Sentences with phrase «cent chance of»

«If graffiti is removed within 24 hours, there's a 10 per cent chance of being retagged.

As you would expect, when we look at the quality side of the equation, it pays to look for a long time and to be choosy (picking the 2nd best candidate you've seen after 10 weeks gives you an 84 per cent chance of hitting a top 10 per cent candidate), but interestingly, not too choosy (if you hold out for someone better than the best person you've seen after waiting 10 weeks, then the possibility of never finding the right person changes.)

Schmidt alleges the Department's policy was only to direct the Minister to advise the House on the sufficiency of legislation where it had a less - than - five - per - cent chance of surviving a court challenge.

[88] By the same token, however, litigation need not be likely, in the sense of there being more than a 50 per cent chance of it occurring.

In the first case, you advise that he could settle and receive $ 70,000 or have a 90 - per - cent chance of the court awarding him $ 80,000.

In the second case, you advise that he could settle and pay $ 70,000 or have a 90 - per - cent chance of the court deciding he should pay $ 80,000.

The FoE scenario goes the other way in terms of climate ambition, giving a 50 per cent chance of staying within a much more ambitious 1.5 degrees target.

That's well above the 3,000 tonnes level needed for a 50 per cent chance of staying below two degrees.

Under the scale of risk used by IPCC, the words «very unlikely» mean there is just a one to 10 per cent chance of limiting the global temperature rise to two degrees centigrade or less.

The absence of a statistically significant trend (at a significance level of 5 per cent) means that if the null hypothesis true, there is at least a 5 per cent chance of a Type 1 error.

As former US vice-president and climate sceptic Dick Cheney said: «If there is only a 1 per cent chance of terrorists getting weapons of mass destruction, we must act as if it is a certainty.»

The 450 ppm level is considered to be the point at which the world has a 50 per cent chance of avoiding dangerous climate change.

The IEA estimates that in this scenario there is only a 6 per cent chance of keeping temperature rises to an average 2C (the level at which scientists say offer an even bet at limiting the impact of climate change).

If you are silly enough to contemplate a 2 ˚C rise, then just to have a 66 per cent chance of limiting warming at that point, atmospheric carbon needs to be held to 400ppm CO2e and that requires a global reduction in emissions of 80 per cent by 2050 (on 1990 levels) and negative emissions after 2070.

According to Environment Canada, woodland caribou need at least 65 per cent undisturbed habitat to have even a 60 per cent chance of being self - sustaining.

Kayak through the Gold Coast's pristine Broadwater with a view of Surfers Paradise in the distance and the 80 per cent chance of dolphin sighting.

It found that in England, poorer children — those from families in the bottom quarter of household incomes — had less than a 10 per cent chance of attending a grammar school, compared with a 40 per cent chance among those from families in the top quarter of household incomes.

Roughly one in 10 of its students miss school every day, with half of the absences unexcused; and, data show students with an attendance record of less than 80 per cent have a 10 to 20 per cent chance of graduating on time from high school.

Pupils from low income families had a 29 per cent chance of being rated below average at reading by teachers, compared to 20 per cent of equally able classmates from high income backgrounds.

It has been estimated that to have at least a 50 per cent chance of keeping warming below 2 °C throughout the twenty - first century, the cumulative carbon emissions between 2011 and 2050 need to be limited to around 1,100 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (Gt CO2).

Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University in Boston calculates that if the Ebola epidemic continues to grow at its present rate, by December every country in the world will have nearly a 100 per cent chance of admitting someone with the virus.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that, to have a 50 per cent chance of avoiding 2 °C of global warming, which is probably too dangerous to adapt to, the energy sector can only emit 884 gigatonnes of CO2 between 2013 and 2050 (Redrawing the Climate - Energy Map, 2013).

A person saved from a snow mass within 15 minutes has a 90 per cent chance of survival.

The forecasting model is sensitive to detect dengue outbreaks and non-outbreaks with up to twenty per cent chance of false alarm.

They found that five young couples had a 40 per cent chance of giving rise to a population of 500 — or founding a population...

