Sentences with phrase «of a few percent of»

Even after several hundred years the constant concentration scenario still had emission rates of a few percent of peak...

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.

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The 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that close relationships with children and other relatives had very little impact on how long you live, but people with the most friends tended to outlive those with the fewest by 22 percent.

A Babson College study reported that in 1999, fewer than 5 percent of venture capital investments went to companies with a woman on the executive team.

In fact, fewer than 50 percent of those who were on the list in 1995 still remain today.

is also in the process of a gradual and targeted launch of its own reduced - calorie, stevia - sweetened Coca - Cola Life, a cola that has 35 percent fewer calories than its flagship Coke.

Fifty - nine percent of respondents ages 30 to 49 said they looked at their phones a few times an hour.

A Gallup poll last year found that 73 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 checked their devices a few times an hour — including 22 percent every few minutes.

Rival Coca - Cola is also in the process of a gradual and targeted launch of its own reduced - calorie, stevia - sweetened Coca - Cola Life, a cola that has 35 percent fewer calories than its flagship Coke.

The Federal Reserve's decisions over the past 12 months to continuously raise interest rates from the near zero percent level of the past few years have made it more profitable for big banks to lend money.

In the 1970s and»80s, fewer than 5 percent of musicians in the top five symphonies were female.

A Brigade analysis of user - generated positions, or debate - starters, at the turn of the month showed fewer than 10 percent of such posts did not explicitly reference Clinton, Trump, their campaigns or surrogates.

Fully 29 percent of adult workers at companies with fewer than 25 employees were uninsured in 2007.

Productivity (tons mined per miner) increased by 350 percent, due partially to a shift from underground to surface mines, but largely from the introduction of highly mechanized systems like long wall mining that require far fewer miners.

The truth is that about 30 percent of cyber attacks are aimed at businesses with fewer than 250 employees.

As few as 35 percent of financial planners have a succession plan in place.

Even more impressive, companies with fewer than 20 workers account for 90 percent of all U.S. companies.

It's very entrepreneurial: 78 percent of operators have four or fewer employees.

About 98 percent of the more than 300,000 U.S. exporting firms are small, and they account for over a third of the $ 1.4 trillion in annual total export dollars in 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which defines a small business as having fewer than 500 employees.

Eighty percent believe they will stay with four or fewer companies over the course of their career.

At the moment, he estimates that only 5 percent of his customers order beverages through the app, but it's a number that's been picking up steam over the last few months; if the trend continues, and 5 percent grows to a more substantial slice of the pie, he says he'd push to renegotiate his terms with the company.

It revealed that 18 percent of users can't go beyond «a few hours» without checking Facebook and 61 percent of users check their newsfeed «at least once a day.»

About 30 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs spent the first few years of their careers developing a strong foundation in finance, according to a study by consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles.

If your company is scaling and needs to bring on more than a few new faces, it only makes sense financially to take this step when you consider that an outside recruiter is going to charge somewhere in the ballpark of 20 percent of a new hire's base salary.

I employed this strategy with a few of our salespeople, and we had a 90 percent win rate against competitors with a very similar product while also selling our product for significantly higher prices than our competitors.

According to the the CDC 30 percent of Americans sleep six hours a day or fewer.

According to 2012 U.S. Census Bureau data, businesses with fewer than 20 workers made up 89.6 percent of American businesses, and firms with fewer than 500 workers described 99.7 percent of businesses.

Macy's, one of the few big winners last holiday, said on Wednesday that its earnings per share rose 30 percent to 61 cents for the third quarter.

It shows that 90 percent of startups fail within just a few years.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

As of last June, less than 2 percent of active participating security SBICs had losses high enough to be considered «impaired,» compared with 20 percent a few years ago.

Research published in February shows that 2016 was the first year in which the iPhone dropped in the rankings of smartphone sales in China, falling from 15 percent of market share to 11 and selling fewer units even as demand for smartphones grew.

«As more people move out of their parents» basement — and there's still quite a few living there — we expect to see continued healthy demand for homes,» said Svenja Gudell, chief economist for Zillow, which found millennials made up 42 percent of homebuyers last year.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

By contrast, Latin America added fewer than 50,000 additional unemployed to the global number — or around 1 percent of the total increase in unemployment in 2013, the ILO noted.

If you reach the point where you care about the last few percent, you'll be amazed at the power of the 1/99 rule.

About 60 percent of Americans listened to over-the-air radio while driving as of a few years ago, according to an industry study, a number that has been falling.

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

While it's in a few large chains such as Bed Bath & Beyond, independent retailers account for 80 percent of sales.

When it came time to raise their most recent round of financing, 78 percent of companies managed to do it by pitching 20 or fewer investors.

That's a 19 percent hike from a year ago, and the vast majority of growth comes from businesses with fewer than 100 employees, according to Kravitz Inc., a consulting firm.

And if we're awake just a few hours more, we're up to the equivalent of.1 percent — over the legally drunk threshold.

Your job is to focus on the profitable 20 percent while not getting consumed by the demands of the costly few.

Clayton Christensen, author of the «Jobs to be Done» theory of innovation, pointed out that of 20,000 products launched between 2012 and 2016, fewer than one percent thrived within two years.

Instead, Lululemon offers fewer items to create the perception of scarcity, resulting in «fanatical» shoppers, and 95 percent of merchandise selling for full - price CEO Christine Day told the WSJ.

A study from research firm, Gartner, revealed that in the next few years, some 70 percent of B2B e-commerce websites will use personalized content to help executives make informed decisions faster.

Facebook boasts an AI research team of over 100 researchers on staff, a luxury few other tech companies can claim, yet the Facebook Messenger AI group was shut down soon after achieving a 70 percent failure rate.

In 2008, directly after calorie information appeared on menu, 51 percent of polled fast - food diners in New York City said they noticed calorie information and 12 percent said they used it to order fewer calories, versus 14 percent and 2 percent of New Jersey fast - food diners.

Trump followed Abe with even fewer words, saying in part: «I just want everybody to understand and fully know that the United States of America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100 percent.»

The fees can vary from less than 1 percent to a few percentage points — and interest at the prime rate to several points over prime on the balance of receivables you sell, making it steeper than most bank loans.