Sentences with phrase «cent of the weight of»

Together, these account for 90 per cent of the weight of the mycelia.

By the time kids are three years old, their brain is approximately 90 per cent of the weight of an adult's brain.

Not exact matches

The Deloitte Biotech Index is based upon 47 shares listed on the ASX includes eight WA companies which have a combined index weighting of 2.32 per cent.

Three big companies CSL, Cochlear and Resmed Inc make up 71 per cent of the index weighting by market capitalisation.

PetroChina Co Ltd is one of its favourites: with a free - float of only 2.4 per cent but a weighting of more than 6 per cent of the Shanghai Composite Index.

One of the many surprising aspects of financial market performance over the past year has been the weak performance of the US dollar, which has fallen by close to 10 per cent on a trade weighted basis and by more than 10 per cent against the euro.

The Australian dollar has remained in a relatively steady range over the past couple of years, at levels that are a little above average against the US dollar and about 10 per cent above average in trade - weighted terms.

Since the beginning of 2014, though, the Australian dollar has on average been 18 per cent below the peaks it reached in 2013, on a trade - weighted basis.

In the September quarter 2000, the CPI inflation rate was 6.1 per cent, while the weighted median inflation rate (before accounting for the effect of the tax) was 5.4 per cent.

In the March 2016 quarter the overall weighted average sale price was $ 595,664 but in the latest quarter the price came in at $ 670,861 — a difference of almost 13 per cent and the second highest weighted average sale price ever recorded.

The exchange rate has declined recently and is now around 9 per cent below its mid-February peak against the US dollar; in trade - weighted terms it has fallen by a smaller amount, as some of the fall against the US dollar has been a reflection of recent US dollar strength.

Between late 1998 and the middle of 1999, the Australian dollar appreciated by around 6 per cent, both in import - weighted terms and against the major currencies, retracing around half of the earlier depreciation.

The new chain - weighted GDP deflator also indicates some lessening in the rate of deflation, being 1.4 per cent lower over the year to the September quarter compared with 1.7 per cent lower over the year to the June quarter.

The ASX 200 is currently 3 per cent below its 2002 high, while the broader All Ordinaries index (which includes more companies and does not adjust the weights of companies for their «free float») reached a new all - time high during March.

Retail petrol prices have a weight of 4 per cent in the current Consumer Price Index (CPI).

The Nasdaq share price index, for example, which contains a high weighting of such stocks, is around all - time peaks, and up over 35 per cent from its level at the start of 1999.

In import - weighted terms, the Australian dollar has depreciated by around 5 1/2 per cent since the beginning of the year.

The weighted average of the MERs charged by the component ETFs works out to about 21 basis points per year, which means the Sleepy Portfolio costs about $ 275 every year or about 75 cents a day — less than half the cost of a large double - double these days.

The Australian dollar has depreciated from its mid-February peak, by around 6 1/2 per cent on a trade - weighted basis, following a period of strong appreciation over the previous year and a half.

Another element of domestic financial conditions is the exchange rate, which has appreciated, in trade - weighted terms, by around 18 per cent over the past year, reducing the stimulus provided to the traded goods sector.

With most Asian currencies moving closely with the US dollar over the period, and these currencies having a large weight in the Australian dollar TWI, over 70 per cent of the TWI was in effect determined by movements in the US dollar.

The fixed - weight deflator for private consumption rose by 1.5 per cent over the year to the December quarter, while the broader fixed - weight deflators also showed increases of less than 2 per cent.

While the US dollar itself accounts for 14 per cent of the TWI, the total weight of the US dollar and those currencies which are either directly linked to it or closely managed against it is around 50 per cent.

When demand for electricity is again high, the system is reversed: The weight of the water forces the air back to the surface, where it collects the stored heat and drives an expander, reproducing approximately 70 per cent of the input electricity and releasing the air back into the environment.

Reflecting the significant weight Asian currencies have in the trade - weighted index of the Australian dollar, the index was up by 6 per cent over the period.

The import - weighted exchange rate has depreciated over the past year by around 7 per cent which, on the basis of past behaviour, would usually contribute to a somewhat smaller change in imported goods prices over the same period.

