Sentences with phrase «percent less miles»

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So, too, areas in which people of color make up at least 25 percent of the total population average nearly five times as many pounds of chemical emissions from industrial facilities per square mile, compared with communities where less than 5 percent of the population are people of color.

To stave off a complete collapse of gulf fisheries and shrimp populations, Scavia finds, the dead zone must shrink drastically, to 2,000 square miles or less — and for that to happen, agricultural nitrogen runoff will have to decrease by at least 40 percent.

For more than 20 percent of the trips, the technique predicted the final destination within a little less than one - third of a mile from the actual endpoint.

New Horizons has beamed home less than 2 percent of the data it collected during its historic flyby, and NASA has yet to release any images taken at or near closest approach, when the probe was just 7,800 miles (12,500 km) from Pluto's surface.

Today's aircraft use roughly 80 percent less fuel per passenger - mile than the first jets of the 1950s — a testimony to the tremendous impact of aerospace engineering on flight.

«One half of U.S. households drive less than 30 miles a day and 78 percent of work commuters travel 40 miles or less each day,» he says.

Underscoring the correlation between urbanization and wetlands loss, less than.2 percent of Canada's wetlands lie within 25 miles of major urban centers today.

The amount of dimming — less than one - thirtieth of a percent — tells the astronomers that their new world, provisionally named Corot - 7b, is about 15,000 miles wide.

By comparison, in the new study, children with mothers who lived less than one mile from fields treated with organophosphate pesticides during pregnancy were about 60 percent more likely to have autism than children whose mothers did not live close to treated fields.

For 90 percent of the 6,576 transfers in our database, the distance between the charter school where the student enrolled and the traditional public school the student attended the previous year is less than ten miles.

For example, 95 percent of California and Massachusetts families live within five miles of a private school, compared to less than 60 percent of Montana and West Virginia families.

These 144 school districts (comprising roughly 34 percent of Wisconsin's 422 school districts) qualified for sparsity aid based on having a membership of 745 or fewer students and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile of the district's geographic area.

In one example, only 5 percent of students in San Francisco's Gateway High charter school were ELLs while a neighboring public school — less than a mile away — had an ELL population of 14 percent.

The Mission E aspires to blend speed and effortlessness, a real - life range of 300 miles, and the ability to recharge to 80 percent in 20 minutes or less.

This car aspires to blend speed and effortlessness, comfort and charisma, minimum noise and maximum response, a real - life range in the neighborhood of 300 miles, and the ability to recharge the batteries to at least 80 percent capacity in 20 minutes or less.

The battery pack has enough capacity for 497 miles of range, and can be recharged to 80 percent capacity in less than 30 minutes using a high - speed charging system, Audi claims.

The Good A completely electric powertrain marks the 2011 Nissan Leaf as the first of a new breed of car, and per mile, electricity costs about 70 percent less than gasoline.

A completely electric powertrain marks the 2011 Nissan Leaf as the first of a new breed of car, and per mile, electricity costs about 70 percent less than gasoline.

In addition, 80 percent of these commuters drive less than 40 miles round - trip to work.

It doesn't sound like much, but BMW studies say up to 80 percent of journeys X5 owners take are less than 18 miles, so it could be enough for prospective customers.

For example, approximately 80 percent of UK drivers travel less than 40 miles per day.

At 104 square miles, Glacier Grey forms less than three percent of the 4,773 - square - mile sheet of ice stretching across southern Chile and Argentina.

That's 25 percent less than I could possible pay with domestic carriers, which uniformly charge 25,000 miles round - trip domestically no matter how far you're going.

So you'll get roughly 30 percent less value per point compared to a program that uses miles.

The Freedom card boasts an additional, less obvious way to maximize your rewards earnings and potentially earn more than the Double Cash card: If you own a Chase travel card, such as the Chase Sapphire Preferred card or the Sapphire Reserve, you can convert your cash into miles and earn a 25 to 50 percent bonus on travel redeemed through Chase Ultimate Rewards.

Yes, the American Express JetBlue card accrues JetBlue frequent flier miles, but the value of those miles you are earning — somewhere around 1.5 percent on most of your spending — is less than the 2 percent you would earn on Citi Double Cash.

Results showed the storm caused the sea ice to pass the previous record 10 days earlier in August than it would have otherwise, but only reduced the final September ice extent by 150,000 square kilometers (almost 60,000 square miles), less than a 5 percent difference.

Ethanol contains 33 percent less energy per gallon than gasoline, so engines fueled with higher ethanol blended gas will attain fewer miles per gallon than those running on conventional gasoline (E10).

In less than a generation, prime orangutan habitat in Kalimantan has declined by more than 50 percent, falling from 55,000 square miles in 1992 to fewer than 27,000 square miles today.

Regardless of how you view the Volt, it delivers electric car efficiency and unlimited fuel economy if you drive like 80 percent of American drivers, 40 miles or less a day.

The captured CO2 from the 20 - megawatt «slipstream» portion of the facility's flue gas exhaust, which amounts to less than 2 percent of the power plant's total emissions, has been compressed and piped for storage into geologic formations about 1.5 miles below the Earth's surface.

So, if you can get 10 miles on less than a gallon of diesel, the carbon emissions will be less than gas; if the 35 percent efficiency upgrade holds (depending on your truck, how big the load is, etc.), then those 10 miles would produce about 14 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions — less than the 19.4 produced from burning a gallon of gas.

The League of American Bicyclists reports 40 percent of daily trips in the U.S. are less than two miles.

The increase in miles traveled by large trucks across the country was negligible at less than half of 1 percent.

In Oregon, for example, National General Assurance Company offers discounts ranging from 50 percent if you drive less than 2,500 miles a year to 5 percent for driving 12,000 to 15,000 miles.

For every 5,000 fewer miles behind the wheel, CBS News found that North Carolina drivers get less than a 1 percent premium deduction.

Then, if you drive 13,000 miles a year or less, you could get a discount of up to 30 percent at policy renewal based on miles driven.

Although most of the tornadoes that touch down in Montana are relatively weak, having wind speeds of less than 65 miles per hour, about 15 percent are strong enough to cause expensive damages.

Although most of the tornadoes that touch down in Wyoming are relatively weak with wind speeds less than 65 miles per hour, about 20 percent are strong enough to cause extensive damage.

The average savings in premium was a mere 1.6 percent for every 5,000 mile - reduction in miles traveled, or less than $ 3 a month.

On Sunday — a less busy notification day but with a 2.4 - mile run thrown in — the Apple Watch was down to 35 percent after I used it from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Properties located less than a half mile from campus were averaging pre-leasing levels of 43 percent in January, compared to 34 percent for properties located more than a half mile away, according to Axiometrics.