Sentences with phrase «makes up close»

The financials sector makes up close to 40 per cent of the FTSE TMX Canada All Corporate Bond Index, leaving it potentially vulnerable to wider bank spreads.

It's a billion - dollar industry that makes up close to one - third of the U.S. fiction market.

Brain function makes up close to 20 % of RMR.

Your triceps muscle makes up close to 60 percent of your upper arm.

Water makes up close to 70 % of our body, and our organs contain an even higher percentage of water.

At this stage, your baby's head makes up close to half of his or her total length!

The growth of ethical food purchases now make up close to 10 % of grocery purchases in the UK, which is double that of tobacco.

Immigrants find success a means to survival October 12, 2012 Newcomers to Canada make up close to 20 per cent the self - employed in the country.

Newcomers to Canada make up close to 20 per cent the self - employed in the country.

Beer made up close to 60 % of the alcohol market in the 1990s.

Traditionally, iPhone made up closer to 50 percent of Apple's revenue, but the smartphone has become even more important to the company's financials since the iPhone 6 hit the market in September.

This article should point out that all non-religious people make up close to 20 % of the American population, far exceeding all Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists combined.

And which one do you think didn't have the benefit of a dome being both home - field advantage AND making up close to 50 % of his games?

«The girls here make up a close - knit core group.

Talk is a hilariously irreverent and racy testament to dialogue: the gossip, questioning, analysis, arguments, and revelations that make up our closest friendships.

Fats, then, make up close to 75 % of their calories.

So if blacks are 2.2 times more likely to be involved in school fights, and 3 times as likely to be suspended, one could conjecture that differences in behavior make up close to three quarters of the suspensions gap.

With young women making up close to 60 percent of college students, critics like Richard Whitmire, former USA Today editorial writer and author of Why Boys Fail, worry that today's schools — with their emphasis on order, sitting still, and passive learning — are much better suited to girls than to boys.

Use of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has grown far beyond the 30 advanced - economy member countries of OECD; in 2006, 58 countries (OECD 2007a) that make up close to 90 percent of the world's economy took the PISA tests.

Corvettes make up close to 10 % of the auction catalog.

Because XIC is cap - weighted, 20 large companies make up close to 60 % of the index, and all of these are included in CRQ.

With the leading edge of the «baby boomers» poised to hit retirement in 2011, seniors will soon make up close to a quarter... [more]

The total market cap of crypto currencies surpassed $ 170Billion but during the past few days, dropped to $ 146Billion with Bitcoin making up close to 50 % of the value.

Mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) made up close to 10 percent of the market.

Not exact matches

And the closer that sharp downturn is to retirement, the harder it is to make up.

Look to the case of Tim Romero, a Tokyo - headquartered entrepreneur who, earlier this summer, «gave up» and closed ContractBeast, a startup that produced software for people who make software, when it hadn't gained a significant following after just seven months in business.

As a product launch date inched closer, it was common for a few teams working on the same project to realize they were unlikely to make the date, but no one spoke up, under the belief that another team was even farther behind.

Depending on how close you live, you could have half an hour or more time to catch up on voicemails, listen to an audiobook, make voice memos for the day ahead, or just relax with some calming music.

At close to 70 tons, the mighty Abrams tank is among the heaviest in the world, but it makes up for its weight with terrifying firepower and impressive maneuverability.

He mentioned three specific things that, upon closer look at the literature, make up the best of servant - leaders:

Plenty of people close to founder and CEO Hosain Rahman have probably advised him to give up and make a graceful exit.

Made over six years, including through the 2016 presidential election, Poitras» movie «Risk» examines Assange with up - close access and the headline - grabbing leaks his site is responsible for.

Loss - making Spotify, which is prioritising rapid growth over profit, said it expected to have signed up between 73 and 76 million paying subscribers this month, roughly twice as many as closest rival Apple has disclosed.

He continues, «And to really make the situation really bad, I stayed around for another year, working at the company, closing out some deals and finishing up some stuff, which was incredibly unpleasant.»

But it also has tools like Wrinkle Remover, Teeth Whitener and Airbrush that make it a good choice for close up online photo editing.

Jon Bon Jovi on how he feels Steve Jobs and iTunes have altered the music - buying experience... for the worse The Sunday Times, March 2011 Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album, and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.

Snapping up Canada Safeway for $ 5.7 billion, Empire Co. is now looking at more than $ 24 billion in annual sales, making it a much closer second in Canada's grocery store wars — and No. 1 in booming Western Canada.

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

During the trip, the cheerleaders say Redskins officials collected and held their passports, required them to go topless as «a contingent of sponsors and FedExField suite holders — all men — were granted up - close access to the photo shoots, and, in some case, made them act as «personal escorts» for male sponsors at a nightclub.»

Nevertheless, we've scrounged up some strategies and resources that make traveling something close to enjoyable.

Phones using Apple's iOS, Android's closest competitor, made up 25 percent of sales in the same period, according to data from Kantar, a market research group.

While tech ventures are individually risky, a sufficiently large number of them close to each other makes the experience of working in start - ups safe for any one individual.

My family and close friends would certainly make up a large piece of it, but I hope it would also include my mentors and mentees, team colleagues, fellow board members and even strangers who were touched by my articles or speeches, shared a cross-country plane ride conversation with me or somehow crossed paths with me along the way.

Sub-prime mortgages only ever made up roughly 7 % of the market, compared with closer to 20 % south of the border.

FEB. 24: Drops by the Today show and makes up with weatherman Al Roker, who had slammed him for not closing the schools in advance of one of the winter's biggest storms, then joins the rest of the cast for a ribbon - cutting that opens the show's new plaza at Rockefeller Center.

Rive argues that when the factory is up and running it will be able to produce high - output PV cells at about 55 cents a watt — about a 20 % reduction from current prices, which will help Rive get closer to his goal of making solar cheaper than fossil fuels.

A close observer of mid-Manhattan's changing commercial geography, he saw «a new society» rising on Park and Fifth Avenues after the completion of Grand Central Terminal, «a society made up of women who willing to pay well for things a cut or town above the ordinary,» as a 1938 Fortune article observed.

Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools in North Carolina — a school district that is made up of three high schools, four middle schools, and 11 elementary schools — is also closing in light of A Day Without a Woman.

The sector still makes up just 10 % of the nation's total beer sales, not coming close to the profits of Anheuser - Busch or MillerCoors.

The deal is expected to close by the end of 2016, at which point Katzenberg will become chairman of DreamWorks New Media, made up of the company's ownership interests in AwesomenessTV and NOVA.