Sentences with phrase «of up to a few»

To find this place where the fault first began to rupture, the researchers analyze near - fault strong - motion data (movements that took place at a distance of up to a few tens of kilometers away from the fault) as well as long distance (thousands of kilometers) teleseismic data.

SEATTLE — Apparently ending several years of uncertainty, an official of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) revealed here today that the government intends to grant patents on expressed sequence tags (ESTs), human DNA sequences of up to a few hundred base pairs in length that can be used to identify and detect the expression of specific genes.

«The bacteria can close cracks of up to a few millimeters in width in a matter of a few days,» says Grosse.

Open clusters are loosely bound collections of up to a few thousand stars.

There's also a noticeable lag of up to a few seconds between turning the spinner and the volume actually adjusting.

It is almost always changing, in amounts of up to a few tenths of a percent and on time scales from 1 second to 20 years, and probably longer.

[71][72] Because of the way air is trapped in ice (pores in the ice close off slowly to form bubbles deep within the firn) and the time period represented in each ice sample analyzed, these figures represent averages of atmospheric concentrations of up to a few centuries rather than annual or decadal levels.

Not exact matches

I ended up coming to work an hour later, and during my drive over the next few weeks, listened to the entirety of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (13 hours) which filled my car time with purpose.

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.

The minutes of the Fed's June meeting noted that «some participants suggested that increased risk tolerance among investors might be contributing to elevated asset prices more broadly; a few participants expressed concern that subdued market volatility, coupled with a low equity premium, could lead to a build - up of risks to financial stability.»

A lot of big - name options require you to buy an annual membership in order to access discounts — and while you'd likely make that membership fee back within your first few orders, nobody really wants to pay $ 60 upfront to save $ 1.50 on bananas every week (even if that will add up).

Sidenote: Chew is also one of the few biopharma execs I've ever spoken to who voluntarily brought up the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), a tough drug pricing critic organization which insists on proven outcomes (and has consequently become a major biopharma gadfly), because the group actually validated the cost - effectiveness of Omada's tech.

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.

And if U.S. giant Verizon provides coast - to - coast service north of the border, it could snatch up as much as 10 or 15 per cent of the market after a few years, he said.

But if that sounds like the kind of thing that stimulates your creative juices, and you have the engineering chops to back it up, you could win a few million bucks and a lot of attention.

Yesterday, I wrote about the shady role of a few start - ups in the government's bid to gather more and more intelligence about people and businesses around the globe.

And when you've flown as often as I have, you learn to pick up a few tricks about how to make the best of a bad situation.

«But for many other thousands of entrepreneurs that have started up, they are only looking to find a few hundred thousand dollars, Title III (the provision of the law referring to equity crowdfunding) is a wonderful opportunity.»

Of course, complaints about the proliferation of sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsOf course, complaints about the proliferation of sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsof sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsof a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsof financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsof money despite toxic reviews).

Quebec, for example, launched a program in 2015 that covers 50 % of the costs of applying for a patent (or up to $ 25,000) for companies with fewer than 250 employees.

It's probably fair to say that few kids dream of running an outsourcing business when they grow up.

With a little research up front, you will find a group of bloggers willing to feature your product over the course of a few days or weeks.

TaskUs boasts more than 200 customers — many of them the hottest startups in tech — but up until fairly recently few of them wanted to say much about the company, or even admit that they use its services.

If you find yourself going a few months without much of either, it might be time to change it up.

However, I would like him to hold some of the characteristics that an entrepreneur would need for success as he grows up: self - starter, problem solver, leader, passionate, and creative to name a few

Because so much of its business is tied up in a few particular styles, a single manufacturing error — like the one that forced executives to recall the near - seethrough women's pants in March — can cause millions of dollars in lost sales.

Follow - up studies that asked volunteers to find time for 15 minutes of device - free solitude each day for a week and keep a journal of their experiences showed the same thing - fewer intense emotions and a greater awareness of subtle ones.

As one of the few marketing strategies with very little up front cost and the potential for high ROI, I highly encourage you to rethink your stance.

Warren Buffett, also known as the «Oracle of Omaha,» wakes up at 6:45 a.m. and starts his day reading his usual pile of newspapers: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Forbes, to name a few.

The idea of buying a home, sprucing it up and selling at a profit a few months later is celebrated by at least a half dozen popular reality TV shows, several of which are either made in Canada or involve Canadians: Love it or List it, Flip this House, Home to Flip, Flip or Flop and the strangely named Masters of Flip.

It has been spending heavily to ramp up the digital side of its business so customers can move money in seconds with just a few clicks on their mobile devices.

Developing story ideas for your blog is a lot like coming up with a business idea: You're bound to come up with a handful of duds that have a few gems sprinkled between.

This is incredibly difficult, especially in an industry that very few people grow up dreaming of working in (not a lot of web developers that always wanted to build a quilting website), but the value of a leadership team can be judged by their ability to attract and keep the right talent.

Depending on the amount of the grant, it may take from a few days up to several months to go through the application process.

An analysis of the leaked information found very few accounts belonged to women and that many of those accounts were probably fake, meaning Ashley Madison is essentially a service for men to launch grammatically incorrect pick - up lines and photos of their genitalia into the digital ether, never to be viewed or acknowledged.

And Walmart did away with the mandatory opting out of Walmart Pay that required customers to tap a «No thanks» button: after driving cashiers nuts, Walmart simply programmed it so the «No thanks» pop - up disappears on its own after a few seconds.

At the moment, he estimates that only 5 percent of his customers order beverages through the app, but it's a number that's been picking up steam over the last few months; if the trend continues, and 5 percent grows to a more substantial slice of the pie, he says he'd push to renegotiate his terms with the company.

As Dave Hackenburg, who runs an industrial pollination services company in Pennsylvania, says, «If you start shortening lives of bees, just by a few days, young bees have to go to the field earlier, and the whole thing gets messed up.»

Every few months, it offers users new tools to mute racial slurs or report threats, but even though the company says it has stepped up its rules enforcement by an order of magnitude, users who report abuse typically hear there's nothing to be done about it.

I felt this myself as we went from a few founders huddled into a tiny room to the front page of the Financial Times, an influx of VC interest, magazine covers, invitations to high - profile events and the pressures of trying to live up to this perception and the economic opportunities everybody expected.

After a few months of trial and error, they came up with a consistent and safe way to offer bubbly — Frankel describes it as «amazing» — sans bottle.

That's part of why personal job referrals can be a double - edged sword — you end up with teams that all arrive at the same conclusions, tend to agree and bring fewer outside - the - box ideas to the table.

«And if enough jurisdictions do it, then the shareholders of America will realize that they've got fewer after - tax profits to divvy up than continue to pay CEOs outrageous salaries.»

In order for a few million dollars to go «missing» here and there, and end up in the pockets of local politicians or shady middle - men, you've pretty much got to be mislabelling the money at the very least.

That's because Falcon Heavy essentially takes the Falcon 9 system, which SpaceX has now launched and landed quite a few times, and adds two identical first - stage boosters (which provide most of the rocket's thrust) to the sides of the central booster, cranking up the power.

The next few days will be critical as to how the Honest brand stands up beneath the withering heat of scrutiny.

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.

According to 2012 U.S. Census Bureau data, businesses with fewer than 20 workers made up 89.6 percent of American businesses, and firms with fewer than 500 workers described 99.7 percent of businesses.

The company's principals attended countless trade shows to generate brand awareness, and even signed up for a few trade missions organized by Canadian consulates in Boston and Washington D.C. Targeting government contracts, Novolker's team looked into obtaining U.S. security clearances and getting Prospero listed on a registry of approved suppliers.