Sentences with phrase «reduced by nearly»

Flood damage is reduced by nearly $ 1 billion a year through communities implementing sound floodplain management requirements and property owners purchasing of flood insurance.

As well, Apple says borders surrounding the screen have been reduced by nearly 40 percent.

To the contrary, the data shows that workers» compensation costs are lower today than they were two decades ago, and were just reduced by nearly a half billion dollars.

Interfaith Power and Light estimates that TUUC's total carbon footprint has been reduced by nearly 20 %.

Finds the maximum reduction in intensification time is noticed over the North Atlantic Ocean where the average time needed for TC to intensify from 64 kt to 112 kt has reduced by nearly 20 hours during the past 25 - year period

Our euthanasia rate has been reduced by nearly half and we have not euthanized for time, space or money since January 2017.

In their second report, the authors concluded that FHA could serve 95 % of its historic target market even if loan limits were reduced by nearly 50 %.

The peer - reviewed research that I co-authored with Wade Pfau shows that risk has been reduced by nearly 70...

In addition, public school districts across the state will have their state aid reduced by nearly $ 43 million to pay the costs of voucher students who reside in their districts and who first enrolled in and participated in the Statewide or Racine voucher programs in 2015 - 16 or later.

But if you soak the rice over night in water, then rinse the rice until the water ist clear and then cock it with 5 parts of water — the Arsenic will be reduced by nearly 80 %.

In one study, patients who worked out regularly on a treadmill or stationary bike for 12 weeks saw the severity of their symptoms reduced by nearly 50 %.

«Pancreatitis reduced by nearly 50 % after gene therapy to treat lipoprotein lipase deficiency.»

In one study of female collegiate soccer players, non-contact ACL injuries were reduced by nearly half among players who followed a warm - up program that included both dynamic stretching exercises and static stretching.

Bring to a simmer over medium - high heat, and cook, stirring occasionally, until reduced by nearly half, 10 to 12 minutes.

Overall, petroleum - based resin usage in the packaging is reduced by nearly 90 percent compared to rigid one - liter bottles, reducing impacts to our environment through the manufacture of the packaging system.

Bring to a boil, lower the heat to medium high and simmer gently for 8 to 10 minutes or until the mixture is reduced by nearly half and is thickened.

The number of [public service] positions was reduced by nearly 17,000 along with their associated resources.

There are now fewer regulations and the cost of red tape has been reduced by nearly 20 million dollars annually.

The cost to developers of connecting a subdivision or development to water supply infrastructure will be reduced by nearly 50 per cent from next month.

Not exact matches

Proposed cuts include reducing the climate protection budget by nearly 70 percent to $ 29 million, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative by 97 percent to $ 10 million and environmental justice programs by 79 percent to $ 1.5 million.

Microsoft, for example, has reduced itself to heckling Google with two campaigns: «Scroogled,» about the alleged evils of Google's e-mail advertising policy (something that consumers have met with a shrug ever since Gmail's introduction nearly a decade ago); and the «Bing It On Challenge,» in which people on the street pick the search results they like best (which apes the old Pepsi Challenge — a campaign that defined Pepsi by what it isn't, and thus condemned it to being Coke's bridesmaid forever).

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

He would reduce the federal debt and deficit by cutting federal spending, nearly in half.

The company has written down the value of its operations, including its stalled Pascua - Lama project in South America, reduced its head office staff by nearly half, and eliminated layers of management between Toronto and Barrick's mines.

We reduced the size of our balance sheet by $ 42 billion from the second quarter of 2011, nearly doubled our Tier 1 common equity ratio since early 2009.»

Each year a founder lived in the region reduced the failure rate by nearly 2 %, and each additional year of tenure translated into $ 1,362 more in profits in each year of operation.

The Office of Management and Budget estimates that the exclusion of imputed rent reduced federal revenue by nearly $ 79 billion in fiscal year 2015.

The financial sector rose nearly 1 per cent, after the People's Bank of China said late on Tuesday it would slash reserve requirement ratios (RRRs) for most banks by 100 basis points (bps), a move analysts say will reduce financing costs for lenders.

Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder was revealed in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. dollar.

In 2015, ORCL bought back $ 8.1 billion in stock (5 % of market cap), reducing shares outstanding by nearly 120 million.

Saudi Arabia will account for almost half of the agreed cuts, reducing output by nearly 0.5 mb / d, which will take overall production down close to 10.0 mb / d.

The National Flood Insurance Program Nearly 20,000 communities across the United States and its territories participate in the NFIP by adopting and enforcing floodplain management ordinances to reduce future flood damage.

In 2017, the SALT deduction is estimated to reduce revenue to the federal government by nearly $ 60 billion.

The 336 H dramatically reduced the amount of fuel needed to operate, by nearly 50 %.

The GBP USD is up nearly 1 % at themid - session after a stronger - than - expected economic report signaled growth.This news reduced the prospects for further easing by the Bank of England, therefore,

The largest savings in the RSC budget comes from reducing other mandatory program spending by nearly $ 2.7 trillion over a decade.

Under that scenario, Duke would phase out coal completely by 2050, reducing the company's carbon emissions to nearly three - quarters below 2005 levels.

Management has a long track record of disciplined capital allocation, having reduced the share count by nearly one - third over the past decade, and it recently initiated a fairly generous dividend.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

At Harvard nearly half the seats on the Board of Overseers had been filled by clergy; by 1894 those fifteen had been reduced to one.

It reduced the compromises by the churches of the preceding century and gave rise to new movements which made Christianity more nearly in accord with the Gospel than it had been since its earliest centuries.

New research by Zero Waste Scotland has revealed that nearly 1.35 million tonnes of food and drink was wasted in Scotland in 2013, a figure that will be used as a baseline for efforts to reduce food waste by a third by 2025.

Over the years, Bobby Ham has led the company into processed goods, utilizing off grade produce to create value added products while reducing food waste by using nearly 100 percent of the crops it grows.

In a small saucepan, simmer maple syrup over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until nearly reduced by half, about 7 to 10 minutes.

The report, aptly named The Business Case for Reducing Food Loss and Waste, was released on behalf of Champions 12.3, a coalition of nearly 40 leaders across business, government and civil society who are dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals» Target 12.3 to halve food waste and cut food loss by 2030.

I made a batch nearly straight - up (reduced the olive oil) true to the recipe and was just blown away by the flavor.

The chain with 40,000 locations around the world says it will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions at both restaurants and its offices by 2030 by nearly 40 percent from 2015 numbers.

This one little filter increased our winning percentage from 54.3 % to 56.8 % while reducing our sample size by nearly 40 %.

Although the number of past results are reduced by roughly 46.5 %, the return on investment nearly doubles from 9.9 % to 17.9 %.

A new Australian study finds that parents who can get their child to follow a physical activity skill development program and modify their diet can reduce their overweight child's screen time by nearly one hour per day.