Sentences with phrase «less than a quarter of»

It's not surprising that CNRL's Horizon kept operating through the evacuation — it relies on local labour for less than a quarter of its workforce.

That's because, even though Mt. Gox only recovered less than a quarter of its lost Bitcoins (the rest were stolen in a hack), the Bitcoin price has risen more than 17x between the time Mt. Gox entered liquidation and today.

Just 13,000 motor homes shipped industrywide, less than a quarter of the 55,000 in 2007.

The two share less than a quarter of Wallace McCain's overall estate, yet they still owned a Toronto mansion, four luxury cottages and five boats.

The rise is stark when compared to previous generations: less than a quarter of young adults lived at home in the «50s — a time when, it should be noted, the average woman was married before 21.

In fact, Walmart Canada shares less than a quarter of its merchandise with U.S. stores.

The board also turned against Patrick Soon - Shiong — who even as he closes on the L.A. Times sale still remains Tronc's second - largest shareholder, with something less than a quarter of the company.

The company aims for 3 - 5 % organic sales growth per year going forward, with the U.S. retail segment having 2 - 3 % growth (representing most of the company), the international segment having 5 - 7 % annual growth (representing less than a quarter of the company), and the U.S. professional segment having 10 - 15 % annual growth (representing only a small portion of the company).

Nevertheless, less than a quarter of US respondents (23 %) currently work with an advisor, and only 2 % said they plan to start working with one in the next five years.

Legal & General Investment Management said on April 17 that it will vote against the reappointment of chairs at large UK - listed companies if less than a quarter of the board are women.

The Poles were poor, poorer than the Irishmen who built St. Peter's less than a quarter of a mile away, and poorer even than the Italians who erected Holy Name Parish on the opposite side of town.

European cardinals will make up more than 50 % of the conclave, despite the fact Europeans make up less than a quarter of the church's overall population.

Industrialized countries with less than a quarter of the world's population are responsible for about three - quarters of the carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels.

Doses as low as 54 milligrams in an average - sized adult female (far less than a quarter of a teaspoon) can cause an increased risk of phocomelia — a decrease in the size of the upper limbs.

Women have long expressed a desire, passion and capability to join the highest ranks of the culinary industry, but continue to lack the same access, opportunities and support as their male counterparts — with less than a quarter of females chefs in leadership roles.

And if that is then used to create an acknowledged 30 % certified coffee, you're down to less than a quarter of the product being certified.

This means that one full pouch of Soylent contains less than a quarter of the amount of Sucralose found in a typical diet soda.

Good honey cake has a thick, sticky gooey top, a little less than a quarter of an inch thick and then nothing but sweet spicy orangy moistness below.

The recipe used less than a quarter of the tin that I bought, -LSB-...]

How on earth does a team manage to cover less than a quarter of their games?

The only other conference with a winning record in January bowls during that timeframe is the Pac - 12, with less than a quarter of the games the SEC has played.

When Robson - Kanu did appear, as a substitute with less than a quarter of the game remaining, he scrambled the winning goal.

His annual salary is less than a quarter of his inflation - adjusted 2004 take.

This elevator has a capacity of 25,000 bushels, which is less than a quarter of the capacity of many of today's elevators.

I find the people who do this most are the old - school crunchy moms — the ones who were nursing back when less than a quarter of women breastfed.

com survey of more than 4,000 parents found that while half of dads say they split child care evenly with their partner, less than a quarter of mothers agree.

The number of jobs in STEM fields is expected to keep growing rapidly, but women are currently very underrepresented, accounting for less than a quarter of employees in the STEM workforce, according to a report by the Economics and Statistics Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Your baby now weighs less than a quarter of an ounce and is a little over 1 inch long from head to bottom.

your baby weighs less than a quarter of an ounce and is only an inch long, so sorry, I highly doubt it was your baby...

By baby's first birthday, less than a quarter of mothers are breast - feeding at all.

Less than a quarter of lobbyists think they will be forced to comply with the government's moves to enforce transparency on the sector.

Despite all of the attention focused on Twitter recently, less than a quarter of the organizations have a presence on the service, and more than half have no intention of establishing one.

From the East Side to South Buffalo, and in Black Rock, Buffalo spent just under $ 4.3 million in federal funds rehabilitating 10 houses that were then put up for sale in the past three years, eventually likely to sell for less than a quarter of what it took to improve them.

Furthermore, I can't see people taking very well to the Liberal Democrats supporting a Labour government (not that that would work, since there is still liberal elements in the Liberal Democrats, notably Nick Clegg) if as seems likely less than a quarter of the population votes for Labour.

The current Tory government received the support of just over a third of voters and less than a quarter of the electorate, the last Labour government much the same.

Information, therefore, was only supplied by less than a quarter of NHS organisations, and what data that did exist was patchy at best.

The new disposal site is in the eastern part of the Sound, less than a quarter of a mile out of New York waters.

Significantly, even in the Liberal Democrat - held seats, less than a quarter of voters thought the Lib Dems were having a significant impact on the coalition government's agenda.

Less than a quarter of the Labour MPs that signed up to an early day motion expressing concern at the government's plans to reduce funding for equivalent or lower qualification (ELQ) degrees voted against the government in a Conservative - led motion last night.

While Finance Chair Domenic Recchia Jr.'s Brooklyn district received $ 1,630,064 ($ 10.30 per constituent), the district that received the least amount of money got less than a quarter of that (just $ 2.16 per resident)-- a difference of $ 1.3 million.

Less than a quarter of the money spent in this race - which has eclipsed $ 12 million and is still rising - comes from individual donors.

And while there will be a record number of women MPs in the new Commons, the total of 139 — which includes 48 Tories, almost a more significant breakthrough — is still less than a quarter of the 649 MPs elected on Thursday and only 11 more than in the last parliament.

At that speed, my trip from London would have taken less than a quarter of a second.

Hospira dropped the drug «with regret», according to spokesman Daniel Rosenberg, who says that it still has a legitimate medical use, although it currently accounts for less than a quarter of a percent of Hospira's sales.

It takes less than a quarter of a second for the body to register a physiological response to a threat, and somewhat longer — a second or two, according to Ulrich — to register a positive stimulus.

In a female whale, or a young male, the spermaceti accounts for less than a quarter of the animal's total length.

Less than a quarter of drug - resistant patients, however, meet the medical criteria for the procedures, the main one being a distinct site of origin in the brain for their seizures (confirmed with brain scans and electroencephalography) that does not overlap with regions involved in essential functions, such as language.

• Yet, this survey shows that less than a quarter of consumers are receiving provider quality information.

Less than a quarter of newly published papers are immediately available through OA; the rest remain behind a pay wall, some permanently.

When he dropped her off, he had a full tank of gas.He pulled into his driveway hours later with less than a quarter of atank.