Sentences with phrase «or a quarter less»

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Continental posted net income of $ 233.9 million, or 63 cents per share, compared with $ 469,000, or less than a penny per share, in the year - ago quarter, when oil prices plummeted - and the company's production costs were higher.

More than half said they will try a new website; less than half said they'd visit a discount or value store; and more than a quarter said they'd visit a pop - up shop or seasonal fair.

Koonin also says that despite the close quarters, being on a plane is no more or less dangerous than punching in at the office.

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.

Beauty products giant Estee Lauder (EL) is expected to post second - quarter sales and profit that more or less line up with Wall Street's expectations this morning.

Boosting drive - thru speeds could help McDonald's Chief Executive Officer Don Thompson increase U.S. same - store sales, which have gained 1 percent or less for the past four quarters.

The Bank's weekly commodity price index has been holding more or less steady so far this quarter.

Reported by the school the student attended, indicates whether the student is (or was) full - time, three - quarter time, half - time, less than half - time, withdrawn, graduated, etc..

The study also found that though less than half of businesses found success in their first daily deal offer, more than three - quarters of businesses reported profitable promotions by the time they had run seven or more deals.

In fact, over a quarter of all exchange - based trades in corporate stocks are executed against orders that have rested for only half a second or less.

In first quarter of 2018, 61 percent of the direct contributions to his campaign committee came from donations of $ 200 or less.

A few quarters of recession isn't likely to make teenagers spend less in the long - run on fashion - forward denim jeans or polo shirts.

Since the beginning of the second quarter of this year, spot gold has been trading in a tight $ 100 range, with the price of the precious metal more or less confined in the $ 1,200 - 1,300 per troy ounce band — and investor demand for the yellow metal has been continuing to wane as the global stock - market rally continues unabated.

More specifically, the brewer must produce no more than 6 million barrels of beer annually, less than one - quarter of the business can be owned or controlled by a company that's not a craft brewer, and the products must be made with traditional ingredients such as malted barley.

Roughly 20 percent of the deals inked in Manhattan during the third quarter were short - term deals of three years or less.

Not a single quarter this year is expected to produce earnings growth of less than 17 or 18 percent.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, pulling together assessments from the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Tax Policy Center, the Treasury's Office of Tax Analysis, and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, found that workers would only receive a quarter or less of the benefits from tax cuts — and among those workers, it's likely the higher earners that would benefit.

Majorities in each metro said that there would be little difference in the local political flavor, with between a quarter and a third believing the region would become more liberal and 10 percent or less believing it would become more conservative.

One - quarter of American workers make less than $ 10 per hour, or are living in poverty.

Gold production has been more or less the same from a year before overall, but Weighted - average all - in sustaining costs, or AISC, were down about 7 % in the June quarter to US$ 845 / oz.

Figures for the second quarter of 2017 showed that the economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.6 %, more or less in line with consensus expectations.

AutoNation said Hurricane Irma negatively impacted third - quarter earnings by about $ 8 million, or 8 cents a share, which also was less than expected.

By the same token, if the central bank reduces the interest rate to zero, investors will shift portfolios to stocks, everyone will feel richer, and consumers will spend more «which is more or less what happened during the past two quarters of putative recovery in the United States.

Three - quarters of those who attend church weekly or more (and also of those who attend less often) would vote for Trump.

We have been busy at that task with nuclear energy for a quarter of a century, and there is no reason to believe that the regulation of molecular manipulation will be any easier, or any less necessary.

What happens in a crisis, or in any less dramatic problem situation involving unexpected, puzzling or discordant experiences, is this sudden shift of control of an ongoing activity to a higher level in the many - leveled hierarchy, from a semi-automatic to a more conscious performance, because the decision to be made or the problem to be solved is beyond the competence of the automatic pilot and must be referred to higher quarters.

No excuses, in a little less than half of a quarter - hour (or 560 seconds), you can mark «exercise» off your «to do» list — and still have time to pat yourself on the back for being so efficient and smart!

A quarter or less of launches have had stevia used with artificial sweeteners and in those cases they have indeed been used to create diet or no calorie products.

A typical adult consuming 2000 calories per day would need about 1.3 — 2.7 grams ALA per day; equalling about one - quarter of a teaspoon of flax seed oil, less than a tablespoon of walnuts or 1.3 tablespoons of soybean oil.

