Sentences with phrase «were at least half»

I'd like to think most were at least pretty good.

The survey of more than 2,000 individuals found that nearly two - thirds of people between the ages of 18 and 34 were at least somewhat more likely to want to work for a company that gave to charity than one did that not.

By the time the doors opened, there were at least another 80 people behind us.

Tens of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes, and there were at least a dozen deaths across Germany.

There were at least six per box.

One reviewer speaks for the happy customers when she says they provide great «ground feel,» but another owner wishes they were at least somewhat water - resistant, which they're not.

Refinery manager Simon Butterworth said in a statement that the decision to shut down the burner, which improves plant efficiency, was made despite independent analysis of air quality indicating that workplace emissions from the facility were at least 100 times better than standards required for occupational health.

These riches were at least as important to the Eritrean government as they were to Nevsun: by various estimates Bisha would provide about US$ 1 billion in royalties and revenues over its life, and raise the country's annual GDP by several percentage points.

On the day I arrived, there were at least a half dozen Amazon employees (wearing bright orange so you could easily spot them) helping shepherd people into the store, replacing items on shelves, checking IDs for those shoppers headed to the liquor shelves, and mostly answering lots and lots of questions.

After collecting my desired profile for a potential board member; she returned a week later with eight candidates, all of whom fit the profile and were at least tacitly interested in talking with me.

Almost all the annotations were at least attempting a close reading - they were genuinely, though imperfectly, trying to add context to the text and make it easier to understand.

British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather than invested in the underlying securities) that track a Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.

A source at ride - sharing start - up Lyft told Inc. there are at least two initiatives in the works that that will bring together policy (and potentially lobbying) efforts to the sharing economy.

The goal is at least 100 passengers per ship, although I think... we'll probably see that number go to 200 or more.

If your start date is at least six months away, start contributing to a fund each month.

One Belt, One Road represents China's biggest overseas spending effort ever, a project that, adjusted for inflation, is at least 12 times the size of the Marshall Plan, the history - changing U.S. program that helped rebuild Western Europe from rubble after World War II.

The problem for Nintendo is the NX's launch is at least a year away — likely more, as the company reportedly just started talking about it with third party partners at this year's E3.

Since you can't rely on what candidates say they will do, you can learn a lot from things they have already done — while not always the case, the past is at least a fairly reliable indicator of the future.

FEBRUARY 18 — «hot Wednesday» — clearly showed how reform of Western Australia's energy sector has been bungled, for the time being at least.

But for every sign of financial success, there seems to be at least one more of cultural disquiet.

In Austria, there are somewhat similar «beck and call contracts,» though these are governed by tighter working time regulations, while in the Netherlands there are at least a quarter of a million workers subject to «minimum terms».

Whether or not this is true (and there's at least one compelling answer on Quora to suggest it is), there's a clear moral for the rest of us.

So - called «dollar - sphere» markets have monetary policy that is at least partly outsourced to the Fed, and by extension are vulnerable to rate hikes.

Well, there are at least that many different ways to be right, because every one of these coaches does things differently, yet they all represent the top 1/10 percent of the coaching profession.

At the core of every SEO campaign is at least one person calling the shots.

A glorified speakerphone that can also read text messages aloud, Martian watches are at least relatively inconspicuous, designed to look like classic analog timepieces, not mini — smartphones.

This is because «even though the Arctic Circle contains large amounts of untapped resources, as well as being a potential trade route, the full potential of the Arctic to become commercially viable seems to be at least a decade away,» the Stratfor analyst said.

There are at least 100 guys who'd be good candidates for every one of these jobs.

But having a body of failures to learn from is at least a start.

«The total volume of the room, when empty, divided by the number of people normally working in it should be at least 11 cubic metres.

Biotech is a «crazy» industry, in that there's no easy way to measure a company's worth, because actually helping patients is at least 10 years away, explains Brian Bloom, president of Bloom, Burton & Co., a Toronto - based investment bank focused on the health - care sector.

Experts say it will be at least five years before a product is on the market.

If you get the strategy and the values of the business right, the execution, while no less challenging, is at least a little easier to pull off.

There are at least six rivals in the space, including a startup that has attracted $ 14 million from hip - hop artist Snoop Dogg's fund and other backers.

Day said that there has been at least one report of an effort at Groom Lake to create a fake heat signature for orbiting satellites to see.

But the process of truly deleting an account is at least a little tricky — and along the way, you might find out you were more dependent on Facebook than you thought.

CNN media analyst Brian Stelter, host of the show Reliable Sources, spent most of his broadcast on Sunday talking about how the media missed the boat on Trump, and how this was at least in part because of a certain snobbery on the part of mainstream media analysts and journalists.

The good news, according to the site's State of the Paper Industry 2011 report, is that we're at least using less paper since 2006.

Amazon apparently disagrees with me, or is at least bowing to public pressure on the matter.

I think you have to hope that... they step up, as Bell has done and make these kinds of investments that triggers a response from their competitors and that other people are at least prepared to look, even if it's on a limited basis like Beanfield has, at coming into the marketplace.

By 2017, nearly half of the U.S. population will be at least 50 and, according to Nielsen Research, will control 70 % of the nation's disposable income.

A recent study found that there have been at least 250 abortion - related criminal and civil cases against women in the U.S. since 2005.

«The insolvency business is cyclical, and we're at least a year overdue for shedding blood in the system,» Terrio says.

And they don't even want to — a disinclination that's at least partly hardwired.

But no matter how low energy you feel, you probably still have to find a way to get out of bed and be at least somewhat productive.

Again, the cost of litigation is at least as great as the claims paid out, so make sure the legal defense costs coverage is ample.

Whatever your budget is, there should always be at least a little bit extra to put into savings and to cover future contingencies.

The bonds of iHeartMedia have long been in the basket of «distressed debt,» meaning their prices have fallen so far to where their yields are at least 10 percentage points higher than equivalent Treasury yields.

Alice Ting, vice president of brand development, licensing and syndication told Bloomberg the Times expects the meal kit service to be at least as big as the Times» travel unit, where the paper's foreign correspondents act as tour guides in places like Iran and Cuba.

Fisher says the value of the product used as compensation should be at least the number of hours worked times minimum wage.