Each photon has a 50 per cent chance of going through a filter, depending on which state it collapses into.

People who apply for ROPAs have a 50 to 60 per cent chance of succeeding, he says.

If you were to take a group of people who were at higher risk of breaking a bone — so had about a 15 per cent chance of breaking a bone over the next 10 years — and treated all of them with a reasonable dose of vitamin D for a decade, you'd prevent a fracture in around one in 50 of them over that time.»

At the other end of the spectrum, the early age at which the model suggests you should start having children if you want a 90 per cent chance of having three — 23 — may be a shock to a generation who are waiting until their late twenties and early thirties to even consider the prospect.

If it weren't for caring grandmothers, almost every woman would have a gene that gives them up to an 80 per cent chance of getting breast cancer

It tells us how much carbon we can emit (our «carbon budget») if we want a 90 per cent chance of avoiding 2 °C of warming, or a 10 per cent chance, or whatever probability we choose.

A homeless person with mental illness has a 24.5 per cent chance of having a heart attack, a fatal or non-fatal stroke or sudden cardiac death over 30 years, said Dr. Agnes Gozdzik, a research associate in the Center for Research in Inner City Health of St. Michael's Hospital.

The UK is estimated to have a 50 per cent chance of admitting someone with Ebola before the end of October.

Of these, 271 million are rated as «confident facts», to which Google's model ascribes a more than 90 per cent chance of being true.

People with the altered form of the gene have at least a 70 per cent chance of developing colon cancer at some time in their lives, and women with the gene also have at least a 50 per cent chance of developing cancer of the uterus.

And other studies have shown that even the identical twin of a gay man has only a 50 per cent chance of being gay himself.

Before arriving at 67P, ESA had expected a roughly spherical comet and predicted a 70 to 75 per cent chance of a successful landing.

For example, a match between Manchester United's 1998 team would have a 28.9 per cent chance of beating Liverpool's 1980 team, but a 39.7 per cent chance of losing the game.

The Manchester United of 1992 - 2002 come out on top with a 37.7 per cent chance of beating their next best rival, closely followed by Liverpool during 1979 - 89 and Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1951 - 61.

The ATLAS signal has a statistical significance of 2.3 sigma at 126 GeV, meaning that the result has around a 2 per cent chance of being down to a random fluctuation; the comparable excess at CMS has a significance of just 1.9 sigma.

The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) says this gives the species a 60 per cent chance of recovering within 15 years, but environmental groups say it is not enough to save the bluefin from commercial extinction.

With polling experts saying that Labour has only a 1 per cent chance of forming a majority Government in its own right, the SNP's support is likely to be vital in passing any Budget drawn up by a Miliband administration.

Risk is not certainty, and my best guess is that there is only a 25 % per cent chance of a leadership ballot after the local elections, but is is impossible to make an accurate assessment.

But an analysis of the money bet in political betting markets currently translates into a Conservative overall majority of 16, and a 58.5 per cent chance of a Tory overall majority, down from 20 and 60.4 per cent yesterday.

But an analysis of the money bet in political betting markets currently translates into a Conservative overall majority of 22, and a 60 per cent chance of a Tory overall majority.

Bookmakers say that there is an 80 per cent chance of a hung Parliament - where no political party has a majority - in May's election.

But an analysis of the money bet in political betting markets currently translates into a Conservative overall majority of eight, and a 56.6 per cent chance of a Tory overall majority, down from 10 and 57.3 per cent yesterday.

Percentage chances of a majority Chance of Conservative overall majority: 32.9 per cent Chance of Labour overall majority: 3.2 per cent Chance of Liberal Democrat overall majority: 1.1 per cent Chance of No overall majority: 62.6 per cent (Chances based on odds from betting exchanges)

He explains, «My T cell level is at an all - time high giving me a zero per cent chance of passing on the virus... miracles have been persistent in my life, therefore faith has been persistent in my life.»

Financial markets are pricing in a 48 per cent chance of a fourth interest rate rise for 2018, according to Fed fund futures tracked by CME Group.