Sentences with phrase «of the few points of»

He was one of the few points of interest from Manchester United's grim 0 - 0 draw with Sevilla and he converted that into something more tangible against Chelsea.

Taking care of a few points of interest really won't do anything.

I had the privilege of moderating the latter panel, where one of the few points of unanimity was that biotech entrepreneurship in Canada still faces a cultural hurdle.

Not exact matches

Critics, though, point out that driving customers to fewer and fewer options across the gamut of health services could prove risky for them in the long run.

Then there are the scenes when plot points are achingly hand - fed to us, like a scene in which Ellsberg is making copies of the volumes of files that make up the Pentagon Papers (which also drags on a few beats too long).

That means Theranos is using full blood draws, from patients» arms, rather than a few drops of blood from pricking patients» fingers, which up to that point had been one of the company's key competitive advantages.

Mr. Guillebeau has many points to make, but I will sum up a few of them below: You don't need a lot of money to start a business.

In April 2014, a few Bank of Canada economists published a short paper that should be the starting point for every conversation about the state of the economy.

Think of what would happen if we could grow that by even a few percentage points.»

Those private forecasts tend to be within a few tenths of a percentage point of each other.

At one brief point during a commercial break, the office's TVs cut to black, causing a few seconds of panic and yelling.

It's just becoming more and more obvious that a few key players and central platforms in search, social and e-commerce are getting to the point where they will be controlling significant segments of the entire economy and our lives as well.

And Sessions might already have a few judges in green - friendly states who share his point of view.

I have enough useless bits of paper in my actual wallet, so I couldn't see the point and gave up after a few minutes.

She added, «the set point for our cancer screening tool is one where we miss few cancers but we also pick up a lot of non-cancers.»

You can start off small by making just a few changes to an integral part of your business — one you probably don't give much thought to anyway — your Point of Sale (POS) system.

«I think that it's one of those things where a team wins the Super Bowl and maybe you want them to win by a few more points, but it's a Super Bowl winner.

However, someone needs to point out a few of the gaps opening in the seemingly impregnable reputation of the modern - day version of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd — now known as BHP Billiton.

A few things stand out about this particular rate change: first, the magnitude of influence that just a quarter percentage - point change had on the stock market; second, the current rate with an upper range of.50 % compared to the various long - term averages of about 5 %; and third, the rate remains historically low, with only minute incremental changes, despite the relatively good news we continue to read about the economy.

On a positive note, I have seen a slight improvement by a few percentage points in most of the core metrics since I last checked back in November 2016.

Instead, pick a few of the most important issues facing your customers and invest most, if not all, of your time developing content that offers unique, compelling points of view.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

As Fain points out, «The ability to more fully describe and understand a consumer's behavior is more complete than ever before, and that kind of data will make AI marketing tools even more effective over the next few years.»

Next Monday, Blue Point Brewing, which is owned by AB InBev, is unveiling a new Pilsner called Delayed, a Penn Station - exclusive beer named in honor of the train you thought you were going to take home right after work, but will now be spending the next few hours waiting on instead.

There are still plenty of ways for it to fail once it gets off the ground — the structure could be torn apart by supersonic shockwaves or the side boosters may not separate, since that system has never been tested, for example — but at that point, SpaceX could probably launch another Falcon Heavy within a few months.

Shipments have steadily ticked up a few percentage points each week in the second half of 2014, relative to their 52 - week average, according to MillerCoors.

As proof, Connolly points to the wave of serendipitous product placements — in ads for Motrin, Mighty Dog, and the U.S. Postal Service, to name a few — that the wheel has received.

We'll put put specific numbers on that bluebird view by creating a simple model that involves moving a few decimal points: Let's say that FAANG Inc's share price is $ 24 (based on $ 24 trillion valuation) and that it earns 80 cents (that's the $ 80 billion, many decimal points to the left), so it's selling at the FAANGs combined PE of 30.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

Because of the way frequent flyer programs work, you can usually get a lot more value from a lot fewer miles than credit card points.

Worrying about your intelligence, according to psychologists, is one of the most surefire ways to lose yourself a few IQ points.

A few years on, the firm is considering abandoning the platform: «I can't point to one moment where I feel like we built business because of it.»

That's the point, of course: You want to conceal the money's criminal origins and then stir it into the rivers of legitimate cash that course around the world every day: $ 60 - odd million here, a few million there.

Pointing to a «cycle of boom and bust,» the CFPB points out a few key players in its report:

This comes in handy because, in many cases, it costs fewer points to book a trip if you go through one of those programs, as opposed to using the points as cash.

On a visit to Fortune's office Wednesday, the health system executive painted a mostly rosy picture of the modern, efficient health system he sees in America's future — though he did note a few pain points that stand in the way.

If you reach the point where you care about the last few percent, you'll be amazed at the power of the 1/99 rule.

The Cut & Color Room offers clients a range of rewards — from services to free flatirons and blow - dryers — for as few as 100 Perka points or as many as 10,000, depending on the retail value of items purchased.

«The company believes that malware, installed through the use of compromised third - party vendor credentials, affected one particular point of sale system at fewer than 300 of approximately 5,500 franchised North America Wendy's restaurants,» the company said in its quarterly filing Wednesday.

As any salesperson will know, few businesses are ready to buy at the first point of contact.

«More cards are charging a monthly fee, like a checking account, and fewer have a la carte fees for services like point - of - sale purchases, ATM transactions and live customer service calls,» said Susan Weinstock, director of Pew's Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project.

This leads to an endless recycling and restating of a few salient points.

One major point of contention is the fact that SoundCloud hired a number of people into roles over the last few months knowing full well that they were going to have to make large redundancies, according to TechCrunch.

That's because it will be one of the few remaining data points that Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Market Committee will have before they decide whether or not to begin the process of raising interest rates at their upcoming meeting December 15th and 16th.

At one point of the night, and many beers in, I joined Carl and a few bloggers on discussing what his life has been like since retiring from his job.

SINGAPORE, April 23 (Reuters)- Oil prices dipped early on Monday as a rising U.S. rig count pointed to further increases in the country's output, underlining one of only a few factors holding back crude markets in an otherwise bullish environment.

A few cranky critics have pointed out that Pono will have to convince a sufficient number of music publishers to remaster their analogue recordings to the new digital standard for there to be a worthwhile library of titles to listen to.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

Very few people will join Netflix just because of a single title, but there is a tipping point.

He points out that group RRSPs are already available, and few employers make use of them.