Sentences with phrase «lot as a percent»

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With less than half of companies rating their customer experience as exceptional yet 89 percent saying that they plan to compete primarily on the basis of customer experience by 2016, according to a recent Gartner report, businesses certainly have a lot of work to do.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

I think they have 85 plus percent, it was the latest study of ad dollars, so how do you view the duopoly and also in things like Google in particular, they're not — they can't escape this brand safety issue either, they have a lot of issues with YouTube as well.

«They influence people older than them, process lots of information from lots of sources, and... today they account for 21 to 25 percent of consumer discretionary purchases — and that's going to increase as they get more earning power.»

The farmer gets a return on his money «a whole lot faster,» Georges told the Sharks, as he asked for $ 150,000 in exchange for 20 percent of his company.

«For Treasuries, the share of transactions by primary dealers has dwindled by more than half to 4 percent since the end of 2008,» with electronic traders like Citadel expanding their role as dealers, and the complaints about the Treasury market sound a lot like the complaints in the equity markets about human market makers being replaced by algorithmic traders.

There is still a lot of room to grow as warfarin, also prescribed under the brand name Coumadin, commands some 60 percent of the blood thinner market.

The labor market in Fargo shows a lot of promise, as the city has the second - lowest unemployment rate on our list, behind only neighboring Sioux Falls, S.D. And, future job growth over the next 10 years is estimated at nearly 43 percent, according to Sperling's.

With the Madison area's preliminary unemployment rate for November at 2.7 percent, a lot of companies are looking for workers, especially those skilled in the trades, such as electricians, she said.

Roulac says some of its newer items — such as its hazelnut spread, which is dairy free, gluten free and has 40 percent less sugar than the leading brand — are seeing a lot of interest in the market.

Miyoko tells readers, «you probably recycle, shop at farmer's markets, buy local as much as you can...» She goes on to offer some staggering stats about animals raised for human consumption that I'm not sure a lot of non-vegans have considered -LCB- at least not most of the ones I have spoken to -RCB-- some research has shown vegans use approximately 90 percent less water, energy, resources and land to raise their food than do omnivores.

That's because something around 90 percent of corn grown in the US is GM, as is much of the soy, and a lot of this is fed to cows that produce the milk that goes into Ben & Jerry's products.

Betting on the Bad Titans to show up in a road game in Foxboro is probably pretty safe, and it seems a lot of people agree with me as 59 percent of the action is on the Patriots and the line had shifted to 15.5 as of Thursday afternoon.

But I think we can expect our creator - in - chief to find the back of the net a lot more as his stats show a 67 percent shot accuracy in the EPL and a 100 percent accuracy in the Champions League, where he already has that goal against Bayern Munich.

Now while this does not mean 100 percent that Wenger will not sign the Frenchman, it does sound as if he is not trying to right now and a lot depends on the player and Real Madrid.

Besides two new marinas built at fair expense, a draft copy of the agreement shows, the district would get improved parking lots at Soldier Field, a 12 percent share of the «gate «at fair events held there, and good - as - new restoration of Burnham Harbor boat facilities and nearby beaches.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention notes as much as 77 percent of new moms breastfeed, and in 2010, nearly half still were at six months postpartum, yet a lot of parents leave the hospital unaware of how to correctly heat up a bottle of breast milk.

As we've noted earlier, the office of the state comptroller actually has a lot of say when it comes to the intrepretation and implementation of the recently approved 2 percent tax cap.

«I think what a lot of people have a problem with and why people are so angry is because John Katko has billed himself as a moderate, but he votes with the Trump administration over 90 percent of the time,» Happy said.

Under the existing code, any development of five housing lots or more must set aside 20 percent as affordable housing.

In other words, if you're a bodybuilder with only 7 percent fat but a lot of muscle, your BMI will be high, perhaps the same as that of someone who is obese with lower muscle mass.

«Over 67 percent of never married women and 66 percent of divorced women perceive what happens to other women as having some or a lot to do with what happens in their own lives,» said Kelsy Kretschmer, a co-author of the study and an assistant professor of sociology at Oregon State University.

Urban areas and their aging natural gas pipes and valves are also responsible for a lot of methane emissions, which is about 35 times as potent as a greenhouse gas over the span of 100 years and makes up about 10 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in terms of CO2 equivalents.

«The virus kills quite a lot of piglets before they are born, and can wipe out 100 percent of piglets on a farm as they are suckling», said Dr Christine Burkard, of the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute.

