Sentences with phrase «very substantial percentage»

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While some rights holders have argued that the standard for a substantial is very low (the National Post recently argued in a case that «even the reproduction of a small number of words in a newspaper article can be an impermissible reproduction»), the Copyright Board says that its preliminary view is that «copying of a few pages or a small percentage from a book that is not a collection of short works, such as poems, is not substantial.»

Because I think China's nominal GDP growth has been overstated by a substantial amount because of its systematic failure to write down bad loans, I usually have subtracted 2 - 4 percentage points from the nominal GDP growth rate before I did my very rough calculation.

The very next week, President Clinton's market suffered its own mini-crash and gave away a substantial number of percentage points.

There are substantial ethnic - group differences on the percentage of mothers who feed in chairs and recliners (e.g., African American mothers have very low rates of these dangerous behaviors).

The percentage of doctorate holders in nonacademic S&E occupations who are underrepresented minorities increased from 4.4 percent in 1990 to 6.1 in 2005, a substantial increase if it were not over a very small base.18 Myers and Turner concluded that market forces such as wages play a more prominent role in affecting faculty representation in the short run than pipeline factors designed to increase the supply of minority faculty.19

Trading impact for options is substantially greater, largely because bid / ask spreads tend to be a substantial percentage of premium value, and also because of the very large notional value which these options represent.

For six years beginning in January 2006, Franklin American reported very few deficient loans to HUD even though its post-close audits identified substantial percentages of its loans had deficiencies, the Justice Department said.

Several kickstarter planners don't think this through very well with the result that you get things like the Star Command kickstarter where they ended up spending a substantial percentage of their funding on fulfilling the various reward tiers.

Some non-Annex 1 countries including China and Mauritius claim that their non-Annex 1 status is justification for making no binding commitments to reduce their ghg emissions even though a substantial percentage of their population has very high income and high per capita emissions.

Emissions of ODS gases (also GHGs) controlled under the Montreal Protocol (CFCs, HCFCs) increased from a very low amount during the 1950 — 1960s to a substantial percentage — approximately 20 % — of total GHG emissions by 1975.

Kathy McArthur respects the work doctors do, but she takes these cases very seriously and devotes a substantial percentage of her practice to medical malpractice lawsuits.

The cost of raising venture capital funds or holding an IPO was a very expensive process, but an ICO opens a company to investment funding from the public without having to lose the huge percentage or pay the substantial associated fees.