Sentences with phrase «in less than a tenth»

The buildup results from suppression of the edge turbulence, which drops from high to low amplitude in less than tenth of a millisecond.

People are going to make up their minds about you in less than a tenth of a second.

It's been an epic process — most papers get published (or rejected) in less than a tenth of that time.

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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 acquisitionIn 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 acquisitionin less than a decade through acquisitions.

And its losses, excluding a one - time expense, had shrunk to just $ 2.3 million, less than a tenth of the $ 35 million Trump's Atlantic City properties had produced in red ink just three years prior.

And yet Ceres — the largest object in the asteroid belt — is less than one - tenth of a percent the size of Earth and less than 2 % the size of the moon:

More details: The affected bottles represent less than one - tenth of one percent of Corona Extra 12 - ounce clear bottles in the marketplace.

After skewering the proposed system («one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world»), Musk issued an open - source design challenge: a 28 - passenger solar - powered pod capable of levitating through a system of tubes almost at the speed of sound, with a one - way ticket price of $ 20 and a total building cost estimated at $ 6 billion, less than a tenth of the budget for California's high - speed rail project.

The r - squared value of 0.0006 in Figure 1 shows that EPS growth over the past five years explains less than one tenth of one percent of the difference in price between stocks in the S&P 500.

While that is less than one - tenth of Amazon's overall revenue, [Amazon Web Services] generated 67 % of the company's operating income in the quarter.»).

While that was one tenth less than expected it is the quickest pace of inflation since the VAT spiked inflation in 2014 and 2015.

Even in the tenth ZIP code down the list, Chattanooga, TN's 37402, the median home value has more than tripled, passing $ 574K from less than $ 169K in just 17 years.

This committee, which comprises less than one - tenth of the delegates and in which the presidents of the unions form the largest category, nominates one person for each position.

We must also note that the large majority of those who migrated from the Old World to the Thirteen Colonies did so from other than religious motives and that as late as A.D. i8oo less than one - tenth of the population of what by then had become the United States held membership in any of the churches.

Given the small amounts needed, a 33 % salt reduction in a product might work out at a cost - in - use of less than one tenth of a cent per serving.

This recall is very limited in scope, as potentially affected bottles represent less than one - tenth of one percent of Corona Extra 12 - ounce clear bottles in the marketplace.

Plus, less than two tenths between the top three drivers in qualifying bodes very well for Sunday's Chinese GP.

Juve has spent less than a tenth of that and they are still in, you work it out.

Renault Nico Hulkenberg 7 — Jolyon Palmer 0 Race: Hulkenberg Palmer was less than two - tenths shy of Hulkenberg in Q2, so Jolyon is getting there.

International observers estimated the blast had an energy discharge of about a kilotonne, less than a tenth of the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

Based on past results, any change in the numbers from these preliminary rates to the final scores released by the State next year will be negligible (expected to be less than one - tenth of one percent).»

The meeting in Newport last night was the tenth of 11 hustings taking part across the country, and came less than a week before ballots close next Monday.

Because of the rapidity with which it occurs (less than a tenth of a second) the researchers argue that this influx is caused by micro-tears in cell membranes ripped open by the force of the micro-explosion;

In 1992, among the high - scoring high school seniors (those with test scores in the top tenth of the class), black and Hispanic youth were three times as likely to be from families with incomes less than $ 20,000 than white and other non-Hispanic youth (12)(see figure, belowIn 1992, among the high - scoring high school seniors (those with test scores in the top tenth of the class), black and Hispanic youth were three times as likely to be from families with incomes less than $ 20,000 than white and other non-Hispanic youth (12)(see figure, belowin the top tenth of the class), black and Hispanic youth were three times as likely to be from families with incomes less than $ 20,000 than white and other non-Hispanic youth (12)(see figure, below).

They pinpointed Rafflesia's ancestors as flowers with blooms less than one - tenth of an inch across, while Rafflesia blossoms reach three feet in diameter.

