Sentences with phrase «dozen population centers»

While charter schools still serve less than 5 percent of the public school population, in a dozen population centers charters now enroll more than 20 percent of public school students.

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Which is why Amazon has already built dozens of fulfillment centers that put it within 20 miles of over 30 % of the US population and 50 % of it's target market.

A half - dozen Democrats qualified to run for the heavily Democratic district, whose population centers of Charlotte in the south and Winston - Salem and Greensboro in the north are separated by about 90 miles of territory, roughly along Interstate 85.

The researchers used high - resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) at the Museum's Microscopy and Imaging Facility, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and the Biomaterials Science Center of the University of Basel in Switzerland to scan the skulls of 21 felid specimens, including seven modern cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) from distinct populations, a closely related extinct cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis) that lived in the Pleistocene between about 2.6 million and 126,000 years ago, and more than a dozen other living felid species.

In its place between Shreveport and Jackson, both dozens of miles away, Monroe is the regional population center, and some higher general insurance rates apply to its close streets.