According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey, plastics units now account for more than 50% of all sign sales.

According to a single unsupported piece of recent research, refugees from the collapsed Assyrian Empire claim to have reached the region of Lake Chad and founded the kingdoms of Kanem and Kebbi.

According to recent academics, Athanasius, growing impatient, took a small number of bishops who supported his claim, and held a private consecration making him bishop.

According to the most recent measurements and observations, the Big Bang occurred approximately 13. 75 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the Universe.

According to a recent opinion poll, 39 % of Americans believe the US has a crony capitalist system.

According to the most recent classification scheme, the APG III of 2009, the order includes five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

According to the Botanical Society of the British Isles ' most recent Atlas, there has been only one confirmed record since 2000.

According to a recent United Nations report, more than 84 percent of Eritreans who have sought asylum around the world have been recognized as refugees deserving asylum status.

According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, " China has been working with great determination in recent years to develop, implement, and enforce a solid environmental law framework.

According to Rossy, this is proof of the more recent creation of this type of songs, influenced by Castilian jota.

According to the recent single origin hypothesis, anatomically modern humans arose in East Africa approximately 200, 000 years ago.

According to Technorati, the number of blogs doubles about every 6 months with a total of 35. 3 million blogs. This is an example of the early stages of logistic growth, where growth is approximately exponential, since blogs are a recent innovation.

According to recent historical findings, Kyrgyz history dates back to 201 BC.

According to the official Bulgarian sources, in the period between 2000 to 2006 some 30 000 Macedonian citizens applied for Bulgarian citizenship, attracted by the Bulgaria's recent positive development and the opportunity to get European Union passports after Bulgaria joined EU on the beginning of 2007.

According to the World Bank, Moldova's weighted average tariff rate in 2001 ( the most recent year for which World Bank data are available ) was 2. 8 percent.

According to a recent hypothesis, the Archimedes screw may have been used by Sennacherib, King of Assyria, for the water systems at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and Nineveh in the 7th century BC, although mainstream scholarship holds it to be a Greek invention of later times.

According to recent research, adult Manduca sexta is able to retain the behaviour learned as a caterpillar.

According to this interpretation, Aquinas's influence was such as to affect a number of early translations of these passages in an unfortunate manner, though more recent translations render them more literally.

According to a recent scientific survey, there are dozens of ancient olive trees throughout Israel and Palestine, 1, 600 – 2, 000 years old.

According to recent data, 841 different languages are listed for the country, although 11 of these have no known living speakers.

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

According to recent European research, rosemary interferes with the absorption of iron and should not be consumed by those with iron deficiency anemia.

According to History Professor John Boles ' recent book University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute, the first president's original vision for the university included hopes for future medical and law schools.

According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse.

According to official figures, Armenia ’ s economy grew by 13. 8 percent in 2007.

According to 2012 figures from Statistics Denmark, 89. 6 % of Denmark ’ s population of over 5, 580, 516 was of Danish descent.

According to official figures, although the territory was at the time inhabited by 58, 240 Somali and 48, 270 Afar, only 14, 689 Somali were allowed to register to vote versus 22, 004 Afar.

According to his figures, six times as many people have died from the inflictions of people working for governments than have died in battle.

According to White House and Congressional Budget Office figures, the maximum share of income that enrollees would have to pay for the " silver " healthcare plan would vary depending on their income relative to the federal poverty level, as follows: for families with income 133 – 150 % of FPL will be 3-4 % of income, for families with income of 150 – 200 % of FPL will be 4-6. 3 % of income, for families with income 200 – 250 % of FPL will be 6. 3-8. 05 % of income, for families with income 250-300 % of FPL will be 8. 05-9. 5 % of income, for families with income from 300 to 400 % of FPL will be 9. 5 % of income.

According to U. S. Census figures from 2000, 41, 000, 000 Americans claim to be wholly or partly of Irish ancestry, a group that represents more than one in five white Americans.

According to figures published in 1945, 66, 000 people were killed as a direct result of the Hiroshima blast, and 69, 000 were injured to varying degrees ..

According to this theory, storytellers repeatedly elaborated upon historical accounts until the figures in those accounts gained the status of gods.

According to the growth rates post 2006, noticeable progress from these figures happened until early 2008, when the ' global financial crisis ' burst Spain's property bubble.

According to official government figures, the population in the wild may number around 500 individuals, but is under considerable poaching pressure.

According to the figures released by Turkey's statistics authority ( TurkStat ) the total number of motor vehicles in Turkey reached 15. 023 million as of November 2010.

According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense of three-dimensionality.

According to figures from the Venezuelan Central Bank, the economy showed signs of improvement in the first quarter of 2011 when GDP rose between 3 % and 4 %.

According to official figures for 2010, its population is 632, 996, making it the fourth largest city in Poland.

According to the only contemporary source, Hypatia was murdered by a Christian mob after being accused of exacerbating a conflict between two prominent figures in Alexandria: the governor Orestes and the Bishop of Alexandria.

According to the most recently available figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the average income of the Albury area is $ 36K per year, below the $ 42K average for the state of New South Wales.

According to figures released on February 2, 2010, the Church has 160 dioceses including 30, 142 parishes served by 207 bishops, 28, 434 priests and 3, 625 deacons.

According to official figures, in 1987 Albania's roadways carried about 66 percent of the country's total freight tonnage.

According to the critic Terry Teachout, they are " the two most influential figures in the early history of jazz " and " the twin lines of descent from which most of today's jazz can be traced.

According to a near-contemporary, when beginning to plan a composition, he would lay out a large number of stock drawings of his on the floor, and begin to draw " rapidly ", borrowing figures from here and there.

According to the 2011 figures, the recorded forest area of the state is constituting 30. 72 % of the geographical area of the state.

According to the 2009-10 figures, the state had 105, 592 primary schools, 6, 352 high schools and 5, 161 higher secondary schools.

According to the ONS urban area populations for continuous built-up areas, these are the 5 largest conurbations ( population figures from the 2001 census ):

According to official figures, 5000 Serbs live in Dubai but the unofficial figure is estimated to be around 15, 000.