Sentences with phrase «used about a fifth»

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Prince Harry, who is fifth in line for the throne (for now), made the reserved comments about his wedding to the BBC after he conducted an interview with Obama last week, during which the pair exchanged common views on social media use, and discussed Obama's thoughts on the day his term ended.

When Millennial Branding and analytics company Identified.com combed through millions of Facebook profiles recently to glean insights about how the social network is being used professionally, they discovered something surprising — among young people (so - called Gen Y) the fifth most popular job title was «owner.»

Using the Plausible Deniability defense, they claimed that they weren't even in the loop when it came to paying AIG enough to turn around and pay Goldman Sachs and other arbitrageurs 100 cents on the dollar for securities worth about a fifth as much.

First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

The fifth fingers on each hand have complained about the derogatory use of the term «baby» when refering to them.

Fifth, the New Testament uses parental language about God's relation to human beings.

I know that grading prospects is subjective, but Chris Campbell doesn't make my list of the top - 40 cornerbacks in this draft class so I'm not excited about using a fifth round pick on him.

Zac Goldsmith's campaign has persistently tried to link Sadiq Khan to extremists but in a strange twist our fifth placed item revealed that the Tory candidate for mayor of London himself lobbied MPs about the very same person being used to attack his Labour rival.

Artefacts found along the road show it was used in the fifth and sixth dynasties of the Old Kingdom, between about 2575 and 2134 BC.

Buildings account for about two - fifths of the energy we use and are responsible for about two - fifths of the carbon emitted in this country.

Only a small portion of the building is normally used for pit surveillance, while about a fifth is used for pit fabrication, and another seven percent for analytical chemistry and pit certification.

First, it could be used to research the reasons that about a fifth of AML patients do not respond to first - line chemotherapy at all.

When she talks with her fourth, fifth, and sixth grade classes about the science fair project assignment, Lisa says she «highly recommends» that they choose a Science Buddies project, and she allots valuable classroom time for her students to use the Wizard.

Study found that only about a fifth of 12th graders who used an e-cigarette used a nicotine substance

The next piece to the puzzle is some people do better with some probiotics during the whole program and we have a couple of different strains that we use in the office that are very helpful but we talk about the reinoculation kind of being that fifth R, that fifth phase, and that's important and most of people will be able to do it that way, no problem.

The fifth is a book about how to start using essential oils.

I also like using Perfume Oils, which are the exact scent as your favorite perfume, minus the fillers and about a fifth of the price.

Fowler playing the harp and take fifth floor to hear about every single detail of their online dating journey to learn more about the acceptable use.

Data from Ofcom and EU Kids Online shows around a fifth of parents do not speak with their children about online safety, are not confident they can protect their children and have no rules relating safe internet use.

Teachers can also use «I Wonders» to see themes and subject areas about which students are really curious, such as when fifth - grade teacher Brittany German noticed that she was getting a lot of «I Wonder» questions about outer space.

Display pictures - Large A4 coloured pictures of things to do with bonfire night and the story of Guy Fawkes Colouring pictures - Large black and white pictures Display border - Each piece is decorated with pictures and can be printed as many times as you need for a display board of any size Songs and rhymes - Six decorated songs and rhyme cards related to Bonfire Night for the children to learn - 2 of these rhymes are number rhymes so would be great for your maths lessons A4 border - Individual A4 sized page with a border - great for adding work to ready for the display or for the children to use in the writing area Questions - Question cards each decorated with colour pictures Topic words - Words about Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night each decorated with fireworks Fireworks - Colour photos of fireworks - great for discussion and displays Houses of Parliament - Colour photos of The Houses of Parliament Counting card - Rocket counting cards Dice game - Two different sheets with a black and white firework picture - roll the die and colour the correct part of the firework Literacy Worksheets - Various worksheets such as completing the sentences about fireworks, true and false worksheet about Guy Fawkes, describing fireworks, writing safety instructions Maths Worksheets - Make the rocket symmetrical, complete the addition and subtraction sums on the fireworks plus blank calculation sheets so you can differentiate the sums Ideas - An ideas sheet with lots of ideas to cover different areas of the curriculum when teaching about Bonfire Night and the Gunpowder Plot Cutting skills - Cut out the parts of the firework and assemble - there are two different sheets Safety Posters - Eight posters about firework safety for the children to colour Picture dominoes - A colour dominoes game Guy Fawkes pictures - Pictures from old documents about Guy Fawkes and the plot Draw the fireworks - A colour and a black and white worksheet Size worksheet - Cut out and order the rockets in size order - in colour and black and white Matching pairs game - Match the coloured Bonfire Night pictures Rhyme - «Remember, Remember the Fifth of November» - A decorated rhyme card

«Students in about fourth or fifth grade — sometimes younger — are capable of using Web - based publishing tools to build digital portfolios.»

