Sentences with phrase «bit less than»

Think of the adverb «quite», which is either ambiguous or weak: «quite good» can mean «better than expected», «something a bit less than good», «actually good», «very good».

It looks like he kept it up for a bit less than two years, which is a decent time to gauge the likelihood of success.

The date this piece is September 22, 2006, a bit less than three months after the release of Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» movie, so it would not be much of a stretch to guess that when the writer says he recently came to understand this «false sense of uncertainty» situation, he gleaned it from the movie, where Gore spelled out the «reposition global warming» phrase full screen and then immediately followed it with a reference to the infamous «Doubt is Our Product» leaked memo phrase from the tobacco industry.

While the UK is sadly cutting its solar subsidies (though a bit less than expected), the U.S. seems about to renew its solar and wind power investment tax credits.

Without their tireless efforts to increase production up to, but not over, a bit less than potential demand (to ensure high prices), in their mind, we'd end up like Leningrad.

This means that an authority such as government states that only some amount of the pollutant will be permitted, per year, and that each company in the country or state is permitted some amount, generally a bit less than their historical norm.

NREL's Blythe Riverside example says a 100 MW (p) plant costing $ (US) 658 million will generate (not deliver at distance net of embodied and transmission losses) 358 million kWh per year (at a 5.2 kWh / m2 / day site, a bit less than ideal).

Although solar (mainly PV) is the largest single energy source by that time, total carbon consumed through fossil fuel use amounts to 800 billion tonnes carbon by the end of the century, just a bit less than current proven reserves (900 billion tonnes as indicated above).

Nordhaus has argued that a global temperature rise of 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit — which used to be the consensus projection for 2100 — would reduce gross world product by a bit less than 2 percent.

280 ppm = 0ºC 560 ppm = 3ºC 1120 ppm = 6ºC... and 467 ppm = 2.21 ºC, a bit less than my previous estimate of 2.4.

Scientists believe that the sun is a bit less than halfway through its life, which should last for another 6.5 billion years.

The disadvantage of installing solar panels for your home in Minnesota is that there is less overall solar irradiation in Minnesota per year and so a solar system, produces a bit less than it would in some other areas.

So that would mean that the current warming could be half or a bit less than half due to non-natural causes.

It is a bit less than twice by my eye.

â $ œTake a look, the dollar has depreciated roughly 24, a little bit less than 25 per cent, since February 2002.

That's a little bit less than emissions from road transportation.

That's the correct way to check which scenario is closed to actual; reality is a bit less than scenario B and a lot less than scenario A.

Over the 160 + year total period the actually observed warming is a bit less than half the theoretical warming at equilibrium per IPCC.

On this basis we could expect consumption rates to almost double by 2100, so that the total resource would only last a bit less than 200 years.

Hassan's self - built natural home cost a bit less than $ 5000 to put together, including materials, electrical installation, major appliances and some occasional hired help, but excluding his own labor.

A bit less than zero according to my credibility meter.

Exclusive of the event registered as such a standout by that upper data string above, 17 Ninos have averaged a bit less than 17 cents each.

In this case, future CO2 level from human combustion of fossil fuels would be constrained to the same as occurred in the past or ~ 110 ppmv above today's level = a bit more than 500 ppmv, rather than a bit less than 1000 ppmv).

This much wind capacity will produce about as much electricity as 30 nuclear plants, and that will be a bit less than 5 % of the country's electricity.

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you want — it's a result of several measurement points around the globe, and results are a bit less than those at Mauna Loa.

A bit less than half of the total emitted CO2 «remains» in the atmosphere, so this equals 25.1 GtCO2 added to the atmosphere by UK emissions to year 2100.

Our own climatic concerns may be interpreted as economic ignorance, but wouldn't making the 450 Scenario a success be considerably easier if we invested just a little bit less than 10,000,000,000,000 [yes, that's what 10 trillion looks like] more dollars in oil?

You know, we have seen global warming thus far of just a little bit less than one degree Celsius and look at what has happened: Superstorm Sandy, Boulder, Colorado, all these fires, Hurricane Irene one year before Sandy — how many billions was that?

When water is formed from hydrogen and oxygen, the weight is a little bit less than would be expected.

Area of permafrost is a bit less than 20 million km ^ 2.

Modtran indicates that maintaining constant clear sky upward flux after a doubling of CO2 (70 KM altitude, looking down, constant relative humidity) requires ~ 1.9 C higher surface temperature in the tropics but a bit less than 1C in the subarctic.

The report had predicted a maximum flooding depth of a bit less than six meters, hence the diesel emergency power generators that were located at a platform with six - meter elevation were not relocated.

Recent work has suggested that the «shielding» effect of aerosols is probably a bit less than once thought (again, if memory serves).

It also wouldn't hurt if they admitted to being a wee bit less than 100 % sure that GHGs are the sole cause of GW.

180/280 is quite a bit less than 50 %.

So, while gameplay was enjoyable, like the other games on the Palm Pre, I found the execution to be a bit less than expected.

Coming up in a little bit less than a year is Castlevania» proud successor Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night made by Koji Igarashi, creator of the precedent game and new studio owner after leaving Konami.

In sixty minutes, I got to Chapter 5, which looks to be just a little bit less than halfway, based on what I could tell by the length of expected play.

I do wish these Wii U to Switch ports were a bit less than full price, but I guess if you haven't played it, it's new to you?

I'm surprised they didn't release a digital release that includes the season pass for a bit less than buying both separately.

My thoughts on what they could do is not have 100 players but make it a bit less than this, have the horses in the battle Royale mode but have it so they take damage for example if hit in the leg it could collapse and buckle you off making you take damage.

You usually have just a bit less than you need at any given point, and the scramble to cover the holes in your strategy is simultaneously invigorating and panic - inducing.

A little bit less than a month ago we released our iPhone and Android game Bubbimals.

Battery life for the controller is a decent if not spectacular seven hours, which is a fair bit less than the DualShock 3's, though with the amount of new tech on board, was to be expected.

I suspect more and more than developers were slightly surprised with the performance of the next gen consoles, being a fair bit less than they expected it to be a while back.

That's because the Disney Visa sign - up bonus is usually $ 200, quite a bit less than many other cards, Barrett points out, adding: «For those with the card, it's still savings, of course, so it's not a bad thing.»

And IHG Rewards points are worth only a little bit less than what you can buy them for through the back door.

Milford Sound is 279 km from Queenstown (a bit less than 4 hours) and 121 km from Te Anau.

The timing was a bit less than ideal but it was an annual travel bloggers» conference and Blonde and Brunette had planned to attend months earlier and were hoping to wring all of the freebies out of it that they could.

A bit less than I used to (life and kids have a habit of doing that), but still going.