Sentences with phrase «thirds of the country»

Toronto, Vancouver and their surroundings represent about a third of the country's mortgages.

Because social networks are used by more than two - thirds of the country, and given the way content spreads virally to others, social media is the perfect channel to promote a brand to potential customers.

Venezuela's $ 60 billion in bonds is estimated to be only a third of the country's total debt, with the rest in the hands of Russia and China.

A third of the country's 500 largest listed non-financial companies failed to earn enough to make interest payments in the financial year that ended March 2015, according to a new report from local ratings agency India Ratings and Research.

For example, the central bank can not hold more than a third of a country's outstanding debt.

And so three Indonesian telecom firms — Telkomsel, Axiata and Inmost — are partnering with Google to try to get the remaining two - thirds of the country online, Mike Cassidy, the vice president of Project Loon, and Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, announced Wednesday at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif..

After quintupling since 2011, these investments, known as wealth management products, now total an amount roughly equal to more than one - third of the country's annual economic output.

In fact, only a third of the country under 30 knows somebody in the military.

The size of Canada's economy was around $ 2 trillion dollars at the end of 2016, and according to the latest GDP numbers released by Statistics Canada, the Canadian economy expanded at 0.6 percent in May 2017 compared to the previous month, largely led by advances in the oil, gas and mining industries, which accounted for around two - thirds of the country's GDP growth.

A total of 315.6 billion euros of capital has left the country in the year to end - June, equivalent to nearly one - third of the country's economic output.

The hatos (cattle pastures) account for one - half of the landed property in Costa Rica and one - third of the country's total area.

Bahrain's ruling Khalifa family is Sunni Muslim, but about two - thirds of the country's people are Shiite.

Washington (CNN)- Both the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements identify with the values of just under a third of the country, according to a survey released Thursday.

The Church of North India stretches across two - thirds of our country and ninety - seven percent of its members live in rural areas.

Even now, she says, when she knows the demographic facts perfectly well, somewhere in the back of her head is the working assumption that at least one - third of the country is Jewish.

Canada's concern for religious freedom ranked in the bottom third of the countries Pew surveyed.

CNN: Survey: 3 in 10 Americans identify with Occupy, Tea Party movements Both the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements identify with the values of just under a third of the country, according to a survey released Thursday.

Agriculture in Sri Lanka contributes nearly 7.5 per cent to the national GDP and employs over a third of the country's manpower.

On Tuesday, a United Nations agency warned that severe drought conditions are putting this year's wheat crop at risk in at least five Chinese provinces — five provinces that account for about two - thirds of the country's total wheat production.

For much of that time the Indians were on WWWE radio, a 50,000 - watt station that reached two thirds of the country, giving Score, if not the Indians, the audience he deserved.

The safety of the country's milk products is a sensitive issue for the local currency as dairy products account for around one - third of the country's exports.

Yet, while breastfeeding rates in the developing world are on the rise in two - thirds of countries with data, millions of infants are not benefiting from this life - saving practice.

This ongoing rebellion is another consequence of the failed peace process in Congo, which reduced the RCD (at the time occupying a third of the country) to a small network within the apparatus of state and military that felt threatened from many sides.

This comes with the usual pork barrel politics feeding the party - municipal government networks and their known neo-patrimonial pathologies, but a third of the country still lives and votes in villages and, come election time, it is a huge asset to have these local party institutions.

Officials said the measure would benefit just under a third of the country's 12.3 million married couples with the less well off gaining the most.

TOR currently produces more than one third of the country's consumption.

Without GENDA New York remains behind more than one third of the country that already provides protections for transgender individuals.

Comprising only 2 percent of the American population, Ashkenazim learned they represented up to a third of the country's BRCA carriers.

Nearly a third of the country's meters — more than 40 million — have already been changed.

Preliminary data comparing minimum January temperatures and maximum July temperatures between the 1970s and the past decade also show warmer summers for the western third of the country.

Palestinians from successive Israeli conflicts already account for about one - third of the country's 6.5 million people.

Eighty rural hospitals have been shuttered nationwide since 2010, and about a third of the country's remaining rural facilities are vulnerable to closure as they continue to operate under tight margins, according to findings from the latest annual Rural Relevance Study.

For more than a third of the country, out - of - the - ordinary soil moisture can change the likelihood of next - day rain by a median factor of 13 %.

Hydropower currently accounts for more than 75 percent of Brazil's electric energy generation, but only a little more than a third of the country's hydro capacity has been tapped.

The country's booming population may also speed the invasion of the forest — in Petén, the northern third of the country where the reserve lies, official estimates state that the population exploded from 25,000 in 1960 to 500,000 in 2004.

«Now, it's in a third of the country, and it's a huge and controversial task — 10 years to get it under control would be really optimistic.»

Close to two - thirds of the country's population is fairly easy to count, it turns out.

With more than one - third of the country's vegetables and two - thirds of its fruits and nuts produced there, the San Joaquin Valley, not surprisingly, is a heavy pesticide - use region.

But the mosquitoes biologically capable of transmitting the disease are found in about two - thirds of country, and public health authorities expect that there will be small clusters of Zika caused by those bugs.

This continues the trend of warming winters over the past few decades as the climate warms from increasing greenhouse gases, with the eastern two - thirds of the country warming the most during the winter.

Jansson's team fanned out across the central third of the country to see what microbial novelties they could find.

The weather map was painted in red from border to border in the eastern two - thirds of the country for nearly all of February (and winter for that matter) with only the Pacific Northwest cooler than average.

«Between 2005 and 2015 teachers» statutory salaries decreased in real terms in one - third of the countries and economies with available data.»

The EFA GMR's last report showed that only a third of countries had reached global education goals set in 2000, and identified conflict as one of the major barriers to achieving better results.

When it comes to improving the quality of education, the report notes four million more teachers are still needed to get all children into school and trained teachers are in short supply in one third of countries.

Just one third of countries have achieved all of the measurable Education for All (EFA) goals set in 2000.

Competitors such as Verizon Wireless are already offering 4G LTE to nearly a third of the country.

More than a third of the country's online shopping crowd already owns a tablet device and more than 60 percent of those who don't are keen to procure one in the near future.

I am talking of a place in India, at least a third of the country, a fertile place, full of rice fields and wheat fields and ponds in the middle of those fields choked with lotuses and water lilies, and water buffaloes wading through the ponds and chewing on the lotuses and lilies.

Well best of luck to any company trying to enter the railroad space when Union Pacific already covers two - thirds of the country with 32,000 miles of rails!