If we use the traditional definition of a C grade as «satisfactory,» then the public, on average, thinks about one - fifth of teachers in the local schools are unsatisfactory (13 % D and 9 % F)(see Figure 3).

In the name of losing weight, about one - fifth of high - school girls have used diet pills, more than one in six have forced themselves to vomit, and half have skipped a meal, the results of new federal survey indicate.

On a sunny day in May, fifth graders at Donald E. Ross Elementary School here were gathered at an outdoor gazebo, learning about fulcrums by using a ruler set up like a seesaw and balancing weights at both ends.

To get a sense of how many students could become newly «invisible,» consider public elementary schools in Washington, D.C. Applying the same minimum group size currently used for entire schools to the fifth grade only, about half of the city's 119 elementary schools with fifth graders taking math tests would not be held accountable for the progress of low - income or African - American students, because there aren't enough of them in that grade to constitute a reliable sample size.

Using information from Chetty et al's results and Gormley et al's results, I calculate that in Tulsa, the predicted effect of pre-k on adult earnings would be about one - fifth greater in dollars for reduced price lunch students than for free lunch students, and the predicted effect on adult earnings would be about one - fifth less in dollars for full price lunch students than for free lunch students.

When teaching her fifth - graders about place value, for instance, she will use elements from a Common Core preparation program called LearnZillion and a game - based instructional software program called ST Math, among other resources.

I can buy a low - mileage used car with an economical 1.0 - liter engine for about one - fifth the price of the beautifully made but limited BMW.

Using a small, sharp knife, slice through about a fifth of the way down the tomato, to give little caps.

Jody Rein, literary agent, publishing consultant and co-author of Writer Digest's How to Write a Book Proposal: Fifth Edition, knows how publishers and agents really make decisions about whether and how to publish your book, and which factors writers in - the - know use to decide whether to self - publish or try a traditional house.

This financial literacy program geared toward fifth - grade elementary school students teaches kids about basic money calculations, how to create a budget and use it, the basics of the stock market, and gives them practice in managing a bank account.

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This is about the fifth time I have used the Holiday Extras website and will do so again.

Using air conditioners and electric fans to stay cool already accounts for about a fifth of the total electricity used in buildings around the world — or 10 % of all global electricity consumption today.

In fact, the use of air conditioners and electric fans already accounts for about a fifth of the total electricity in buildings around the world — or 10 % of all global electricity consumption.

Nearly 60,000 square kilometers have been cleared for agriculture in the Cerrado since 2003, and about a fifth of that land is being used for soy.

Canada has the fifth - largest railway network in the world, or more than 44,000 kilometres of track used to transport about $ 280 billion worth of freight each year, according to RAC.

Bowman says that deforestation fires alone — the fires that have been used to destroy forests since the industrial revolution — account for about one - fifth of all carbon dioxide committed to the atmosphere.

Total per - capita energy use in China is about one - fourth to one - fifth that in the U.S..

It also accounts for about half of global diesel use, a third of all transport - related carbon emissions and a fifth of NOx emissions, a key air pollutant.

British Columbia had the highest rate of adoption, in about three - fifths of cases, while cases from Alberta and Ontario each adopted assessors» recommendations about half the time, despite assessments being used one - fifth as often in Alberta as in Ontario.

If you have an iPhone 5 or later, a fourth - generation iPad or later, any iPad Mini, or a fifth - generation iPod Touch, you can use Apple's Lightning Digital AV adapter, which costs about $ 45.

Beyond grammar and spelling — involving rule you probably have not thought about since fifth grade — good writing also means using interesting verbs to capture attention; explaining difficult concepts in a way that hiring managers and recruiters can understand even if they lack the needed financial, technical, or business background; emphasizing the right accomplishments and skills; creating flow; and on and on.

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On 666 Fifth Ave., little had spilled into public view until February, but talks have long been contentious because Roth and Kushner have different opinions about the best use of the property and both are hard - nosed negotiators.

Keith Nelson, CRB, designated broker at Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Executive in Bellevue, Wash., is now paying about one - fifth the rent he used to pay on a 4,000 - square - foot freestanding office.

And, yes can somebody detail about the floor tiles used in the fifth picture?