Sentences with phrase «with about a tenth»

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GIC is ranked the world's tenth biggest sovereign investor, with about $ 343 billion worth of assets, according to Sovereign Wealth Centre.

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In fact, if we agree with him that human experiences of as brief a duration as one - tenth of a second may be distinguished in consciousness, and if we disregard the problem of whether a sleeping person also experiences at about the same rate of ten occasions per second, then simple arithmetic enables us to conclude that the concrete reality of a human being that lives seventy years is well over two billion individual «selves»!

This is the tenth post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

But we have to remember that there is an additional weight with the Halo, and that will cost about three to four tenths of a second, because of the weight plus aero implications.»

With the current ankle injury being the tenth of his career, you can not help but worry about how much Jack can contribute on the long - term.

He did this with one arm, and arrested an accelerating Hardman to a full, spinning halt in about three - tenths of a second.

Those who voted Ukip in last year's election are the most definite about how they will vote, with only a tenth undecided, and 85 % planning to vote leave.

The newfound black holes were located within a region about a tenth the size of those associated with previous detections.

According to the city administration of Karlsruhe, illumination of this medium - sized city with 300,000 inhabitants requires about 60,000 lamps (one tenth of which are LEDs).

Their models showed that if you visited any star with a planet orbiting from the same distance as Earth down to one tenth that, there is about a 38 percent chance (and likely less) that you would run into a planet and moon system similar to Jupiter's four Galilean satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto), with similar ratios of moon to planetary diameters and orbital to planetary radii.

After reanalyzing data collected between 1979 and 2001, the team found that the tropospheres temperature has risen by about two tenths of a degree Celsius (almost one third of a degree Fahrenheit) each decade, bringing it in line with the surface trend.

One example, according to the researchers, is children with scoliosis or suspected spine problems now are often imaged with EOS imaging machines that provided useful information with about one - tenth the radiation exposure than a conventional CT or X-ray of the spine.

The team located the FRB about 100,000 times more precisely than previous attempts with individual telescopes, letting them unambiguously associate it with a dwarf galaxy about a tenth of the diameter of the Milky Way, more than 2.5 billion light years away (Nature, doi.org/bwss).

Although the efficiency was about one - tenth that of other methods, with about 1 in 100,000 cells turning into iPS cells, the resulting iPS cells passed all the usual tests to demonstrate that they are indeed pluripotent, the group reports in the journal Cell Stem Cell.

Our brains, which weigh an average of 2.7 pounds (1,200 grams), account for about 2 percent of body weight, compared with an elephant's under one - tenth of a percent.

Charon, first spotted in 1978, is so bulky compared with its parent — about one - tenth the mass of Pluto — that scientists regard the Pluto - Charon system as a double planet.

It is a variable star with only about a tenth of Sol's mass (0.1187 Solar - mass according to Torres et al, 2010), about eight to 35 percent of its diameter, and only 8.7 - 12 / 100,000 th of its luminosity.

These astrometric perturbations suggested that there was a third, unseen body orbiting one of the visible stars with a period of 2.2 years and a computed mass of about one - tenth the mass of Sol.

This companion object appears to have about four - tenths of Sol's mass according to Heintz (1996), which would correspond with a star around spectral type M3 (Mason et al, 1995).

The distance from star A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 0.70 AU — about the orbital distance of Venus in the Solar System, with an orbital period of about 221 days, or around six - tenths of an Earth year.

One tenth of the subjects with positive TGAb and / or TPOAb had hypothyroidism; the frequencies of hypothyroidism in those with positive TGAb and / or TPOAb were about the same in Nishihara, Yamagata, Kobe, and Hotaka.

But a person with a functioning pancreas could avoid carbs completely (I'm not suggesting you do it) and only be in «ketosis» — a level of ketones about a tenth of what's required for ketoacidosis.

Japan has the worlds tenth largest population, with about 128 million people.

You'd think it would've been easier on the budget if Stone had just paid for Oldman's cab fare to the library, but, then, the library wouldn't have provided Oldman with a tenth of the information about the man he was portraying that he ended up getting from his meeting with Oswald's widow, Marina.

The Tenth Man (Unrated) Prodigal Son drama about a Jew (Alan Sabbagh) who returns to Buenos Aires to reconcile with his estranged father (Usher Barilka) while exploring the cultural traditions that originally alienated them from each other.

Russlynn Ali, the former assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education, talks about the district where a black Kindergartener gets suspended for pulling a fire alarm while a white tenth grader does the same thing and gets off with a warning.

While they're funded with public money, they generally operate outside of collective bargaining agreements (only about one - tenth of charter schools are unionized) and other constraints that often prevent principals in public schools from innovating for the good of their students (so the argument goes).

Like many tenth graders, my husband couldn't fathom how to fill a class period with prose about a leaf.

If you stick with the «talented tenth» view of giftedness, we're talking about roughly 5.5 million school - age kids.

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It automatically checks for spelling and grammar and that kind of stuff, which is nice because it actually allows me to talk about the writing rather than these minutiae of mechanics that, to me, aren't really the focus of tenth grade English... [But] it's sometimes hard... a kid quoted a bible [sic] verse... and his was a mess because it came up with so much because it was like «chapter 1.»

I think the worst teaching I saw was a TFA - type English teacher who had a class with about 9 tenth graders.

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Assuming a demonstration program for about 20,000 students spread across, say, 20 school districts, with average program costs of $ 10,000 per student, demonstration costs would be approximately $ 200 million per year; a rigorous evaluation should cost no more than one - tenth of that amount.

But now with this Hybrid wan na be [in reality its a push to pass not a genuine hybrid] approaching Ferrari / Lamborghini / Porsche / i8 prices with about one tenth the technology of the i8 [the only true hybrid supercar] much of its appeal has diminished.

The backseat is a strange story: With a rated 36.3 inches of legroom, it's a tenth of an inch ahead of the Civic, about an inch more generous than the Cruze and more than 3 inches ahead of the Elantra.

Lexus claims the LC 500 can sprint from 0 - 60 in about 4.5 seconds, with the LC 500h coming in only two - tenths slower despite delivering considerably better fuel economy.

We never did get around to finishing that review on the Q3 2.0 TFSI quattro we drove last year (shame on us), but up to about seven tenths the Q3 surprised with its general handling capabilities.

With an overall length of 190.9 inches, it's two - tenths of an inch shorter than an Accord, about an inch longer than a Camry.

We want to pioneer that culture in India,» said Goteti while claiming Indians are far behind Americans in their reading habits, with it being just about one - tenth of that prevalence in the US.

Interviews with Picoult about Change of Heart and The Tenth Circle.

It is a book that was written sometime between the middle of the seventh and the end of the tenth century of the first millennium, one of those iconic books in its original Anglo - Saxon that everyone knows about, talks about with awe, and does not usually admit one has not read: Beowulf.

That said, the company's $ 4 billion in revenues in 2011 put it at about a tenth the size of Amazon with its $ 48.08 in revenues.

Or network with other Whovians and blog about why the tenth Doctor is by far the best.

Long - term investors would care more about the lower fees but traders would be primarily concerned with liquidity and low bid / ask spreads, not a MER difference of a few tenths of a basis point.

The ninth and tenth deciles together (with market caps under about $ 400 million, a good definition of micro caps) account for less than 2 % of total market capitalization.

A half - life of 1.0 typically means roughly 100 % annual portfolio turnover; a half - life of 10.0 means only about one - tenth of the portfolio turns over in any given year.8 Strategies and factors with longer half - lives, such as small cap and profitability, are likely to have portfolios that change slowly from one year to the next, making it much easier to tease out the structural alpha.