Sentences with phrase «take around a quarter»

Between them, the anti-EU far left and hard right had been expected to take around a quarter of the vote.

Not exact matches

Munster said that while he expects the company to sell around 57 million iPhones for the quarter, he also expects the company to issue guidance that is 1 percent higher for the June quarter, which would be driven by strengthened iPhone sales and an early take on Apple Watch sales.

By early afternoon, a quarter - mile trip in one of the ubiquitous black luxury minivans with plush leather seats that shuttle participants around the town took nearly an hour.

A quarter - mile trip in one of the ubiquitous black luxury minivans that shuttle participants around the town took nearly an hour, The New York Times reports.

«The question is going to be, with the animal spirits having sort of disappeared here and the classic risk taking mode, whether we're going to continue to see this gapping around, which I think will look more like recent sequential quarters than it would like the healthy first quarter we saw last year,» he said.

A million dollars might take two hours to count; a quarter of a million around 40 minutes.

«For six quarters, Union Pacific's been walking around Burlington Northern's house and taking as much silver, jewels and flat - screen TVs they can get their hands on.»

Going back to each round, take a small rolling pin or dowel and, keeping away from the very center (leaving a nickel or quarter size area of thickness in the center), roll the wrapper from near center toward you, spin 1/4 turn, do the same all the way around until it's about 3 1/4» in diameter with a slightly thicker «belly» than the rest of the circle.

Crescent City Books is one of those tucked away French Quarter gems that seems to have been around since Jean Baptiste Bienville took up urban planning.

The Oklahoma City Thunder withstood an early run and hot shooting by the Houston Rockets, calmly hanging around until the second quarter when they used a run of their own to take a 58 - 54 lead at halftime.

Woolas» campaign team reckoned he lost around three - quarters of the votes taken by Ali, compared to a quarter from the Lib Dems.

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.

There's a $ 1.6 billion federal loan, and the Thruway Authority has taken out around three quarters of a billion dollars in bonds.

The ex-wife of former Cabinet minister Chris Huhne's has served around a quarter of an eight - month sentence for taking speeding points for him.

Although CLT has been around for a quarter - century, tall wooden buildings are only now taking off.

«These waves take over 10 minutes to travel a quarter of the way around the earth and we're looking at a one - second time difference.»

If you want to take things slowly, a weekly deficit of 7,350 kJ will net you around a quarter of a kilo a week.

At that point, place roughly a quarter - sized drop onto your hands and gently massage it into your face, taking extra care to apply it around your forehead and eyes.

But it only takes a small amount, around a quarter - cup daily of these inexpensive nutritionally dense seeds, to receive sesame seeds» health benefits and protection against many autoimmune diseases.

Around $ 580 million was taken in through revenue these past three quarters, however operating income improved 40 % to $ 70 million compared to the same period in 2013.

All told, nearly three quarters of the film is spent trying to decode Assange without much to show for it, but it's only in the final act that «The Fifth Estate» decides to engage and try to discuss the ethics, morals and consequences of WikiLeaks work — in particular around the release of the Afghanistan War Logs — in any substantive way, but again a lack of courage on behalf of the filmmakers to take any position renders the film narratively limp.

It's also good to know that nobody in the movie takes it too seriously, and any movie featuring a ripped Tatum running around shirtless for nearly a quarter of the running time can't be all that bad.

A staff survey (Appendix 1) taken in February 2013 showed that more than one quarter of staff had 25 years» service or more while around 55 % had 10 or more years of service.

Almost a quarter of pupils in boycott schools received the top grade (22 per cent) compared with around 10 per cent in schools taking the tests.

Acceleration estimates vary, but 0 - 60 takes around 7.3 seconds, 0 - 30 requires around 3.2 seconds, and a standing quarter mile run was clocked by one publication at 15.86 seconds at 90.4 mph.

A complete buyout would take place later towards the fourth quarter of this year in a deal that is likely to be around $ 50 million.

