Sentences with phrase «represents more than a quarter of»

Representing more than a quarter of the electorate and voting with the winner of the popular vote in every presidential election since at least 1972, Roman Catholics are quintessential swing voters.

Twenty years from now, it will have about twice as many - and they'll represent more than a quarter of all people on earth, according to a new study released Thursday.

Where this money is to come from is unclear, but the sum represents more than a quarter of the total budget of the department of education.

• Waffling Woofers — Representing more than a quarter of all shoppers (27 percent), these are channel - neutral customers with moderate incomes.

Taken together, oil and gas production by OGCI member companies represents more than a quarter of the world's oil and gas production.

REOs and short sales now represent more than a quarter of the local housing market — this is much more than a temporary niche, according to James Harrison, RCE, CAE, president and CEO of MLSListings, Inc..

Not exact matches

The Freelancers Union, which represents 165,000 people nationwide, found that more than three - quarters of its members reported having been cheated by a client, with an average loss of $ 6,000.

Generated new leasing spreads of 15.6 %, representing the sixteenth consecutive quarter that the rental rate for new leases increased by more than 10 % over the prior rent for the comparable space.

Marketing costs represent more than one - quarter of HelloFresh expenses, financial filings show.

Millennials represent a quarter of the U.S. population, more than $ 200 billion in annual buying power and $ 500 billion in indirect spending (which considers their impact on other generations).

The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, bringing together more than 90 cities representing over 650 million people and a quarter of the global economy, has several initiatives underway.

In the meantime, it has contracts on more than 100 exploration properties, a quarter of which are in advanced stages, that represent significant untapped upside for Sandstorm Gold.

I can only say a couple of my 23 direct reports (representing a quarter of the PMO) made more than $ 100,000, despite all of them working insane hours in important jobs.

The disparity is also reflected in the nation's prison population: According to the International Business Times, black Americans are more than five more times likely to be imprisoned than whites, and in 11 states, blacks represent more than half of the prison population, in spite of the fact that more than three - quarters of the nation is made up of white Americans.

In 2014, a group of Protestant and Catholic church leaders representing more than three - quarters of the Central African population released a second Bangui Declaration condemning the violence and inaccurate media reports.

Fifteen vintners and growers are profiled in Down to Earth, and they are a sampling of the thousands who have participated in education, self - assessment and certification programs by the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance and other state sustainability organizations which represent more than three - quarters of California's wine production and winegrape acreage.

The travel retail channel in the Americas and the Caribbean represents nearly a quarter of total duty free spirit volumes worldwide, with more than five million cases of spirits per year.

Cicis positive momentum included the signing of 18 franchise agreements in the fourth quarter of 2015, representing 44 new restaurant commitments that will lead to the creation of more than 1,100 new jobs nationwide.

Much like Arsenal's fifth round win over Liverpool, the FA Cup quarter final victory over Everton represented much more than a place in the next round of the cup.

It represents approximately one quarter of the state's budget and an increase of more than $ 2 billion by 2017.

McMahon, whose Staten Island district represents the only New York City - area district within reach for Republicans, is among the most well - funded freshman members — he's raised $ 1.5 million to date and had more than $ 1 million in cash on hand through the end of the first quarter.

But Brindisi outraised Tenney in 2017's third and fourth quarters — making Tenney the subject of more GOP grumbling than other New York Republicans who represent more Democratic - leaning districts, including Reps. John Faso, John Katko and Elise Stefanik.

said he raised more than $ 550,000 in the first quarter of this year in his bid to return to Congress representing the new Orlando - area 9th district.

Political action committees, or PACs, representing business, industry and institutions donated a little more than $ 1 million of the $ 1.9 million Katko had raised by the close of the last quarter on June 30.

This year's CROS drew more than 8000 responses from postdocs in 68 U.K. higher education institutions, representing a response rate of around a quarter.

Mobile represented more than 92 % of MeetMe's total revenue in the second quarter.

The stakes are high in virtually every sequence of 99 Homes because we're dealing with people being displaced from their homes: for each of the people we meet, these represent more than mere living quarters.

Rather than the typical «he said, she said» controversy, Hattie has amassed the preponderance of the evidence representing the work of thousands of scholars and more than a quarter - billion children.

More than 1.4 million Pilots have been built and sold in North America since the first generation model launched... which represents nearly a quarter of our light truck sales over that period.

