Sentences with phrase «percent over the course of a century»

U.S. risk assessments generally assume that bridges may collapse when a 100 - year flood — a streamflow with 1 percent probability of being exceeded in any given year, or 63 percent over the course of a century — occurs.

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These factors provide a bit more specificity and precision to the more innocuous» sounding proposition that 1.5 percent of 150,000 priests under hundreds of bishops engaged in sexual abuse over the course of half a century.

Some may conclude that 1.5 percent of 150,000 priests over the course of half a century is not such a big deal.

Over the course of a century, the lasting effects of drought could lead to 3 percent lower carbon storage in semi-arid forests, such as those in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, according to the study.

Optimal policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change, economists tell us, won't cost the global economy very much in the grand scheme of things — on the order of 1 percent of total global GDP over the course of the next century.

Over the course of the twentieth century, Hansen and other climate scientists rierslot.net estimate aerosols may have offset global warming by as much as 50 percent by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the surface.