Sentences with phrase «spends about a tenth»

As a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, NAM reports, the U.S. spends about a tenth of a percent supporting exports.

«I just wish that the NFL would spend about a tenth of the time that it's spending on this on issues of domestic violence and sexual assault,» Healey said.

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The majority of money spent on business travel is within the U.S. Only $ 33.1 billion, or about one - tenth of the total, is expected to be spent on international business travel in 2013, according to the report, representing an increase of 3 percent over the previous year.

That would come on top of a reduction of about two - tenths of a point due to weak construction spending data released on Monday, they said.

But what about spending a tenth of your income just driving to work?

Second, despite some of this hyperbolic coverage, it's worth noting that the proposed K - 12 cuts amount to perhaps one - tenth of what Washington spends each year, a figure which is about one - tenth of what the nation spends.

If states took the $ 4 billion that, according to NIEER, they're currently spending on universal - style pre-K programs and concentrated it on the roughly one - tenth of four - year - olds who most need intensive preschooling, they'd have about $ 40,000 per child to spend.

Another editor in 1995 complained to me that she was spending 80 % of her time in meetings talking about electronic publishing that only accounted for less than one tenth of one percent of all sales at that time.

On the subject of awareness and how it leads to change — I started measuring my consumption across the board about nine months ago, and just by changing the way I travel, spend, and do things at home, brought my footprint down to where it is less than a tenth of the US average.

«But funding for hurricane research is about one - tenth of the money spent on earthquake research.»

Even supporters of legislation such as the Bingaman - Specter bill admit that as much as a trillion dollars will need to be spent to reduce global temperatures about 0.13 C. And that is a trillion for the first tenth of a degree — the law of diminishing returns means that each additional tenth will cost more.

Mediation costs about a tenth of what couples would spend if they go to court.