Sentences with phrase «many as a quarter»

When the payment you take for a product can lose as much as a quarter of its value within a week, pricing becomes difficult.

For all the grand visions of men on Mars, SpaceX's pitch is straightforward: The company says it will send your satellite into orbit for as little as a quarter of the going rate.

Still, one drawback may be the city's endemic financial woes; the state of Illinois is now grappling with $ 15 billion in unpaid bills, and as much as a quarter - trillion dollars is owed to public employees when they retire.

SURVEY SUPPLEMENT & GRAPHICS AVAILABLE: For more details, including breakdowns of survey results by age, income, geography and gender, as well as quarter - by - quarter survey results, please see the full U.S. Q4 2014 Glassdoor Employment Confidence Survey Supplement: https://www.glassdoor.com/press/surveys.

Spending per transaction increased as the quarter progressed and rose 3 percent, but the number of transactions didn't budge.

Commerce at the three centers reportedly accounts for as much as a quarter of all retail trade across the country and exceeds the volume of formal - sector retail trade in the city.

As the quarter proceeded, market commentators returned again and again to this apparent contradiction.

Following an interest - rate hike by the Mexican central bank, the Mexican peso saw substantial gains as the quarter - point increase satisfied market expectations.

On Tuesday, in a tense hearing about the the island's slow recovery, he told lawmakers that the Isla del Sol now wants solar energy to provide as much as a quarter of its electricity, transmitted across microgrids and backed up by batteries.

The first quarter of 2018 will be remembered as the quarter that ended the 9 quarter winning streak for the S&P 500 (TR).

During the Obama election years, as many as a quarter of evangelicals voted Democrat; with Clinton, it was nearly 10 percentage points less than that.

I adore the concept of your blog as a quarter lifer myself!!

Crevices as big as a quarter are just as convenient of an entry point for rodents as an open front door.

This sweet - tasting cookie has about as much sugar as quarter cup of figs (8 grams).

Hill comes up two yards short as the quarter expires.

If you had been reading many posts on here for the last few years, you would have thought that there were thousands of Arsenal fans that predicted that the Gunners would never win the Premier League again as long as Arsene Wenger was in charge, never mind get as far as the Quarter - Final's of the Champions League.

Even if we pass the group stage, I don't think we can go as far as quarter final.

Yes many sportsbooks offer live wagering as well as quarter wagering such as reputable sites like 5Dimes or Bookmaker.

There will not be much time for Mertesacker and his Germany teammates to take rest, though, as the quarter - finals of the World Cup kick off on Friday.

This is not a scenario United fans will enjoy contemplating, but that's where we are; unable to make it as far as the quarter finals of the Europa League — a tournament we always considered ourselves above — and staring the possibility of missing out on the Champions League next season directly in the face.

The Europa League schedule hasn't been detrimental to Wolfsburg this season when they have been the closest challengers to Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga as well as quarter - finalists in the Europa League.

Maybe you decide to give up meat, an act that would reduce your carbon footprint by as much as a quarter.

An incoming Conservative government would slash civilian staff at the Ministry of Defence, potentially by as much as a quarter.

In what appeared denigrating as some quarters have described it is the stooping of some mornachs in the picture whom Alagbado of Agbado Oke Odo was part of.

Allies of Jeremy Corbyn believes that as many as a quarter of newly registered Labour supporters could be barred from voting in the upcoming leadership contest.

This was just as some quarters shortly after the address yesterday criticized him over what they termed a wasted year of his administration.

Diverse insinuations have also trailed the incident as some quarters attributed it to attempt aimed at frustrating the supplementary election slated for tomorrow, others said it may have been as a result of indiscriminate bush burning by some youths on hunting expedition.

Research by Basex, a knowledge - economy advisory firm, indicates that knowledge workers in the United States lose as much as a quarter of each working day to information overload.

Stars with a metal content as low as a quarter of the sun's can host planets between one and four times the size of Earth, the team found (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature11121).

Other animals may be able to detect sounds too high or low pitched for us to hear, but our ability to discriminate between sounds as close as a quarter of a musical tone apart appears to be unmatched among mammals, with the possible exception of bats.

The impactor's kinetic energy is transformed into heat, which melts the permafrost, releasing methane and water vapor and expanding the size of the resulting crater by as much as a quarter.

This is because the etching is only 10 to 20 micrometers deep — a layer as thin as a quarter of the diameter of human hair.

India has announced it will cut its carbon emissions intensity of its economy by as much as a quarter from 2005 levels by 2020.

Coral reefs occupy only one percent of the ocean floor, but they are home to as much as a quarter of all described marine species in the world.

The oil can be as much as a quarter of the total mass of a diatom cell, and if a way could be found to efficiently wrest it from diatoms, he adds, a hectare of «diatom cultivation could produce 10 to up to 200 times the oil that is produced by soybean cultivation,» Ramachandra says.

News outlets, including the Associated Press and USA Today, explained that, according to the study, the quarter of American kids who eat the most sodium are twice to three times as likely to develop high blood pressure as the quarter who eat the least.

But there is an element of unpredictability as a quarter of these recordings are not of actual birds but are instead people imitating the birdsong they have heard.

You have probably heard of «coral bleaching» — that is, coral dying — which is very bad news, because reefs support as much as a quarter of all marine life and supply food for half a billion people.

Global warming is likely to shrink the size of fish by as much as a quarter in coming decades, according to a groundbreaking study of the world's oceans.

At the time, a CVS test found that as many as a quarter of the cells in the placenta that joined her and her developing baby were abnormal: could the developing baby also have abnormal cells?

A 2011 study by scientists from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies found that as much as a quarter of Arctic warming is caused by black carbon.

Twelve ounces of ultra low carb beer and five ounces of dry wine contain a little more, about 3 - 4 grams respectively, but a regular beer packs at least 10 grams, about as much as a quarter cup of brown rice.

If you only have firm or extra-firm silken tofu on hand, however, you can add as much as a quarter cup of extra soy milk to achieve the desired consistency.

Some people refer to this as a quarter get up.

A serving is defined as a quarter cup of hummus or bean dip; a half cup of cooked beans, split peas, lentils, tofu, or tempeh; or a full cup of fresh peas or sprouted lentils.

This past month I've been going through what can only be described as a quarter life crisis.

As my quarter century birthday creeps up on me, I've been revamping my closet to include more timeless styles.

As the quarter draws to a close, it gives us great pleasure to have delivered so many great improvements to the platforms and to have witnessed the positive effect that these have had on conversion rates.

In response, the manipulative and malevolent President Snow (Donald Sutherland) increases the level of fear and paranoia from the Capitol by hiring a new strategist (Philip Seymour Hoffman) for the 75th anniversary of the Hunger Games, known as the Quarter Quell, which he turns into an all - star game of sorts.

After an act of courage that puts Katniss between the whip of the Commander and a loved one, President Snow decides to play one more trump card up his sleeve and that is to change the treaty charter and initiate a new type of tournament known as the Quarter Quell.