Sentences with phrase «affects about a quarter»

Undernutrition affects about a quarter of all children globally.

Look to the press release to decide, though, and you will find only a strange account, citing Todd Colby, of schizophrenia, arson, and violence supposedly affecting about a quarter of the local population in 1845.

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Excluding the impact of the one - time factors affecting 2009 - 10, corporate income tax revenues are forecast to increase by about 17 % which is in line with the growth in corporate profits witnessed in the first three quarters of 2010.

Contract sales were also affected by fewer sales to new customers in the third and fourth quarters of 2010 as the sales force continued to focus on efforts to educate existing owners about the benefits of the new product.

Research suggests that about a third of kids are lucky enough to escape trauma, but about a quarter suffer such high doses that it affects brain development, immune and endocrine functioning, and can create mental and physical disease systems that reduce the lifespan by an average of 20 years.

As for whether the by - election should be happening at all, three quarters of voters in the seat (including a majority of Labour voters) think Phil Woolas «did make false statements about his opponents and this probably affected the result», so rerunning the election was the right decision.

These passages allowed the fire to spread to the coal seam underneath the town and expand along four fronts, eventually affecting a surface area about two miles long and three - quarters of a mile wide.

However, cutting emissions so that global temperatures increase by no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit) could reduce those impacts by half, with about a quarter of the state's natural vegetation affected.

They affect about half of women who get annual mammograms; almost one - quarter of those who get regular stool tests for colon cancer; and 10 to 12 percent of men who have regular prostate cancer tests, the researchers said.

This study showed that «About a quarter of us have up to 40 % fewer gut bacteria, reduced bacterial diversity, and harbor more bacteria causing a low - grade inflammation of the body which is reflected in blood samples that reveal a state of chronic inflammation, which we know affect metabolism and increase the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.»

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) affects up to 15 percent of the U.S. population, a number that is likely way below the actual truth, as only about one quarter of people with IBS symptoms seek medical treatment.

About a quarter of workers say that the career their potential mate has affects whether or not they will be interested in them.

Kelly is due to be in court, but instead she drives from her home in Pensacola, Florida, across the panhandle to New Orleans and checks into Room 303 at the Olivier House in the city's French Quarter — the hotel where she and Michael fell in love some twenty - five years earlier and where she now finds herself about to make a decision that will forever affect her, Michael, and their nineteen - year - old daughter, Samantha.

Speculation about how these changes would negatively affect authors started immediately after the announcement was made, and in some quarters, the outrage was clear.

The Great Flood of 1993 affected 500 miles of the Mississippi and Missouri river system, including Jefferson City.4 The flood halted major east - west traffic from St. Louis to Kansas City, MO, and as far north as Chicago — disrupting one - quarter of all U.S. freight for about six weeks.7

Severe droughts across India have affected about 330 million people, roughly a quarter of the country's population.

About three - quarters of residents of Burkina Faso and Uganda think climate change is currently affecting people.

By 2035, about 170 communities — roughly twice as many as today — will face chronic inundation and possible retreat from affected areas under the intermediate or high scenarios, with more than 100 seeing at least a quarter of their land chronically flooded.

About one quarter (26 %) have breast cancer recognized as the most common cancer affecting U.S. women,