Sentences with phrase «significant chunks»

My guess is that lawyers lose track of significant chunks of time spent on e-mail.

For Alex Chadwick, Baker McKenzie's London managing partner, AI tools like Relativity «free up significant chunks of lawyer time» and «deliver value for clients.»

The precise target the parties set for an acceptable rise in the global temperature above levels before the Industrial Revolution could have implications for everything from how many hundreds of millions of people suffer from flooding and drought to how many plant and animal species lose significant chunks of their habitats.

If isolationist policies, including pulling out of the Paris Agreement and weakening the Western alliance, lead to a global trade war and thence to an economic depression, the shutdown of significant chunks of the economy could lead to a larger reduction in greenhouse gas emissions than any careful, deliberate decarbonization policy.

The map seems to indicate that it's not just Michigan, it's also all of southwestern Ontario and most of New York, nearly all of Vermont, significant chunks of Massachusetts and Maine — and I mustn't forget the Eastern three - fifths or so of Wisconsin.

Significant chunks of the gallery's walls have been gouged out by Swiss - born Urs Fischer, leaving jagged edges of plaster and metal that frame his elaborate installation, «Untitled» like mechanical teeth.

There may not be any difference in the way similar people view such games, but I do feel like certain games that I have invested significant chunks of my life to are statistically and personally more significant than others.

Professional traders know this fact and they use it to their advantage by taking significant chunks out of these moves each week.

Those are significant chunks of an investor's lifetime.

Public schools that enroll a large percentage of low - income students stand to lose significant chunks of their budget, as well as a number of specialized federal programs for their students.

Costly obligations to fund debt service and health insurance for retirees took significant chunks of City Schools» overall budget.

A lot of our kids have missed chunks of school, they might have been suspended for a couple of weeks in Year 7 and they missed some really vital information, or they left school at the end of Year 5 and didn't re-enrol for another six or 12 months and so they missed some significant chunks and those chunks are things that are standing between them and maybe quite a rapid acceleration.

Even if Hamas does not comprise the moderate Palestinians that Israel and its western backers prefer to deal with, it looks better than the Islamic State which occupies significant chunks of Syria and Iraq.

The other appeared in all but the final three or four minutes of her film (when an older actress took over the role for a «30 years later» - style coda), but admittedly spent significant chunks of that running time making room for her male costar's grizzled, drunken antics; her handlers pushed her for a Supporting Actress berth.

At the end of a year when its main competitors, Netflix and Hulu, took significant chunks out of TV's ivory towers, Betas and Alpha House come across as blunted attacks.

Although the film is short at 86 minutes, even that seems too long — there is fully half - an - hour of scene - setting during which the story makes no progress before the two main characters find themselves on the island, and once they arrive there significant chunks of the time is filled with their rolling in the sand or with musical numbers designed to let Madonna strut her stuff.

Giving Williams significant chunks of time solely to provide rapid riffs likely seemed wise at the time (and the solid box office returns would vouch for), but years later, it leaves the film as merely amusing not laugh - out - loud hilarious as its structure clearly expects.

Significant chunks of the movie simply repeat many of the beats from the last film (daddy issues, girlfriend angst, hidden subway lairs — you know the drill.)

Only when there is no obvious reason for an author to have copied significant chunks of text from already published work — particularly if that previous work is not cited and has no overlap in authorship — does the software affix a «flag» to the article, including links to the papers from which it has text overlap.

Their calculations show that the levels of carbon transported by rivers are equivalent to 0.02 percent of carbon in the atmosphere, but that over thousands of years, this could add up to significant chunks of carbon extracted from the atmosphere.

Set in Tokyo, the second installment in the saga of the X-Men mutant most often confused with a Ginsu knife collection reportedly includes significant chunks of dialogue in Japanese and an angry, often shirtless star.

The shooting community manage significant chunks of designated coastal wetland in addition to extensive tracts of inland marshes and water features which have no legal protection.

On several occasions, the Jaguars» defense afforded San Francisco significant chunks of yardage via personal fouls.

Chronic social media users sometimes describe how a network «sucks them in,» and before they realize it, significant chunks of time have passed and they're still scrolling away.

But what if any of those customers leave in a short time span, erasing a significant chunk of revenue?

As our colleagues at Marketing note, the ads are the Super Bowl for a significant chunk of the viewing population:

Some of that money will be passed down or go toward paying estate taxes, but a significant chunk will likely be given to charities.

«This is a growing problem for young workers in their 20s and 30s who make up a significant chunk of retail and service workers.

For example, while the Bank of Canada uses core inflation to set its monetary policy, that figure does not include the cost of fuel and food, which nonetheless represent a significant chunk of many household budgets.

The Air Force is said to have as many as 20 MOABs, so the deadly machine dropping toward Earth represented a significant chunk of the US stockpile.

While that figure pales in comparison to the nine hours people spend consuming digital media in total, 40 minutes is still a significant chunk of the workday.

Buffett now owns a significant chunk of GM stock.

Drillers and other energy companies make up a significant chunk of that index.

«Needls makes up a significant chunk of our sales,» he says.

While a significant chunk of Western Europe likes to watch curling, the UK favors snowboarding.

But given Trump's unwillingness to stake out clear positions on taxes and spending, and his enthusiasm for threatening trade wars with China and Mexico, supporting Trump could risk elevating the populist, protectionist wing of the Republican party over the significant chunk of Republicans who believe in cutting spending and promoting free trade.

Disney would make a logical candidate, since it already owns a significant chunk of the shares, and is also looking for growth candidates that can compensate for the inevitable decline of more mainstream assets like ESPN.

«A significant chunk of people complained about this issue, and we felt that clearly what we had done earlier was not sufficient.»

Keyword research takes up a significant chunk of time, and this is the case for many marketers, website owners and content creators.

I'll explore SEO a bit more in the next section, but I wanted to mention it in the context of your content marketing strategy, since it's responsible for a significant chunk of content marketing's value.

The last thing you need after giving a significant chunk of your life to a startup is to discover that you neglected your personal finances along the way.

The global energy market is so big that even one per cent is a significant chunk, he said.

Bearing in mind the entire market cap of Bitcoin currently stands (at the time of writing) at $ 114,314,049,252, that's quite a significant chunk of money.

The average homeowner in the state pays annual property taxes that are equal to 0.77 % of their home's market value, so annual property taxes shouldn't take a significant chunk out of your bank account.

Your FHA down payment and closing costs can come to a significant chunk of change — or nothing at all.

Based on my experience in the manufacturing industry, I would bet the people who don't think they needed financing are the same ones that went out and spent a significant chunk of their working capital on a new machine, figuring they would save themselves the interest, and then the following year they were part of the 49 per cent of respondents who said they needed to borrow money for working capital.

(1) Puerto Rico owes around $ 70 billion total outstanding debt to its creditors, of which a significant chunk is public corporation debt.

And these earning goals represent a significant chunk of change, especially for those hustlers who reach their target within their first year of freelancing — that group is twice as likely to earn $ 75K or more.

Perhaps most crucially, record labels, which own a significant chunk of the equity in Spotify, want the company to do away with its free, advertising - supported service.

Casimir cut 18 jobs, or about half the workforce, including a «significant chunk» of its mining group, said acting CEO Adam Thomas.