Sentence examples for portion of firms from inspiring English sources
But survey measures of business activity have taken large hits and a significant portion of firms say they will invest less as a result of the Brexit vote.
But "a good portion" of firms still do not announce them for fear of damage to their brands, notes Mark Greisiger of NetDiligence, a Pennsylvanian cyber-security firm.
But survey measures of business activity have taken large hits and a significant portion of firms say they will invest less as a result of the Brexit vote," he said.
Only a small portion of firms can raise this kind of money and have the right connections to get into the best deals.
Our data has a substantial portion of firms that have zero exports, so linear models would lead to biased and negative fitted values, and cause severe estimation bias (Wooldridge, 2002).
My friend Del's bison burger was a succulent symphony of robust meat and subtle umami mushrooms and onions wrapped in a crusty flax bun; my Alaskan halibut soft tacos offered a generous portion of firm snowy-white fish uplifted by the creaminess of avocado and tickled by the piquancy of pickled onions, with an undertone of heat that gave me the kick I had been looking for.
For troubled firms, some portion of the firm's toxic assets would be insured, but such insurance would be self-financed by the industry itself in the form of premiums.
Historically, those annual payments - typically 1 percent to 2 percent of assets - were a small portion of these firms' earnings.
Mr. Romney's retirement deal, like that of other private equity managers who keep a portion of their firms' profits when they retire, could give him the lower rate on profits from deals he had nothing to do with.
Chaebol heads typically own only a small portion of their firms, but are able to maintain control through complex cross-holdings; tunnelling offers a means of exploiting that control to get richer, quicker.
The terms of it haven't been revealed, but quite probably it allowed Romney to keep pocketing a substantial portion of the firm's profits.
