Sentences with phrase «as estimated almost»

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In the filing, Pebble Limited Partnership estimated the total copper - mine site could be larger than Manhattan and almost as deep as the Grand Canyon.

At the same time, big - name department store retailers such as JC Penney, Macy's, Wal - Mart, Kohls and Target are collectively responsible for an estimated 300,000 hires, in some cases, increasing their staff by almost half.

As fans mourned the loss of the 91 - year - old cultural icon while others were critical of his exploits, speculation began almost immediately over who would inherit the magnate's remaining fortune, with several publications estimating Hefner's net worth at upwards of $ 45 million.

A new analysis from the real estate site Zillow estimates that rents in Nashville would rise 3.3 percent per year if the city landed the Amazon campus, almost four times as fast as currently projected.

By 2014 almost every mobile phone in the United States will be a smartphone connected to the internet, and an estimated 40 % of Americans will use tablets such as the iPad.

The company posted strong results for its first quarter as a publicly traded company, beating almost all estimates.

Hank Paulson, a Goldman Sachs CEO who served in the George W. Bush administration as Treasury Secretary, immediately filed to sell almost $ 500 million of his Goldman stock and take advantage of a tax - savings windfall estimated to be $ 200 million by The Economist.

These Census population estimates are as of July 1 of each year, so the 2015 data are actually a snapshot from almost nine months ago.

Nor would he say which buyer he would rather see as a partner for Waitsia, which is estimated to hold almost 1 trillion cubic feet of gas and lies close to existing pipelines north of Perth.

The «Allen curve» estimates that we are four times as likely to communicate regularly with someone sitting six feet away from us as with someone 60 feet away, and that we almost never communicate with colleagues on separate floors or in separate buildings.

The definitions and descriptions in the article are salient; especially, the «Psychopaths» and «Almost Psychopaths» definitions and «as percentage of population» (~ 1 % and an estimated 10 - 15 %, respectively) were important to help discuss some issues generally, and specifically to this post and the thread (though I haven't read anything in the last month or so).

Black / African American men and women were also strongly affected and were estimated to have an HIV incidence rate that was almost 8 times as high as the incidence rate among whites.

it becomes impossible to estimate the number of atoms, which would be so vast as to be almost meaningless even if it could be calculated.

In October 2003 Chile became the first Latin American nation to establish a second truth commission, The first, the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (also known as the Rettig Commission), investigated the cases of» the dead and disappeared, which numbered almost 4,000, and provided compensation for their families, Now the Commission on Torture and Political Prisoners has heard for the first time from the survivors of Pinochet's repression, estimated at some 35,000 people.

Indeed, recent estimates suggest that it takes almost three kangaroos to eat as much as a sheep.

Recognized as one of the biggest authorities in the fiery foods industry, Scott Roberts has formally reviewed over 500 different hot sauces, barbecue sauces, condiments and seasonings of all kinds, and has tasted between an estimated almost 4,000 sauces and spice mixes.

The World Health Organization and Unicef estimated the average maternal mortality ratios for 1990 as 27 per 100 000 live births in the more developed countries compared with 480 per 100 000 live births in less developed countries, with ratios as high as 1000 per 100 000 live births for eastern and western Africa.4 The WHO has estimated that almost 15 % of all women develop complications serious enough to require rapid and skilled intervention if they are to survive without lifelong disabilities.5 This means that women need access not only to trained midwives but also to medical services if complications arise.

The estimated # 4.9 billion total cost of the tunnel turned out to be a serious miscalculation, as the cost ballooned to almost # 12 billion by the time it opened in 1994, more than double the original estimates.

The government's own estimates suggest that there are almost 2,500 cases each year involving children as claimants in their own right who no longer get legal aid for their immigration cases.

I would estimate the number of retirements yet to be announced on the Labour side to be between 30 and 40, partly because there are almost twice as many Labour MPs as Tories, and partly because many expect to lose their seats (so why go through the agony and humiliation).

Some economists have estimated that next year's budget deficit could exceed $ 10 billion, and with the state's expenses increasing almost twice as fast as its revenues, the deficit is likely to grow radically from there.

Almost 30 percent of youth in the United States are estimated to be involved in bullying as either a bully, a target of bullying, or both, according to Safeyouth.org, a nonprofit that studies the issue.

Oxfam estimates that by 2015 almost 400 million a year may be affected by climate - related disasters, and this number will continue to grow as already unavoidable climate change sets in.»

