Sentences with phrase «taken less than a quarter»

At that speed, my trip from London would have taken less than a quarter of a second.

It takes less than a quarter of a second for the body to register a physiological response to a threat, and somewhat longer — a second or two, according to Ulrich — to register a positive stimulus.

Beaver Electronics Co. has debuted a unique fast - charging external battery for the iPhone, which it's dubbed «Quarter,» because it takes less than a quarter of the time to charge compared to a normal external battery.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, Samsung took less than two years to become the bestselling smartphone seller (for each of the past three quarters), grabbing high - end market share from the almighty iPhone.

In Poland, however, to take the largest Jewish population center, although there was a Jewish middle class, the per capita income of Jews in the 1930s was less than $ 100 per year, and a quarter of Poland's Jews were kept from starvation only by charity from America.

His annual salary is less than a quarter of his inflation - adjusted 2004 take.

From the East Side to South Buffalo, and in Black Rock, Buffalo spent just under $ 4.3 million in federal funds rehabilitating 10 houses that were then put up for sale in the past three years, eventually likely to sell for less than a quarter of what it took to improve them.

Furthermore, I can't see people taking very well to the Liberal Democrats supporting a Labour government (not that that would work, since there is still liberal elements in the Liberal Democrats, notably Nick Clegg) if as seems likely less than a quarter of the population votes for Labour.

Moreover, the overwhelming majority of recent opinion polls show the Tories falling below even this low level of support: for example three - quarters of the polls taken since the Conservative Party conference in October give them less than 42 %.

Rep. Nan Hayworth raised $ 290,000 in the first quarter — about $ 30,000 less than one of her Democratic opponents, Sean Patrick Maloney, took in.

A careful look at the Calendar shows that government actually borrowed less than what it took in the first quarter of 2017.

Then, I do a quarter grain at night, which is way less than I used to take.

Despite the film's meager box office takings ($ 10 million domestically, i.e. less than a quarter of the budget), Fox has treated Pathfinder to a fairly solid disc.

In California, the plan assumes that less than a quarter of teachers with 15 years of experience will take a refund.

Yet even with the expansion of the AP program in recent years, only about a third of American students take at least one exam, and less than a quarter pass at least one test with a score of three or higher.

This holistic approach has yielded results in places like Putnam City West High School in Oklahoma City, where educators have engaged parents and the community to boost the graduation rate of Hispanic students by 70 percent; and Denver, where the teacher - led Math and Science Leadership Academy is taking a collaborative approach that focuses on mentoring and professional development to boost student achievement; and in Las Vegas, where a teacher empowerment program has led to remarkable gains, including at Culley Elementary School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade level.

CHICAGO — For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation's third - largest city — and to a national audience — less than a week after most schools opened for fall.

Only about one - quarter of students (27 %) who take a developmental math course eventually complete a college math course with a grade of C or better, and less than half (44 %) of developmental English students do so.

The quarter will take less than 10 seconds.

All the while, he's plotting a way to take your Grand Cherokee and make it go from zero to 60 mph in less than five seconds and run the quarter - mile in less than 13 seconds.

In less than three months, it topped $ 2 billion — a milestone the iPhone took more than six quarters to reach.

The only reason I haven't given 5 stars is because I had a heck of a time at the beginning putting my books on it - less than a quarter of my library had covers, the rest just wouldn't download the covers at all, so, in the end I had to download my entire library to my computer (which took forever I can tell you) and put them on my Kindle that way.

If the balance in the account of author is less than Rs. 200, but greater than Rs. 100, the transfer takes place at the end of the quarter.

However, considering that this basic model is less than a quarter of the price of the Oasis, it might just take your fancy.

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.

In addition, three - quarters of these older borrowers had taken loans only for their own education, and most owed less than $ 10,000 at the time of their initial offset.

Krispy Kreme (NYSE: KKD) hit $ 20 on Friday, after it took a huge hit (from a recent high of $ 25) when its third - quarter results came in less than expected.

It's cheap (taking the midpoint of its guidance it's on less than 5.5 x earnings), it has got a strong balance sheet (net debt / EBITDA was 0.8 x at end - 2010), it has a stable business model (it is the biggest distributor of fruit and vegetables in Europe, with a reach that enables it to supply multiples across different countries), it has a decent dividend yield (circa 4.5 %) and it is spitting out cash (free cash flow for the twelve months ended 30 June 2011 amounted to $ 29.0 m — that's nearly a quarter of the group's market cap).

«Eat a big bowl of Pho for less than $ 1; [or take one of] many free walking tours that take you through the Old Quarter Hanoi exploring areas you normally wouldn't go to.

Including our recurring sports titles and catalog sales in the calculation takes us to a total of over 75 % of our annual net bookings, leaving less than a quarter of net bookings delivered through the sale of our remaining frontline titles.

While executives of Sotheby's and Christie's may have quietly taken some solace in the less than stellar performance of the Impressionist and Modern Art auction this spring at Phillips's stunning temporary quarters at the American Crafts Museum at 40 West 53rd Street across from the Museum of Modern Art, Phillips's second major auction may give them some serious second thoughts.

It is estimated that less than a quarter of all civil legal issues are taken to an attorney.

Why is it that, apparently less than a quarter of cases in which a MIAM has taken place, proceed to mediation?

However Prudential Real Estate's Consumer Outlook Survey, taken a month or more before the Fannie Mae survey, found that less than 40 percent of consumers think that it will be easier to secure a mortgage in the coming buying season despite data showing lending standards in a fourth quarter 2013 survey.