Sentences with phrase «least by a meter»

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Net occupancies climbed by 4.14 million square feet (384,000 square meters) in the second quarter, the least since 2.73 million square feet was added a year earlier, according to the New York - based property - research firm.

Micallef and his team have hypothesized, based on earlier calculations by Garcia - Castellanos and his colleagues, that the torrent boosted the sea level in the eastern Mediterranean by at least 10 meters per day, refilling the entire sea in just a few years.

Some 370 million years ago cladoxylopsid trees stood at least eight meters tall, capped by branches with twiggy appendages instead of leaves.

They set up traps in 20 sites dominated by Argentine ants and 20 others that were at least 100 meters from the invasion front.

«Imagine that you are in this site a hundred million years ago; the area that we drilled in was covered by at least a few meters of rock.

Led by vertebrate paleontologist Xiaolin Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the scientists uncovered at least 215 eggs in a block of sandstone about 3 meters square.

The installation of smart meters for consumers is concentrated in 38 states, according to the Edison Foundation, and only 22 states are aiming to equip at least half of their customers with the advanced meters by 2019.

And the central government has set targets in its current five - year plan of 6.5 billion cubic meters of shale gas to be produced annually by 2015, jumping to at least 60 billion cubic meters per year by 2020.

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a giant observatory that astronomers hope to build by the end of this decade, is expected to cost at least $ 1 billion.

Assuming oil needs to be at least 1 micrometer thick to create a visible sheen, he explains, and assuming that an oil slick that thin has a 72 - hour lifespan at the surface, a leak of 14 gallons per day could only create a visible sheen 1.6 kilometers long by 91 meters wide.

If the entire land - based glacier destabilizes and slips into the sea, it could raise global sea level by at least 3.5 meters.

MELT ZONE The Totten ice shelf (shown here) holds back a massive glacier, which drains a France - sized portion of East Antarctica and could raise sea levels by at least 3.5 meters if it slides into the sea.

The quake in 1762, estimated at magnitude 8.8, caused land around the southeastern city of Chittagong to sink by several meters; in the Sundarbans it seems to have caused at least a 20 - centimeter drop, says Hanebuth.

By monitoring a small, nearby star for 11 years with one of the 10 - meter Keck telescopes in Hawaii and combining the data with 4.3 years of similar observations published by another team, Vogt and his co-authors found two orbiting planets, with respective masses of at least 3.1 times and seven times the mass of EartBy monitoring a small, nearby star for 11 years with one of the 10 - meter Keck telescopes in Hawaii and combining the data with 4.3 years of similar observations published by another team, Vogt and his co-authors found two orbiting planets, with respective masses of at least 3.1 times and seven times the mass of Eartby another team, Vogt and his co-authors found two orbiting planets, with respective masses of at least 3.1 times and seven times the mass of Earth.

Given at least nine meters (roughly 30 feet) of water on the planet, photosynthetic microbes (including mats of algae, cyanobacteria, and other photosynthetic bacteria) and plant - like protoctists (such as floating seaweed or kelp forests attached to the seafloor) could be protected from «planet - scalding» ultraviolet flares produced by young red dwarf stars, according to Victoria Meadows of Caltech, principal investigator at the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory.

One area of low - hanging fruit — or at least fruit that could be reached by a long extension pole, perhaps while teetering at the top of a rickety three - meter wooden ladder, the base of which has long been under assault by termites — is monsoon depressions.

Sea - level prediction revised: By 2100, global sea - level is likely to rise at least twice as much as projected by Working Group 1 of the IPCC AR4, for unmitigated emissions it may well exceed 1 meteBy 2100, global sea - level is likely to rise at least twice as much as projected by Working Group 1 of the IPCC AR4, for unmitigated emissions it may well exceed 1 meteby Working Group 1 of the IPCC AR4, for unmitigated emissions it may well exceed 1 meter.

Researchers think that these were left by the long - necked sauropod, which stood at least 15 meters long, and the similarly sized older cousins of the Tyrannosaurus rex, the meat - eating theropods, which stood at least 2 meters tall.

Last, but by no means least, the 300 meter run will test anaerobic fitness and mental fortitude.

