Sentences with phrase «only about»

Some 12 % of Singapore's total land area, which is only about 277 sq. mi., is taken up by roads, according to LTA.

New details about the National Security Agency's ability and efforts to decrypt digital information could raise concerns not only about the security of data held by business, but also the software and services marketed to protect that data.

It has only about 20 % invested in equities.

While Berkshire remains best known for insurance and reinsurance, that sector now generates only about one - fourth of operating results as the company has diversified.

(But only about $ 4 billion because of dramatic currency fluctuations.)

In the latter battle, the SHE ETF remains a bit player: A little more than a year after its debut, it has only about $ 300 million in assets under management.

Indeed, former Automattic CEO and current team lead Toni Schneider wrote in a blog post at the end of May that only about half of the company's 32 San Francisco - based employees showed up to the office on Hawthorne «on a busy day.»

The oil and gas, and metals and mining sectors pay chemical engineers the highest, but they employ only about 7 % of the profession.

BWI is one of only about 100 agricultural product brokers who collectively do half a trillion dollars in trade every year.

By the end of fiscal 2013, in fact, only about a third of Coastal's $ 217 million in revenue came from Canada.

And while nearly 30,000 families are now receiving benefits from Colombia's Comprehensive Program for Illicit Crop Substitution, that's only about one - quarter of the families who have signed collective agreements, which is just the first step in a long process to get aid.

And after only about six months on the market, it's the No. 1 selling mayo in Whole Foods.

With one of the largest workforces in the world, its research showed that only about half of AT&T's 250,000 employees had the necessary science, technology, engineering and math skills the company required.

But the winner of last night's Oscar for Best Picture, Birdman, was only the 82nd best - grossing film of 2014, with only about $ 37 million in domestic ticket sales.

That's only about 1 / 25th its most recent reported valuation.

In fact, direct access to Google's cutting - edge mobile services may be the Droid Pro's most persuasive selling point: As of late 2010, the Android Market application storefront was home to well over 80,000 apps, while rival BlackBerry App World mustered only about 10,000.

An analyst who testified at the Senate hearing said only about 20 percent of the benefits of a corporate tax cut would directly help workers.

According to The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, only about 8 % of undergraduate students receive scholarships each year (they average $ 3,400) and fewer than 1 % receive athletic scholarships (which average $ 10,200).

But an income - based valuation (which looks at this club's historical, rather than potential, earnings) shows it netted only about $ 98,000 last year.

«HomeServices is on track to do only about 3 % of the country's home - brokerage business in 2018,» Buffett wrote in his most recent shareholders report, referring to HomeServices of America Inc., which controls Trident and two other mortgage companies.

Just one interviewer made the right choice only about half the time (49 percent).

Every company wants to maximize profit, but the most promising startups aren't only about that.

It's just that we generally hear only about the innovative ones that are successful, not the ones that have died from rigidity.

Stakeholders in your business today care not only about what you do, but how you do it.

The average wind turbine rotates fast enough to produce energy only about a third of the time, and solar cells can similarly underperform in cloudy conditions.

This is a man who genuinely does not care about the health & safety of women — only about his political ambitions.

Yet, only about a quarter of all U.S. businesses have a «well - implemented ethics and compliance program in place,» according to Harned.

In 2017, only about one - third of U.S. adults who use the internet also use online money managers, according to recent Forrester research.

Germany is the U.S.'s biggest European trade partner but accounts for only about 4 % of U.S. exports, while exports to the U.K. constitute just 0.6 % of U.S. GDP.

While the S&P 500 has a price - to - earnings (PE) ratio of about 22 today, and Synchrony's peers claim a PE ratio of 16, Synchrony's investors currently pay only about $ 12 for $ 1 of earnings.

For 2016, only about 19 percent large - cap managers topped the S&P 500, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Indeed, according to the Small Business Administration, only about half of all establishments survive five years or more.

That's according to PitchBook in tandem with Smith & Crown, which tallied up the latest numbers: ICOs have raised almost $ 1.3 billion in 2017 so far, while only about $ 358 million in traditional VC money went to blockchain startups over the same period.

Pulling up a three - year - old message from my boss about an important past project that we want to revisit or refer to usually takes me only about 20 seconds with a search.

Today that's up to about 30 %, Kalanick said, although Didi Kuaidi disputes that assertion and, quoting an analyst report, says the real number is only about half that.

Today, only about one percent of small businesses export overseas.

But only about 10 percent of professionals work from home regularly.

For one thing, it's still in its infancy — there are only about 20 rural outsourcers throughout the United States, and many of those operations are rather limited in terms of service.

Only about 20 percent of Trunk Club customer interactions unfold on - site, however.

But the FBI notes that only about 2 percent of them are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents allowed to buy guns.

Some 100 million users are members of groups that are «very meaningful» to them, he wrote, representing only about 5 % of users.

By his estimate only about 25 % of those applications now run in the cloud.

Tania Gilchrist, a resident who signed up for the Google trial, feels lucky she lost her power for only about 10 hours on the day of the quake.

Nintendo has struggled in the gaming console market, following a disappointing run of its Wii U console, which sold only about 13.36 million units as of September 2016 since its launch in late 2012.

Sitting on his patio at his summer house in Boulder, he pulls out his iPad to forward me an article on a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found that only about one in 10 Americans eats the recommended minimum five servings a day of fruit and vegetables.

Instead, break it into small steps and think only about your next step.

He argued that the new government's perceived approach to Brexit is not only about leaving the EU, but also fundamentally changing the British economy, saying: «Basically its rewarding people who voted for Brexit, its about infrastructure, its about the productivity gap, its about the regional divide, rebalancing the economy — the stuff that was talked about in 2008, but nothing happened.

It was estimated that only about 5 % of these cables were being used.

The transistors on the processor inside your PC might be only about 100 atoms across, and improvements in manufacturing technology will keep them shrinking — at least, for the time being.

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