Sentences with phrase «per cent chance»

There is a 20 per cent chance that my message to a Realtor with a «@trebnet.com» mail account will not get it.

«If graffiti is removed within 24 hours, there's a 10 per cent chance of being retagged.

If you leave it for two weeks, there's a 90 per cent chance you'll be retagged,» Yetman says.

As you would expect, when we look at the quality side of the equation, it pays to look for a long time and to be choosy (picking the 2nd best candidate you've seen after 10 weeks gives you an 84 per cent chance of hitting a top 10 per cent candidate), but interestingly, not too choosy (if you hold out for someone better than the best person you've seen after waiting 10 weeks, then the possibility of never finding the right person changes.)

[88] By the same token, however, litigation need not be likely, in the sense of there being more than a 50 per cent chance of it occurring.

In fact, they conclude that there is a greater than 90 per cent chance that temperatures are rising due to human activities.

«Likely» means a 66 per cent chance.

Let's imagine there was only a 50 per cent chance that virtually all the world's climate scientists are wrong.

The FoE scenario goes the other way in terms of climate ambition, giving a 50 per cent chance of staying within a much more ambitious 1.5 degrees target.

That's well above the 3,000 tonnes level needed for a 50 per cent chance of staying below two degrees.

Under the scale of risk used by IPCC, the words «very unlikely» mean there is just a one to 10 per cent chance of limiting the global temperature rise to two degrees centigrade or less.

The absence of a statistically significant trend (at a significance level of 5 per cent) means that if the null hypothesis true, there is at least a 5 per cent chance of a Type 1 error.

As former US vice-president and climate sceptic Dick Cheney said: «If there is only a 1 per cent chance of terrorists getting weapons of mass destruction, we must act as if it is a certainty.»

The 450 ppm level is considered to be the point at which the world has a 50 per cent chance of avoiding dangerous climate change.

The IEA estimates that in this scenario there is only a 6 per cent chance of keeping temperature rises to an average 2C (the level at which scientists say offer an even bet at limiting the impact of climate change).

If you are silly enough to contemplate a 2 ˚C rise, then just to have a 66 per cent chance of limiting warming at that point, atmospheric carbon needs to be held to 400ppm CO2e and that requires a global reduction in emissions of 80 per cent by 2050 (on 1990 levels) and negative emissions after 2070.

«An even smaller number of scenarios meet the 1.5 C target with at least a 50 per cent chance and have least - cost emissions pathways beginning in 2020 — and therefore, have higher emissions up to 2020.»

According to Environment Canada, woodland caribou need at least 65 per cent undisturbed habitat to have even a 60 per cent chance of being self - sustaining.

«Only a small number of scenarios meet the 1.5 C target with at least a 50 per cent chance, and have least - cost pathways beginning in 2010,» it says.

We recognize that this world is 90 per cent chance and accident.

Kayak through the Gold Coast's pristine Broadwater with a view of Surfers Paradise in the distance and the 80 per cent chance of dolphin sighting.

Buy a laptop in 2015, and there will be a 50 per cent chance it will contain a quad - core processor.

It found that in England, poorer children — those from families in the bottom quarter of household incomes — had less than a 10 per cent chance of attending a grammar school, compared with a 40 per cent chance among those from families in the top quarter of household incomes.

Roughly one in 10 of its students miss school every day, with half of the absences unexcused; and, data show students with an attendance record of less than 80 per cent have a 10 to 20 per cent chance of graduating on time from high school.

Pupils from low income families had a 29 per cent chance of being rated below average at reading by teachers, compared to 20 per cent of equally able classmates from high income backgrounds.

At Copenhagen, however, the same 50 per cent chance is associated with more than 68 centimeters — three times as much sea - level rise.

For example, under the «business - as - usual» climate scenario (called RCP8.5 by the UN IPCC, which assumes that emissions continue to grow unabated), there is a 50 per cent chance that local sea - level rise will exceed 22 centimeters at Oslo.

Looking at the lower probability but higher impact events, there is a five per cent chance that local sea - level rise will exceed 112 centimeters at Oslo and 161 centimeters in Copenhagen by 2100.

«Likely» here means a 66 per cent chance.

It has been estimated that to have at least a 50 per cent chance of keeping warming below 2 °C throughout the twenty - first century, the cumulative carbon emissions between 2011 and 2050 need to be limited to around 1,100 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (Gt CO2).

Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University in Boston calculates that if the Ebola epidemic continues to grow at its present rate, by December every country in the world will have nearly a 100 per cent chance of admitting someone with the virus.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that, to have a 50 per cent chance of avoiding 2 °C of global warming, which is probably too dangerous to adapt to, the energy sector can only emit 884 gigatonnes of CO2 between 2013 and 2050 (Redrawing the Climate - Energy Map, 2013).

A person saved from a snow mass within 15 minutes has a 90 per cent chance of survival.

The forecasting model is sensitive to detect dengue outbreaks and non-outbreaks with up to twenty per cent chance of false alarm.

Their calculations suggest there is a 50 per cent chance that the first habitable exo - Earth will be found by May 2011, a 75 per cent chance it will be found by 2020, and a 95 per cent chance it will be found by 2264.

They found that five young couples had a 40 per cent chance of giving rise to a population of 500 — or founding a population...

The results indicated there was a one per cent chance that fractures from fracking activity could extend horizontally beyond 895m in shale rocks.

Each photon has a 50 per cent chance of going through a filter, depending on which state it collapses into.

People who apply for ROPAs have a 50 to 60 per cent chance of succeeding, he says.

If you were to take a group of people who were at higher risk of breaking a bone — so had about a 15 per cent chance of breaking a bone over the next 10 years — and treated all of them with a reasonable dose of vitamin D for a decade, you'd prevent a fracture in around one in 50 of them over that time.»

At the other end of the spectrum, the early age at which the model suggests you should start having children if you want a 90 per cent chance of having three — 23 — may be a shock to a generation who are waiting until their late twenties and early thirties to even consider the prospect.

Those applying for support for work deemed of the highest priority have only a 20 per cent chance.

If it weren't for caring grandmothers, almost every woman would have a gene that gives them up to an 80 per cent chance of getting breast cancer

It tells us how much carbon we can emit (our «carbon budget») if we want a 90 per cent chance of avoiding 2 °C of warming, or a 10 per cent chance, or whatever probability we choose.

A homeless person with mental illness has a 24.5 per cent chance of having a heart attack, a fatal or non-fatal stroke or sudden cardiac death over 30 years, said Dr. Agnes Gozdzik, a research associate in the Center for Research in Inner City Health of St. Michael's Hospital.

The UK is estimated to have a 50 per cent chance of admitting someone with Ebola before the end of October.

It doesn't mean that there is a 95 per cent chance there is an effect.

Our figures suggest there is an 82 per cent chance that we will find a true doppelgänger for Earth by the close of 2011.

Of these, 271 million are rated as «confident facts», to which Google's model ascribes a more than 90 per cent chance of being true.

People with the altered form of the gene have at least a 70 per cent chance of developing colon cancer at some time in their lives, and women with the gene also have at least a 50 per cent chance of developing cancer of the uterus.