Sentences with phrase «per cent of our time»

Both work mostly, but I found they failed to do the job about 10 per cent of the time, which was frequent enough to be annoying.

I use an 80:20 rule where I eat as described above 80 per cent of the time and then drink and eat what I want 20 per cent of the time.

In other words, it's neat when it works, but that only happens about 70 or 80 per cent of the time.

I use a 80:20 rule where I eat as described above 80 per cent of the time and then drink and eat what I want 20 per cent of the time.

Sevigny, along with his McMaster communications counterpart Philip Savage and Andrew Laing of Cormex Research found in their analysis that despite the amount of fighting in the House of Commons, MPs receive applause to their comments or questions 75 per cent of the time.

Out of 120 votes in the provincial legislature since the NDP took office, the two parties voted together 90 per cent of the time, says the report by John Whittaker, a policy analyst with the Calgary - based research centre.

On legislative votes, the PCs and Wildrose voted together 90.2 per cent of the time, and on money votes — matters concerning the expenditure of public funds — they voted together 95.8 per cent of the time, the study found.

So have Volkswagen AG and Thomson Reuters Corp.; Mr. O'Sullivan is spending 20 per cent of his time working on these new giant customer leads.

In Canada, the provincial government of Ontario appointed a royal commission to study (among other things) «the increasing exhibition of violence in the communications industry; to determine if there is any... relationship between this phenomenon and the incidence of violent crime in society...» Two of the commission's research studies found that 24 per cent of the news items on television and in newspapers dealt directly with violence and 40 per cent were violence - related, while radio news was concerned with violence and conflict almost 60 per cent of the time!

When asked why they've adopted this model, Rev Dapo replies: «We believe the church is supposed to be dynamic and not just in one place, locked up 95 per cent of the time and only used on a Sunday morning.

For example, in the presence of lactose alone the bacterium Escherichia coli may produce betagalactosidase 99.99 per cent of the time.

Ella, who lives in London, was bed - ridden 95 per cent of the time and prescribed conventional medication and steroids for about six months but they didn't make much difference so she decided to make a change herself.

I felt that we had possession 70 per cent of the time and we lacked a bit of accuracy with our final ball, a change of pace or have enough men forward.

It's Wenger's issue — he's the one who has the player 90 per cent of the time.

However, following on from Petrov, Laursen, Barry and Mellberg, the captain's armband at Aston Villa means you are expected to be at 100 per cent, 100 per cent of the time.

For example, if a player had a shot at De Gea from inside the box from open play, the shot may have a xGoT total of 0.25 meaning that, based on historical data, such a shot would be scored 25 per cent of the time by an average player against an average goalkeeper.

On average, they hold or are within arms» reach of their infants 47 per cent of the time.

While babies who had been bounced out of sync with the researcher only picked up and handed back 30 per cent of the dropped objects, in - sync babies came to the researcher's aid 50 per cent of the time.

The conscious mind controls our brain for only five per cent of the day, whereas the subconscious mind has control of our thoughts 95 per cent of the time.

People unconsciously recognise that the baton is being handed to them when the speaker gazes over more than 80 per cent of the time at the listener, when the speaker trails off, or when the speaker says a turn - ender such as «you know» or «isn't it?»

After being a secondary force for half a century prior to 1886, the Tory Party was then in office, alone or in coalition, for over 70 per cent of the time in the next 80 years.

When I was in office, I spent 30 - 40 per cent of my time watching out for corrupt or corruptible indications or behaviour or lifestyles.

The post also went on to list 10 Trump administration's major successes, adding «while the media spent 90 per cent of the time focused on negative coverage or fake news, the President has been getting results».

In 2013 - 14, 90 per cent of time spent on vocational topics came as a result of backbench debate, up from a third in the three years to 2013.

They achieve this by assuming that tomorrow will be like today, which, 95 per cent of the time, it is.

But the 5 per cent of the time when tomorrow is unlike today is the only time we actually need economists to warn us.

Our impression that they keep getting it wrong is technically false: they get it right 95 per cent of the time.

The algorithm used these features to predict depression 70 per cent of the time — better than the 42 per cent average accuracy of human doctors.

People with these illnesses live with depressive or manic symptoms for about 50 per cent of the time, experience a decreased quality of life and have an expected life span of 10 - 15 years shorter than that of the general population.

After only 30 seconds of training, they chose the correct answer about 95 per cent of the time when they heard eight clips we played to them.

«We've found by studying these crystals in a specific volcano that, when new magma arrives at depth, up to 90 per cent of the time it can trigger an eruption, and within only two weeks.»

When fed brain scans produced by students looking at fresh paintings by the same artists, the program correctly identified the painter better than chance alone: it was correct 83 per cent of the time among the six students who were art majors and 62 per cent of the time among the others (NeuroReport, DOI: 10.1097 / WNR.0 b013e3283331322).

You can use quantum trickery to shine light on a light - triggered bomb — and stay safe a guaranteed 25 per cent of the time

Tested on historical data taken from the network of traps, the AI system was accurate in predicting an outbreak 88 per cent of the time (Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, doi.org/h6b).

Mind - wandering turns out to be extremely common — users reported daydreaming almost 50 per cent of the time.

Non-autistic children spent 60 per cent of their time searching the target - rich half, compared with 45 per cent for those with autism.

They found that they were able to play it with little practice, triggering incorrect vibrato only 9 per cent of the time.

With samples taken from 242 people, 24 of whom had a cancer diagnosis, the worms made the correct diagnosis 96 per cent of the time, a success rate that the researchers say is better than any blood test.

A team led by Rafi Haddad at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, found that an e-nose correctly classified bad odours 90 per cent of the time — even when encountering them for the first time.

Tests in 2010 showed that the best algorithms can pick someone out in a pool of 1.6 million mugshots 92 per cent of the time.

It means «supposing there is no effect, you will still get data showing one 5 per cent of the time».

By the end of training, the sheep correctly picked the celebrity over the stranger 79 per cent of the time.

«It's really great to have honest metrics for the performance of parts,» says Christopher Voigt at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who four years ago developed components that worked about 50 per cent of the time.

Black cabs worked out faster, taking on average 88 per cent of the time an Uber did — although they were also around 35 per cent more expensive.

But taking misoprostol on its own only induces abortions about 40 per cent of the time, so many babies are born after failed abortion attempts.

Now Sejeong Kwon and colleagues at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon have designed an AI system that, they claim, does this correctly around 90 per cent of the time.

Moons in other stellar systems may be hurled away from their planets up to 90 per cent of the time, leaving up to 100 former moons per star in the Milky Way

Baboons, meanwhile, live in groups of 50 or more and can spend as much as 20 per cent of their time grooming.

Hosia and Titelman found that the sea walnuts escaped 90 per cent of the time, though they generally suffered damage in the process and were more likely to succumb after repeated assaults.

The rats quickly learned to choose the correct tool for the job, selecting it 95 per cent of the time.