Sentences with phrase «after surveying nearly»

After surveying nearly 50 stars from 2008 to 2011, scientists have been able to determine with remarkable precision how much dust is around distant stars — a big step closer into finding planets than might harbor life.

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos said his office will withhold a $ 28 million annual maintenance payment to the MTA this month after surveying nearly 400 Long Island Rail Road commuters and finding 65 percent were dissatisfied.

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Parents, for their part, would readily comply with kids» expectations: Less than 5 percent of those surveyed said that they wouldn't let their child move back in after graduating from college, although nearly 25 percent said that they would charge them rent.

(Adds analyst comment, updates prices) MANILA, May 2 (Reuters)- London copper futures recovered from their weakest level in nearly a month on Wednesday after a private survey showed growth in China's manufacturing sector unexpectedly picked up in April, brightening the demand outlook in the top user of the metal.

The latest ratings, compiled after a survey of nearly 30,000 students and 600 recruiters, were released today.

Nearly three - quarters of female business travellers said they enjoyed having someone else clean up after them, in a Hilton Garden Inn telephone survey of 1,020 travellers; just 58 percent of men responded the same way.

President Obama publicly attended church Sunday morning for the first time in nearly six months, and shortly after a major survey showed that only a third of Americans can correctly identify Obama's faith as Christian.

Kandiah, who's been a foster parent for eleven years, urged people to think about fostering after a new You Gov survey found that nearly half of people don't foster because they don't think they will get support.

Questions emerged last summer after the U.S. Geological Survey cut by nearly 80 percent estimates of recoverable gas in the Marcellus Shale, a sprawling gas formation in the Northeast.

The young women were then surveyed about their beliefs regarding cancer and followed for nine months after receiving the first dose to determine vaccination series completion; nearly 350 women participated in the study.

Last January, after a three - year sky survey, scientists with the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope released a list of nearly 500 locations where the spacecraft detected the highest - energy gamma rays.

In contrast to previous studies of access to care in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or other factors, the new study is one of the few to rely on objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemented.

More than half of heart patients continue smoking after hospitalisation, according to results of the EUROASPIRE V survey presented today at EuroPrevent 2018, a European Society of Cardiology congress.1 Nearly half of obese...

After repeating a survey that was originally posted on their website in 2010, Out found that nearly twice as many gay men have admitted to couple swapping in 2012.

After all, U.S. students trailed their peers in the very first international survey undertaken nearly 50 years ago.

After all, as a November 2014 survey of CTE teachers by the American Federation of Teachers points out, nearly 80 percent of CTE programs offer connections between secondary and post-secondary courses (and most that don't are offered at the middle school level).

The survey has arisen after a report from the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) and Naace discovered that nearly half of all schools are being forced to slash their ICT budgets.

Though 42 percent of likely California voters ranked education as their top priority this year, and the vast majority of voters surveyed after Treu's ruling agreed that the state should do away with «last hired, first fired» seniority protections, nearly 60 percent said they didn't know what the lawsuit was about.

After two years, nearly all teachers who answered the survey we administered (94 percent) reported that they had changed their thinking about teaching mathematics to students with disabilities.

To do so, we began soon after the first round of i3 was complete with a survey of more than 300 people, including i3 applicants and philanthropists, interviewed nearly 50 stakeholders, and also reviewed the extensive set of documents made publicly available by the Department about the process, as well as the relatively limited amount of i3 analysis to date from the education reform community and in the media.

Some two years after the launch of the first hybrids in the United States, Malesh said that nearly «one - half of the survey re-spondents still incorrectly believe a hybrid vehicle needs to be plugged in to recharge the battery pack.»

In a survey conducted shortly after the Jan. 27 introduction of the Apple iPad, Epocrates, a provider of mobile and Web - based medical tools, reported that nearly 20 percent of clinicians surveyed planned to buy an iPad.

Indeed, 72 % of those surveyed said that the years right after they retired were some of the best, with nearly half reporting that their happiest time was within five years of retiring and 24 % reporting that the first year of retirement was their favorite.

The 2012 BC Consumer Debt Study is the only B.C. - specific study to survey nearly 7,000 debtors from the area and analyzes key findings regarding debt levels, causes for overextension and financial standings after filing bankruptcy or a consumer proposal.

