Sentences with phrase «relatively large degree»

As an author of academic papers, talks, and posters, I enjoyed a relatively large degree of freedom and artistic licence.

Not exact matches

Planning meetings for the Global Seed Vault in Norway spawned the idea of looking at average summer temperatures, which climate models can project relatively reliably and which have a large impact on crop yields — between 2.5 and 16 percent less wheat, corn, soy or other crops are produced for every 1.8 — degree F (1 — degree C) rise.

«It is [still] possible that a population of wolves remained relatively untamed but tracked human groups to a large degree, for a long time,» adds first author of the study Pontus Skoglund of Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

Site J was chosen unanimously as the primary landing site because the majority of terrain within an area that size has slopes of less than 30 degrees relative to the local vertical and because there are relatively few large boulders.

In the case of Wuthering Heights the main body of the story, told in flashback, is filtered through the consciousness of two very square and relatively uncomprehending individuals — the narrator, Mr. Lockwood, and a nurse called Nelly Dean — so its romantic fury is supplied to a large degree by the imagination of the reader.

Even a relatively small amount of debt can become a large burden, since students have to begin paying back the loans six months after they leave school, whether or not they have a degree.

The rate of violent crime is low, particularly for a relatively large community, at 1.9 incidents per 1,000 residents, and the typical resident with a bachelor's degree can make almost $ 59,000 per year.

Soil quality ranges from extremely rich volcanic (there are volcanoes with varying degrees of activity on some of the larger islands) to relatively infertile limestone.

More importantly, is the narrow range of tolerance that a lot of marine biomass has to relatively large changes in pH (the small numbers may not be impressive, but I suppose neither is 1 degree over 100 years).

Even though lauded as a very valuable and novel contribution to the field, Snyder's reconstruction has also been criticized because the temperature amplitude between glacial and interglacial states appears relatively large (~ 6 degrees) compared to other recent reconstructions, e.g. by Shakun et al (2012)(~ 4 degrees).