Sentences with phrase «with about a fifth»

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Sequence Bio plans to decode the DNA of 100,000 people — about a fifth of Newfoundland and Labrador's population — and the provincial government is partnering with the company to help recruit consenting patients and provide access to their health records.

And, to our surprise, these previously ignored behavioral differences across CEOs have quite a large association with firm productivity, about one - fifth as big as the impact of a firm's capital inputs (machinery, equipment, buildings, and so on).

Parsons is a straight talker, whether it's about his handicap (now 9.1 with PXG clubs from a «12 to 14») or flunking fifth grade in his working - class Baltimore neighborhood.

With 80 percent of sales happening after the fifth call, sales is all about being persistent and consistent.

Well the picture was made under the title of Magnifico Straniero, so when it was Fistful of Dollars I didn't think anything of it, and then about the fourth or fifth time that they mentioned this film they said Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood, little tiny letters down there and I said - I said oh god, that's it, huh?

The earliest programs in central Canada air at 6 a.m. and Atlantic Canada at 7 a.m. Numbers from the Television Bureau of Canada show that consistently for the past six years, the 4 a.m. to 5 a.m. slot has had the fewest viewers, with an audience size about one - fifth of the peak time between 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Still, Canadian broadcasters aren't overlooking the value of starting early.

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.

The fifth factor you can control is customers» concern about whether they'll be satisfied with your product.

Spot gold prices rose for a fifth successive day on Thursday, with bullion up about 4 percent since the start of the year.

What's interesting about this graph is the the fourth, fifth and sixth arrows collectively span a period of time which, for boomers and gen - Xers, represents a significant amount of their adult lifetimes and personal experience with what «normal» interest rates are.

The choppy action has imparted plenty of pain to the average stock with the S&P 500 about 8 percent below its January record high, more than a fifth of the stocks within the index have dropped at least 20 percent and two - thirds are off more than 10 percent from their high.

With a population of about 87,000, Wood County is the fifth largest county in West Virginia.

A report by Bristol University and the International Longevity Centre (ILC - UK) found that about two - fifths (40 %) of people aged 75 and over and who still have a mortgage to pay off have an interest only mortgage with no linked investment with which to pay their loan back.

«Kushner Companies is no longer in discussions with Anbang about 666 Fifth Ave.'s potential redevelopment, and our firms have mutually agreed to end talks regarding the property,» a Kushner spokesperson told the New York Post.

Whether we elect our Senators or whether we have elections where the government chooses to appoint our Senators, we're still dealing with the current situation, which is that the Senate itself does not reflect the national population distribution in that, you know, Alberta has six Senate seats, and New Brunswick, with about one fifth of Alberta's population, has 10 seats.

Fifth, and most important new governments with authoritarian tendencies have historically brought about bull markets even before they led to disaster.

In 1992, he received only about two - fifths of the modernist vote, with Perot getting almost one - fifth and Bush better than one - third.

The NSPCC and O2 polled mothers and fathers with youngsters aged eight to 13 and found that less than a fifth of parents are having frequent conversations with their children about staying safe online.

All the great spiritual writers have known this, but few in the Church's history understood it better, experienced it more deeply, and wrote about it with more insight than John Cassian, the monk from southern Gaul who lived in the early part of the fifth century.

31 percent of Brits made changes to their diet due to animal welfare concerns, with one - fifth worried about the environmental impact of meat.

My ultimate team celebrated its fifth year with a late summer potluck picnic about a month ago.

Brush with about one - fifth of the simple syrup.

This would be about my fifth time in making this, we never tire of it, must try it with the sunflower seed suggestion, sounds yum, so love this way of life and these recipes!

In fact, according to a 2014 report from the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection, about one - fifth of all farmland in the country is heavily contaminated with toxic metals like arsenic, cadmium and lead.

They should have pounced on the rare, remarkable opportunities that came with winning a championship in the fifth year they existed, and they should be talked about in the same breath as the Yankees right now.

There are other things Palmer does which such a sports celebrity could think twice about, i.e., working with power tools, playing baseball and football with local kids, Indian wrestling and crossing Fifth Avenue against the light.

I knew everything there was to know about my alma mater's football program, from Don Faurot creating the Split - T (and teaching it to future Oklahoma coach Bud Wilkinson during World War II), to Dan Devine nearly winning a national title in 1960 (damn Kansas beating Ol' Mizzou with an ineligible player), to the big upset wins (and ridiculous upset losses) of the 1970s, to the cratering of the 1980s and the early 1990s, to the Fifth Down, to the Flea Kicker (which I had the honor of seeing in person).

The 29 - year old is about to complete his fifth season with the Gunners and so is one of the old heads in the squad.

Now in the fifth year of a nine - year, $ 23 million contract with Napoli, Maradona has enough off - field endorsements and business income to earn about $ 8 million a year, which makes him the highest - paid soccer player in the world.

It started with new head coach Ben McAdoo, who required only a few seconds to starkly talk about «a fifth Super Bowl trophy in the case» for the Giants being the goal this season.