Assembled by Howey with the help of an unnamed «Data Guy» from publicly - available positions of 120,000 titles on Amazon bestseller lists correlated with estimates of sales rates, the report suggests that self - published authors represent a quarter of the titles published electronically, earning 39 % of ebook revenues on the Kindle store, or «more... than Big five authors, combined».

According to Barnes & Noble's press release, the former self - publishing platform attracted 20 % more indie authors every quarter, increased titles released by indie authors 24 % in the store, and appealed to more than 30 % of Nook customers who buy self - published content every month that represented 25 % of Nook Book sales.

Independent eateries represent more than 53 % of the market, while major brands like Pizza Hut and Domino's account for a quarter of all sales.

Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) represent the largest single repository of U.S. retirement plan assets, holding more than one - quarter of all retirement plan assets in the nation.

That's more than a quarter of a point less than the average cost of a conventional mortgage and represents a particularly good deal for borrowers with dinged credit who normally would have to pay more than average rates without government help.

Among these requirements are the following: (i) at least 90 % of the fund's gross income each taxable year must be derived from dividends, interest, payments with respect to securities loans, and gains from the sale or other disposition of stock, securities or foreign currencies, or other income derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock or securities or currencies and net income derived from an interest in a qualified publicly traded partnership; (ii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, at least 50 % of the value of its total assets must be represented by cash and cash items, U.S. Government securities, securities of other RICs and other securities, with such other securities limited, in respect of any one issuer, to an amount that does not exceed 5 % of the value of a Fund's assets and that does not represent more than 10 % of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer; and (iii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, not more than 25 % of the value of its assets may be invested in securities (other than U.S. Government securities or the securities of other RICs) of any one issuer or of two or more issuers and which are engaged in the same, similar, or related trades or businesses if the fund owns at least 20 % of the voting power of such issuers, or the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnerships.

Vietnam's answer to Bali, Hawaii or Phuket, Phu Quoc Island attracted over 550,000 visitors in the first quarter of 2017, which represents a remarkable increase of more than 80 percent compared to the same period last year.

Comprised of nearly one - quarter of the country's state legislators and stakeholders from across the policy spectrum, ALEC members represent more than 60 million Americans and provide jobs to more than 30 million people in the United States.»

Findings from the survey indicated that over three - quarters of all respondents thought that there are more self - represented litigants now than there were three years ago, with lawyers and judges from Alberta being even more likely to report this than legal professionals from the rest of Canada.

However, the 20 petitions filed in Q3 represents more than a 50 % drop from Q2 (as well as from the long - running trend of roughly 40 CBMs filed per quarter).

According to studies by the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family, in 2016, a party was self - represented in a fifth of the cases of family law lawyers and in more than two - fifths of judges» cases, and more than three - quarters of lawyers and judges attending the 2014 National Family Law Program believed that the number of self - represented litigants had increased over the previous three years.

He has been a member of the IBA Management Board since 2003 and a member of the IBA for more than a quarter of a century, initially representing the Czech Bar Association on the IBA Council.

Each represents more than 20 percent of those employed and showed positive momentum in job gains in the first quarter of 2012.

The state of Texas has the third largest active duty military population in the United States (nearly 117,000 personnel), representing over 10 percent of active duty forces in the U.S. 1 Additionally, nearly 1.7 million veterans, and 53,000 Selected Reserve members live in Texas.2, 3 To serve the state's military children and families, the Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) Division of the Texas Department of Family Protective Services launched the Military Families and Veterans Prevention Program (MVP) 4 to provide a range of support services to the three largest military communities in Texas, home to more than three - quarters of Texas» active duty members.5

This represented more than 70 percent of Zillow's total revenues during the quarter.

Technology companies have led office leasing for the past four quarters, comprising more than 20 percent of U.S. leasing activity, and more than three - quarters of these transactions represent expansions, according to Julia Georgules, director of office research with commercial real estate services firm JLL.

The institutional buyer represented 22 percent of third quarter transactions, considerably more than its historic 12 percent share.

«The quarter's inventory growth of more than 3,600 units represents the highest number of seniors housing units coming online during any quarter of the past six years — dating back to mid-2009, which was near the end of the sector's last construction cycle,» says Chuck Harry, NIC's managing director and director of research and analytics.

More than three - quarters (77 percent) of respondents, who represent the estimated 103 million Americans that make up this population, say they have become increasingly knowledgeable about homeownership due to a news cycle that has magnified the real estate industry throughout the past six years.