Sentences with phrase «rather than a total»

Such refranchising reduces corporate revenue because the company records only the fees the franchisee pays rather than the total restaurant sales.

Dholakia also suggests providing discounts on specific products or services rather than the total bill, and using promotions to clear out extra inventory or underperforming items.

Because this customer had maximum demands of 260 kilovolt amperes (KVA) for firing up equipment, there is a demand charge based on 90 % of KVA rather than the total kilowatts actually consumed (KW).

Mutual funds are generally more tax inefficient than ETFs and, as a result, are typically more negatively impacted than ETFs when comparing performance based on post-tax returns rather than total returns.

XLE pulls its stocks from the S&P 500 rather than the total market, so its portfolio is somewhat smaller than that of peer funds, and it favors large - caps.

Science gets better, and what we thought now is not likely to be shown entirely wrong tomorrow... it might be shown wrong, but in a minor way, needing a more intricate correction rather than a total earth shattering removal of what we believe.

This one was a little trickier to figure out because they used to play two All - Star Games per year back when people actually cared about them, so we'll average out the number of All - Star seasons rather than total All - Star Games.

Frankly, rather than the total dud Xhaka, I would even play my granny as holding midfielder.

TechPresident reports that the Obama campaign tested their new «Dashboard» system to let volunteers from around the country make calls into Wisconsin, the AFL - CIO has trialed software that matches voter lists with volunteers» Facebook friends to let them call targets that they actually know rather than total strangers, and the Walker campaign combined VoIP with digital voter files to automate the connection between identification calls and data entry.

And measured by the amount of carbon in their bodies — rather than total weight — jellies consume and incorporate as much prey as fishes do, Acuña's team found.

And rather than the total number of variations, she says, autism seems to be, in part, a result of «where the copy number variation hit.»

«To put the risks in perspective, if 100 patients had a partial knee rather than a total knee replacement there would be one fewer death and three more re-operations in the first four years after surgery.»

The type and dose of medication will depend on your individual blood fat levels (rather than total cholesterol) and whether you have heart disease, diabetes, or other risk factors for heart disease.

That's because your protein needs are more related to how much lean tissue you're carrying, rather than your total body mass.

The specific types of fat rather than the total amount.

For example, looking at spending per capita within each category rather than total spending reveals that a $ 1 increase in per - capita public welfare spending is associated with as much as a $ 2.44 decrease in per - student higher - education funding.

HB 665, authored by Rep. George Moraitis, R - Fort Lauderdale, would calculate a school's penalty based on the average class size at each site rather than the total number of classrooms that surpass the cap.

Approximately one third of this is spent on teachers» take - home pay through base salaries, stipends, and incentives (i.e. what teachers see in their pre-tax paycheck rather than total compensation, which includes benefits and pension contributions).

Our study looks only at operating budgets, rather than total revenue, to give a more accurate picture of the impact on funding that a district controls from year to year.

Rather than a total reimagining, BMW has given its mid-sized executive coupé a subtle facelift to ensure it still stands out alongside the new Audi A5 and current Mercedes C - Class at this year's Geneva International Motor Show, which opens its doors on March 9.

The first reason that I wasn't surprised is that we're talking about online sales rather than total sales.

«Look at per diems rather than total costs,» says Spencer Brown.

For instance, if the policy in the example above had a cap rate of 10 %, your return would be capped at that level rather than the total gains of the index your policy follows.

To control for population, we looked at participation as a percentage rather than a total number.

Mutual funds are generally more tax inefficient than ETFs and, as a result, are typically more negatively impacted than ETFs when comparing performance based on post-tax returns rather than total returns.

Plus most investors tend to compare investment performance vs. price indices, rather than total return indices — another good reason for this approach.]

Because interest is accrued, a company will still report interest expense each quarter even if it only pays interest once a year (ie, it will report 1/4 of the expense each quarter, rather than the total all at once).

Investors also tend to compare investment performance with price indices, rather than total return indices — another reason for this approach.]

As for dividends: I prefer to compare my performance to price (rather than total return) indices, since that's what most investors focus on primarily, so it's only fair I exclude dividends too.

Yield refers to income (e.g. dividends) rather than total return.

Persistent seizures and blindness are also more likely to occur when partial rather than total ligation is performed.

To make constructive use of these tests we need to make the production of disease - free puppies the goal rather than the total eradication of the causative mutations.

So measuring that, rather than the total, gives your veterinarian that information.

These different branches each had a stronger faith in certain gods and their aspects, rather than the total, or «One God / Many Aspects» concept, as it was meant to be.

These charts are sorted by number of downloads from PlayStation Store, rather than total revenue, and free - to - play games are not included (though we're looking to add a separate chart for those in future installments of this post).

Glory is awarded based on momentum against an enemy rather than total annihilation.

However, many processes that remove water from the atmosphere (i.e. cloud formation and rainfall) have a clear functional dependence on the relative humidity rather than the total amount of water (i.e. clouds form when air parcels are saturated at their local temperature, not when humidity reaches X g / m3).

This may be me advertising my ignorance but if the OHC is of interest as against the SST why do we use a parameter of «global temperature» which is an amalgam of SST and air temperature over land rather than a total heat content or a temperature normalised say for mass or thermal density (normalise to the properties of water say)?

Beyond the scope of your paper, why is the emphasis in climatology on average temps rather than total heat (why isn't humidity factored in?).

Average temp rather than total accumulation?

(3) If we consider a pessimal scenario and an optimal scenario w.r.t. anthropogenic CO2 emission (measured in CO2 / year), isn't the main difference between these scenarios the amount of time it will take to release all carbon bound in fossil fuels, rather than the total amount of carbon released (e.g., we'll burn through all oil and gas in 200 years vs 100 years)?

But the tar sands are unlikely to make a large impact on overall supply of liquid fuels because their supply is likely to be rate, rather than total resource limited.

Thus in terms of impacts the problem is surface warming — which is described much better by actually measuring surface temperatures rather than total ocean heat content.

In order to maximize the relevance of this feature for our readers, we will start measuring the total amount of time spent on the pages rather than total number of hits, as this gauges impact and legal interest better.

Google is clearly going for the fun - factor rather than total realism.

You'll not that the figures are active user numbers rather than total registrations as was previously the case:

Not exact matches

Rather than charging 2 % of the fund's total capital commitment, Sequoia has told investors the management fee will be 1 % based only on the smaller stages of «called capital» drawn from the investors, one of the people said.

Moving towards a digital workplace will either reduce the total number of systems or find ways in which they can become connected, streamlined and more user focussed rather than process driven.

But somehow I've let slip that I'd rather have my teeth drilled than pitch total strangers over the phone.

If you happen to think the Eagles can upset the Patriots, or simply believe it's way too close of a game to bet on an outright winner, you might consider gambling on the total score rather than the victory outcome.