Sentences with phrase «about a foot per»

There is no evidence at all that sea level will increase faster than the current ~ 3mm / year or about a foot per century.
The rate of sea level rise has been about a foot per century since the satellite era.

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When they make it to the ground, they crawl at a pace of about 1 foot per minute, according to the World Wildlife Federation.
Today's price of about US$ 300 per thousand board feet is actually lower than it was a year ago, but Underhill thinks it could hit US$ 600.
A 2,000 - square - foot shop in the Mall of Emirates in Dubai generates about $ 1,000 in annual revenues per square foot.
(With a price of $ 240, that's about $ 30 per square foot.)
Hang on to that $ 373 in sales per square foot; Moody's has a warning about that in a moment.
(The industry average is about $ 8 to $ 10 per square foot)
The spacecraft captured these images just 10,000 miles away from Pluto, with a resolution of about 250 feet per pixel.
Moody's, which rates the company Baa3 (one notch above junk) with negative outlook, had a special word in July about the space CBL is in with its sales per square foot of $ 373:
It records three - dimensional data about foot striking patterns — up to 50 times per second — for real - time analysis via app.
The 2.4 - million - square - foot center generates about $ 1,000 in annual retail sales per square foot, according to real estate research firm Green Street Advisors — more than twice the national average for shopping centers.
Pharmaprix, with about half the stores, has proven unable to leverage its parent's national dominance into a market lead in Quebec; though Pharmaprix stores are larger than Jean Coutu's, they have lower profit - per - square - foot ratios.
Knowing that a 2 bedroom apartment rents for about $ 1.00 per foot, people are flocking to 3 bedroom 2 bath 2 car garage detached homes with a yard that presents so much more for much less.
That's partly because Nordstrom has opened about 60 since 2011, but also because sales average about US$ 550 per square foot compared to about US$ 370 at full - line stores.
The brokerage firm DTZ analyzed all new space that hit the market over the past year, and found about 2 million square feet was listed in August, down from the average of about 2.5 million per month.
This means the current asking price of a Miami Beach luxury condo listed for sale is about 42 percent higher than the average transaction price achieved on a per - unit basis and nearly 22 percent higher than the average transaction price on a per - square - foot basis in the first six months of 2017.
In February, the owners landed the luxury fashion designer Coach as a tenant for a 10 - year lease with a rent of about $ 4,000 per square foot.
But here is what's most important to note: If you are on solid financial footing, the premium in interest rate to use an alternative lender is about 0.5 per cent, with the added bonus of not having to supply nearly the same level of collateral or personal guarantee.
Scotch Bonnet and Habanero plants are a minimum of 3 - 4 feet tall and 4 feet across, which translates to about 3,000 plants per acre.
At less we don't have to worry about «Per run at his back foot» stuff.
The Park District has agreed to spend about $ 250,000 on the items planned for the Schaumburg Golf Course, 401 N. Roselle Rd. Reil Construction of Union will build the shelters, which will be square, measure 24 feet per side and be placed throughout the 18 - hole course.
About 70 feet of narrow ribbon for tying the rolled diapers (1 foot per diaper) and tying together the tiers
And, it seems, the community's concerns about being priced out of neighborhoods targeted by the de Blasio administration as oases of affordability are not idle: The Wall Street Journal reports that land prices in East New York, named by de Blasio as the first neighborhood that would be studied for denser development, have nearly tripled during the first nine months of 2012, rising from $ 32 per square foot last year to $ 93 per square foot this year.
But in the end all parties compromised on roughly $ 307 per square foot, with about $ 61 going to infrastructure projects.
At 315 feet per second, this bow is fast, and the 150 - pound draw weight and 12 - inch power stroke makes it powerful enough for hunting just about any kind of game.
Also as of 2008, Zayas reported, the site was using about 96,000 British Thermal Units of energy per square foot (BTU / SF) per year, versus the industry standard for a comparable building, which is 162,000 BTU / SF.
Their model confirmed the existence of a magma plume pumping about 150 milliwatts per square meter (or about 11 square feet) of heat up to the surface, and peaking at as much as 180 milliwatts per square meter in a region where a rift in the crust may exist.
It tops out at about 320 feet per second, which will certainly speed your shot along!
That's about 1,000 square feet per unit when used in open spaces.
The radiation dose rate at typical commercial airline flight altitude (35,000 feet) is about 0.003 millisieverts per hour.
Feld and McNair found that beginning students can throw a karate chop at about 20 feet per second, just enough to break a one - inch board.
A green roof, which consists of a roof covered with soil and plants, generally costs about $ 10 per foot, but it lasts longer than a standard roof and provides insulation that cuts down energy costs.
According to aerodynamics experts, a skydiver without a chute reaches a terminal velocity of about 120 miles per hour after dropping roughly 500 feet.
«The highest velocities I calculated were about 600 feet per second, quite a bit less than the speed of sound,» Kommers reports.
So far, Volvo's tests have been limited to three cars driving about 16 feet apart at 35 miles per hour, but five - car tests are scheduled for this fall.
It will detect stellar motions as slight as three feet per second toward or away from us, about the speed of a person walking.
the ride operator urges, and another human torpedo surrenders to the froth, accelerating to a velocity of about 40 feet per second while careering through the slide's 300 feet of looping tubes.
From 2000 - 2014, the river's flows declined to only 81 percent of the 20th - century average, a reduction of about 2.9 million acre - feet of water per year.
We looked up a month's electricity and natural gas usage for the entire building where we lease our offices and estimated our respective portions to be 9,091 kilowatt - hours (the average single - family home uses 1,000 kilowatt - hours per month) and 589 therms, the equivalent of burning about 58,900 cubic feet of natural gas.
Without that cable and other safety mechanisms, we'd hit the bottom of the 2,341 - foot - deep shaft at about 120 miles per hour, in predictable and fatal compliance with Newton's laws.
«Until slow earthquakes were observed 10 to 15 years ago, conventional wisdom held that faults either released energy slowly and steadily by creeping, or would store tectonic stress until they failed catastrophically,» moving at a rate of about 3 feet per second, says Demian Saffer, a geophysicist at Pennsylvania State University.
Meanwhile, natural gas prices would rise only about 50 cents over what they otherwise would be, to about $ 5.50 rather than $ 5 per thousand cubic feet.
The image resolution is about 1,290 feet (394 meters) per pixel.
The most cost - effective option would be a scaled - up barge: At about 1,000 feet in length, this type of vessel would run perhaps $ 350 per square foot, though the rocking and rolling from waves might make for a rough life aboard.
They also curb their thirst: A 30 - foot mangrove sips about six gallons per day, while a similar - size pine tree guzzles more than three times that amount.
The ice under the front of the shelf is melting at a rate of about 3.3 feet (1 meter) per year, so the creatures must be burrowing to stay inside the ice, Rack said.
Brazilian peppertree has clusters of hundreds of small, red berries, and grows about 10 feet per year, to about 30 feet.
The aircraft, known as an X-plane, is planned to be 29 metres long and fly at about 55,000 feet at a speed of approximately 1,500 kilometres per hour — 1.4 times the speed of sound.
At an altitude of about seven miles, with Curiosity traveling at 900 miles per hour, a 50 - foot - wide parachute deployed.
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