Sentences with phrase «few tens of millions of»

«Not even with a few tens of millions of dollars could they peel the chip and try to use an electron microscope to get our key because our chip choice also protects against peeling.

So let's imagine Bill Gates putting a few tens of millions of dollars on the table to put together a team of scientists to audit the work of the IPCC.

There is absolutely no scientific basis for the suggestion that there will be «disruptions to the food supply (Including the ocean food chain) and access to clean water» from a «warming planet» caused by AGW, with «a few tens of millions of starving people» as a result.

What's the cost of a few tens of millions of starving people?

Actually, it IS a technical challenge... though probably easily solved by putting something more than the few tens of millions of dollars per year into research that we currently do.

«Galactic eyelids last only a few tens of millions of years, which is incredibly brief in the lifespan of a galaxy.

Within a few tens of millions of years, that process could make the East Coast as geologically active as the West Coast is today.

«Standing on the surface of Mars a few tens of millions of years from now, it would be pretty spectacular to watch,» Black said.

In this new, more chaotic picture of the solar system's early days, the planets seem to pass through a vagabond phase lasting a few tens of millions of years.

In the longer term, Rein estimates that the Roadster has a 50 % chance of lasting a few tens of millions of years.

But his publicity stunt has a half - life way beyond even what he could imagine — the Roadster should continue to orbit through the solar system, perhaps slightly battered by micrometeorites, for a few tens of millions of years.

Supporter - driven distributed financial outreach raised a few tens of millions of dollars directly for Obama's campaign, but perhaps more important is that it helped mine individual fundraisers» social connections for new donors, who would then find themselves on the main email list and subject to the kinds of «encouragements» described above.

If I remember correctly, back in the late»90s Grassroots burned through a few tens of millions of investor dollars before reinventing itself as an advocacy tool provider and consulting firm.

The age of the oldest rocks is known PRECISELY to within a few tens of millions of years, as determined by several different radiometric dating methods.

But the «backbone» of Canada's well - to - do class, says McCullough, are people who, through business or investing success, have amassed a few tens of millions of dollars.

Not exact matches

Starting with just a few hundred dollars and no marketing budget, Michael Epstein founded a manufacturer, distributor and retailer of consumer electronics that achieved a million dollars in sales in its first year and continued to expand, generating tens of millions in revenue.

The problem is that while most probiotic formulas contain tens of millions of beneficial bacteria, like Lactobacillus acidophilus, fewer than a hundred or so of those bacteria actually make it into your gut.

The last thing he wants is to have to spend the next few years publicly defending legislation that takes away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans and raises the premiums for tens of millions more (whether he believes in the merits of that legislation or not).

Neanderthal bones found in a Spanish cave have been dated to 430,000 years ago, suggesting their ancestors left Africa nearly half a million years ago and ventured across Europe as far as southern Siberia before dying out only a few tens of thousands of years ago.

Few Republicans reckoned then with the reality of sending the bill to a president of their party who might actually sign it and invite all the consequences, including casting tens of millions off the roles of the insured and off of Medicaid.

Ten years ago, she could get millions of views publishing only once every few months.

Facebook says over the past few months it has taken the feedback it received from tens of millions of people and made the search tool faster, improved the ability of the function to understand queries and made the interface easier to see and use.

We have a few details from his 2005 return, which suggests that he gets tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in pass - through income annually.

Some homes may be listed for eye - popping numbers, but they eventually sell for much less, Kirman said, estimating that homes listed for $ 60 to $ 100 million sell for tens of millions less, with only a few exceptions.

The emergence of these peer - to - peer (P2P) lending platforms, offering loans ranging from as little as a few hundred dollars to several thousands, has so far been welcomed by Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest economy where tens of millions of people have little or no access to bank credit.

Many of the few (about ten million) who are close to the major cities or in so - called white rural areas have been forcibly relocated to the Homelands, remote tribal reservations like the Transkei, Bophuthatswana, or Venda, that are allegedly ancestral.

A few of the obvious drives that pack us off, daily or weekly or episodically or, for some, in hope, permanently, are fear or even terror in the particular given set of circumstances; the sheer discouragement and exhaustion of facing questions without answer; profound disillusionment — it takes many forms — with the pertinent, prevailing system or systems; deep and bitter contempt for one's own society, bred of the abysmal failure to attain in consistent practice even a semblance of the justice professed and acclaimed; despair — so it was with the college generation of the late sixties — over the formidable obduracy of a political establishment in going its merciless way quite apparently deaf to the cries of anguish of its empathetic and real victims, victims by the tens of millions here and around the world.

