Sentences with phrase «more around a quarter»

The report «Doing Good Better» outlines the growth in community work and suggests faith based organisations make up more around a quarter of the entire third sector.

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According to Orlando, fundamentals indicate a sharp market rally in the fourth quarter — citing more clarity around Federal Reserve and Washington trade policy, the Mueller investigation and midterm elections.

Shark populations around the world started to plummet, with more than a quarter of shark and ray species now at risk of extinction.

The stock has lost more than a quarter of its value since touching a high of $ 389.61 in September, mainly due to reports of bottlenecks around its Model 3 production.

There was a lot of money made on residential property sales around Australia in the June quarter, but the joy wasn't spread around evenly, with more than 10 per cent of all houses and about 20 per cent of all units sold in Western Australia during the quarter selling at a loss.

The research cluster in B.C. centred around early developer Ballard Power still accounts for more than a quarter of fuel - cell industry revenues worldwide, said B.C.'s job, tourism and skills training minister, Pat Bell.

In the second quarter of this year, more than $ 300 million of new funding was put into marketing - automation companies around the world, according to VentureBeat Insight.

All told, around 500 people were fired — more than a quarter of the company.

J.C. Penney's operating margins plunged in the first quarter on weak sales and heavy clearance deals, but CEO Myron Ullman pledged to offer more promotions to turn things around.

«The question is going to be, with the animal spirits having sort of disappeared here and the classic risk taking mode, whether we're going to continue to see this gapping around, which I think will look more like recent sequential quarters than it would like the healthy first quarter we saw last year,» he said.

The company's share price fell by around a quarter so far this year, though it jumped more than 5 % on the news of Vestberg's departure.

Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the transformation of human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate beings — to see «victory» when «loss» is flashing all around them.

So if we can expect 3 more quarter - point hikes this year it would seem to make sense to stick to short - term CDs yielding around 2 % now and then look for a longer - term one at around 3.5 % at EOY, especially if one — I am in this camp — thinks that by EOY the odds of recession will have risen enough that further rate hikes in 2019 will be looking doubtful.

Should we wish to do anything more, our debt to EBITDA this quarter, as we exit this year, will be around about 1.5 x.

With the news last week that Nokia lost $ 1.9 billion last quarter and rumors of bankruptcy swirling around them, I am more convinced then ever that Microsoft will buy at least Nokia's handset business.

The retail business achieved operating margins around 50 %, and the quarter's EBIT was more than half of what we estimated for Daiwa's entire fiscal year.

VICTORIA — New Democrat Leader John Horgan and health spokesperson Judy Darcy released the following statement to mark World AIDS Day: «World AIDS Day has been recognized for more than a quarter century as an opportunity for people around the world to...

Household credit increased at an annualised rate of around 23 per cent over the June quarter, with lending for investment housing expanding at an even more rapid annualised rate of 34 per cent over the quarter.

This represents a small decline in year - ended inflation from the June quarter, and a more sizeable drop from an average inflation rate of around 3 per cent during 2002 (Graph 68).

More than three - quarters of Americans want the next US president to «be committed to addressing the persecution that some Christians face around the world,» according to a poll released this week by Open Doors.

For example, after explaining how their research shows that three - quarters of young outsiders and half of young churchgoers describe present - day Christianity as «too involved in politics,» this is what Kinnaman concludes: «To address the deep challenges that are facing people in our nation and around the world, Gabe and I have come to the conclusion that being politically engaged is more important than ever.»

«The word is awash in «low - level» conflicts, today there are some forty wars on around the globe, involving more than one quarter of the world's nations.

Americans are more worried about Islamic extremism internationally, with three - quarters of white evangelicals saying they're «very concerned» about the impact of these views around the world, Pew wrote.

1 medium red onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves, crushed 6 cherry tomatoes, quartered or 3 large plum tomatoes more finely chopped around 125 ml Passata 1 tablespoon tomato puree pinch or 2 of Chilli Flakes dash of red wine (optional) sprinkling of Oregano and Basil Black Pepper

Dust the piece with more flour and quickly shape it into a ball by stretching the surface of the dough around to the bottom on all four sides, rotating the ball a quarter - turn as you go.

Somewhere around the middle of the fourth quarter in a critical game for playoff positioning, it became clear that the Blazers needed more than Damian Lillard's normal routine of greatness to force the Lakers to yield their double - digit lead.

I love and care about her, I'm a mother figure to her, I've been around for more than three quarters of her life, and I plan on continuing to be around for the rest of that life.

Girls tend to have more patience, and therefore start using the toilet for poop around age three to three and a quarter.

By day 5 of life poopy diapers should be yellow and seedy, no meconium present, and be about the size of a quarter or more, around 2.5 cm.

«Around three - quarters of the population wants to see lower immigration, but more than half will say that immigration is still good for the economy.

At best, around a fifth of children still live below the poverty line before housing costs, and more than a quarter once housing costs are taken into account.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

With more than three - quarters of the canvass complete, Mohr says Dunn has picked up only around 90 absentee ballot votes.

Coaxing more bees, beetles and other pollinators to buzz around small fields could on average boost crop yields enough to close the gap between the worst and the best of these farms by almost a quarter, says agroecologist Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi of...

-- Charlene Colchester, via e-mail Bhopal should have been a wake up call, but it is unclear whether chemical plants around the world are any safer a quarter century after the December 1984 disaster — during which some 40 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide (now part of Dow Chemical), killing 2,259 people immediately and causing lifelong health problems and premature death for tens of thousands more.

And while around three quarters of the 2013 respondents had been encouraged to engage in personal and career development, fewer than a fifth reported participating in any formal training in career management, even though more than half said they wished to do so.

This year's CROS drew more than 8000 responses from postdocs in 68 U.K. higher education institutions, representing a response rate of around a quarter.

The team of scientists collected more than 250 facial images of free - ranging rhesus macaques, which are native to South, Central and Southeast Asia and which display red skin coloring around the face, as well as the genital and hind - quarter areas.

During the past decade, Toyota has controlled around three quarters of the U.S. hybrid market, with worldwide sales of the Prius and luxury Lexus hybrids nearing two million vehicles — more than half of them Priuses.

The team found that around a quarter of medications with human targets, and 27 percent of the drugs over all, at least partially inhibited growth in one or more of the bacteria species.

Indeed, Stars B and C are separated by only some 0.008 AU, around three quarters of a million miles (more than one million km) or about three times the distance between the Earth and its Moon.

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The main reason Charley appreciates the brow - sweating work — aside from the fact he brings home more cash - in - hand pay than his father ever seems to — is that he gets to spend time with Lean on Pete, a five - year - old quarter horse Del endlessly tours around the local race tracks.

Even having one or two extra people isn't the most optimal way to play, as matches are a lot more exciting when four archers are romping around in tight quarters.

Mid-range firefights and close - quarters combat feel more like a fatal dance in and around the structures plopped into the environment.

A staff survey (Appendix 1) taken in February 2013 showed that more than one quarter of staff had 25 years» service or more while around 55 % had 10 or more years of service.

Play is more than just the chance to run around outside for a quarter of an hour.

Today, more than a quarter of the instructors are from Teach for America, a national teacher training program that recruits college graduates from around the U.S.

For more than a quarter century, Tennesseans have watched the state's Department of Education fumble around with standardized testing and school accountability measurements.

The fast rack means that even the tightest turns around the track require little more than a quarter turn of the wheel.