Sentences with phrase «huge proportions by»

Likewise, Van Roy and his colleagues note, in past eras several species of fish and sharks have evolved to huge proportions by directly exploiting the vast bounty at the base of the ocean's food chain.

Not exact matches

Many falsely contrived stories have appeared in recent weeks about huge gains in the proportion of national income taken by the top 1 percent of income earners (those earning about $ 328,000 or more per year).

With outsized proportions came outsized difficulties, and by the 1980s the Taylor Homes had, along with another huge Chicago project, Cabrini - Green, become the unhappy paradigm of all that was awful about American public housing.

If even a small proportion of the methane they produce is released, we might be overwhelmed by huge tsunamis, runaway global warming, and extinctions.

Considering the size of its combs (longer than 12 centimeters, or almost 5 inches) and the overall body proportions of its predatory kin, the shrimplike creature Tamisiocaris borealis (as shown in this artist's reconstruction) may have grown to reach lengths of 61 centimeters (2 feet)-- not large by modern standards but huge for that era.

It's a post-apocalyptic world where a huge proportion of the population have been infected by a plague turning them into forever wandering, blood thirsty, undead creatures; some still have a little human left inside them, while others (known as Boneys) are skeletal creatures devoted to eating anything and everything with a heartbeat.

Dix deals with issues that, I assume, are common, and maybe a huge proportion of problems are covered by his tips.

In profile, the concept is dominated by its clean proportions, with an ultra-low bonnet line, a higher boot line, 21 - inch alloy wheels, bulging rear wheel - arches and huge scalloped cuts trailing from the front wheel - arches down the length of the doors.

By ditching his print deal, Eisler is cutting off a huge proportion of his existing readership who aren't buying e-books, probably still 80 - 90 % of them.

Your guests will account for a huge proportion of the wedding bill, so, if this is an option, cut costs by inviting fewer people.

Two huge wall mirrors emphasise the proportions of this beautiful high - ceilinged room which is cooled by whirring ceiling fans.

While many of these titles have since been documented by the English - speaking video game community — and in some cases, even unofficially translated — a huge proportion of the Japanese game output is unknown outside of their native territory (and even, in some cases, within it).

Since most of my top games of the year have already been announced (I'm a huge Musou / Warriors fan), it would take JRPG megatons of Suikoden VI exclusively on PS4 proportions for me to be genuinely surprised by their conference.

A huge proportion of commodity crops grown by U.S. farmers are genetically engineered: 97 % of the nation's sugar beets, 93 % of the soybeans, 90 % of the cotton and 90 % of the feed corn for animals, according to the 2013 figures from the Department of Agriculture.

When one considers the 5th (and / or lower) rate «alliances» such as that revealed by Mann and Lewandowski last November — and the unfathomable silence of «the community» in the face thereof — compared to the totally out of proportion pressures that were obviously exerted on Bengtsson whose own views (since at least 1990) have not really changed in the intervening years is (IMHO) indicative of a huge credibility chasm (i.e. well beyond a mere gap!)

Its either that or the USA is peopled by a huge proportion of ignorant rednecks.

His estimation stated that the proportion of health insurance industry's growth and medical costs by 2020 would have a huge difference where people might need to pay $ 200 billion in medical costs from their end.