In 2012, the year ended with 67 candles — a rate of about 87 murders per 100,000 residents, which ranked Camden fifth nationwide.

Wilber was a backup / ST guy, Scandrick has been in decline, and, with Jones move to corner (reportedly his best position), Scandrink would have been a fourth corner or even fifth depending on how you feel about Brown.

I have this argument with my dad everyday, I really don't care we are the fifth richest club in the world, football in my opinion is all about what happens on the pitch not in the accounting department, we as fans were sold a dream by the people at the top of our club including wenger that basically said after Ashburton grove was built we'd compete on the pitch with the best in Europe, guess what we haven't, the only thing we've done is make a rich American and his associates even richer, wenger has been a willing participant in this.

After last night's opening Champions League games, all the talk on Arsenal websites is about our meeting with Barcelona next Tuesday, but first of all we have the small matter of a fifth round FA Cup tie against Hull City coming up.

Arsenal will have our own FA cup game to worry about soon, with a trip to face an in - form Brighton for a place in the fifth round as the Gunners attempt to defend the FA cup trophy we won at Wembley in May.

About a minute back it was Craig Oday of NorCal / Redwood HS taking third over Blaise Janssen of SoCal / Yucaipa HS with Julian Lepelch or NorCal / Tamalpais rounding things out in fifth.

He went 11 - 2 with a 1.65 ERA, seven complete games and three shutouts in 17 starts — finishing fifth in Cy Young voting despite only about a half season in the NL.

Milivojevic's fifth successful penalty of the season in the 83rd minute after Williams» handball was academic with Palace still worrying about their safety as they only just above the relegation zone.

They've slipped 16 points behind runaway leaders Man City, but the champions will be pleased about their five point lead over fifth placed Tottenham, with a real battle forming for the top four places.

It's important to keep in mind that breast milk and / or formula still provides the majority of baby's nutrition up until about nine months (solids only provide about one fifth of baby's nutrition up until this point, and then just under half of baby's nutrition from nine to eleven months), which means that although important to introduce a wide variety of foods early on (and certain key nutrients), these first few months are largely for experimenting, playing with and learning about food!

There's alway a lot of talk about the struggles of the fourth trimester but the fifth trimester comes with a completely new set of hurdles to overcome.

I have the best memories of sitting there with the hubs, no longer freaking out about having a fifth child, and just having a truly peaceful birth.

Their perspectives on fatherhood * Nearly 50 % of the conceptions were described as a complete surprise, and only three were planned * Nearly two - fifths (37 %) of the prospective fathers had had previous children; most still had some contact with the children but only two were still living with them and were engaged as actively involved fathers * Two - thirds (65 %) described themselves as having a low or medium sense of reality about their impending fatherhood * Three - quarters were expecting the baby to have a noticeable impact on their way of life * Three - quarters were motivated to learn more about pregnancy and fatherhood, with partners, family and friends seen as the most important source of information * Very few thought about health professionals as a potential source of support and advice, and some would have liked to have talked to one but felt awkward about it.

Colic, crying, round - the - clock wakings — is it any wonder that parents experience high rates of depression in the first year after the birth of a child?A study of British parents in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has found that more than one - third of mothers and about one - fifth of fathers seem to have weathered depression sometime between becoming parents and their children's 12th birthday, with the most episodes occurring in the first year after birth.

KidsQuest KidsQuest is a CDC website designed for students in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, to get them to think about people with disabilities and some of the issues related to daily activities, health, and accessibility.

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

This post is the fifth in a series about gentle parenting through potential power struggles with your toddler or preschooler.

Its comforting to know im not the only one, I was set to be induced with my fifth child on jan 1, went to hospital at 5 am, put on pittosin at 6, dialed slowly, and had painful contractions, Dr broke my water at 11, contractions even more painful, got the epidural at 12, labor did not progress, was dialated 3 cm all day, @ 8 pm,, Dr took me off pittosin for an hour to see if I would progress if we started over again, at 9 they hooked me up again, all night and just progressed to a 4, that next morning, still nothing, finally Dr said we need to do a c section, since my water was broken earlier the previous day, he was worried about infection, finally went to operating rm, it was so cold, I was shaking and crying, I was so scared, btw my previous 4 children were vaginal births, I felt so guilty, thinking it was my fault my labor did nt progress.Finally I had her, when the Dr held her up for me to see, I started bawling, she was perfect, it was very emotional, she weighed 6 lb 4oz and 18in, Im very proud of her, and myself

Kushner Cos. had earlier talked with a member of Qatar's royal family about investing in the building, 666 Fifth Avenue, Bloomberg has previously reported.

A separate recent survey of parents, carried out by independent polling company ComRes and commissioned by the NASUWT, found that almost three quarters of parents (73 %) agreed there should be much stronger regulations over how much schools are allowed to charge for the services they provide to pupils, with over a third (36 %) of parents saying the cost of educational visits is not affordable, 33 % saying the same about school uniforms and a fifth (20 %) for the cost of equipment.