1 yellow pepper (or a pepper of your choice) 2 shallots diced 15 cherry tomatoes, quartered 2 garlic cloves minced 1/4 red chilli diced 1 tsp Olive oil — I actually used an olive oil spray bottle so it was less than that.

One large head of organic cauliflower, washed and cut into bite - sized florets One pound or more of small red potatoes, skin on — washed and quartered Spray coconut or olive oil Salt Olive oil 1 inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and then grated 1 tablespoon of ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon of ground turmeric powder 1/4 teaspoon or less of ground cayenne 1/4 teaspoon of salt 1/4 cup of water Handful of fresh cilantro leaves — washed and stems removed

4 red bell peppers, seeds removed, quartered 4 green bell peppers, seeds removed, quartered 2 green New Mexico chiles, seeds removed, quartered 6 large ripe tomatoes, quartered 2 large onions, quartered 3 whole bay leaves 1/2 cup chopped Italian parsley 2 whole cloves 3 large cloves garlic 1 1/2 tablespoons salt (or less to taste) 6 quarts boiling water

Fruit compressed, more or less ribbed, about two inches and three - quarters in diameter, and two inches in depth; skin smooth and glossy, when ripe, of a brilliant coral - red; flesh thick, mild and pleasant to the taste, though possessing more piquancy than the Large Bell or Sweet Spanish.

That's also how you get Ginn dropping a pass at the 15 - yard line on a deep dig route that ends up being intercepted by T.J. Ward (or as Phil Simms says, the 13 - yard pass was too haaard... SMDH) while his team is trailing 16 - 7 with less than six minutes left in the third quarter.

Losing in the quarters or semi is a lot less painful than the final.

The study found the presence of other medical personnel, such as team doctors, or EMTs, less common, with one quarter reporting a physician attending at least half the games and one - quarter reporting the same attendance for an emergency medical technician.

According to a new CNN poll, nearly three - quarters of Americans (73 percent) say they can't trust all or most of what they hear in official communications from the White House, while less than a quarter (24 percent) say they can.

And both major parties benefit hugely, or the Tories wouldn't have nearly half the seats off of one third of the votes when the LDs have nearly a quarter of the votes and less than a tenth of the seats.

Under the state's Citizens» Election Program, gubernatorial candidates need to raise a quarter of a million dollars in donations of $ 100 or less with 90 percent of the money coming from Connecticut residents to receive millions in taxpayer - financed election grants.

There are major savings that can be made, in legal aid, in central staffing and in the bureaucratic NOMS empire, but a quarter of the department's budget is spent on prisons, and this scale of savings can only be realised if prison numbers are less than expected in 2015, so jails can actually be closed, or not built in the first place.

Less than a quarter of the Labour MPs that signed up to an early day motion expressing concern at the government's plans to reduce funding for equivalent or lower qualification (ELQ) degrees voted against the government in a Conservative - led motion last night.

Jeff Johnston, his campaign spokesman, said the campaign focused on grass - roots donors as nearly 500 people gave $ 200 or less in the last quarter.

Three - quarters of the recipients make 30 percent or less of AMI while 79 percent are senior citizens or disabled.

Officers of lesser rank who shared quarters with Massa recalled waking up at night with his hands all over them — or with his junk in their face.)

«I think it would be easier for working families to take less out of the pay check and have the companies pay a little bit more, even if it's a quarter or a half, it would be more fair,» a union official says.

Working in tandem, light and oxygen control the solidification of the resin, creating commercially viable objects that can have feature sizes below 20 microns, or less than one - quarter of the width of a piece of paper.

It takes less than a quarter of a second for the body to register a physiological response to a threat, and somewhat longer — a second or two, according to Ulrich — to register a positive stimulus.

In a female whale, or a young male, the spermaceti accounts for less than a quarter of the animal's total length.

Fine particulates (less than 2.5 micrometers wide, or about a quarter of the width of the smallest grain of pollen) are of greatest concern because they can penetrate deeply into the lungs to reach the body's innermost nooks and crannies.

Genotyping of a population of 329 patients with early RA revealed just over one - quarter had the allele * 2 HS1, 2 A enhancer, and one in 10 the allele * 1 HS1, 2 A enhancer, which is comparable with previously published data.7 Patients with the allele * 2 genotype had more active disease at the start of treatment and were significantly less likely to achieve a good response and / or remission after three months treatment than those patients with the allele * 1 genotype.