Sentences with phrase «percent or more»

In general, consumers should seek out brands that specifically tout use of 100 percent recycled materials with a high percentage (40 percent or more) of post-consumer waste, and not just keywords like «green» or «eco» on their labels, which may be misleading.

That hydrogen can then be released from the reactor core and containment vessel and, if it accumulates in sufficient quantities — concentrations of 4 percent or more in the air — it can explode, as has apparently occurred at reactors No. 1 and 3, and possibly No. 2 as well.

«The emissions decline was the largest in a year with positive growth in per capita output and the only year to show a decline where per capita output increased 2 percent or more,» the EIA said.

Although the practice of not tilling the soil (no - till) started in the United States, two other countries, Brazil and Argentina, are the world leaders in no - till, said Rice, adding that 80 percent or more of agricultural land in Brazil and Argentina are farmed using no - till systems.

For several months, the process knocked back local populations of mosquitoes by 80 percent or more.

According to the ADA, having an A1c level of 6.5 percent or more is an indicator of the disease and an A1c level of between 5.7 and 6.4 percent is an indicator of prediabetes.

But Hugh Possingham of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, who invented the software used to define such sites, says planners need to be sure to conserve 20 percent or more of every type of habitat within a protected area, and Australia hasn't done that.

Over the years, 25 percent or more of this network disappears.

The Institute of Supervising Animal Epidemic Control of Guangzhou in China claims that 90 percent or more of the birds used in merit releases die, according to an article in the journal Contemporary Buddhism.

Recent studies suggest that the total loss in brain volume due to atrophy — a wasting away of tissue caused by cell degeneration — between our teen years and old age is 15 percent or more, which means that by the time we're in our seventies, our brains have shrunk to the size they were when we were between 2 and 3 years old.

The researchers defined a high - poverty neighborhood as one where 40 percent or more of residents live below the poverty line.

Of that total, 21 billion gallons must come from sources that reduce greenhouse - gas emissions by 50 percent or more — a goal that algae neatly achieve.

Giving the mice antibiotics helped gemcitabine kill tumor cells, increasing the number of tumor cells going through a type of cell death called apoptosis from about 15 percent to 60 percent or more.

How do you gather information about a bird species that spends 99 percent or more of its time at sea?

The Boskop skull, it would seem, housed a brain perhaps 25 percent or more larger than our own.

The CDC estimates that thanks to vaccines, we have reduced morbidity by 99 percent or more for smallpox, diphtheria, measles, polio, and rubella.

All had levels of residual disease that indicated a poor initial response to chemotherapy alone, including nine with MRD levels of 25 percent or more.

«Our goal is to identify more patients at those earlier, resectable stages, when treatment could lead to a five year survival rate of 30 percent or more, depending on stage,» Killary said.

It refers to the phenomenon that a typical carbon capture system requires a great deal of electricity and thus saps power from a power plant and can cause electricity costs to spike by 70 percent or more.

Yet changing the academic culture in the bottom 80 percent or more of the academic system is going to be especially difficult.

Whether those refusing the vaccine have helped fuel the current pertussis epidemic is uncertain, but their decisions have created a public health tinderbox: in some Bay Area schools, 40 percent or more of the kids are not vaccinated, leaving them unprotected against pertussis and other preventable diseases, such as measles.

All five major S&T programs would drop by at least 30 percent or more, as shown in the chart at right.

And if the atmospheric methane reaches levels of 1 percent or more?

Op - ed by NYGOP Chairman Ed Cox Driven by state and federal mandates that can eat up 85 percent or more of a county budget, New York's property taxes are double the national average.

A community is considered poor if the poverty rate is 20 percent or more.

The amounts listed in the report DO NOT include fringe benefits such as health insurance or employer pension contributions, which can add 35 percent or more to the cost for taxpayers.

However, if the proposed amendment is approved by a 75 percent or more vote of both chambers of the legislature, it doesn't have to be considered in two consecutive legislative sessions and can instead be put to a vote of the people at the next November general election.

Tenney said hospitals in Upstate New York, particularly in rural areas, depend on Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements for 60 percent or more of their budget.

But if five percent or more of the party's members sign a petition, the party line will appear, allowing voters to write in the candidate of their choice.

Mr. Trump has polled at 50 percent or more in just about every poll taken.

► Requiring people with a 10 percent or more interest in an entity doing business with the city be disclosed in the «doing business database.»

EBONG: So how does New York award delegates because the polls are now telling us that it seems as if Trump might get up to 50 percent or more of in the election, what would that mean for the delegate split in New York?

The ministry has also warned that basic and second cycle school heads who record 90 percent or more failure in their final exams will be sacked.

«Still a substantial portion, sometimes anywhere from 30 percent or more of the original fluids, are still making it through the process,» he said.

«If Clinton does better than double digits and picks up 60 percent or more of the delegates, that helps her make the case that Democrats should wrap this up and start focusing on her nomination,» said Evan Thies, a political consultant and president of Brooklyn Strategies.

The biofuels mandate would require all petroleum - based heating oil sold in the state to contain 2 percent or more of soybean oil and / or spent vegetable oils, such as those used in frying foods, a supposed effort to reduce greenhouse gases.

Both Republicans and Democrats are scheduled to hold their conventions May 23 - 24, at which any candidate who garners 25 percent or more of the weighted support of delegates will appear on the primary ballot.

That would include the opening of a similar «full - service» casino within a 65 - mile radius of Aqueduct or if Resorts World's gambling revenue drops by 10 percent or more.

In addition to Valley Central, the Goshen, Tuxedo and Fallsburg districts would see aid cut under Cuomo's proposal, while Greenwood Lake, Kiryas Joel, Middletown, Washingtonville, Livingston Manor, Ellenville, Highland, Kingston and New Paltz would see increases of 6 percent or more.

Districts can override caps only with consent of 60 percent or more of voters.

Of the 191 sampled tenants, 59, or 30 percent, exceeded the eligibility limit by at least 25 percent, and many exceeded it by 50 percent or more.

Eligible high schools are those in which 50 percent or more of the students are eligible to participate in the federal free and reduced - price lunch program.

TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y. >> Once the place where garbage collected from around the town of Ulster was dumped, a 29 - acre tract of land alongside Frank Sottile Boulevard will soon be home of a vast solar energy array able to provide 20 percent or more of Ulster County government's electrical needs.

Mr Pratt said it baffled him that anyone in the current economic environment will believe that they can make 60 percent or more interest on an investment within three months.

A total of 321 elections (73.8 percent of all House elections) were won by margins of victory of 20 percent or more.

About 85 percent had enrollment declines of 10 percent or more.

Driven by state and federal mandates, which can eat up 85 percent or more of a county budget, New York property taxes are double the national average.

Under Cuomo's proposal, homeowners who pay six percent or more of their annual paychecks in taxes will get a credit on their tax bills.

Under Cuomo's proposal, homeowners who pay 6 percent or more of their annual paychecks in taxes, will get a credit on their tax bills.

A series of public opinion polls sponsored by upstate Siena College have found that majorities of 65 percent or more of those surveyed favor such continuation.