Sentences with phrase «produce at least average»

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A non-U.S. company will be considered a PFIC for any taxable year if (i) at least 75 % of its gross income is passive income (including interest income), or (ii) at least 50 % of the value of its assets (based on an average of the quarterly values of the assets during a taxable year) is attributable to assets that produce or are held for the production of passive income.

at least 50 % of its gross assets (determined on the basis of a quarterly average) is attributable to assets that produce passive income or are held for the production of passive income.

The average client stays on for at least 14 months and produces $ 8,000 in profit.

The chart they produced assumed a $ 1 million initial investment compounded at 20 % per year (after all — most money managers who are hyperactive in their trading espouse their desire to perform at least 70 % to 80 % better than the long - term average of the index.)

Most scientists and climatologists agree that weird weather is at least in part the result of global warming — a steady increase in the average temperature of the surface of the Earth thought to be caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses produced by human activity.

The calculations (from 304 birds rescued at an average distance of 4,833 metres from their nearest colonies) demonstrate that at least 1 % of the fledglings produced each year by the population are found on the ground due to light pollution.

When women aged 45 to 55 suffering meno symptoms ate soy foods at least three times a week, high soy consumers who produced equol were 76 % less likely than non-equol producers to report above - average frequency of hot flushes and night sweats, researchers wrote in the North American Menopause Society's journal.

Looking at each of the CMOs in the NewSchools portfolio individually, we find that half are producing breakthrough results, with average proficiency rates that are at least 15 percentage points higher than their local districts.

Rigorous studies consistently show that the impact of a more - effective teacher is substantial A high - performing teacher, one at the 84th percentile of all teachers, when compared with just an average teacher, produces students whose level of achievement is at least 0.2 standard deviations higher by the end of the school year.

They found that a principal in the top 16 percent of the quality distribution will produce annual student gains that are at least 0.05 standard deviations higher than will an average principal for all students in their school, or roughly two additional months of learning.

Now, the average professional writer is said to be able to spend at least 4 hours per day producing original, new and authentic content directly from their imaginations.

That objective is to accept market risk in conditions that have generally been associated with high or at least acceptable average return / risk tradeoffs, and to avoid or hedge away market risk in conditions that have generally produced hostile tradeoffs, on average.

Expected average results based on at least 16 puppies: An AFFECTED parent will aslways produce CARRIER offspring.

Expected average results based on at least 16 puppies: CARRIER to CARRIER breedings will produce 25 % AFFECTED offspring, 25 % NORMAL offspring, and 50 % CARRIER offspring.

63 percent of respondents said the United States should move forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries do... In the same poll, the public supported — by a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent — requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if that would cost the average household an extra $ 100 per year.»

Majorities of Democrats, Independents and Republicans support requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20 % of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if it cost the average household an extra $ 100 a year.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

But hey, at least if there is a Dalton minimum repeat we will know that even a cycle that has been recorded as «average» can produce the same phenomena experienced 200 years ago!

This sharp, unprecedented rise in the average global temperature during the last decade of the 20th century can not be explained as a temporary swing produced by natural causes alone, and its is very likely that heat - trapping waste gases are at least partly responsible for it.