifth of the US total.

Using the Plausible Deniability defense, they claimed that they weren't even in the loop when it came to paying AIG enough to turn around and pay Goldman Sachs and other arbitrageurs 100 cents on the dollar for securities worth about a fifth as much.

With a population of about 87,000, Wood County is the fifth largest county in West Virginia.

The industry had been hoping that NISA can help lift the country above the middle of the Asian pack in biotech: Australia is fourth in jobs (more than 45,000 as of March 2016 according to AusBiotech) fifth in patents (5,930 list at least one Australian inventor, according to WIPO), and sixth in both companies (more than 400) and R&D (about $ 23.084 billion in 2013, according to OECD).

This was about one - fifth of the estimated $ 3.7 million spent in Fortnite in the same set of countries during its initial seven days on Apple's platform.

Energy represents about a fifth of Canada's market cap and earnings growth is very much tied to fortunes in the oil patch (nearly half of the expected 22 % earnings growth for the S&P / TSX Composite Index in 2017 flows from the energy sector, we calculate).

This was as a result of the fact that most of the insurance firm's portfolio is invested in debts as companies can only invest about a fifth of their revenue in equities.

At the new Fairmont Pacific Rim in downtown Vancouver, it's all about taking the Fifth - floor that is.

Now in its fifth year in the United States, 1 second year in the United Kingdom2 and third year in Canada, 3 Franklin Templeton's Retirement Income Strategies and Expectations (RISE) survey uncovers some surprising insights about retirement planning and perceptions.

Between mid-2010 and mid-2015, asking rents almost quadrupled around Times Square, tripled on Fifth Avenue between 42nd and 49th streets and jumped by about 90 percent in Soho and on Madison Avenue.

Despite accounting for about a fifth of Tesla's revenue or around $ 2 billion, China merited few mentions in Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk's earnings calls until recently.

The first of the following two charts shows that the ratio of the SPDR S&P Homebuilder ETF (XHB, $ 35.60) to the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY, $ 217.09) remains about one - fifth below its early 2013 highs, despite the fact that the average 30 - year fixed mortgage rate has fallen back to the 3.4 % area — about where it was in early 2013 (as shown by the blue line in the second chart that follows).

«Kushner Companies is no longer in discussions with Anbang about 666 Fifth Ave.'s potential redevelopment, and our firms have mutually agreed to end talks regarding the property,» a Kushner spokesperson told the New York Post.

Whether we elect our Senators or whether we have elections where the government chooses to appoint our Senators, we're still dealing with the current situation, which is that the Senate itself does not reflect the national population distribution in that, you know, Alberta has six Senate seats, and New Brunswick, with about one fifth of Alberta's population, has 10 seats.