Sentences with phrase «there around a quarter»

Among the examples: «How many ridges are there around a quarter?»

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There was a lot of money made on residential property sales around Australia in the June quarter, but the joy wasn't spread around evenly, with more than 10 per cent of all houses and about 20 per cent of all units sold in Western Australia during the quarter selling at a loss.

While U.S. GDP has hovered around or below 2 % in past quarters, there's no need to fret, said Warren Buffett.

Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the transformation of human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate beings — to see «victory» when «loss» is flashing all around them.

«There's this lingering unease about the stock because Steve is no longer around,» said Charles Wolf, an analyst at Needham & Co. «The problems last quarter have raised the issue in investors» minds that Apple no longer has a leader of Steve's stature.»

So the capital markets activity that you used to see around a lot of these positions when they were held by trading firms, banks and other who were going to trade the assets and cared about mark - to - market every quarter has greatly diminished — There's no hedging.

-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

«The word is awash in «low - level» conflicts, today there are some forty wars on around the globe, involving more than one quarter of the world's nations.

Although this is a much lower figure than the number who fled in Syria, most estimates suggest there are only around a quarter of a million Christians left in Iraq, making the impact of the recent displacement there so much greater.

She innocently slipped a quarter into the Pac - Man slot, curled her fingers around the controls, held the bright red ball of the joy stick firmly against her palm, and there she remained — hour upon hour, quarter after quarter, desperately trying to keep her Pac - Man out of the voracious jaws of four different - colored and deceptively cute - looking monsters; trying to make him eat up the dots on the «table» and down the bunches of fruit which occasionally appeared; and sporadically trying to make him turn the monsters into frightened blue turn - tails by eating «energizing dots» — all of this in an attempt to build up points for the owner of the increasingly blistered hand.

Arrange the remaining apple quarters rounded - side down in a tight circle around the center apple, making sure there is as little space between the apples as possible (any space left between apples will cause the tart to collapse when flipped out of the skillet).

And because the win over Hull means we now face a cup quarter - final with Watford this weekend instead of the Premier League clash with West Brom, as well as there being an international break around the corner, Wenger only has one Premier League game to get through before Cazorla can come back into the centre of midfield.

So there was an air of hostility from some quarters when Ivan Gazidis met around 250 Arsenal fans at the Emirates yesterday.

What depresses me about watching them this year is how obviously unhappy the team is... there is little to no chemistry among these guys — which is dispiriting to see on a Spurs squad... I think the big discrepancy in the home vs. road record is indicative of that... it seems like they just run out of gas and don't really rally around each other in the 4th quarter, particularly on the road... they still try because there's a lot of pride in them, but this team just doesn't really seem to believe in each other, if that even makes sense.

However, with only around 200 CSKA fans making the long journey west, there was little bad blood inside the ground for the quarter - final first leg.

By driving there (we're looking at around a 9 hour trip) and parking our car in a garage for the duration of our stay, we're looking at about one quarter of the cost of our airfares.

My in - laws have a quarter section and we enjoy walking there too, but it's definitely different than walking around the city!!!

So why does no one ever mention that around a quarter of Irish immigrants to the West of Scotland were Ulster Protestants, which is how there come to be Orange Lodges there?

No matter what side of the debate you fall on, it's hard to deny that there are real, practical consequences from the massive level of emailing we've witnessed in the 2014 cycle, especially around the September end - of - quarter deadline.

I doubt that there is such a case; well pads generally require around 5 acres of land not including access roads and setbacks; I seriously doubt that this sort of space is available in the usual quarter acre residential neighborhood.

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

Combine that with the fact that around three quarters are local candidates, so far as I can ascertain, and there are signs the selection process is properly recognising the benefit of experience, local knowledge and name recognition.

The two are even in upstate, but only around one quarter of total Democratic voters live there.

There is an exponential growth in smartphone market in recent times according to a recent survey report published by eMarketer, around 4.55 billion people worldwide are expected to use their smartphones by the first quarter of 2015.

The gameplay tries paying homage to the tony hawk series but the controls are very loose.Very often you will approach a Half pipe quarter pipe etc. and push forward to gain momentum you have to pull back on the stick quickly before hitting the ramp or you will go forward and crash instead of going straight up.map design is awful there are random half pipes and quarter pipes littered on maps while this makes sense in scenes such as the construction site level it makes no sense on maps like downtown Springfield you will be skating around and see a random display of ramps and pipes.

«There are three - quarters of a billion school age children around the world, but education is one of those industries that hasn't really changed at all in the way that lessons are taught and homework is handed out.

There has been little discussion of eliminating the longevity portion of teachers» salaries, even though over one - quarter of the total wage bill goes to bonuses for teachers with greater than two years of experience (around the cutoff in the evidence about the returns to experience).

The tips of the lights wrap around onto the rear quarters a bit, but outside of a small grove where more lighting could be added, there's nothing eventful there.

It'd been a while since your author had mused on that particular style of automobile modification, but with the SEMA Show just around the corner, it was a reminder that while drag racing might not be what it was in the days that Fuel slingshots ruled quarter - mile strips from Pomona to Indianapolis, there's a measure of outré Rothian grandeur to a machine cammed to the gills, sitting down on tires as broad as the Mississipi River.

I sat there in the car with the gravel dust blowing across the parking lot and saw the place for what it was, not what it was right at that moment in the hot sunlight, but for what it had been maybe twelve or fifteen years before: a real general store with folks gathered around the lunch counter, a line of people at the soda fountain, little children ordering ice cream of just about every flavor you could think of, hard candy by the quarter pound, moon pies and crackerjack and other things I hadn't thought about tasting in years.

In the case of this last quarter there was a significant build - up of iPad inventory, so sell - out was around 1.5 million less than sell - in.

If the deal does close around the midway point of the first quarter of 2016 (around February 15), there are a total of 222 days between now and the close.

Since the original Facebook post was published, it has been clarified that around three - quarters of the people in the line pictured were there to return animals — be it ones they found as strays or surrenders by their owners.

There, for a few quarters, you could see rats riding cats around racetracks, dancing elephants, boxing kangaroos, juggling sea lions and monkeys displaying an array of talents.

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.

Nintendo will be releasing their second quarter earnings in a couple of days and I fully expect there to be a focus around the partnership between DeNA and Nintendo.

This game is Platinum's first real foray into online gaming, so there is a possibility that the title will be rough around the edges at first, but there is enough innovation and solid gameplay to suggest that this is one of the games to look out for in the third quarter of 2011.

There's a surprising amount of variety in locations aboard Talos 1; you will explore an Arboretum, the lobby, crew quarters and even go for a space walk around the station.

When the platforms are raised, the center becomes a place for close quarters combat, since there is no longer lots of space to move around in.

With 2017 just around the corner, there are many games releasing within the first quarter of the year.

Sure lgl, I was not of course being critical of your «waffling» around the about three months thing; simply pointing out that there was a good model reason to expect it to be three months or a quarter cycle.

For example, with regard to automating underwriting to the point where 90 % of work is «data - led and bot - driven», around one quarter of life insurers said they expect to reach that point in just two more years, with around two - thirds expecting to get there within five years.

When we were at the final walkthrough the other day we were looking around the neighborhood and there was only about... A subdivision that had about 40 houses only about maybe a quarter of them had gutters.