When they reached a ridge from which he could see the peak of Chaganuul Mountain, where the brigade was quartered, he forgot the old man's warning and left the road — which curved around the mountain, adding twenty li to the trip — to take a shortcut that led straight to camp.

The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples.

If an animal like a bat is found around children too young to adequately communicate or in a human's or pet's sleeping quarters, the appropriate steps need to be taken immediately.

Almost a quarter (23 %) of the cats taken in by Cats Protection last year were strays and around 72 % (7,000) of these were never reunited with their owners, most likely due to a lack of identification.

It would take a very small increase in that rate — just up to around one - quarter — to save the lives of every healthy pet, as well as every pet with a treatable or manageable health or behavior problem, in every shelter in America.

Rates start at around US$ 80, which, if you're not going to take advantage of the facilities, is slightly higher than you'd pay for a similar room in Old Quarter, but if you want somewhere you can spend some down time, or you have kids to entertain, it's a fair price to pay.

While my friends went off to take photographs around the French Quarter, I holed up in Bourbon Rocks, a serviceable, open - air sports bar where I planned to watch a playoff football game.

Don't forget how we've spent the last half - decade wallowing around with our crappy U.S. Dollar while the rest of the world was taking advantage of incredible bargains and cut - rate deals — especially here in the U.S. I can remember last summer watching as the hordes of British and European visitors emptied out of cheap American stores with bags full of goodies while I was counting out quarters to buy myself a cup of coffee.

Opt to take a segway tour around the city, wander the white - washed Albayzín quarter, or visit the Granada Cathedral — one of the largest cathedrals in Spain.

Now Indonesia I hear it takes a quarter in Australia so I'm aware of the fact that there is amazing surfing in Indonesia but other people around the world may not be aware of that.

The Dashboard provides an overview of your account status to - date, a summary of where you've stayed at Starwood hotels around the globe, progress on this quarter's «Take Two» promotion.

Let us take you on a gourmet trip, around the Gastronomic Quarter Downtown Budapest and back, and you do not need to leave Kempinski Hotel Corvinus - just sit here... Your culinary journey might include highlights such as • fusion - inspired Japanese cuisine at Nobu • rich...

Only taking by walk a few minute stroll to wander around Hanoi city because Huonggiang Hotel is located between Old Quarter and French Quarter.

This battle against rogue robots recalls the on - rails lightgun shooters from the glory days of arcades, but takes the experience up a notch with the ability to warp around the map and dismantle enemies with your hands in close quarters skirmishes.

But today is the official quarter - century mark in Europe, and around here we'll take any excuse to party.

Even this is not new: arcade games in the 1980s were very much committed to the idea of taking money constantly, albeit a very small amount of cash for a relatively short amount of play (a quarter for a quarter of an hour, say), and with the profits distributed around many small business owners (arcades) as well as corporations.

N.B. Gordon Cooper set out from his living quarters at Hangar «S» and walked pass the waiting press to the elevator which was to take him for a rendezvous with a rocket and a flight around the world 22 times through space (NASA captions).

If anyone can turn that around, it's got to be Lenovo, and the Chinese giant says that won't take more than a few quarters.

A three - quarter circle takes up around a third of the face itself and it marks the completed percentage of your daily step goal with a coloured accent, which matches the Activité logo.

Monster Hunter World's gameplay revolves around many of the same ideas found in previous games, like tracking down whichever monster you're hunting, setting traps or ambushes, and then taking down your prey in nail - baiting close quarters combat.

Around a quarter of a million people took the test willingly, but millions of people reportedly had their private data used for political and financial gain without their knowledge or consent.

But people in monogamous relationships have to be willing to meet me a quarter of the way and acknowledge the drawbacks of monogamy around boredom, despair, lack of variety, sexual death and being taken for granted.»

A quarter of the 548 banks surveyed say they have eliminated certain loan products since new mortgage rules took effect last fall because they felt like the government didn't provide enough clarity around them.