There is a lot of leucine in egg protein, but WHEY protein powder is a bit purer and has better leucine density, 11 percent as compared to the 9 percent of the egg protein.

Remember to be patient with yourself, get lots of rest, drink a ton of fluids, and rely on food as medicine (using products like Maty's, which incorporate all - natural, immune - boosting ingredients), and you'll be back to 100 percent in no time.

The good news is that up to 80 percent of strokes are preventable, according to the National Stroke Association — so you have a lot of «say» in whether or not you're going to end up as a statistic.

These groups consume 63 - percent and 34 - percent of their diet from coconut, respectively, which means they're eating a lot of coconut, and as a byproduct, lots of saturated fats in the form of lauric acid and other MCTs.

Thirty - seven percent of single men and 47 % of single women define feminism as women being equal to men, but 43 % of singles think it «means a lot of different things» and 6 % aren't sure what it means, according to the representative survey of more than 5,000 singles.

When asked in 2001 to rate the relative difficulty of U.S. classes, 55.9 percent replied «a lot easier»; compare this to the 2016 recent results, where 66.4 percent of respondents rated classes in America as «much easier» than in their home country, a statistically significant difference.

That activity, which was not included on the 2001 survey, also gets a lot of time, with 23.6 percent of respondents naming it as a popular activity.

Sixty - nine percent of CEOs who were surveyed point to this practice as one that holds a lot of promise.

I made lots of mistakes as a principal, but I was 100 percent committed to making and learning from those mistakes in public and in relationship with others.

That's a lot more than the 18 percent that an evaluation system piloted at 20 New York City schools identified as «ineffective.»

But for black boys, scores declined a lot as the black population tipped beyond 60 percent.

And if you look at our kindergarten class this year, 50 percent of the children in Newark selected a charter as their first choice... Parents of means have lots of choices.

However, as the piece points out, 60 percent of those who said they knew a lot about the standards favor them.

When the NSX was new, the Honda engineers were quite concerned about the car's straightline stability, as the combination of a 58 percent rearward weight distribution and a relatively short 99.6 - inch wheelbase (the 1997 Corvette C5 with its 104.5 - inch wheelbase had not yet made a long wheelbase respectable for sports cars) seemed to promise lots of excitement in the corners.

NHTSA estimates that 39 percent of backover fatalities occur in residential spaces such as driveways and the parking lots of apartment and townhouse complexes.

The brand's U.S. sales are up 9.5 percent overall, and with time - on - lot averages of under a week, CX - 5s are essentially selling as fast as the company can build them.

Authors have a lot to benefit on the financial front as well, what with the nearly 70 percent royalty that they earn against the 5 - 10 percent that traditional publishers generally offer.

I've looked at a lot of publishers reports and the aggregate industry figures, and it appears that the correct range of e-book revenue as a percentage of total publishing revenue is between 1 / 10th of one percent and a half percent.

As he inventoried the lot, Archy listened, at times screwing up his eyes, to the dead man's minty quadrophonic pressing of Airto's Fingers (CTI, 1972) played through the store's trusty Quadaptor, a sweet gizmo that had been hand - dived from a Dumpster by Nat Jaffe and refurbished by Archy, a former army helicopter electrician holding 37.5 percent — last time he'd bothered to check — of a bachelor's in electrical engineering from SF State.

I explained that the hero spends a lot of time on his cell phone and that his faux fiancée is as curious about who he's talking to as she is peeved that he's not 100 percent focused on her.

Amount owed - 30 percent There's a lot of confusion around this element of the FICO score, says Bossler, because many people think that as long as they make payments on their credit cards, their credit is in good standing.

Construction loans typically require a 20 percent down payment at the outset and most often that down payment is in the form of equity as the veteran already owns the lot.

Based on the rolling historical data, if retirees were to follow the 4 % rule, the amount of money they would have had to have saved as a percent of their salary also varies a lot.

The same historical data that shows that the SWR can drop to as low as 1.6 percent also shows that it can rise to a number a lot higher than 4 percent.

These should include lots of brightly colored vegetables, high - quality grains and some highly nutritious fruit, such as berries, although fruit should only make up around five percent of the diet.

Depending on how it is prepared, dogs only digest about 50 percent of the corn in dog food, meaning that they pass a lot of the corn on as waste and aren't able to use its nutrients efficiently.