Sentences with phrase «spending about a quarter»

«We spend about a quarter of our lives at work,» says «Originals» author Adam Grant.»

I spent about a quarter of the hours in a day on these activities.

«In the US, we spend about a quarter of our total energy on lighting, heating and cooling our buildings,» says Delia Milliron, a chemist at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry who led this research.

Actually, I could have spent about a quarter of that but the less expensive tiles were so much thinner that I would have had a much harder time leveling the floor, so the extra money for less hassle was worth it to me.

Not exact matches

More than one third of business owners said they expect to decrease capital spending in the year ahead, an increase of about 10 percentage points from the previous quarter.

Three quarters of millionaires plan to spend the same as last year, with about 15 percent spending more.

You spend hundred of thousands on a car that can legally achieve about a quarter of its performance potential.

Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jobs.

Foreigners spent more than $ 5.4 billion on travel in the first quarter, compared with about $ 5 billion over the same period a year earlier and $ 4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2014.

Federal coffers are set to dole out $ 186.7 billion in infrastructure money over the next 12 years, but the most recent federal budget indicated about one - quarter of planned spending between 2016 and 2019 was being moved to future years.

About half of that restaurant amount — a quarter of a trillion dollars — is spent on fast food.

Wall Street analysts spent the quarter flailing their arms tube man - style about rumors of poor iPhone X sales figures.

Real consumer spending increased at a 2.25 percent annual rate over the second half of 2009 and looks to be growing at about that rate in the first quarter of 2010.

Over the last four quarters, that's come down to about 62 per cent, close to the historical average, on the back of business spending on investment and inventories that's already much stronger than usual and will probably slow.

So while most mortgage money was used to bid up the price of home ownership, about a quarter of new lending was reported to be spent on consumption goods.

Homeownership tends to encourage spending on durable goods and hence its depressed levels could explain why real U.S. consumption growth over 2011 - 2017 has been much weaker (by about half a percentage point annualized every quarter) than the pre-recession average.

10 years later, no more EPL championships, no more quarter finals in the CL, 10 yeras of coming 4th place, while First Chelsea and then City left us in their wake, now Liverpool is tryong to wake up, Manu is about to spend 200M in this window, trying to rebuild quickly, and our manager is waiting for the last day of the transfer window, he calls it like playing chess.

It is just about forward thinking, had they spent on Cavani & Schneiderlin we would have gone atleast till the Quarter final of CL.

Most dads say they spend too little time with their children; about a quarter live apart from them

As adults, we spend about one quarter of our sleep time in REM sleep — the time when our eyes jerk and bodies twitch.

Although the Lib Dems were braver than their new Conservative allies in specifying cuts in their manifesto they did not get anywhere near the quarter of public spending about to be slashed.

In the Nassau County special election, Jacobs, the Nassau Democratic chairman, estimated that about a «quarter» of the roughly $ 930,000 his party has raised this year was transferred directly to the Kaminsky campaign; funds were also spent on the race by the party directly.

Gjonaj spent over $ 1 million, an unheard of sum for a City Council race; while Velazquez spent about one quarter of that, around $ 225,000.

Maffei had his best fundraising quarter of the campaign during the same period, raising about $ 464,883 and spending $ 1,053,464, according to the FEC reports.

Experts estimate the U.S. health care system wastes $ 765 billion annually — about a quarter of all the money that's spent.

The White House's discretionary spending plan covers about a quarter of the federal government's $ 4 trillion annual spending accounts.

Since it was founded in the mid-1980s, MURI has become a mainstay of DOD's basic research programs, accounting for about one - quarter of the $ 1 billion in basic research funding that the Pentagon spends annually at U.S. universities.

The misconception about catching a cold from going jacketless may stem from the fact that colds do tend to circulate during chilly seasons, in part because people spend more time indoors and in close quarters (making it easier for illnesses to spread) than they do during warmer months.

I try vigilantly to try to stay within the MAF range I had calculated; but I usually spend about slightly less than a quarter of my workout time out of the zone, even with my best efforts (too high AND too low).

A quarterly budget has given me the flexibility to spend more at the onset of a season when I'm most excited about clothing or when there's a hole in my wardrobe I'm looking to fill — and it's definitely going to come in handy next quarter.

