About 45 percent of the loss in growth was attributable to disease, 20 percent to insects, 17 percent to fire, and 18 percent to weather, animals, and various other causes.

About 20 Orcadian broch sites include small settlements of stone buildings surrounding the main tower.

About 8. 3 % of families and 20. 0 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 13. 4 % of those under age 18 and 7. 9 % of those age 65 or over.

About 20, 000 deaths are attributed to it each year.

About 20 years later, John Ambrose Fleming ( scientific adviser to the Marconi Company

About 23 % of all families and 48 % of all genera ( 20 % of marine families and 55 % of marine genera ) went extinct.

About 20 % of patients with epilepsy continue to have breakthrough epileptic seizures despite best anticonvulsant treatment.

About 20, 000 Jamaicans emigrate to the United States each year ; another 200, 000 visit annually.

About 15 %- 20 % of hospitalized Lassa fever patients will die from the illness.

About half of the vocabulary is borrowed from standard Italian and Sicilian ; English words make up between 6 % and 20 % of the Maltese vocabulary, according to different estimates ( see below ).

About 13 % of Muslims live in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country, 25 % in South Asia, 20 % in the Middle East, 2 % in Central Asia, 4 % in the remaining South East Asian countries, and 15 % in Sub-saharan Africa.

About 20 % of cases of cystic fibrosis present with meconium ileus, while approximately 20 % of one series of cases of meconium ileus did not have cystic fibrosis.

About 300 enemy launched a strong attack on 20 January 1763 putting the Nepalese still more on the defensive.

About 80 % of our daily water requirement comes from the beverages we drink, with the remaining 20 % coming from food.

About 20 privately-owned Train Operating Companies, each franchised for a defined term by government, operate passenger trains on the main rail network in Great Britain.

About 16. 5 % of families and 20. 6 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 29. 0 % of those under age 18 and 15. 9 % of those age 65 or over.

About 15. 0 % of families and 20. 4 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 5 % of those under the age of 18 and 13. 5 % ages 65 or older.

About 20, 000 Malaitans fled to the capital and others returned to their home island ; Gwale residents of Honiara fled.

About 20, 000 Syrian soldiers were deployed in Lebanon until 27 April 2005, when the last of Syria's troops left the country.

About 20, 000 children received scholarships in the 2003-2004 school year.

One of the squatters said, " About 20 people have lived here over the years and it's been a place for band rehearsals, art projects, people practising dance routines, bike workshops.

About 20 million people died, many due to disease and famine.

About 8: 20 p. m., three white men entered the courthouse, demanding that Rowland be turned over to them.

About 20 percent of those who cohabited before getting engaged had since suggested splitting-compared with only 12 percent of those who only moved in together after getting engaged and 10 percent who did not cohabit prior to marriage.

About 70 % of survivors show residual neurological deficits, but some survivors have shown surprisingly little deficit considering the magnitude of the white matter affected.

About 70 specimens have survived, roughly half of them on fibulae, others on belt buckles ( see Pforzen buckle, Bülach fibula ) and other jewelry and weapon parts.

About 15 % of the population is foreign, most of them immigrants from Argentina, Ecuador, and Colombia who have arrived in the previous 10 years.

About 28 of the former US military bases in Vietnam where the herbicides were stored and loaded onto airplanes may still have high level of dioxins in the soil, posing a health threat to the surrounding communities.

About 120 – 130 species have become extinct as a result of human activity since the 17th century, and hundreds more before then.

About twenty isotopes and six nuclear isomers ( excited states of an isotope ) of berkelium have been characterized with the atomic numbers ranging from 235 to 254.

About a third of all reports of Bigfoot sightings are concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, with most of the remaining reports spread throughout the rest of North America .< ref name =" Car08_p118 ">< span id =" Car08 "></ span ></ ref > Some Bigfoot advocates, such as John Willison Green, have postulated that Bigfoot is a worldwide phenomenon.

* Benedick, from William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, says " But that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead or hang my bugle in an invisible baldric all women shall pardon me.

Haley historian Chris Gardner, as well as surviving members of the group, have confirmed that the two singles: " Out Where the West Winds Blow "/" Who's Gonna Kiss You When I'm Gone " ( Vogue R736 ) and " Boogie Woogie Yodel "/" Baby I Found Out All About You " ( Vogue R786 ) do not feature Haley.

About 10. 5 % of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent ( though they may have a mortgage or a rent-to-own agreement ).

Some notable Columbia alumni that have gone on to work in film include directors Sidney Lumet ( 12 Angry Men ) and Kathryn Bigelow ( The Hurt Locker ), screenwriters Howard Koch ( Casablanca ) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( All About Eve ), and actors James Cagney and Ed Harris.

About seven million years old, an age that makes it one of the youngest open clusters in the Milky Way, it appears to have the shape of a letter A.

About two-thirds of people with chronic symptoms have cardiac damage, including dilated cardiomyopathy, which causes heart rhythm abnormalities and may result in sudden death.

About 100 tonnes of dysprosium are produced worldwide each year, with 99 % of that total produced in China Dysprosium prices have climbed nearly twentyfold, from $ 7 per pound in 2003, to $ 130 a pound in late 2010.

About a month after the release of the Duke Nukem 3D source code, Blood project manager Matt Saettler released the source code for both EDuke v2. 0 and EDuke v2. 1, the test version of what would have eventually become the next EDuke release, under the GPL.

About four miles from Shrewsbury and close by Haughmond Abbey is " Queen Eleanor's Bower ", the remains of a triangular castle which is believed to have been one of her prisons.

About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, and nearly 90 % of epilepsy occurs in developing countries.

About 2 % of adults and 8 % of children have a food allergy.

About 25 airports have scheduled passenger services.

About 15 percent of the world's languages, however, have unpaired voiced fricatives, i. e., a voiced fricative without a voiceless counterpart.

About 10 % of last names in Gibraltar have Portuguese origin.

About 70 % of afflicted cats also have enlarged thyroid glands ( goiter ).

About ten distinct IFNs have been identified in mammals ; seven of these have been described for humans.