Sentences with phrase «slightly less than»

I bought it when it was slightly less than three years old and paid half the original # 53,000 list price.

Composite body panels are used, and the entire car weighs slightly less than 2,000 pounds — about 300 pounds less than a Toyota Yaris hatchback

The Tamora costs slightly less than Porsche «s Boxster S in Britain.

In the same vein, almost everybody has a greater than average number of legs: most people have two legs but the average is slightly less than two because some people have one leg or none.

«The odds that the wrong - to - right erasure patterns that showed up on Roosevelt [Middle School]'s 7th grade reading response sheets occurred purely by chance were slightly less than 1 in 100 trillion,» the blog reported.

The federal government represents a very small amount of funding for K - 12 schools — slightly less than 10 percent.

As for college, the new analysis indicates «that slightly less than four out of 10 kids are prepared for college, and that's not a good thing,» he said.

About one - third live in rural areas, while slightly more than one - third live in the suburbs and slightly less than one - third live in cities.

By Juneau's calculations, the state could have lost slightly less than $ 500,000 in federal funding.

For example, if a lessons are slightly less than ideal, the scale of improvement needs to be conveyed in a way that is different from when lessons are actually quite poor.

The largest category was teachers with 11 - 20 years of experience; slightly less than one - third of all public school teachers fell into that group.

At slightly less than a majority of the total population, digital device saturation is nonetheless significant.

In exchange for a parent's agreement not to enroll their special needs student in a public or charter school, the state agrees to make quarterly deposits into an educational savings account in an amount slightly less than the public school would have received to educate the child.14 Parents are required to «provide an education for the qualified student in at least the subjects of reading, grammar, mathematics, social studies and science.»

Slightly less than half of enrolled students were white; 30 percent identified as Hispanic or Latino; 7 percent as Asian; 6 percent as African American; and 7 percent as a mix of two or more races.

In math, roughly 28 percent of the district's 11th graders met or exceeded the standards — slightly less than 29 percent statewide and well below the 35 percent countywide.

Let's be absolutely clear: a donation of a million dollars will be subsidized by tax payers to the tune of $ 750,000 for scholarships that might go to people earning $ 300,000 annually while genuinely needy families will get a $ 500 coupon for tuition (which is about 1/24 the average cost of tuition at a Catholic school in the United States) and teachers will get slightly less than the cost of 10 packs of multi-colored Sharpies.

According to the Board report for this Wednesday's meeting, Superintendent Johnson - Trammell will be paid slightly less than the average: $ 280,000 in base pay with a little over $ 20,000 in fringe benefits.

The costs to provide our education program, however, is only slightly less than that of our host district.

Students from families with household incomes up to 300 percent of the federal poverty line (slightly less than $ 70,000 for a family of four) are eligible, making these programs more examples of inclusive school - choice programs created last year.

There may be days when you work more than one hour per day, and days when you work slightly less than one hour.

For example, in all three states, the programs are means - tested, and in all three cases the scholarship amounts are slightly less than half of the per - pupil revenue received by traditional public schools in these states.

The official MPS rate for this time period is between 18 and 19 percent, just slightly less than the 20.4 percent reported by our MPS parents.

In retrospect, I believe I didn't know how exactly to enforce the rules, and the thought of having to enforce them frightened me only slightly less than the thought of not enforcing them at all.

After narrowing from 2007 to last year, the gap in secondary math proficiency widened by slightly less than 2 percentage points.

Statewide, slightly less than 4,000 of about 306,000 students in grades three through eight chose not to take the test.

And slightly less than half have formal on - the - job training or mentoring programs for new principals.

When the public was asked whether government funding for public schools in their district should increase, decrease, or stay the same, 59 percent selected the first option, only slightly less than the 63 percent that gave that opinion in 2010, and dramatically more than in 2009 (46 percent).

While the composite of other occupations gained 1.5 years of schooling, teachers gained slightly less than 1 year.

In particular, Best criticizes our choice to report that slightly less than a third of students were involved in bullying.

In fact, university instructor and student satisfaction with their eLearning platform is roughly equivalent to Americans» satisfaction with their spouses (slightly more than 60 percent for the former; slightly less than 60 percent for the latter (Barnes, 2015; Dahlstrom, Brooks & Bichsel, 2014)-RRB-.

Slightly less than 1,000 of those conversions are part of a MAT (although it is fair to say some only have one school in them).

Skill development is cited as «extremely important» by slightly less than half of applicants.

Slightly less than half of its 75,000 employees are classroom teachers, meaning that Los Angeles spends just 35 percent of its budget on teacher pay.

Enrollment has fallen from 35,000 about a decade ago to slightly less than 18,000 today.

I rated it slightly less than this one.

That's where Churchill squeaks by as a compromise candidate, one who's hated only slightly less than his Hitler - appeasing predecessor Neville Chamberlain (Ronald Pickup).

occupies roughly an hour in the middle of its slightly less than two - hour length.

With its launch scheduled for slightly less than a year away, we still don't know much about Red Dead Redemption 2.

This was a truly stellar film, did have a few minor things in it that were slightly less than perfect but my god.

Evans» latest go in front of the cameras is Gifted, a film that grossed in its entirety slightly less than what Captain America: Civil War made in its first five hours of Thursday night showings.

I had to reverse and listen again to the bit slightly less than halfway through where the actors in the room compare notes and conclude that the producers still owe them money.

Regarding the Nintendo Classic Mini: Super Famicom, Media Create report that it sold about 340 000 units during its opening week (slightly less than what Famitsu reported, earlier this week).

Between the non-stop action and the lack of a strong male lead, your chance of hooking up after taking someone to this movie is slightly less than the chance that «Ultraviolet» will win the Best Picture Oscar in 2007.

Both villager types weigh slightly less than Mario and Luigi, but the male villager weighs more and has higher speed than the female villager, while the female villager has better acceleration, handling, traction, and off - road stats.

This week, 9 Nintendo 3DS Themes were released in Japan, which is slightly less than last week (which had 12 of them).

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be available free from Feb. 16 - 28, which is slightly less than half the month because February is weirdly short.

While slightly less than half of online adult dating when the web.

The upgrade price for a full month is slightly less than average for a paid dating site, and a lot less than a night at the pub where the chance of actually taking home a hot cougar for some sexy time is pretty much null (unless you happen to actually live in Cougar Town).

Slightly less than half of Americans say they have dated someone from a different racial or ethnic background, with Hispanics more likely than whites or blacks to say this.

The population of the Charlottetown census agglomeration in the 2006 census was 58,625, slightly less than half of the provinces population.