Sentences with phrase «perhaps by a quarter»

You can also lower your rate, perhaps by a quarter percentage point, by opting for a 15 - year mortgage rather than the standard 30 - year variety.

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Perhaps most important, its customers are loyal: According to a recent survey by Business Insider's BI Intelligence, almost one - quarter of T - Mobile's customers say they would never switch to a competitor for any reason, vs. 16 % of AT&T's customers, 15 % at Verizon, and just 7 % at Sprint.

Perhaps most concerning, though, was Groupon's rapid slowdown in the international sector, which grew by just 3.1 % in the third quarter.

As the proceeds from these redemptions are reinvested by the ECB, they will offset some of the recently announced reduction in the central bank's purchases — perhaps by as much as a half overall — although with relatively few redemptions in the first quarter of 2018, the reinvestment is scheduled to take place mainly in the second and third quarters of the coming year.

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

Rationalism and scientism (belief in the epistemological supremacy of reason and especially of scientific method) produced the conjecture, in some quarters at least, that the symbolic / mythic / poetic / narrative modes of expression employed by all the religions are perhaps nothing more than our own subjective projections or constructs, and not representations of an independent sacral reality.

If you eat cereal for breakfast, and perhaps a slice of toast, chances are you have consumed a quarter of your daily sodium allowance by the time you leave the house.

Will he be hung, drawn and quartered by Pearson, or perhaps there will be a bit of Chinese water torture for the former West Ham defender.

Perhaps this will be a godsend: blithe spirits unfettered by previous failures, by the disappointing quarter - final exits of 2006 and 2010.

With the exception of Neymar, who was new in town and perhaps did not fully understand the situation (though the match official, knowing better, offered the Brazilian winger no quarter from the heavy Atletico challenges throughout the game), the rest of the Barcelona side appeared to play with the awareness that the rightful champions of Spain were the blue collar grafters from Madrid, simply by virtue of having already come so close considering the current climate of the Spanish game.

Until now, they reckoned that aerosols reduced greenhouse warming by perhaps a quarter, cutting increases by 0.2 °C.

The asteroid, named Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one - quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly - elongated - perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide.

If liquids and puréed foods are perhaps more tolerable for you, you may enjoy this pumpkin pie smoothie recipe provided by Dr. Greger from the arthritis topic page: «Simply blend a can of pumpkin purée, a handful of frozen cranberries and pitted dates, pumpkin pie spice to taste, a quarter - inch turmeric slice (or quarter - teaspoon of powder), and unsweetened soymilk to reach your preferred consistency».

Indeed, those who are still sentient a quarter - century later may well read an exposé of social - emotional learning by a journalist, perhaps containing another telling quote that one isn't supposed to utter in front of one's students.

For instance, perhaps the most notable «school redesign» competition got its start a quarter - century ago in 1991, when a bunch of CEOs responded to President George H.W. Bush's 1991 proposal for model schools by launching the New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC, later shortened to New American Schools, or NAS).

And perhaps the most important caveat of all, of course, was highlighted in an article by Kevin Courtney last week: a shocking figure within the PIRLS data showing that a quarter of our children arrive at school feeling hungry every or most days.

Followed perhaps by a scenic tour in a horse - drawn carriage, an afternoon at the museum quarter, a coffee break on the Ringstrasse, an evening at the opera.

And data from channel checks by IDC point to perhaps 700k shipments, not even sales, last quarter.

Perhaps the most significant influence on the stock market in January was a decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve to hike its federal funds rate on December 16 by a quarter of a percentage point to a range of.25 % to.50 %, the first hike in nearly a decade.

The Hanoi Street Food by Night tour, offered by Urban Adventures, is perhaps better described as a walking tour of Old Quarter with some food stops thrown in — not necessarily a bad... Read more about Urban Adventures.

For instance, Bond et al. report that black carbon aerosol, or soot, is second only to carbon dioxide as the substance emitted by human activity that has the greatest warming influence on the climate — contributing a quarter (or perhaps even a bit more) to the current overall anthropogenic warming effect.

Perhaps those poor scores are balanced somewhat by the fact that only about 11 - 14 % of Americans classify themselves as being «very well informed» about climate change, with about half saying they are «fairly well informed», and three - quarters wanting to know more.

This suggests that there are, at the very least, a quarter of a million distinct English words, excluding inflections, and words from technical and regional vocabulary not covered by the OED, or words not yet added to the published dictionary, of which perhaps 20 per cent are no longer in current use.

Perhaps most notably, the latter markets tend to be dominated by fourth - quarter...

I would love to spend a week in the store and perhaps they would feel sorry for me and invite me to take a peek at their living quarters I'm saddened that I don't live near by.