Sentences with phrase «about a tenth»

It's not very efficient either, working on only about a tenth of cells.

But researchers comparing data collected from ocean sediment cores with climate simulations show that this event at most reached only about a tenth of today's carbon increase rate.

According to his calculations, pet cats are responsible for about a tenth of the cat - related mammal deaths and close to a third of the bird deaths.

So good in fact that we ate it in about a tenth of the time that it took to grow.

So you're looking at about a tenth of that billion dollars.

However, these cars use energy much more efficiently than internal combustion engine cars, and electricity costs about a tenth of what gasoline does per mile.

I'm making the biscuits this morning, for about the tenth time.

It is this blood of the lamb which gives us the second way to read about the tenth plague in a new light.

These structures cover about a tenth of the island and seem to form as melted water below the ice freezes again.

Do those things and you'll have fewer students complaining about every tenth of a point they lost on their exam grades.

Over the past year, the typical person has lost about a tenth of his or her wealth.

The solar panels would require about a tenth of an acre.

Mediation costs about a tenth of what couples would spend if they go to court.

I only had to think about this for about a tenth of a second before I enthusiastically agreed.

«Diary of a Wimpy Kid» best - selling author Jeff Kinney talks about the tenth installment in the middle - schooler's book series, brick and mortar book - selling and the global phenomenon of growing up a wimpy kid.

Motorola made a point of saying that you can share a black and white photo without having to wait for it to be converted, which takes about a tenth of a second on a phone without a monochrome sensor.

«We're going half the speed and obtaining half the altitude of the space shuttle with about a tenth of the weight,» Kelly says, «so it's a more benign flight profile than that of the space shuttle.»

As a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, NAM reports, the U.S. spends about a tenth of a percent supporting exports.

His green LEDs have begun replacing the incandescent lightbulb and green glass in traffic signals; the semiconductors last much longer and use about a tenth of the electricity, saving about $ 14 per year per traffic light.

The information about The Tenth Song shown above was first featured in «The BookBrowse Review» - BookBrowse's online - magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high - profile books publishing in the coming weeks.

MIT's Richard Lindzen: «Lull in warming was unsurprising, given an earlier «obsessing about tenths of a degree in the 1980s and early 1990s»

Likewise, the prototypical Vancouver condo building — towers of (poorly insulated) glass separated by (heat radiating) concrete balconies — provides about a tenth of the insulation value that a wood - frame home does.

Examined another way, the $ 874K TH granted under LEAP represented about a tenth of 1 % (1 / 10th) of their Gross Revenues (net of Cost of Power), less than 1 % of pre-tax profits and 2 % of dividend payments to the City of Toronto for 2013.

In late August, PetroChina, that country's largest oil producer, announced it seeks to boost its overseas production to half its total output (from about a tenth currently) in less than a decade through acquisitions.

So when we read about the tenth plague in light of Jesus on the cross, we can see that God is not to be found in the destroying angel who slaughters babies out of revenge or because of the sins of a proud and self - righteous ruler.

About the tenth century, when the ancient Scandinavians, the Vikings, were frequenting North America, the humid portion of the east, as far as the mid-east of what is now the United States of North America, was covered by a dense forest of 1.6 million square kilometers.

I will make this point more clear in the posts about the Tenth Plague.

About the tenth day these symptoms cleared up.

This is about the tenth Elana recipe I've made, and this one is particularly good.

(Manziel averaged 383.3 yards per game over his first 12 games in 2012, before getting about a tenth of his 5,116 yards of total offense against the Sooners.)

Its ridiculous to use these early results to determine who is going to win tHe league, a good indication on each team ability would be about the tenth game.

Mr. de Blasio had kinder things to say about Tenth Avenue in Manhattan, naming it his favorite road to drive.

What about the tenth one?

The newfound black holes were located within a region about a tenth the size of those associated with previous detections.

The geographer's cone snail, for example, only injects about a tenth of a milligram of venom when it stings, and yet, this is more than enough to kill a person in under an hour.

Fusion is more efficient than fission, but even if we enclose the sun in a perfect Dyson sphere, we'll still never convert more than about 0.08 percent of the sun's mass to energy we can use, because once the sun has consumed about a tenth of its hydrogen fuel, it will end its lifetime as a normal star, expand into a red giant, and begin to die.

In Switzerland, about every tenth adult suffers from morbid obesity.

Dawson says that she won't be willing to give up on the hope for something new until the LHC has collected about a tenth of the aimed - for data set, sometime around 2020.

And ecological data from living U.K. birds showed that over the past 26 years, their beaks have lengthened about a tenth of a millimeter.

And so they are around ten microns in size, and the width of your hair is around a hundred microns, so about the tenth of the width of a hair,» stated Mullen.

But a person with a functioning pancreas could avoid carbs completely (I'm not suggesting you do it) and only be in «ketosis» — a level of ketones about a tenth of what's required for ketoacidosis.

I had pulled my longest title out of the program because it was only paying about a tenth of a penny per page (if measured by its new KENPC of 1,199 pages).

Hazel Gaynor spoke to author, Isabel Wolff to find out more about her tenth novel Ghostwritten, available now from HarperCollins.