Sentences with phrase «while about a fifth»

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.

Not exact matches

He said that he was talking about the idea of killing off the character since the fourth or fifth episode of season eight but that it was something the showrunner Scott Gimple could have had in mind for a while.

That is an excellent point about living in the fourth act while knowing the fifth.

As international awareness about the environmental costs of producing and eating meat increases — The United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the meat industry generates nearly one - fifth of the man - made greenhouse gas emissions that are accelerating climate change worldwide — the work of RiceBran Technologies is supporting environmental sustainability and combating waste while globally providing a nutritious source of protein, carbohydrates, healthy oil and dietary fiber as food ingredients.

About one - fifth (19 %) of single dads lack a high school diploma, while just 10 % of married fathers lack one.

Fourth and fifth graders may come to learn about «Adaptations,» why a duck has a webbed foot while an eagle has talons; why the hummingbird has a long, needle - like beak while the cardinal has a shorter, thicker beak.

While you'll often see him swimming in concert with Beethoven, we're talking about beluga whale Nunavik's fifth birthday on Sunday!

Ask your boss about options, whether it's working longer hours four days a week so you can have the fifth off, working from home every once in a while or working solely from your home office.

While this sounds low for the party's absolute core vote, remember that turnout at the last election was 62 %, so if all that 13 % always vote (a dubious assumption in itself) we are talking about roughly a fifth of actual voters.

The fifth anniversary of the Daily Telegraph exposures about MPs» expenses once again brings to mind that, like so many other cases involving the Establishment, it was the little people that got done over while the real culprits escaped free.

About half of the patients had previously undergone breast augmentation, while one - fifth had undergone genital surgery.

Astronaut Mike Massimino hasn't yet gotten to try tweeting while in orbit, but he is posting details about the last weeks of his training for the fifth and final shuttle million to service the Hubble Telescope, scheduled to launch on May 12, 2009.

Furthermore, 71 % like the idea of writing about one's pets in a dating profile: nearly a fifth of singles (19 %) say that it's `' very important» that an online match mention a love for animals in their profile, while 52 % describe it as a `' nice bonus.»

While Mary McCormack and her «In Plain Sight» team were in their final days of filming the fifth and last season of her popular USA series, the actress was also fielding occasional long - distance calls about the ABC comedy pilot she'll be shooting -LSB-...]

Black Mirror - which is now commissioned by Netflix - is about to enter its fifth season, while Broadchurch's third and final season was the most watched drama of 2017.

More than half of the 1,865 10th - to 12th - graders surveyed by the polling firm had knowledge of violent racial incidents; about one - fifth said such incidents happened «very often,» and 36 percent said they happened «once in a while.»

In addition, Ofqual research with 50 human resources professionals revealed that less than half of them understood the new system, while among small businesses, this figure dropped to about a fifth.

1) While Americans asked to evaluate the quality of teachers» work think, on average, that about half of the teachers in their local schools deserve a grade of A or B, they think that more than one - fifth deserve a D or F; even teachers give these low marks to more than 1 in 10 of their peers, on average.

While teaching fifth grade social studies at Excel Academy Charter School in Boston, it wasn't unusual for Leddy to break out into songs about taxation without representation or the 50 states of the union.

Education Next also found skepticism about teacher quality: While Americans think, on average, that about half of the teachers in their local schools deserve a grade of A or B, they think that more than one - fifth deserve a D or F; even teachers give these low marks to more than 1 in 10 of their peers, on average.

While Toyota didn't say anything about the forthcoming fifth generation of the Supra road car in Geneva, the GR Supra Racing Concept does put us one step closer to it.

We chatted with Downing about the fifth installment in the story of John Russell, and I loved his answer to this question: «If you could travel back in time to any decade, where would you go and what would you do while you were there?»

Hedge funds on average relegate about one - third of their total portfolio values into confidentiality, while the same figure is one - fifth for investment companies / advisors and one - tenth for banks and insurance companies.

Everyone who visited Fifth Dimension while we were there joined in a conversation about their travels and where they hope to go eventually.

One thing that often strikes me about Terry Winters is that a painting might have a seemingly - simple first read, perhaps two or three main color chords, and after a while the presence of a small amount of a fourth or fifth tone, one that wouldn't seem to fit, influences the tonality of the whole painting, giving it a slightly dissonant buzz.

While preparing for his two one - person exhibits at the Mary Boone Gallery (A Unified Theory at 541 West 24th Street and Box Paintings at 745 Fifth Avenue, January 8 — February 5, 2011), the artist Joe Zucker welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to his home and studio in East Hampton to talk about his life and work.

While global temperatures rose by about one - fifth of a degree Fahrenheit per decade from the 1950s through 1990s, warming slowed to just half that rate after the record hot year of 1998.

But a single time scale just doesn't express the multi-compartment transfer rates — a fifth to a third of the CO2 remains in the atmosphere after even a 40 - year half - life of ocean equilibration (which quite frankly agrees with my numbers — I get about a back of the envelope number of ~ 37 years half - life, depending on the saturation limits), and the rest will be around for quite a while.

While CO2 about a fifth, 350 to 400.

Africa did better during what is now called the Quaternary Megafauna Extinction (QME), losing about one - fifth of its big species, while Eurasia lost one - third.

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.

Litecoin, ranked fifth, declined by about one percent to $ 208, while NEO's three percent pullback dropped its price to just above $ 130.

The fifth annual Hays Canada Salary Guide also found that while employers are relatively optimistic about the year ahead, they're staff isn't, and instead burnout, low morale, and stress - related absences for workers have risen sharply.

That share was more than twice the rate in 1980 (18 percent) and an eightfold increase from the rate in 1960 (5 percent).2 Half of the children born to unwed mothers live, at least initially, with a single mother who is not residing with the child's biological father (although about 60 percent of this group say they are romantically involved with the father), while half live with an unwed mother who is cohabiting with the child's father.3 These estimates imply that today one - fifth of all children are born into single - mother families, while another fifth are born into cohabiting - couple families.

And the perception seems to remain that requesting flexible working is not «the done thing» — in a recent survey of 1,000 managers by the Institute of Leadership and Management, more than a fifth of those surveyed believed working flexibly would be «career limiting», while almost a third had heard colleagues make derogatory comments about other employees who worked flexibly.

About 50 percent of respondents said capital availability was unchanged for both categories (50.4 percent for equity and 45 percent for debt), while about less than one - fifth said capital was more widely available (13 percent for equity, 17.5 percent for dAbout 50 percent of respondents said capital availability was unchanged for both categories (50.4 percent for equity and 45 percent for debt), while about less than one - fifth said capital was more widely available (13 percent for equity, 17.5 percent for dabout less than one - fifth said capital was more widely available (13 percent for equity, 17.5 percent for debt).

About two - fifths of respondents said capital availability was unchanged for both categories (43 percent for each), while about one - fourth said capital was more widely available (28 percent on equity, 24 percent on dAbout two - fifths of respondents said capital availability was unchanged for both categories (43 percent for each), while about one - fourth said capital was more widely available (28 percent on equity, 24 percent on dabout one - fourth said capital was more widely available (28 percent on equity, 24 percent on debt).

In both cases, about two - thirds of respondents expect cap rates to increase (67 percent for CBD, 70 percent for suburban), while less than one - fifth expect cap rates to decrease (19 percent for both CBD and suburban).

On the other end of the spectrum, about a fifth of respondents (21 percent) look after one property, while another 23 percent manage two or three properties.