Sentences with phrase «still more than a quarter of»

There was still more than a quarter of an hour to go and the crowd wanted eight.

Don't get me wrong: The second - worst pile of money from four years of REDC grants is still more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

Not exact matches

While the early - stage company still mounted losses for the quarter, it received more revenue than expected as a result of its collaboration with pharma giant Pfizer.

The research cluster in B.C. centred around early developer Ballard Power still accounts for more than a quarter of fuel - cell industry revenues worldwide, said B.C.'s job, tourism and skills training minister, Pat Bell.

So sedans and other cars are expected to still form more than a quarter of all consumer vehicle sales in the U.S., but the overall trend appears to be that American companies especially are giving up trying to sell cars to Americans.

Despite shuttering a few of its offices and laying off more than 600 people last quarter, Zynga still has 2,300 employees.

Services are still a small part of Apple's sales compared with the iPhone, which booked more than $ 38 billion during the quarter, but services provide a high - margin, steady and quickly growing revenue stream as smartphone sales are set to slow worldwide.

Still, while McDonald's sales grew more than expected, the number of people visiting its U.S. restaurants fell in the first quarter.

Although gas prices have dropped in northern New England after Hurricane Harvey's appearance in the third quarter of 2017, the average price of gas is still much more than it was pre-hurricane.

Yesterday's results were mostly more of the same: wearables were up a lot (more devices per customer); ASP's were down from last quarter but still 11 % higher than a year ago; 2 services revenue, meanwhile, shot through the roof for reasons that are still a bit unclear, but impressive nonetheless.

Deteriorating grades meant Galaxy had to mine 32 per cent more ore during the quarter and increase processing volumes by 3 per cent; yet production of spodumene concentrate was still 16 per cent lower than in the previous quarter.

But the final quarter of the year still had more than its fair share of travails.

While the reported number of vacancies declined in the June quarter, the series has trended upwards for some time and in the June quarter was still more than 10 per cent higher than a year earlier.

shale oil may be a bubble but countries like Libya Iraq Iran produce nothing compared to their potential / production capacity + there is always offshore exploration recently Morocco seems to be in the spot light not to mention the arctic sea / north pole especially Russia where a new Koweit is to be found and also south China sea Venezuela's tight oil if all the types of oil are included venezuela must be a heaven with a quarter of global oil reserves with +300 billion barrels more than 260 bbls of Saudi Arabia that can still produce more than 10/11 million barrel / day that it's procucing today.

you're right, the only thing that disturbs me is how we still, after more than a quarter of a season, haven't played a match aside from galatasaray where we looked like convincingly winning.

On the negative side, I expect we will suffer more than our fair share of injuries, we will go out of the cup competitions by the quarter final stages and we will still lose points to the likes of Stoke and Blackburn.

«Around three - quarters of the population wants to see lower immigration, but more than half will say that immigration is still good for the economy.

At best, around a fifth of children still live below the poverty line before housing costs, and more than a quarter once housing costs are taken into account.

In all but three of the races, incumbents still had more money in the bank than their challengers at the end of the quarter.

Greenberg said that the silver lining for Cuomo's hopes of winning a third term is that the two Republicans still vying to run against him in November are «both unknown to more than three - quarters of New York voters.»

Astorino, who is still not well - known to more than a quarter of the state electorate, has a higher negative rating than positive score among voters.

And while there will be a record number of women MPs in the new Commons, the total of 139 — which includes 48 Tories, almost a more significant breakthrough — is still less than a quarter of the 649 MPs elected on Thursday and only 11 more than in the last parliament.

And among people who abuse drugs and alcohol, more than three - quarters use tobacco, which means tobacco is still the leading killer of the drug - dependent, not hard drugs.

The research, conducted by researchers at New York University and the University of Miami (Fla.), shows that «doom and gloom» language was present in only 10 percent of the analyzed U.S. newspaper articles; by contrast, optimistic language — such as, «the oceans are mostly intact, still wild enough to bounce back to ecological health» (New York Times, January 15, 2015)-- was present in more than a quarter of these stories.

Organic free range eggs have come down in price considerably over the past 15 years, grabbing a quarter of the Australian egg market, but still cost about two dollars more per dozen than eggs laid by caged chickens.