It's the difference between a few tens of thousands of years, and being able to date back hundreds of millions of years.

1) Ten years without a significant trophy yet the Manager is never questioned 2) Selling off key «World beater» Players season after season and replacing them with mediocre at best replacements 3) Keeping a 33 % shareholder who is one of the world's richest men AND a true football fan as far away from the board as possible 4) Charging possibly the highest prices in Europe but NOT reinvesting within the team in any really significant way 5) Classing 4th place in the EPL as a trophy 6) Boasting of a # 100 million war chest for transfers then quibbling over a few hundred thousand on deals.

It's probably worth pointing out that Swiss outlet Aargauer Zeitung reported this story a few days ago, but said the fee was in «the tens of millions of pounds».

Given how many great players have left literally tens of millions of dollars on the table, just to play for Pop, it would shock me if Kawhi of all people would join the likes of Stephen Jackson and the very few other players who left San Antonio with ill will.

Peter Risdale spent tens of millions on players (and a few hundred on goldfish).

The report Preventing Disease and Saving Resources from UNICEF UK quantifies the extra illness in babies who are fed on formula — and expense to the National Health Service (NHS)-- in an industrialised and wealthy country: `... moderate increases in breastfeeding would translate into cost savings for the NHS of # 40 million and tens of thousands of fewer hospital admissions and GP consultations.»

The report findings show that for just five illnesses, moderate increases in breastfeeding would translate into cost savings for the NHS of up to # 50 million and tens of thousands of fewer hospital admissions and GP consultations.

The top ten men continue to out - earn their female counterparts by a huge margin — $ 488.5 million compared with just $ 172.5 million — a disparity Forbes attributed in part to the preponderance of superhero movies and action blockbusters that offer few starring roles for women.

Headlines suggesting 29 million might come here are overblown, but even a few tens of thousands more Romanian or Bulgarian immigrants could throw the government well off course from its ambition to reduce net immigration to under 100,000 by 2015.

Over the last few election cycles, IE operations have become all the rage at the party committees, with tens of millions of dollars spent through them.

«MTA Chairman Lhota toured the 7 line with local elected officials including the Council member a few weeks ago, ahead of this week's announcement that tens of millions of dollars are going to be spent to repair and paint the 7 line structure,» said the MTA in a statement.

Royal Mail wants to cut down the size of its workforce as mail levels fall - the average postbag today contains almost ten million fewer letters than just three years ago, it claims.

The demands came in response to news reports Saturday about how the firm, Cambridge Analytica, used a feature once available to Facebook app developers to collect information on 270,000 people and, in the process, gain access to data on tens of millions of their Facebook «friends» — few, if any, of whom had given explicit permission for this sharing.

In the last few years we had paid down tens of millions of dollars in debt.

He called for multi-millionaires» tax that would institute progressively graduated brackets as income rises from a few millions to tens of millions.

And in the last few weeks, details emerged of two of the biggest data hacks ever: the US credit reporting agency Equifax revealed that tens of millions of people's personal data had been stolen from it, and Yahoo admitted that a large hack in 2013 had compromised all of its 3 billion users» accounts.

It's a matter of faith among scientists that soft tissue can survive at most for a few tens of thousands of years, not the 65 million since T. rex walked what's now the Hell Creek Formation in Montana.

Typical galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten million stars up to giants with one trillion stars, all orbiting a common center of mass.

But only a few tens of thousands of tons of the metal are used every year, compared to millions of tons of steel.

[3] Most open clusters dissipate after a few tens of million years.

If Moore's law — that the cost of computation halves every 18 months — holds for another 15 years or so, SETI workers plan to use this antenna array approach to check out not a few thousand but perhaps a few million or even tens of millions of stars for alien signals.

Globular star clusters — vast collections that hold anywhere from tens of thousands to a few million suns — roam the periphery of our galaxy's central bulge.

When a Y chromosome is passed from father to son, the chance that a specific single nucleotide will change from, say, T (thymine) to A (adenine) is on the order of one in a few tens of millions.