In Idaho, for example, a former lab is deemed «clean» when there is less than one tenth of a microgram of methamphetamine per square centimeter in the room where meth was cookeIn Idaho, for example, a former lab is deemed «clean» when there is less than one tenth of a microgram of methamphetamine per square centimeter in the room where meth was cookein the room where meth was cooked.

In addition, the MRFE is less than one - tenth the volume of metamaterial enhancers.

In addition, only about one tenth of the mined uranium ore is converted into fuel in the enrichment process (during which the concentration of uranium 235 is increased considerably), so less than a hundredth of the ore's total energy content is used to generate power in today's plantIn addition, only about one tenth of the mined uranium ore is converted into fuel in the enrichment process (during which the concentration of uranium 235 is increased considerably), so less than a hundredth of the ore's total energy content is used to generate power in today's plantin the enrichment process (during which the concentration of uranium 235 is increased considerably), so less than a hundredth of the ore's total energy content is used to generate power in today's plantin today's plants.

The newly minted francium is captured in the glass chamber shown here, where it is surrounded by a magnetic field and cooled by lasers until it condenses to form a cloud less than a tenth of an inch in diameter.

That's less than a tenth of the United States's science stimulus package, but that's a still a lot of money in the United Kingdom, which has arguably been hurt even worse than the United States in the world economic crisis.

But reaching orbit will require megawatt lasers; so far, the best commercial lasers used in experiments have less than one - tenth that power.

Less than a tenth of the costs (9 %, $ 1.7 billion) originated from poorer countries in western Africa.

Stars in globular clusters, however, have less than a tenth the metal abundance of the sun.

Astronomers estimate that around 2000 stars reside within Trumpler 14, ranging in size from less than one tenth to up to several tens of times the mass of the Sun.

An array of QDs, analogous to the sand in the acoustic example, are embedded in the slice, whose thickness is less than one - tenth of one percent that of a human hair.

As a result, the United States had just 800 megawatts of grid - connected solar photovoltaic power in 2008, and solar accounted for less than a tenth of one percent of all energy consumed in the country.

(At a bit less than six tenths of an acre, global per capita cropland today is little more than half of what it was in 1961, and more than 900 million people are hungry.)

The association estimates that an adequate hydrogen refueling infrastructure of 12,000 stations — less than one tenth of the roughly 170,000 gasoline stations in the U.S. — could be built for no more than $ 15 billion.

They eliminated those with orbital radii less than one tenth that of Earth's, because at that distance moon systems might not remain in stable orbits around their planets on billion - year timescales.

There is a window of less than a tenth of a second in which a stimulus from one sense can affect the others.

Thanks to more intensive farming methods, per - capita land use in western Europe now is only around a sixth what it was 2500 years ago, while in South - East Asia it is less than a tenth.

Newly examined video of Kemp's ridley sea turtles, which are found primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, shows that the species» recovery from endangerment has stalled at less than one - tenth of historic nesting levels.

The number of so - called safety - significant events reported to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, for example, averaged about two per plant per year in 1990 but had dropped to less than one tenth of that by 2000.

MARDI and MARCI incorporate an innovative electronics design that enables high - quality scientific data acquisition in a very compact package — each unit weighs about one - half kilogram (one pound), which is less than one - tenth the weight of any previous orbiter or lander camera sent to Mars.

In terms of the box office goals it aimed for, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold clearly fell short, domestically netting less than half of the 250 - theater distribution and less than one - tenth of the $ 10 M worldwide gross that POM Wonderful required to pay their full million.

While everyone in educatorland obsesses over the $ 4 billion competition among the states for Race to the Top (RTT) funding, the Education Department (ED) is readying a separate competition for less than one - tenth as much money that may nonetheless prove far more consequential for American education over the long term.

At $ 4 billion, the money amounted to less than two - tenths of one percent of school expenditures in the United States.

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