Sentences with phrase «households use about»

American households use about 320 gallons of water per day, and studies show that up to one - third of that goes toward maintaining a lush, green yard.

By 2010, Verdant's hope is to increase its turbine farm in New York City to 30 devices producing more than a megawatt of energy (800 households use about one megawatt).

U.S. households use about 8 % of their income to either pay off debt, or increase savings — or sometimes both at the same time, as in the typical case of a mortgage payment.

The typical small New York household uses about 4,000 gallons of water per month.

The average U.S. household uses about 11,000 kWh of electricity a year.

An average U.S. household uses about 10,655 kilowatt - hours (kWh) of electricity each year.

The average American household uses about 95 million BTU per year.

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Eventually, we'll all get used to it, Martin says — especially since many of the tasks AI will take over are the business equivalent of household drudgery: «You never hear anyone complain about the invention of the dishwasher.»

Of course, this is not lost on Amazon, which wants you to use Alexa for just about anything and everything under the sun, including all of your household and work purchases.

The vast majority of U.S. households still use traditional ground or instant coffee, and a survey by research firm Mintel found that about 36 percent of people who do not use single - cup brewers said these machines were too expensive.

Could stand to learn a few things about becoming a recognizable name, a household brand or a leading expert like my clients who have appeared on the major national TV shows, in the most prestigious magazines, radio shows and Internet sites... and have helped sell millions of dollars worth of my clients» books, products, professional services, and promoted causes that have changed the world for the better, using popular media to tell their stories for over two decades?

The average US household uses 10,000 to 12 000 kWh in electricity each year, about the same as would be required to generate four Bitcoins worth a little under $ 1,000.

You may not think much about this, but a tremendous amount of global resources — such as energy, minerals, chemicals and water — are used to make a single item of clothing, electronic gadget, or household item.

Using the conventional total debt - to - income ratio, where debt is measured as a share of income, college - educated student debtors are by far the most indebted.2 The median college - educated student debtor has total debt equal to about two years» worth of household income (205 %).

Natural gas is used as the primary heating fuel in about half of U.S. households, and prices can rise rapidly when extreme weather comes.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Therefore, even when religious programs are on semiprime time, the number of viewers per set is probably no more than about 1.8 — the viewers - per - household figure widely used by the rating firms themselves.

When Rachel first asked me to write about the Trinity being used to maintain patriarchal household codes, I was like, «That's a thing?»

It's no surprise that Greek yogurt is a staple ingredient in our household — it is an ingredient I feel good about using.

Blendtec Professional 800 Nutribullet Crockpot 8 Qt programable crockpot Spiralizer Quisinart 12 cup Food Processor Victorinox Knife My Blendtec blender is the appliance that gets used most in our household, probably about 10 times a day.

Consumers have become more aware about the ingredients that are being used in their household products, with concerns over phthalates, allergies and asthma detrimental to the air care market.

Analysts say the launch of Prime, which is used by about 60 per cent of American households, will change the game for Amazon and Australian retailers, making ordering from Amazon almost a daily habit for consumers.

In addition, the U.S. National Library of Medicine says your kindergartner will be able to recite his phone number and has learned about common household items — for example, he will be able to identify and name different coins, though he may not have the math skills to use them yet.

BG EAT will host the Buffalo Grove Green Fair on June 30 and feature 20 exhibitors at Mike Rylko Community Park, 951 McHenry Road, Buffalo Grove, and a number of activities to teach visitors about water conservation, reducing greenhouse emissions and recycling along with a recycle collection of small electronics, eyeglasses, hearing aids, keys, gently used books, household batteries and light bulbs, said Debi Moritz, also a member of the BG EAT.

Gene Haring, director of marketing with Des Plaines, said that the Park District serves about 60,000 people and that more than 3,500 households regularly use district services.

This works well in our often - chaotic household because I can ask someone else to start the diaper laundry without worrying about them using the wrong soap.

