Sentences with phrase «equivalent of more»

Made up of 24,934 panels and mounted on single - axis trackers, the setup is designed to produce approximately 9,264,000 kilowatt hours of solar electricity each year, which is enough to power the equivalent of more than 800 typical American homes, and to offset 6,388 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually.

In 2016, his Surrey Basket Brigade assisted 48 families and this year they delivered baskets to 80 families — the equivalent of more than 500 individuals.

Currently, the app accounts for more than 95 % of these establishments around the world, the equivalent of more than 16 million.

You may have to sell a kidney to afford this bad boy, priced at the equivalent of more than $ 1,500 for a late December European release.

- enable employees to gain back the equivalent of more than 2 weeks worth of vacation time per yearâ $» time theyâ $ ™ d have otherwise spent commuting.

According to the study's findings, a Texas attorney should handle an annual full - time equivalent of no more than 236 Class B misdemeanors, 216 class A misdemeanors, 175 state jail felonies, 144 third - degree felonies, 105 second - degree felonies or 77 first - degree felonies.

From 1961 to 2005, the thickness of «small» glaciers decreased approximately 12 meters, or the equivalent of more than 9,000 cubic kilometers of water.

Alberta's internationally recognised «tar sand» reserves are now put at the equivalent of more than 175 billion barrels of crude oil.

In addition to this rapid surface warming, the global oceans have also been accumulating heat at an incredible rate - the equivalent of more than two Hiroshima «Little Boy» atomic bomb detonations per second, every second over a the past half century.

Halting crude oil exports would reduce drilling and fracking and could prevent up to 500 million tons of greenhouse emissions — the pollution equivalent of more than 135 coal - fired power plants, according to a report from the Center for American Progress.

This heating amounts to 136 trillion Joules per second (Watts), which as Glenn Tramblyn noted in a previous post, is the equivalent of more than two Hiroshima «Little Boy» atomic bomb detonations per second, every second over a 55 - year period.

The two wind farms would produce enough energy each year to power the equivalent of more than 50,000 average households with clean, homegrown energy.

David Doniger, director of NRDC's Climate and Clean Air program, writes, «NRDC estimates that the agreed HFC phase - down will avoid the equivalent of more than 80 billion tons of CO2 over the next 35 years.»

JAKARTA — Indonesia is suing an arm of Thailand's biggest energy group, PTT, for the equivalent of more than $ 2 billion over a 2009 oil spill the archipelago country says...

«Evidence of this active cycle was demonstrated this year as the Atlantic Basin produced the equivalent of more than two entire hurricane seasons over the course of one,» David L. Johnson, director of the National Weather Service.

It would also send 500 extra coal ships with their cargo through the Great Barrier Reef each year, bringing new risk of damage to its fragile corals on their way to releasing an equivalent of more than 4.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Engaging with suppliers to reduce CO2 emissions The LEGO Group's 2020 goal is to reduce CO2 emissions by 10 %, the equivalent of more than 10,000 tonnes annually, or taking more than 28,000 cars off the roads.

Together, they are bullfrogpowering the equivalent of more than 1.9 million households across Canada during Earth Hour.

According to UNEP, nations must emit the equivalent of no more than 44 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide each year by 2020, but current pledges are 6 to 12 gigatonnes short.

These new commitments, combined with existing HFC - reduction initiatives, are expected to cut global greenhouse gases by the equivalent of more than 1 billion metric tons of CO2 cumulatively by 2025, as much as would be achieved by taking 210 million cars off the road for one year.

One is a report on the Wheels blog by my friend Jim Motavalli about the possible rebirth of the «air car,» a vehicle that runs on compressed air and a small amount of fuel to run a heater that boosts its range (it is said to get the equivalent of more than 100 miles per gallon when you account for the energy it takes to compress the air).

American Express allows you to transfer points to one of 17 airlines, and for that many points, you have the equivalent of more than three round - trip coach tickets to Europe, or about eight domestic round trips.

Unmarried taxpayers received a $ 3,000 exemption (the equivalent of approximately $ 73,000 today) while a married couple received a $ 4,000 exemption (the equivalent of more than $ 97,000 today).

