Sentences with phrase «of a few percent»

Global total ozone values decreased by an average of a few percent in the last two decades, as measured by satellite instruments.

Possibly the most remarkable finding has been that exceptionally energetic phenomena occur in the centers of a few percent of all galaxies.

Even a response rate of a few percent should help you better understand your audience's search behavior.

We are making new materials to enable solar - to - hydrogen efficiency of a few percent and are laying foundations for a solar - hydrogen technology with > 10 % efficiency.

You can easily and safely use leverage to turn appreciation of a few percent a year into double - digit gains.

Further, if in the past we had roughly 90 GtC moving in both directions between ocean and atmosphere, it would be absurd to claim that this value was somehow fixed and that changes on the order of a few percent in either direction would totally change things.

Our put option defenses do not defend against movements of a few percent, but are in place to protect against unacceptably large downside risk in the event of severe additional market losses.

Still, I did increase the Fund's call option purchases near the end of the week, and expect to add to that position toward 2 % of assets if the market clears its overbought condition by a decline of a few percent further (provided that we don't also observe a substantial deterioration of internal market action).

Oftentimes, it takes only an unexpected supply / demand imbalance of a few percent and changing sentiment to dramatically move markets.

«Raw telescope data often exhibit variations of a few percent that have nothing to do with the planet in question or even its host star,» Cowan says.

In the economics books they say that inflation of few percent is desirable, for economic growth.

All ranges quoted are within the ball park of a few percent of GDP that I stated, and that I stand by: below 3 percent up to 2030, and below 5.5 percent up to 2050, even for the most aggressive scenario.

It fails even more badly when you consider that the incremental greenhouse effect drops off rapidly as the CO2 concentration increases, so that doubling the concentration increases the greenhouse effect by only a few percent, and doubling it again increases the effect by a few percent of that few percent.

The rally was brief, a three day spurt of a few percent and markets are once again plummeting towards a new yearly low.

Even in random observations, like a long media streaming session or more than few races at Asphalt 8, I noticed only a drain of few percent.

Under global warming scenarios, hurricane intensity is expected to increase (on the order of a few percent), but MANY questions remain as to how much, where, and when.

This coverage will tend to mute our exposure to significant market losses, but not necessarily to small local movements of a few percent.

Together with his students Elias Most and Lukas Weih, Professor Luciano Rezzolla, physicist, senior fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at Goethe University Frankfurt, has now solved the problem that had remained unanswered for 40 years: With an accuracy of a few percent, the maximum mass of non-rotating neutron stars can not exceed 2.16 solar masses.

Wiring and connections: Resistance in the electrical connections of a solar installation typically results in energy losses of a few percent.

-- Changes (order of a few percent) in globally averaged column ozone forced by the solar ultraviolet irradiance 11 - year cycle are now better understood, but ozone profile changes are less certain.