While, officially, Thirsties Cloth Diapers are designed to diaper babies from birth to potty (we're hesitant to give a specific life expectancy for our cloth diapers because, like clothing hand - me - downs, each household's diaper care and use is unique), we have a lot of customer feedback about their Thirsties diapers really going the distance.

The pantry serves about 150 households weekly in the Chicago area and had planned to use the truck to pick up food from the Greater Chicago Food Depository and to deliver food to those unable to come out to the pantry.

The Green Moms asked questions about the safety of the tens of thousands of untested, unregulated chemicals used in personal care products such as shampoos and household cleaners, and the presence of small amounts of probable carcinogens such as 1,4 dioxane and formaldehyde in products such as baby wash.

We started making some of our own cleaners, avoided using bleach, and we always use natural remedies first before resorting to pharmaceuticals thanks to the way cloth diapers started changing the way we think about common household products and their effects on our bodies.

As usual, they use combined household incomes when talking about the policy.

It does this using detailed and representative micro-data about the ownership of different kinds of assets by private households.

In a wide - ranging interview last week, a relaxed version of the typically buttoned - down Negron spoke about his personal reaction to the «unfathomable» tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, growing up with seven brothers in what sounds like an austere household, and the significance of using fewer words and saying them slowly.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

The survey, which also collected information on households» access to information and communication technology (ICT) and patterns of usage, found that about 89 per cent of Nigerians have access to a mobile phone, adding that access to the internet was more prevalent in urban areas than in rural areas — the most common uses being to send and receive emails.

Her previous doctors probably had not requested such a test because she didn't mention anything to them about her generous use of household chemicals.

Heating typically accounts for about 28 percent of the average American home's energy use, but this year staying warm might occupy a larger slice of the household expenditure pie.

The Bush administration and a consortium of tech companies Tuesday vowed to drive down government and corporate data center energy use by 10 percent by 2011, saving about 10 billion kilowatt - hours, or roughly the amount of energy consumed by one million U.S. households annually.

«It is estimated that the average household in the North Dakota Bakken region uses about 80 to 160 gallons of water a day,» said Corrie Clark, an environmental systems engineer in Argonne's Environmental Science Division and co-author of a new study published in Environmental Science & Technology.

The biodigester - sanitation systems also provide a fuel source in a place where only about 10 percent of the population has access to electricity, and about 70 percent of the energy used comes from wood and charcoal, which costs around 25 - 50 percent of a household's income.

I think you've got to have something to protect [against] this; and these pesticides we're talking about, by the way, is a household pesticide — it's used in pest strips and dog collars.

Households that got weekly messages about the lower pollution they generated via efficiency cut energy use much more than did residents who were told how much money they were saving.

And where your assignment was to go from 36 billion tons a year to essentially zero, you know, now you can have a footnote and say, «Okay, poor countries are still allowed to emit» and the livestock land use era deserves its own footnote because, you know, short of something like artificial meat, which is a whole other topic, we actually don't have — mostly we talk about energy: household, factory, office, transport.

In 2015 and 2016, current tobacco use prevalence was about 10 % for adults in higher income households (greater than 400 % of the Federal Poverty Level) compared with almost 25 % for adults in households below the poverty line.

About 25 percent of all U.S. households use a septic system for processing household wastewater.

Between 2007 and 2014, marijuana use increased about 6 percent among men in households earning less than $ 20,000 annually, compared to only 2 percent of women in that group.

Anderson acknowledges that the study, which used surveys to gauge the frequency of each routine in households, says little about how each household implemented the behaviors.

Over the past few years, we've learned a lot about the downsides of the household cleaners, beauty products, and cosmetics we use in our everyday lives.

It scores an exceptional safety rating from the Environmental Working Group with the lowest level of concern about its use in household settings and the only warning being to use it safely as you would any highly alkaline substance (not undiluted on skin, not consuming large amounts, etc.).