Sentences with phrase «from about a tenth»

In late August, PetroChina, that country's largest oil producer, announced it seeks to boost its overseas production to half its total output (from about a tenth currently) in less than a decade through acquisitions.

Not exact matches

The tenth anniversary of the iPhone is upon us, and rumors are swirling about affordable augmented reality (AR) glasses coming out soon from several manufacturers.

U.S. bank reserves, for example, have (as seen in the next picture) gone from being equal to a bit more than a tenth of demand deposits to being about twice the value of such deposits!

This is the tenth post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

It was not the start United wanted when the Hammers took the lead in the tenth minute following a cross from the left that found Sakho unmarked in the box and his effort was deflected by Blind past the despairing dive of De Gea to give the home fans more to shout about.

«The difference between everybody from tenth place to the last one is about five points so, as I said, we know every match is going to be a final for us.»

Considering we are seeing this giant black hole's activity from a time when the universe was only a tenth of its present age, astronomers are puzzled about how it could've grown so big so fast.

At least for the top programs hiring this year, sources say, about a tenth of job applicants in physics volunteer this statistic, up from practically zero just a couple of years ago.

«If the moon was the result of a long series of impacts from objects each about a hundredth to a tenth of Earth's mass, over tens of millions of years, then why do Mars and Venus not have similar moons?»

Their models showed that if you visited any star with a planet orbiting from the same distance as Earth down to one tenth that, there is about a 38 percent chance (and likely less) that you would run into a planet and moon system similar to Jupiter's four Galilean satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto), with similar ratios of moon to planetary diameters and orbital to planetary radii.

In Switzerland, about every tenth adult suffers from morbid obesity.

«There is a lack of strategy from political actors about how emissions from these industries should be reduced, even though these industries are responsible for a tenth of emissions of carbon dioxide in Europe and nearly 20 percent in Sweden,» says Johan Rootzén.

The researchers found IMS J2204 +0112, a billion - solar - mass black hole eating at a tenth of its speed limit and hailing from when the universe was about 940 million years old.

And ecological data from living U.K. birds showed that over the past 26 years, their beaks have lengthened about a tenth of a millimeter.

The second planet from the Sun at about seven tenths of the Earth - Sun distance, Venus is the sixth largest planet but has no moon.

Lacaille 9352 may have 50 to 58 of Sol's mass (Demory et al, 2009, Table 4; RECONS; and NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, interpolation table of Henry and McCarthy, 1993), less than half (43 to 46 percent) of its diameter (Demory et al, 2009, Table 4; and NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, derived from the power law formula of Kenneth R. Lang, 1980), 1.1 percent of its visual luminosity and 3.5 percent of its bolometric luminosity (NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, derived from the exponential formula of Kenneth R. Lang, 1980), and only about one tenth to 60 percent of Sol's abundance of elements heavier than hydrogen («metallicity»)(Demory et al, 2009, Table 4).

The distance from star A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 0.70 AU — about the orbital distance of Venus in the Solar System, with an orbital period of about 221 days, or around six - tenths of an Earth year.

Proxima B planet orbits about 7.5 million kms (4.6 million miles) from its Proxima Centuari star (about a tenth the distance of innermost planet Mercury from the Sun).

You'd think it would've been easier on the budget if Stone had just paid for Oldman's cab fare to the library, but, then, the library wouldn't have provided Oldman with a tenth of the information about the man he was portraying that he ended up getting from his meeting with Oswald's widow, Marina.

The Tenth Man (Unrated) Prodigal Son drama about a Jew (Alan Sabbagh) who returns to Buenos Aires to reconcile with his estranged father (Usher Barilka) while exploring the cultural traditions that originally alienated them from each other.

Oddly enough, it was about a brilliant but obnoxious tenth grader who is eventually ejected from his school.

While they're funded with public money, they generally operate outside of collective bargaining agreements (only about one - tenth of charter schools are unionized) and other constraints that often prevent principals in public schools from innovating for the good of their students (so the argument goes).

Ride height has been lowered by 2 - tenths of an inch, which not only improves aerodynamics, but furthers this car's very modern appearance that looks good from just about any angle.

Think about it like this: the Trackhawk can trailer the Camaro ZL1 1LE to the drag strip, unhook from the car hauler, then outrun the 650 - horsepower Chevy to 60 mph by a tenth of a second.

Lexus claims the LC 500 can sprint from 0 - 60 in about 4.5 seconds, with the LC 500h coming in only two - tenths slower despite delivering considerably better fuel economy.

Hazel Gaynor spoke to author, Isabel Wolff to find out more about her tenth novel Ghostwritten, available now from HarperCollins.

Here's another interesting statistic from that article: Image Comics expects to sell 300,000 print copies of The Walking Dead # 115, which is their tenth - anniversary issue, and about 45,000 digital copies.

``... moving from a 5 percent to a 10 percent down payment on loans that already meet strong underwriting and product standards reduces the default experience by an average of only two - or three - tenths of one percent... Increasing the minimum down payment even further to 20 percent... (creates) small improvement in default performance of about eight - tenths of one percent on average.»

A half - life of 1.0 typically means roughly 100 % annual portfolio turnover; a half - life of 10.0 means only about one - tenth of the portfolio turns over in any given year.8 Strategies and factors with longer half - lives, such as small cap and profitability, are likely to have portfolios that change slowly from one year to the next, making it much easier to tease out the structural alpha.

You can get that again from Mr. Bogle for about 11 basis points, near a tenth of a percent.

Most of what I know about art I learned by listening to artists in their lofts; at The Club (which I ran from 1957 to 1962), where the Abstract Expressionists met for panel discussions, lectures, drinking, and dancing; the Cedar Street Tavern; and the Tenth Street cooperative galleries, notably the Tanager Gallery (which I managed from 1956 to 1959).

The fine - mesh green fence zigzags about four - tenths of a mile, from the south coast to the north on Oahu's westernmost spit of land.

Only about one - tenth of 1 percent of the energy consumed in the United States came from solar sources in 2008.

Objection: The Kyoto treaty, even if fully implemented, would only save us about a tenth of a degree of future temperature rise many decades from now.

Very - rural sites are located at least one tenth of a degree of latitude or longitude (about 11 km) away from the urban areas defined on the MODIS map.

Articles on the WUWT page say they are significant, subtracting several tenths of a degree from the past and adding about a half a degree to current measurements.

The Kyoto treaty, even if fully implemented, would only save us about a tenth of a degree of future temperature rise many decades from now.

(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: The Kyoto treaty, even if fully implemented, would only save us about a tenth of a degree of future temperature rise many decades from now.

From memory... about a tenth of a watt per meter squared.

There is nothing small or inconsequential about hypothetically shuffling one or more of these from one judge to another, because each top tenth case is a trophy that has been realized after surviving both the initial judgment assignment gauntlet and the possibility of losing the majority on a swing within the panel.

When unlocking the Xiaomi Mi 5 from sleep, the lock screen is visible only for about a tenth of second, if at all.

Research on first impressions says that it takes one - tenth of a second to draw conclusions about a person from a photo, and that this process is so automatic it's almost impossible to stop.

Cardwell added that, although multifamily loans represent only about a tenth of the Fannie and Freddie's total business, they have helped to offset losses from the single - family business side.