Sentences with phrase «drops by about»

The owner's manual notes that the capacity of the fuel bladder drops by about 1.3 gallons at 14 degrees Fahrenheit -LRB--10 Celcius).

Similar to MIS 5 and 9, CO2 drops by about 15 p.p.m.v. in MIS 19 to a slowly decreasing phase of about 10 kyr, before it declines in a sawtooth pattern to glacial levels.

«With quiet start activated, the decibel level of the new Mustang GT drops by about 10 decibels, to a much more comfortable 72 decibels — about the level of a household dishwasher.»

With the introduction of the new V - 6, the A8's starting price drops by about $ 6,500 compared with last year.

It is true that younger people burn calories faster than older people; metabolic rate peaks in our teenage years and drops by about three per cent every year after that.

During glaciation, water was taken from the oceans to form the ice at high latitudes, thus global sea level drops by about 120 meters, exposing the continental shelves and forming land - bridges between land - masses for animals to migrate.

Again and again, since the early 1980s, Schoenthaler has found that when inmate nutrition improves, the number of fights, infractions, and other antisocial behavior drops by about 40 percent.

If engineers were to spray about 10 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide droplets into the stratosphere each year between 2020 and 2070, the number of storm surge inundations produced by large hurricanes each year after 2070 drops by about half, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

That figure drops by about 50 % in a non-movie year, Hasbro said, underscoring just how important film and television content can be to drive sales for toys.

Thanks to that and falling demand for the commodity, prices have dropped by about 20 % over the last 12 months.

Pfizer stock initially gained on Tuesday morning before dropping by about 3 %.

According to global market research firm NPD Group, LCDs now account for more than 90 % of TV sales — bad news for Panasonic, whose sales dropped by about 25 % in the second quarter of this year.

By May 2017, Tiangong - 1 was coasting about 218 miles above Earth and dropping by about 525 feet a day, the memo said.

Following an extensive string of food safety incidents, Chipotle's sales dropped by about 50 % in just one year.

Over the past five years, sales have dropped by about a quarter.

As Stephen Gandel and Katie Fehrenbacher report this week in Fortune, the average cost of wind energy dropped by about a third between 2008 and 2013; in some parts of the country, it's the cheapest electricity source available.

The result: Australia's firearm homicide rate dropped by about 42 percent in the seven years after the law passed, and its firearm suicide rate fell by 57 percent, according to a review of the evidence by Harvard researchers.

It's no coincidence that Apple is a major beneficiary of the GOP tax cuts — its effective tax rate (the amount it actually pays) has dropped by about 10 percent between this year and last, and it's saving an estimated $ 47 billion on taxes on profits earned overseas as well.

Immediately following the hard fork, the cryptocurrency dropped by about three percent, although this may be a direct reaction to bitcoin's recent rise (currently $ 681 at press time).

Given that, just automatically we're gonna roll that out and we're gonna drop by about 10 %.

There was a real spotlight shone on the cost of their loans and the way they were doing business - good change in the regulations that has now seen problems with payday lending drop by about a half.

Church membership dropped by about 204,000 people to 15.3 million, and average weekly attendance dropped by about 97,000 people to 5.6 million.

Sterud helped the team find two additional boats and volunteer captains so most of the team, which had since seen its numbers drop by about half, to compete.

In other words, class options just dropped by about 40 %.

After the ban, total daily milk sales declined by almost 10 %, white milk sales increased by around 160 cartons per day but almost 30 % of that white milk was thrown away, and overall school meal participation dropped by about 7 %.

But in a sign of how challenging this transition can be for schools, district figures show that lunch sales for September through December dropped by about 5 percentage points since the previous year, or more than 20,000 lunches a day.

Whenever chocolate milk has been unavailable in schools in my district, milk volume has also been found to drop by about 35 %.

PALATINE — Spending will drop by about 10 percent in the Salt Creek Rural Park District's proposed 1999 - 2000 budget due to bonds being paid off and a quiet year for capital improvement projects.

My supply dropped by about 6 ounces a day once my period started and I haven't been able to get it back up.

But the number of visits to the library has dropped by about a third since January, because of the number of lockdowns.

Overall, in the five years after the ban, gun suicides dropped by about as much as they had in the five years prior to the ban.

In the past five years, the state's cigarette tax collections have dropped by about $ 400 million, according to data and estimates from the office of state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

Republicans, with about 11 million fewer enrollees, saw their totals drop by about 500,000.

The Rensselaer budget would see taxes drop by about 11 percent.

But a line in the town's budget accounting for Suffolk County tax settlements will drop by about $ 1.3 million this year, Mr. Russell said.

-- State gasoline taxes would drop by about a penny a gallon under a one - year cap on the gross receipts tax, as proposed Monday by Democratic legislative leaders.

That percentage is stable from 2015 to 2016, though the actual number of Medicaid recipients dropped by about 3,000 last year.

«The simulations showed that the only way to account for the proven increase in volcanic activity was that the level (and thus the weight) of the Mediterranean Sea dropped by about two kilometres,» explains Sternai, before adding: «I leave it to you to imagine what the landscape looked like.»

Although global rates of maternal death have been dropping by about 1.5 percent each year since 1980, there is still a long way to go if countries hope to meet United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 by 2015 — a 75 percent reduction in the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 1990 levels.

When the frightened creatures froze in place and covered the cavity leading to the gills with their tentacles, the voltage in the water nearby dropped by about 80 %, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Subsequent lab tests on two types of sharks revealed that the tactic works beautifully: When the researchers generated voltages to simulate the presence of a resting cuttlefish, the sharks could detect the electronic equipment from a distance of 20 centimeters and struck at it 62 % of the time.

In separate research Famiglietti looked at California's aquifers — which lay outside the Colorado River basin — and found that they had also been severely diminished, having dropped by about 7 trillion gallons since just 2011.

As a result, combined emissions of six common air pollutants have dropped by about 70 percent nationwide since the 1970 passage of the Clean Air Act, which regulates U.S. emissions of hazardous air pollutants.

Oded Aharonson «s group at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena estimates the lake level is dropping by about a metre every terrestrial year, suggesting part of the lake bed must be very flat.

Within a week, he says, his water use on that section of the ranch seemed to drop by about half.

The speed of the young, inch - long fish, thought to be among the fastest on the planet at about five body lengths per second, «dropped by about 37 percent,» Grosell said.

Once DACA protections came into effect, however, diagnoses in the children of protected mothers dropped by about half, from 7.9 % to less than 4 %, the team reports today in Science.

Levels of APOE protein dropped by about half in mice given the APOE compound as compared with those that received the placebo oligo or saltwater.

The data revealed that the rate of high - acceleration events — a sign of risky driving — dropped by about 34 % immediately after a teen was involved in a severe collision.

For example, the likelihood that a Christian survey respondent expressed a great deal of concern about climate change dropped by about a third between 1990 and 2015.

Some 35 people were killed, and so much water fell on Australia rather than in the sea that the world's oceans dropped by about 7 millimetres.