Sentences with phrase «larger than about»

Openings larger than about three inches across can be covered with foam board, sealed in place with caulk.

Emission reductions larger than about 80 % relative to whatever peak global emissions rate may be reached are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level.»

Emissions reductions larger than about 80 %, relative to whatever peak global emissions rate may be reached, are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level (see Figure 3).»

An incoming asteroid larger than about 3 miles in diameter would do the same to us, and right now we have nothing capable of stopping it (not even Bruce Willis).

I have read that unless your portfolio is larger than about $ 50,000 then E-series will prove a more convenient choice with only a very marginal (if any) cost increase due to higher MERs.

@user1950278 - Anything larger than about 6 microns is going to get caught by a reputable filter.

* 2 Tablespoons oil * 1 medium yellow onion, diced * 2 cloves garlic, minced * 1 pound boneless chicken, cut into strips or large chunks * 3 cups thin eggplant slices, no larger than about 1-1/4» in diameter (about 1 small Italian eggplant or one large Japanese eggplant) * 1/4 cup green curry paste (I typically use Mae Ploy) * 1 cup coconut milk * 1 cup chicken broth * 1-1/2 teaspoons fish sauce * 1 teaspoon regular or palm sugar * 1 stalk lemongrass, bruised and cut into several inch pieces * 4 - 5 Kaffir lime leaves * 1 cup bamboo shoots, well rinsed (make sure to buy the matchstick shoots rather than the bamboo tips) * 1/4 cup roughly chopped Thai basil leaves

No need to cut the potatoes, unless they are larger than about 4 inches long.

Ground - based telescopes so far have not found any larger than about 65 feet across, which is the smallest they could detect.

Their images show that the galaxy can be no larger than about 2,000 light - years across.

Eventually, it was determined that no substellar objects around CM Draconis larger than about three Jupiter - masses are orbiting closer than one AU (Doyle et al, 2000).

These reservoirs contain, respectively, 1 billion and 100 billion comets larger than about 1 km in scale.

Sky watchers have catalogued more than 16,000 objects larger than about 10 centimeters, most of them in low Earth orbit, at altitudes of 200 to 2,000 kilometers.

The annual data released Wednesday, which comes from Prodes, a monitoring system run by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, has far higher resolution, capturing cuts larger than about 12 to 15 acres in size.

The scientists found no new objects, ruling out the existence of any vulcanoids larger than about 6 kilometers, which is less than half the mean diameter of the little martian moon Deimos.

In the late 1960s, astrophysicists calculated that because of this phenomenon, stars could grow no larger than about 20 times the mass of our sun.

The Kuiper belt may contain 100,000 objects larger than about 50 miles across, so finding two that are worth a visit shouldn't be a problem.

One mission of HiRISE is to scour seven potential landing zones for a preponderance of rocks larger than about three feet wide, which can wreck a craft upon landing.

The researchers surveyed 159 reefs between 2011 and 2014, documenting diseased coral and plastic debris larger than about the size of a Ping - Pong ball.

Not exact matches

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.

Prologis owned or managed more than 3,200 properties worldwide as of Dec. 31 and leased facilities to about 5,000 customers, the largest being Amazon.com followed by DHL.

The good news about this truth is that, in comparison to simple mental horsepower, which is larger set at birth, it's far easier to «get smarter» about emotions than it is to just «get smarter» generally.

The founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online retail mortgage lender, Gilbert is spearheading the revitalization of his native Detroit, investing $ 1.3 billion (and counting) to acquire and renovate more than 60 commercial properties occupying about 9 million square feet of Motor City real estate.

Obviously, as print continues to drop, digital will become an even larger part of the Times «business than it already is (it accounts for about 42 % of advertising revenue and about 25 % of subscription revenue), and the amount of money being lost on print every quarter will therefore continue to shrink.

To try to stop the destruction before the Great Barrier Reef — the largest, most extensive reef system in the world — is no more, the Australian government has announced that it plans to spend more than half a billion Australian dollars (about $ 379 million USD) on improving water quality to protect coral reefs; reef restoration; and helping to fight predatory starfish.

Under this scenario, by 2040 global energy demand will be significantly larger than it is now; oil, coal, and natural gas each will account for about one - quarter of total demand, and solar and wind together will account for roughly 5 %.

«This is really about helping large media companies grow even bigger,» said Democratic FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, adding that Republicans were «more intent on granting the industrys holiday wish list early rather than looking out for the public interest.»

At least one expert told Bloomberg that people may be reluctant to think about cereal as anything other than a breakfast food, at least not in numbers large enough to end the sales slump, which is expected to continue at least through 2020.

Even though only about 6 percent of Chinese people have a passport, China has become the world's largest outbound tourist market, with more than 135 million departures a year — and Angkor Wat is an easy two - or three - hour flight from many cities in China.

Internet spending during the November - December holiday season in the U.S. is projected to reach about $ 107 billion this year, more than 11 percent of total holiday retail sales — the largest portion ever, according to EMarketer Inc..

The bankers spent three months wooing the firms in their database with details about Accurate's financials and found serious interest from 12 private equity groups, all of them far larger than Evolution.

After all, Trump talks about Amazon and Bezos much more than he talks about Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecom billionaire who owns a large stake in The New York Times, which he also hates.

The Thomas fire in Ventura County is by far the largest at more than 230,000 acres in size, and it's only about 15 % contained as of Monday morning.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

Small and medium - sized businesses are settling their invoices about 12 faster than large corporations on average, a report by Dun & Bradstreet has found.

The firm was a large - cap company that many investors know about, but more important than that, he added: «Getting that first corporate experience is key... It's one of the things that I think was extremely beneficial.»

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

But the U.K.'s total land area is about 94,000 square miles whereas the U.S. has a land mass of 3.8 million square miles — in other words, more than 40 times larger.

That would make it much bigger than CVS Health (CVS), which runs the second largest chain by store count, with about 8,000 locations.

This large New York — based insurer is cheaper than its Canadian counterparts, trading at about a 20 % discount to book value.

In 1995, Potter says, «only 5 contract craft brewing companies out of about 100 in operation were that large, and all of them had been in business longer than three years.»

«Considering that «histrionic personality disorder» is still in the DSM - 5, and that women in general are more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and some other mental illnesses by clinicians, I'd say he's stoking the flames of a much larger problem about how our society seems to view women — as having excessive emotional needs that need to nearly constantly be managed or controlled rather than taken seriously.

Revenue has grown to about $ 120 million, and it processes about $ 500 million a year in payment transactions, working with more than 15,000 retailers across the country and some of the largest retail brands in the world like Visa, MasterCard and Amazon.

ACT is the second - largest independent c - store operator in North America with about 5,700 locations, although this accounts for less than 4 % of the industry's stores.

«There are 1,500 characters available and the largest paragraph talks more about his father's accomplishments than his own,» said Ruff.

FORTUNE — Talk about a tough gig: The average tenure of a chief marketing officer — the corporate executive charged with branding, communications, and other activities — is less than four years, in large part because of the increasing complexity of the job, says executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

Compare that to the US, a country about six times as large that has more than 160 times as many gun - related homicides.

In that same study, small businesses were more enthusiastic about the law than large ones, perhaps because without state - mandated paid leave, they would have a hard time matching the paid - leave benefits of the more generous larger companies.

Match fell 22 percent its largest one - day drop ever and IAC, which owns more than a fifth of Match, fell nearly 18 percent in its biggest daily loss in about 13 years.

Executives taking their company public might think the proceedings are all about them; in fact, they could be said to have little more than a bit part in a much larger set of machinations.