Sentences with phrase «picked out of thin air»

The + / - 5 % uncertainty range was a number you picked out of thin air.

Not exact matches

I would expect that 75 percent of their sales, just to pick a number out of thin air, could well be people who are Amazon Prime members.

And just in case you think I'm simply cherry - picking numbers out of thin air here, it's important to note the company actually generated operating free cash flow (i.e. operating cash flow, less net capex) of EUR 42 million in the past two years — that's an average 8.0 % Op FCF margin!

So for us mere mortals, we must rely on the old metrics of «3 - 6 months expenses» or simply picking a nice round number out of thin air, like I did.

Most bizarrely, sometimes when Dominic uses a pay phone he somehow picks up the receiver from out of thin air if he goes for the phone while turned away from it.

That is why the 42 million + deaths due to non-climate effects get ignored in favour of the claim that our profligate use of carbon causes 150,000 (or 300,000, take your pick, or simply pluck a number out of thin air) deaths in the developing world.

As it is, the data Tamino used is outdated, he picked lag periods out of thin air and ignored initial conditions that would impact his trend.

In other words a government that picks CO2 reduction targets out of the thin air whilst trying to expand aiports with the knowledge that 1.

If firms now seem to be picking up the pace of change, if they seem more willing to embrace risk and try things new, it's not because they have plucked creative zeal out of thin air.