Before fees and tax, the LIC's closed - end fund exits since inception has benefited from «realisations» at a weighted average 3 per cent premium to carrying value, a weighted average internal rate of return of 21 per cent, and return on equity invested of 1.6 times.

Losing just five per cent of body weight has been shown to significantly improve health, including lowering the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes.

More than half of the participants in the diet beverage group, or 64 per cent, lost at least five percent of their body weight, compared with only 43 percent of the water group.

Although this is Oprah's first attempt at supermarket food, she has previously involved herself in the outskirts of the food industry, acquiring a 10 per cent stake in weight loss program, Weight Watchers, inweight loss program, Weight Watchers, inWeight Watchers, in 2015.

Don't be surprised if you baby loses 7 - 10 per cent of their body weight this week, especially if they are breastfed; they should regain it within 10 days.

Rachel Dawson, Otley, Yorkshire, UK Photo: Courtesy Christina Simantiri My baby had lost nine per cent of his birth weight by day three... I want to say a very public thank - you to Becky, Ruth, Suzanne, and Amanda for helping me discover breastfeeding solutions to breastfeeding problems.

Thus far in the race, Boris has turned a deficit against Ken (of second - preference reallocated, turnout - weighted polls) of 51 per cent to 49 per cent in March 2011, into a lead in November 2011 on the same calculated basis of 54 per cent to 46 per cent.

Although 40 per cent is regarded as the «election winning» mark, the weighting of the electoral system means today's poll would result in a hung parliament if translated into votes.

The cash consideration of A$ 125 per share represents a: • 39 per cent premium to Coal & Allied's closing share price on 5 August 2011, which was the last trading day before Rio Tinto's initial approach to Coal & Allied on 6 August 2011; and • 25 per cent premium to the one month volume weighted average price of Coal & Allied shares as at 5 August 20111

That means the combined weight of all the other parties could not reach the proposed 55 per cent threshold on their own.

«What we've tried to do is spread the burden of fiscal consolidation as fairly as possible and the biggest weight has gone on the richest one per cent.

How fair is it that 9 per cent of the membership of affiliated trade unions carries the same electoral weight as 72 per cent of Labour party individual membership?

This has cut the weight of a single Pampers by around 5 grams, or 16 per cent, which is good for children.

Dr. de Souza noted that 90 per cent of weight loss interventions fail, resulting in weight regain, which may be due in part to hunger and food cravings.

«For both alloys we found the niobium grain refiner could mean an end to the over-engineering of cast components with potential weight savings of up to 30 per cent with no loss of strength or ductility.

A few days later, there were on average 90 per cent fewer metastatic tumours in this group than there were in untreated mice, and the average weights of original pancreatic tumours had decreased by 64 per cent.

Mice with colon cancer studied by HQ Han and colleagues at Amgen Research in California stopped eating, and lost 20 per cent of their body weight in three weeks.

While babies» birth weights were similar in fasting and non-fasting Saudi women, the placentas of women who had fasted during the second or third trimester were 3 per cent lighter than average when the child was a boy and 1.5 per cent lighter for girls (Placenta, DOI: 10.1016 / j.placenta.2010.04.010).

For example, Brian Wansink and colleagues at the Food and Brand Laboratory at Cornell University noticed that people with a high body mass index (BMI) sit on average 5 metres closer to a buffet than those with an average BMI, and 71 per cent face the food, compared with 26 per cent of people of average weight (Obesity, vol 16, p 1957).

At least 80 per cent of parents of overweight children think their kids are a healthy weight, and the reasons for this blind spot are complex

Dr. Sievenpiper noted that 90 per cent of weight loss interventions fail, resulting in weight regain, which may be due in part to hunger and food cravings.

In his studies, obese children with two obese parents have achieved and maintained losses of 20 per cent of body weight over 10 years.

The first measurement of an ultra-diffuse galaxy's mass finds that dark matter makes up more than 99.96 per cent of its weight - a startling figure

«We took 20 per cent of the weight out of the components without making them any less robust,» says Walters.