Right now, the hybrid system pushes out 600 kW — the equivalent of more than 800 horsepower — though that might change further over time.

By European measurements, cargo space is also up the equivalent of more than a cubic foot.

Charter schools in Washington, D.C., which are held to higher accountability standards, give their students the equivalent of more than half a year of extra learning in math and 11 weeks in reading over traditional schools, the study found.

Students in the summer learning programs began the 2013 - 2014 academic year with a meaningful advantage in math, the equivalent of more than one - fifth of the amount of growth in math skills achieved by the typical student between the spring of 3rd grade and the spring of 4th grade.

More than 1 in 4 of the nation's full - time teachers are considered chronically absent from school, according to federal data, missing the equivalent of more than two weeks of classes each academic year in what some districts say has become an educational crisis.

The students continued after Friday rolled around, spending the equivalent of more than seven months doing math.

For example, while the 25th percentile math score for black 13 - year - olds was unchanged between 1986 and 1999, it rose between 1999 and 2008 by the equivalent of more than a full grade level.

In mathematical literacy, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania experienced no significant change; Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland experienced a decline, while the Northern Territory significantly improved by the equivalent of more than three - quarters of a year of schooling.»

This is the equivalent of more than two years of schooling and one full proficiency level.»

The difference between the average score for the highest - performing state or territory (ACT), and the lowest - performing (Tasmania), was the equivalent of more than one year of schooling.

Advantaged students score the equivalent of more than one PISA proficiency level higher in financial literacy than their disadvantaged peers.

This sticky habit snowballs into the equivalent of more than 14 four - pound sacks of sugar per person each year.

In total, ENCODE generated more than 15 trillion bytes of raw data and consumed the equivalent of more than 300 years of computer time to analyze.

The Helmsley Charitable Trust, an American organization, is funding POInT as part of the Global Platform for the Prevention of Autoimmune Diabetes (GPPAD), to which they have committed the equivalent of more than $ 44 million in total.

For this prestigious task, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust will be providing IBBL with the equivalent of more than $ 400,000 in funding.

• A Seattle family with two adults, a preschooler and a school - age child needs to make $ 65,716 annually — the equivalent of more than three full - time minimum wage jobs — to cover costs.

The world's cities add 65 million people per year, or the equivalent of more than 20 Chicagos or six New Yorks.

Every year in the Northern Hemisphere about 7.5 million metric tons of black carbon, the equivalent of more than 100 times Earth's total biomass, enters the air from internal combustion engines, forest fires and other sources.

Dukes found that in a single year, 1997, the human population burned the equivalent of more than 400 times the total plant matter grown that year throughout the world, including oceanic plankton.

And the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck northeast Japan in March 2011 unleashed the equivalent of more than 15,000 Hiroshima bombs.

In 3 years since our programme started, amateur contributors from Europe, the US and Australia have analysed the equivalent of more than 56 days of videos — around 53,000 videos — without discovering an impact.

The political equivalent of more common face - savers such as «You didn't dump me, I dumped you» or «You can't fire me; I quit.»

That's the equivalent of more than 450 individual donors giving the maximum $ 4,800 amount allowed by law.

For example, the very small increases in the minimum wage that took effect in eight states on January 1, 2012 as a result of those states» indexing laws will generate an additional $ 366 million in GDP and create the equivalent of more than 3,000 full - time jobs, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.

«Naturally sweetened with fruit ingredients» claims the packaging of Heinz Little Kids Fruit & Chia Shredz, but the product is 35 % apple juice concentrate — and a small 18g serve contains the equivalent of more than three teaspoons of sugar.

Grab a Big Gulp - sized serving and you've got the equivalent of more than 17 teaspoons of sugar — about the same amount as in four Betty Crocker chocolate cupcakes!

They invariably adopted other conceptions as even more fundamental; and rather than attempt seriously to deduce these other conceptions from the popular definition, they treated the latter as a more or less dangerously loose or anthropomorphic equivalent of the more fundamental definition.