Sentences with phrase «cent of the amount actually»

It calculated that if 23 tonnes of DU were inhaled — 8 per cent of the amount actually fired in the Gulf — this could cause «500 000 potential deaths».

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The National School Boards Association has been particularly vocal about this point, saying that it will actually cost school districts an additional 11 to 25 cents to cover the Institute of Medicine's nutritional recommendations, which call for increasing the minimum amounts of fruits and vegetables as well as for weekly requirements for «dark green and orange vegetables.»

Alternatively, if the turnover tax rate was set at 10 per cent so that the second vendor paid the same amount of tax as before, the first vendor's tax liability would be double the profit actually made, something clearly unsustainable and out of kilter with ability to pay.

Only about 3 % of the elderly were actually receiving benefits under these states plans, and the average benefit amount was about 65 cents a day.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

And a 2002 study, published in the Journal of Agriculture revealed that cooking actually boosts the amount of lycopene in tomatoes, with one type of lycopene, cis - lycopene, rising 35 per cent after being cooked for 30 minutes at 88 degrees celsius.

Even though the front grille appears larger than before, it's actually 20 per cent smaller to ingest only the amount of air needed for combustion and cooling.