Out of more than two dozen studies conducted since 2000 comparing the effects of differing loads on muscle gain, about one - quarter reported that heavy weights are still more effective — but only slightly at best (the findings weren't statistically significant).

Unfortunately, not many of them did — the movie barely grossed a quarter of its budget on opening weekend — but still, more audiences saw «Annihilation» in North American theaters than the number who will see it elsewhere: zero.

More than a quarter of secondaries in the North and Midlands are still not good enough.

The cuts in education spending made in 2010, in Christie's first full year in office, seemed tough enough, with three - quarters of the state's school districts still not reaching pre-Christie state - aid levels even though the state is spending more on education than ever before.

After nearly 550 miles, the fuel gauge still showed more than a quarter of a tank of diesel remaining.

It's still not what one would call spacious, but it definitely feels more usable than the cramped rear quarters of the Giulia.

The Audi RS4 Was Fitted With The 2.7 Litre Bi Turbo V6 Engine, Which Considering When Built In The Late Part Of 2001 Still Generated A More Than Respectable 380 Brake Horse Power & 323 lb Worth Of Torque, Meaning That These Vehicles Would Be Able To Accelerate The Driver, Four Passenger And Even A Brace Of Dogs From 0 - 62 MPH In Just 4.9 Seconds, Would Complete A Quarter Mile In A Remarkable 13 Seconds And Then Would Further Climb To A Limited Top Speed Of 155 MPH.

It's more stylish than its kin but still on the conservative side.There's a wraparound air dam up front, a deck - lid spoiler in back and a trace of plastic cladding over the rocker panels from wheel well to wheel well, but it takes «Intercooled multivalve DOHC» lettering along the front quarter panel to give onlookers more visible evidence this isn't an ordinary Spirit sedan.

With more than 10,000 ATS and CTS models sold during the first quarter of this year, the odds are in favor of most owners not needing this fix, but it still sounds a little too much like a dangerous game of Russian roulette.

Smartphones are far more plentiful than tablets, but a Monetate report shows that tablets drive 40 % more web traffic than smartphones (while PCs still command nearly three - quarters of website visits).

Sales of Android - based tablets more than tripled during the fourth quarter of 2011, but Apple still dominates the market, according to a recent report from Strategy Analytics.

«Considering the fast growing consumer interest in smartphones and the fact that more than three - quarters of the people in the global mobile phone market are still buying handsets with a traditional alphanumeric keypad, we think the new BlackBerry Pearl 3G addresses a substantial market opportunity.

And although demand for ebooks has risen by a steady 6.3 percent compared to last year — meaning that ebook users bought and read more books than before — revenue is still down for the first quarter of 2016.

«It's still October and we've already sold more Kindle devices since launch than we did during the entire fourth quarter of last year — astonishing because the fourth quarter is the busiest time of year on Amazon,» said Steve Kessel, Senior Vice President, Amazon Kindle.

«It's still October and we've already sold more Kindle devices since launch than we did during the entire fourth quarter of last year — astonishing because the fourth quarter is the busiest time of year on Amazon,» Kessel said.

We have 1/2 of a quarter of reduced Hatchette shipments in, and by the way, Amazon still sold more units of both books and ebooks than the pre-dispute quarter.

Smart beta funds may be cheaper than active mutual funds, but they can still be half to three - quarters of a percentage point more expensive than traditional ETFs.

Thankfully, according to the National Student Financial Wellness Study by Ohio State University, more than three - quarters of students still think college is a good investment for their financial future.

Now that my portfolio is getting back to a more normalized allocation, I can start rebuilding a balanced account, but I'll still take it slower and with less risk than I might usually trade since I expect to be divorced in the first quarter and will be splitting some of this account and rolling it into a new account only under my name as opposed to a joint account.

But the final quarter of the year still had more than its fair share of travails.

Even more disturbing, among 50 - year - olds still working, 47 % believe they're still less than a quarter of the way there.

Leonard is 39 and still a couple of decades out from retirement, but his successful career at such a young age as a hot - shot graphics designer for a prestigious advertising firm has allowed him to already amass a more than quarter million dollar portfolio — allowing him to already start saving up for college for his three daughters.

In the second quarter of 2016, 11.8 percent of South Florida mortgage holders, or about 99,000 people, still owed more than the home is worth, according to Zillow.

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You can find three quarters of the world's coral in this triangle and possibly more than 10,000 species are still waiting to be discovered.