By plugging in Edward Sarul's numbers — a very reliable source of information described in Poprawski's masterpiece «Aspect of Strength, Power and Speed in Shot Put Training» (1988)-- this equation predicts a personal best of at least 17 - 18 meters.

To minimize the confounding effect and test for potential modification by an overall lifestyle pattern, we further performed a stratified analysis according to a priori — defined healthy lifestyle pattern, as characterized by never smoking or ever smoking for fewer than 5 pack - years, never or moderate alcohol intake (< 14 g / d in women and < 28 g / d in men), body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) of at least 18.5 and less than 25.0, and physical activity of at least 150 min / wk at a moderate level or at least 75 min / wk at a vigorous level (equivalent to ≥ 7.5 metabolic equivalent h / wk) as recommended.18 Likewise, given the previous report that protein intake was associated with a higher risk for diabetes - related mortality, 8 we examined the protein - mortality association according to the history of diabetes.

Located about two miles south of the town of San Pedro, it covers an area of about 355 meters by 155 meters and has at least 53 buildings with a central plaza and several small courtyard groupings.

Severe cases may be complicated by fluids in the lungs (high - altitude pulmonary edema) or swelling of the brain (high - altitude cerebral edema) If symptoms are more than mild or persist for more than 24 hours (far less at high altitudes), descend immediately by at least 500 meters and see a doctor.

Also keep in mind that this is a room - scale VR game for the Vive, which according to the developer notes on the gam «es page on Steam, it requires a play area of at least 2 meters by 1.5 meters.

Sea level predictions revised: By 2100, global sea level is likely to rise at least twice as much as projected by the Working Group 1 of the I.P.C.C. AR4; for unmitigated emissions it may well exceed one meteBy 2100, global sea level is likely to rise at least twice as much as projected by the Working Group 1 of the I.P.C.C. AR4; for unmitigated emissions it may well exceed one meteby the Working Group 1 of the I.P.C.C. AR4; for unmitigated emissions it may well exceed one meter.

Four degrees of warming could raise global sea levels by 1 or possibly even 2 meters by 2100 (and would lock in at least a few additional meters over future centuries).

But a new draft study being published this week by a team of 17 leading international climate scientists warns that even 2 degrees of warming is «highly dangerous» and could cause sea level rise of «at least several meters» this century, leaving most of the world's coastal cities uninhabitable.

After 2050 it will really ramp up in all likelihood make at least a projected 1 meter rise by 2100 not at all unreasonable, if not a bit low.

Birol said the IEA expected overcapacity of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals and gas pipelines to reach at least 250 billion cubic meters by 2015, more than three times the capacity in 2008.

The UN has estimated that if oceans rise at least one meter, islands like Antigua in the Caribbean will sustain «149 multi-million dollar tourism resorts damaged or lost» from coastal flooding fueled by sea level rise, the UK newspaper The Independent reported.

APS is not alone in lobbying against net metering policy, their proposed changes mimic ALEC's new model legislation that was crafted, at least in part, by EEI.

And now, APS» proposed changes to Arizona's net metering policies closely resemble language in ALEC's new model legislation that was crafted, at least in part, by EEI.

We argue that ice sheets in contact with the ocean are vulnerable to non-linear disintegration in response to ocean warming, and we posit that ice sheet mass loss can be approximated by a doubling time up to sea level rise of at least several meters.

Figure three shows that, with CO2 from the top 3.5 meters of permafrost figured in and climate sensitivity of 3 degrees, a complete cessation of additional CO2 emissions by humans in 2013 leaves us with a stable level of atmospheric CO2 at about today's levels... for centuries, at least.

The application on the device can get indoor positioning by connecting to the nearby Wi - Fi access points which can be accurate up to 1 to 2 meters by connecting to at least three Wi - Fi access points.

When shopping for multifamily, at least look for ones where heat and electricity can be paid by the tenant, and if you can find properties that can be converted to a «master metered» system to allow tenants to pay for their own water, you've potentially struck gold!

The two towers were selected by an international jury of experts from over 300 skyscrapers at least 100 meters tall completed last year, the company says.