Sentences with phrase «times less than that of»

In 2012 (latest data available), for example, the eligibility rate for part - time workers was 2.3 times less than that of full - time workers, while the eligibility rate for temporary employees was 25 % lower than that of permanent employees (source here, table 9).

In July, the physicists of the LHC experiments announced that whilst the Higgs boson had not yet been discovered, they were specifying tighter limits upon what its mass could be - which is about 300,000 times less than that of the electron!

Under the extreme conditions of an accident, the corrosion rate was 100 to 1,000 times less than that of zircaloy.

The Kuna people of the San Blas islands, off the coast of Panama, have a rate of heart disease that is nine times less than that of mainland Panamanians.

That's about a gazillion times less than some of the other games on the Switch eShop.

That's about a gazillion times less than some of the other games on the Switch eShop.

The price per kilometre is 6 times less than that of petrol or diesel.

Not exact matches

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

Ask, «If I had 10 less hours of low - value work each week, could I fill this time with higher value activities that would be worth more than the cost of an assistant?»

While most employees at least want to take full advantage of those hard - earned days off, less than half take the time to plan out their vacations each year, according to Project: Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Associattime to plan out their vacations each year, according to Project: Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel AssociatTime Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Association.

If you agree with Bannon and Yeh that going full on all the time isn't just unhealthy but also bad business, there is still the less than minor matter of actually banishing the guilt you feel when you switch off.

Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

Troops bringing the American flag back to Iraq in 2003 or deploying to Afghanistan in the same time period received just a little more than their Persian Gulf War predecessors, with $ 1,064.70 for soldiers with less than four months of service and $ 1,150.80 for the seasoned veterans with four months or more under their belts.

The Independent was created in 1986 as an alternative to the existing British daily press, and for a time it was a successful business, but as the pressure of a declining print market continued to grow it faded rapidly from a readership of about 400,000 to less than 50,000.

The early target for 5G is latency of less than one millisecond — or 10 times better than current LTE.

Elon Musk's new recycled / reusable rockets will cost $ 40 million per launch, 30 percent less than a first - time flight and well below than the industry standard of roughly $ 150 million.

That's because, even though Mt. Gox only recovered less than a quarter of its lost Bitcoins (the rest were stolen in a hack), the Bitcoin price has risen more than 17x between the time Mt. Gox entered liquidation and today.

The reason behind this is the fact that public networks are considered to be much less secure than your home network, primarily because there is usually a large number of people connected to the network at the same time.

The outside firm can often cost less than the salary and benefits of a full - time employee and, at the same time, you may be getting a higher level of advice from a CPA or a tax accountant, the latter of whom usually is a licensed CPA and a lawyer specializing in tax law.

Here's why: Forrester Research states that less than 1 % of leads ever generate revenue for B2B companies, which means B2B marketers doing traditional lead gen waste 99 % of their time, energy, and money marketing to people who will never become customers.

The Times article cited a study published in the journal Psychological Science, which found that when happily married women held their spouses» hand while they received mild electric shocks, the parts of their brain associated with pain were less active than when they weren't holding their spouse's hand.

As for the significance of handholding, Dalton Conley, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, told The New York Times in 2006: «It's less about sex than about a public demonstration about coupledom.»

So knowing the right answer to a tough question appears to be less important than being able to consider a large number of social responses in a brief window of time,» Von Hippel said of the study findings.

The attractiveness of using contractors is that you can actually hire more of them, since they impact a budget less than hiring a full - time employee.

Forge told me that he wrapped up a conviction of Dusty Foggo, an executive director of the CIA, in less time than the SEC has taken so far with the Wal - Mart investigation — and the Foggo case involved classified documents.

Think about how much money you spend on new customer acquisition — is it less than $ 4 and a couple minutes of your time?

Although Istanbul is now known as the «Digital Bosphorus,» less than four percent of Turkish residents had access to the Internet at the time, and most food deliveries happened by phone, if at all.

Japan's short - term yields, of less than three years, turned negative last year, and earlier this month, the five - year JGB slipped close to zero several times.

So this is a terrible time for the US to be signaling that it's seeking to cut foreign aid budget that is already only 0.2 % of US national income, less than 1 % of the federal budget.

In fact, according to a 2013 survey, 43 percent of small business owners are taking less vacation time than five years ago.

Sofge, who stressed coalition forces» efforts to avoid civilian casualties, said the actual process likely takes less time to complete than it does to describe, in part because of the experience they have doing it and because parts of it happen concurrently.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

And its losses, excluding a one - time expense, had shrunk to just $ 2.3 million, less than a tenth of the $ 35 million Trump's Atlantic City properties had produced in red ink just three years prior.

Though Jobs's explanation was logical enough — with iTunes sales set to outpace those of CDs, he said it was time to drop the compact disc from the logo — observers were less than understanding, loudly deriding the blue bubble and black note as everything from «nondescript» to «hideous.»

Living next to the U.S. has already made Canadians «a less exuberant people,» he says, and it's more important than ever to develop a sense of national identity in this time of rapid globalization.

At the same time, it's continued to expand globally, with U.S. market now representing less than a third of sales.

«When you go through life, what you'll find is what you take out of the world over time — be it money, cars, stuff, accolades — is much less important than what you've put into the world.»

Chipmakers are already among the market's best performers this year, but Ankur Crawford of the Alger Spectra Fund thinks Broadcom (avgo), at less than 16 times 2017 earnings, looks undervalued following its merger with Avago.

While he may be a «world - class player» — in President - elect Donald Trump's words — the financial metrics of his time as Exxon's CEO reveal some less than stellar results compared with peers.

A great thing to do is to actually calculate the cost of your time, which will help you figure out if you can pay someone to do something for less than your hourly rate.

Over time, it became less of a joke and more of a reason why I moved (more so to live my values than to «solve» anything, though).»

In fact, most will likely take less time off than if you had a formal policy that provided a limited amount of PTO.

Wellard shares were hammered for a second time in less than a week, with the company warning of yet another potential profit hit before the end of the financial year.

Some are, as five states, including Mississippi and Louisiana, have no official minimum wage, and two more, Georgia and Wyoming, have a minimum wage of $ 5.15, or about $ 10 less an hour than full - time employees would need to make to be able to afford a two - bedroom.

Time spent capturing or retaining a high - value client, for example, is more valuable to your bottom line than spending an exorbitant amount of time with a client whose business adds less value to your enterprTime spent capturing or retaining a high - value client, for example, is more valuable to your bottom line than spending an exorbitant amount of time with a client whose business adds less value to your enterprtime with a client whose business adds less value to your enterprise.

There was a time, less than two years ago, when women seemed poised to overtake men and become the majority of the American workforce.

About 44 % of that went to Quebec and almost 15 % or $ 16.8 billion went to the three territories which combined have a population of about 111,000, about 23 % less than the number of people in Prince Edward Island, which received $ 2.2 billion over the same time period.

That's what happened to Jack Griffin, the CEO of Time Inc. who was recently thrown out after less than six months on the job.

Cold calls generate follow - up conversations only 10 percent of the time, and lead to in - person meetings less than 2 percent of the time.