Sentences with phrase «less than a fifth»

However there's a pronounced imbalance among reviewers, with less than a fifth of picture books and less than a third of children's fiction being reviewed by men.

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.

It used less than a fifth of the energy consumed by comparable homes.

And less than a fifth see social media as a distraction, compared to an average of 40 per cent.

Less than a fifth of children get the recommended level of exercise by the time they leave primary school, data suggests.

Ronnie Hakim, CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said during the briefing that the Long Island Railroad was running normally (although with less than a fifth of its normal passenger load) and that the authority was on track to provide normal rush hour service on Wednesday morning.

The report says less than a fifth of companies plan to offer bystander training, which teaches people how to respond in instances when they suspect another person at work is being harassed.

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.

So by the close of 2013, B of A's share count had swelled to 10.6 billion, yet it was making less than a fifth of the $ 22.4 billion in profits booked in 2006.

«Sharknado had 13 times more tweets - per - viewer than one of the most tweeted - about shows on TV,» the story said, but it got less than a fifth of the viewers.

Malaysia said today industrial production expanded in March at less than a fifth the pace economists predicted, a day after a report showed exports fell for the first time since 2009.

Since 2009, the share prices of the world's top five publicly traded oil and gas companies have posted less than a fifth of the gains of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Whereas less than a fifth of the embezzlers go to prison, over two - thirds of car thieves do.

In Germany, the country where Juncker's name was most prominent, polls showed less than a fifth of voters even knew he was the lead candidate for the EPP.

The Liberal Democrats have identified a quarter of the cuts they need to implement, but the Tories have identified less than a fifth and Labour only one eighth of what they will need.

As the largest country in the European Union by population, Germany therefore provides nearly a quarter of ESA's budget, and yet less than a fifth of ESA's employees are German (see table).

Grossing almost as much at the weekend as Gringo, but in less than a fifth of its cinemas is Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here, with # 211,000 from 77 sites.

So less than a fifth of the high - stakes states saw decreases against the national average in reading, not «half.»

Whereas, nearby, at Crestwood Street Elementary School, less than a quarter of teachers think discipline is ineffective, less than a fifth think disruptive behavior is a significant problem, and only 37 percent of students say bullying is a problem.

But those 53 schools represent less than a fifth of all the private schools in Cincinnati, and many of the city's top academic schools aren't on the list.

Nintendo is creating consumer aggressive features that lock digital purchases, save data, etc., to their systems for illicit activity that's being done by less than a fifth of their customers.

Figures provided for Legal Week's annual UK top 50 rankings show CMS, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Gowling WLG, Watson Farley & Williams and RPC all paid the partners at the bottom of their equity less than a fifth of what their top earners received for 2015 - 16.

There are 18 types of monster that can join the party, but Patty has only 15 seats for monsters in her bar, considerably less than the fifth game.

More than half (59 %) believe that a blend of traditional teaching and online learning is the approach that best suits their needs, with less than a fifth (19 %) wanting traditional «chalk and talk» lectures.

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-

According to figures released by Public Health England (PHE), less than a fifth of primary children get the recommended amount of exercise by the time they leave school.

That year Winnebago Industries tallied $ 211 million in sales, less than a fifth of the 2004 figure.

The company terminated its crowdfunding campaign last Wednesday after raising # 190,000, less than a fifth of its target.

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.

XpertHR also found that less than a fifth of companies plan to offer bystander training in 2018, in which people are taught how to respond if they suspect another person at work is being harassed.

The NSPCC and O2 polled mothers and fathers with youngsters aged eight to 13 and found that less than a fifth of parents are having frequent conversations with their children about staying safe online.

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude pointed out this meant that less than a fifth of PCS members had actively supported the strike.

It is less than a fifth of the $ 580 million that Rupert Murdoch paid for the site six years ago.

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.

Asked which of the two leaders would make the better prime minister, 58 % chose Mrs May compared to less than a fifth (19 %) for Mr Corbyn.

The county execs say the state can bootstrap bus service for much cheaper, less than a fifth the old price.

Less than a fifth of them are opening in the north of England, while half are set to open in the south and southeast.

But he pointed out that it concluded that less than a fifth of the $ 62 billion went to projects designed exclusively to help developing countries adapt to climate change.

That is less than a fifth of the distance to the Moon and just twice the distance to geosynchronous satellites.

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.

They estimate that the actual process of writing takes up less than a fifth of your time, «much more goes before the writing that most people don't consider.

Less than a fifth were still on the job (or postdoc) market with «no specific prospects.»

Each slice was less than a fifth the thickness of a sheet of paper.

However, less than a fifth of those surveyed reported using a fully managed service, and over two thirds of schools said they prefer a modular approach where they can select specific support options that best suit the unique needs of their school, its pedagogy and its chosen technologies.

Progress 8 is a new accountability measure, of which the poll shows that less than a fifth (19 per cent) of parents and carers understand how it works.

But while this is the case, when we probed a little deeper it became clear that the current crop of sixth formers do expect technology to be integrated into their lectures - more than half (59 %) believe that a blend of traditional teaching and online learning is the approach that best suits their needs, with less than a fifth (19 %) wanting traditional «chalk and talk» lectures.

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