Sentences with phrase «sizeable fraction»

A small but sizeable fraction of iPad buyers on launch day were doing so to replace the Amazon Kindle, analyst Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray said today.

To this illustrious list, we should add the brown tree frog, which spends a sizeable fraction of the year frozen solid.

The model assumed that a sizeable fraction of hard - core warriors would die by the sword, but it also assumed a reward for those who didn't: they got to mate with females from the conquered tribe.

This paper describes this sizeable fraction of the U.S. higher education market and estimates counterfactual predicted probabilities of degree completion, had students made different initial postsecondary enrollment choices.

According to the investigation: «There is a strong increasing trend in sea surface temperature over the northern Indian Ocean during the 1952 - 96 time period» and «Soot was a sizeable fraction of the aerosol mix and caused substantial absorption of solar radiation.

A sizeable fraction will not even know what CO2 is, I wouldn't be surprised if a majority didn't know that there are other greenhouse gases besides CO2.

Note that the gross amounts of carbon annually exchanged between the ocean and atmosphere, and between the land and atmosphere, represent a sizeable fraction of the atmospheric CO2 content and are many times larger than the total anthropogenic CO2 input.

Should a sizeable fraction of this carbon be released as methane (CH4) and CO2, it would increase atmospheric concentrations, which would lead to higher atmospheric temperatures.