Cut to the present, and we see a very different Thorncroft: a debauched has - been who, having petulantly walked away from his signature role, has spent the last quarter - century in cash - strapped obscurity, now making a living promoting orthopaedic socks (a gig he's about to lose to John Nettles).

Hugh also joked about his ripped abs featured in the film, saying «I keep thinking, «Come on, you spend millions on CGI, can't you throw a quarter million my way for visual effects so I can eat pizza and drink beer and still look great?»

Students in the top quarter of the socio - economic spectrum spend about 11 hours on homework a week, 3 hours more than low - income students in the bottom quarter of the socio - economic spectrum.

The standards covered in Unit 7 are: name and value of penny, nickel, dime, quarter, attributes of the coins, counting like coins, counting mixed coins, spending and saving, personal financial literacy, money earned is income, collecting data, sort and organize data, using tally marks, generating questions about data, answering questions about data, t - charts, bar graphs, survey, and reading a table.

Drum roll, please: In Washington, about 73 percent of the school day — or four and three - quarter hours when students are present — is spent teaching.

A good example is in Washington, D.C. where their choice program costs $ 7,500 per student — about a quarter of what is spent on students in the DCPS.

Daimler last quarter spent about 220 million euros to update over 3 million current and older Mercedes diesel models in Europe to curb pollution and help avert driving bans.

During the fourth quarter, contract customers spent on average about $ 51 per month.

BN in total lost about 120 million in the last quarter alone last year and you want investors to spend 27 million on top of all the regular costs.

For now, forget about stock picking, spend your time wisely, and start investing every quarter your savings in a simple broad market index fund.

The nice part about this Discover card in addition to no annual fee is you'll earn 2 % cash back at restaurants and gas stations on up to $ 1,000 total spent each quarter.

They're buying back $ 1.5 billion worth of common stock (about 3.2 % of the market cap of the company), which is three times the amount of money the company spent on buybacks during the first two quarters of the year.

In our opinion, you get the best value from this card if you pay close attention to the spending categories each quarter and are diligent about charging any purchases under those categories to this card.

About a quarter of those who plan on spending more attribute it to more discretionary income, while 16 per cent say it's because they have greater job security.

First, bear in mind that you're talking about having an average of ~ # 2000 saved up at any given time (if you spend all your stipend every quarter at a steady rate you'll start out with all of it and have none left at the end of the quarter), along with any long - term savings you manage to build up over time.

Once in the marine park, dolphins — who in their natural habitat swim about 40 miles a day and can dive to depths of more than a quarter of a mile — spend the rest of their lives in a concrete pool.

For the quarter about to end (on 31 March) the Chase Freedom card offered 5 % back (or 5 Ultimate Rewards points / dollar) on gas station spend, internet / cable / phone services spend and all spend made via the main smartphone payment apps (Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay) as well as Chase's own Chase Pay app.

We wrote earlier this year about the Chase Freedom Visa Amazon bonus, which this quarter offers 5x Ultimate Rewards points for up to $ 1500 total spend on Amazon purchases (or gas station spend, although I personally can't use that, living in NYC without a car).

-- SEGA spent $ 210 million on games development — That is a 27 percent increase compared to the year prior — Advertising expenses climbed 53 percent, up to $ 73 million — SEGA is releasing 50 games by the end of the financial year in March, but combined sales of all those are expected to be about 5.4 million units — SEGA initially expected to sell about 300,000 units of its four latest Wii U games — That is now revised to 230,000, making it the weakest platform in terms of unit sales — Full year expectations for 3DS 1,160,000 — SEGA's revenue for the three - quarter period was $ 685 million — After expenses, that lowers to a profit of $ 18 million — SEGA is now organizing a sweeping business restructure, which will rebuild the corporation into three divisions, as part of a wider plan to «drastically improve profitability» — At least 300 positions at the corporation are targeted for redundancy — SEGA has set aside $ 125 million for the restructure costs — SEGA expects to lose $ 110m for the full year

i spent the first part constantly going back to the save crystal just in case — then changed my mind on that since it just took too long — so kept fighting — about halfway through my max damage went from 9999 to 4999 — then with a quarter left it went to 2999 — so evidently it kept taking longer and longer to take him down — i almost died at one point which scared me lol — Yiazmat was also getting more aggressive — which meant figuring out a different tactic