This exception may be connected with Hoijer's use of a much higher percentage of verbs: 22% of his total list as against 3.5% in mine.

She may not have been exact on this number, but others here feel quite certain that the percentage would be less than ten.

Being a dimensionless fraction, it may also be expressed as a percentage, and is measured on a scale from zero for no reflecting power of a perfectly black surface, to 1 for perfect reflection of a white surface.

Keys plated with other metals are not affected by the settlement, and may continue to use brass alloys with higher percentage of lead content.

All banks are required to hold a certain percentage of their assets as capital, a rate which may be established by the central bank or the banking supervisor.

Carnivores may alternatively be classified according to the percentage of meat in their diet.

However: intake valve closure ( sealing the cylinder ) always takes place after BDC, which may cause some of the intake charge to be compressed backwards out of the cylinder by the rising piston at very low speeds ; only the percentage of the stroke after intake valve closure is compressed.

Besides the negative impacts to the tourism industry, the two devastating hurricanes destroyed or significantly damaged a large percentage of Grenada ’ s tree crops, which may take years to recover.

Low percentage gels are very weak and may break when you try to lift them.

This process is efficient, but a small percentage of electrons may prematurely reduce oxygen, forming reactive oxygen species such as superoxide.

If this color change is advantageous, the chance of this butterfly surviving and producing its own offspring are a little better, and over time the number of butterflies with this mutation may form a larger percentage of the population.

A greater percentage could have a smaller proportion of Indian ancestry, but their conclusions show that popular estimates of admixture may have been too high.

Among tribes, qualification may be based upon a required percentage of Native American " blood " ( or the " blood quantum ") of an individual seeking recognition, or documented descent from an ancestor on the Dawes Rolls or other registers.

The high percentage of males aged seventeen to twenty-six may also have contributed to the low fertility rate.

While this may seem high, a hand of Pai Gow poker takes a long time to play compared to a game like blackjack, and there are many pushes ; therefore the house doesn't collect that 5 % as often as it would collect the house percentage on other games.

Detractors however, may draw attention to the floors above and point out the high percentage of office and residential space that allegedly still stands empty more than a decade after its completion.

Corroborating this view, a study conducted by James W. Deardorff states that only a small percentage of extraterrestrial civilizations may be aggressive.

Maxillary sinusitis may also be of dental origin and constitutes a significant percentage, given the intimacy of the relationship between the teeth and the sinus floor.

Changing the payout percentage after a slot machine has been placed on the gaming floor requires a physical swap of the software or firmware, which is usually stored on an EPROM but may be loaded onto non-volatile random access memory ( NVRAM ) or even stored on CD-ROM or DVD, depending on the capabilities of the machine and the applicable regulations.

In 1780 – 89, it reached 421. 50 million livres .< ref > Hoffman, Phillipe and Kathryn Norberg ( 1994 ), < u > Fiscal Crises, Liberty, and Representative Government, 1450-1789 </ u >, p. 238 .</ ref > Taxation as a percentage of production of final goods may have reached 15 %– 20 % during the 17th century in places such as France, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia.

Throughput is sometimes normalized and measured in percentage, but normalization may cause confusion regarding what the percentage is related to.

Most whiskies are sold at or near an alcoholic strength of 40 % abv, which is the statutory minimum in some countries – although the strength can vary, and cask-strength whisky may have as much as twice that alcohol percentage.

The percentage of GNS must be disclosed on the label and may be as much at 80 % on a proof gallon basis.

The objective should be to provide a method of getting into print a higher percentage than is now possible of the relevant information in the possession of reporters and editors.

If the resulting difference for the particular State is less or more than these extremes, the State's allotment percentage must be raised or lowered to the appropriate extreme.

( Each State's unadjusted allotment for any fiscal year, which exceeds its minimum allotment described in item 13 below by a percentage greater than one and one-half times the percentage by which the sum being allotted exceeds $23,000,000, must be reduced by the amount of the excess.

and General Motors and Du Pont were to be ordered to terminate any agreement that provided for the purchase by General Motors of any specified percentage of its requirements of any Du Pont manufactured product, or for the grant of exclusive patent rights, or for a grant by General Motors to Du Pont of a preferential right to make or sell any chemical discovery of General Motors, or for the maintenance of any joint commercial enterprise by the two companies.

Whereas a high percentage of the regular students can be expected to read other texts which more or less plow the same ground in a little different direction, the married students chose whole books on specific areas and went into much greater detail in their areas of interest.

It should be admitted, too, that there is a good percentage of lapsed or nonchurchgoing Catholics ( one paper writes 50 per cent ).

Related to this is lexicostatistics, which attempts to determine the degree of relation between a set of languages by comparing the percentage of basic vocabulary ( words like " I ", " you ", " heart ", " stone ", " two ", " be ", " and ") they share in common.

In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of physicist Ernest Rutherford, bombarded a sheet of gold foil with alpha rays — by then known to be positively charged helium atoms — and discovered that a small percentage of these particles were deflected through much larger angles than was predicted using Thomson's proposal.

The novel is believed to be based on the cholera epidemic that killed a large percentage of Oran's population in 1849 following French colonization, but the novel is placed in the 1940s.

Because the percentage of each constituent can be varied, with any mixture the entire range of possible variations is called a system.

The number of UK units of alcohol in a drink can be determined by multiplying < var > the volume of the drink ( in milliliters )</ var > by its < var > percentage ABV </ var >, and dividing by 1000.

Mixed fracture surfaces can be characterised by a certain percentage of adhesive and cohesive areas.

The same percentage said he would be remembered as either " outstanding " or " above average " as a president, while 22 % said he would be remembered as " below average " or " poor ".

The highest percentage of speakers can now be found in the 16-24 age range ( 57. 5 %) vs 25. 0 % in the 65 + age range.

The percentage of fluent speakers turns out to be even higher if those under 16 are also taken into account, given that the proportion of bilinguals is particularly high in this age group ( 76. 7 % of those aged between 10 and 14 and 72. 4 % of those aged 5 – 9 ): 37. 5 % of the population aged 6 and above in the whole Basque Autonomous Community, 25. 0 % in Álava, 31. 3 % in Biscay and 53. 3 % in Gipuzkoa.

The highest percentage of speakers can now be found in the 16-24 age range ( 19. 1 %) vs 9. 1 % in the 65 + age range.

Some argue that the OPS formula is flawed and that more weight should be shifted towards OBP ( on base percentage ).

For small numbers of at-bats, it is possible ( though unlikely ) for a player's on-base percentage to be lower than his batting average ( H / AB ).

This happens when a player has almost no walks or times hit by pitch, with a higher number of sacrifice flies ( e. g. if a player has 2 hits in 6 at bats plus a sacrifice fly, his batting average would be. 333, but his on-base percentage would be. 286 ).