After interviewing 250 dog owners and 250 cat owners nationwide, the survey also concluded nearly 50 per cent of female cat owners share their problems with their feline friend.

If all Ridgeback owners provide surveys on all Rhodesian Ridgebacks born after January 1, 1984 (healthy or not), and updated them when necessary, a diagnostic error would very quickly become obvious, as the disease frequency would decrease to nearly nothing.

This retrospective, opening nearly twenty years after the French artist's death in 1998, will survey five decades of his work with unconventional materials, ranging from plexiglass to crushed automobiles.

Nearly a decade after her last major show in Los Angeles (a well - deserved early survey at Museum of Contemporary Art), this exhibition of 12 11 1/2 × 10 foot paintings (each «Untitled,» 2013) hits like an earthquake, albeit one that re-stabilizes the ground beneath our feet.

After surveying 150 bicycle retailers in nearly 40 states they concluded that almost three quarters of this stores were selling more bikes than the same time last year.

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Massive Arctic ice island drifting toward shipping lanes The biggest Arctic «ice island» to form in nearly 50 years — a 250 - square - kilometer behemoth described as four times the size of Manhattan — has been discovered after a Canadian scientist scanning satellite images of northwest Greenland spotted a giant break in the famed Petermann Glacier.Canada.com — Aug 07 10:16 am In another research, using Autosub, an autonomous underwater vehicle, researchers led by the British Antarctic Survey have captured ocean and sea - floor measurements, which revealed a 300 meter high ridge on the sea floor.

Wolfram's study, based on surveys of nearly 1,000 Harvard undergraduate alumni, found that 15 years after graduation, 28 percent of the women who went on to get MBAs were stay - at - home mothers, compared to 21 percent of JDs and only 6 percent of MDs.

Injured Workers and Poverty Survey 2010 Many Losses, Much Hardship The Impact of Work Injury FAST FACTS • Before injury, 89 % were employed full time; after injury 9 % • Nearly one in five lost their homes after injury • Nearly one quarter had moved in with family or friends at some point after their injuries • One in five injured workers could no longer afford a car • Food bank use rose from 5 to 77 people after work injury • 20 % reported an overnight hospital stay the last 12 months (most because of the work injury) compared with 7 % for the general population of Canadians • Over half had not been able to afford medications in the past 12 months • 57 % of injured workers in the study were unemployed For more information: wwwinjuredworkersonline.org

After an exhaustive and rigorous peer - review survey comprising nearly 4 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country, Carrie Frank has been selected for inclusion in the 2012 edition of the Best Lawyers in America for Product Liability Litigation.

But in a recent Gallup survey nearly three - quarters (74 percent) of workers indicated they expect to continue working either full or part time after retirement age.1 Today, there are many factors dictating when most of us will be able to retire, including Social Security, medical costs, how much we've saved, and the cost of living.

After surveying 2,001 U.S. adults, the Pew Research Center discovered that 54 percent of Americans use the internet to research available jobs, and nearly 45 percent apply for jobs online.

In surveys conducted shortly after birth, we find that nearly 1 in 5 unmarried mothers report experiencing relationship violence from the father of their child at least once since becoming pregnant.

To better understand life after breakup, researchers surveyed 5,705 people in nearly 100 countries about their breakups and experience of grief afterwards.

According to an RISMedia Survey launched shortly after Zillow's introduction of Instant Offers in two test markets — Orlando, Fla., and Las Vegas — nearly 87 percent of respondents consider the introduction of Zillow Instant Offers as a shift towards Zillow to become a real estate brokerage, a strategy that has been anticipated by many since Zillow's formation in 2006.

Nearly half (46 percent) of those surveyed favor government rule changes to make it easier for real estate companies to offer one - stop shopping, even after hearing all the arguments against such changes.

«Three months after the presidential election, measures of consumer optimism regarding personal financial prospects and the economy are at or near the highest levels we've seen in the nearly seven - year history of the National Housing Survey,» says Doug Duncan, senior vice president and chief economist at Fannie Mae.

Nearly one - quarter of Canadians plan to use their homes as their primary source of income after they leave the workforce, according a survey conducted for Sun Life Financial.