As the tax base is estimated to have grown by almost 6 %, the Library Tax Rate per $ 1,000 will decline modestly.

Mr. Díaz is now the linchpin of a political alliance behind a $ 1 billion project with potential to transform the borough — four new Metro North stations running down its eastern corridor, estimated to bring in as many as 5,400 jobs and raise property values by almost $ 150,000 — and perhaps catapult Mr. Díaz Jr. into Gracie Mansion.

Hydrogeologists estimate that the part of the Earth that holds water stretches almost as deep beneath our feet.

By some estimates, that's almost as many bits of information as there are stars in the observable universe.

The oldest star in the sample analysed by the team is estimated to be almost ten billion years old, which is twice as old as the Sun.

That's almost as many as the estimated 20 million mourning doves legally shot and killed each year by hunters.

NEW YORK — In 30 years as an oncologist, Dr. Howard Fine estimates he has treated some 20,000 patients with glioblastomas, the most deadly form of brain cancer, «and almost all of them are dead.»

New understanding of how big ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica might break up has forced the IPCC to almost double its estimates of likely sea level rise by the end of the century — to as much as 1 metre.

«The sub-surface warming revealed in this research is on average twice as large as previously estimated with almost all of coastal Antarctica affected.

We estimate that almost twice as many pembrolizumab responders will respond to the therapy for at least one year: 68 % versus 35 %.»

Researchers studied almost 2,000 healthy women volunteers from TwinsUK who had completed a food questionnaire designed to estimate total dietary flavonoid intake as well as intakes from six flavonoid subclasses.

The model estimates that cases of both forms of drug - resistant disease will increase, suggesting that almost a third of tuberculosis cases in Russia (32.5 %) would be multidrug - resistant by 2040, as well as 12.4 % of tuberculosis cases in India, 8.9 % in the Philippines, and 5.7 % in South Africa.

The scientists found that these Amazonians were surprisingly adept at estimating the totals or differences in comparing sets of up to 80 objects, doing almost as well as a control group of French speakers.

Where (equilibrium / effective) climate sensitivity (S) is the only parameter being estimated, and the estimation method works directly from the observed variables (e.g., by regression, as in Forster and Gregory, 2006, or mean estimation, as in Gregory et al, 2002) over the instrumental period, then the JP for S will be almost of the form 1 / S ^ 2.

And as of Nov. 5, they estimated it was racing toward the sun at nearly 45 kilometers per second (almost 28 miles per second).

Global estimates for 2020 show a projected 400 to 600 additional gigawatts of PV capacity as the costs of PV energy are expected to drop by almost 10 percent per year.

Furthermore, given that Morton's procedure for estimating sex from skulls almost certainly depended heavily on size (as noted by Gould, and as even modern methods do), it is entirely unsurprising to find a notable difference in size between «males» and «females.»

New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS); the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE - 2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data driven machine learning algorithm known as «The Cannon»; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total).

«From our observations we calculated that value as 1.1 C (almost 2 ° Fahrenheit), while climate models estimate that value as 2.3 C (about 4.1 ° F),» Christy said.

We estimate net land use emissions as 100 GtC, while M2009 have land use emissions almost twice that large (∼ 180 GtC).

The researchers estimate that putting a penny - per - ounce soda tax on sweetened drinks could prevent almost 8,000 strokes, 100,000 instances of heart disease, as well as 26,000 deaths each year.

Yet the drugs have been prescribed to that population in very high numbers (in June 2005, as I've reported before, the International Review of Psychiatry estimated that the total amount prescribed in the U.S. alone has been to upwards of 67.5 million people, almost one quarter of the general population).

Vitamin A, commonly found in dairy, certain fish oils, and dark, leafy vegetables, is highly prevalent in pumpkin, with an estimated concentration of nearly 780 micrograms per 100 g serving of canned pumpkin; that is almost twice as much vitamin A as a similar portion of raw, leafy spinach.

As these numbers continue to climb, they estimate almost half of the world's adult population will be overweight or obese by 2030.

I spent just over 15 hours getting 100 % completion on the harder difficulty but I'd estimate that almost 2 of those hours were simply spent trekking back and forth across the kingdom as I worked on the optional collectibles.

Indiana's loss is estimated at $ 117 million, almost as much as the $ 131 million spent on the Indiana Choice Scholarships in 2015 - 16.

These differences are also almost impossible to estimate with any reliability, as estimation errors will often be larger than the differences researchers are trying to estimate.