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And for this purpose, we use young mice that are an equivalency of 20-year-old people, and old mice that are roughly 65 years old in human years.
But I knew this would be a tall order, because here you have an area that's roughly a third the size the state of Florida, it's huge.
About half a million have made the crossing over the Mediterranean into Europe so far this year, and roughly 4,000 are staying in Calais.
Karstic regions cover almost 20 percent of the continents' surface, and we know actually that speleologists in the last 50 years have explored roughly 30,000 kilometers of cave passages around the world, which is a big number.
First, they've been around since the late Jurassic, roughly 150 million years ago.
The gauntlet each sea turtle faces in the course of its lifetime goes thus: First, deposited as a clutch of leathery, ping-pong ball-sized eggs into a nesting pit dug by its mother high on the beach, of the 50 to 200 eggs laid, roughly 20 percent will never hatch.
Roughly a month and a half after having been laid, the surviving eggs hatch, and the young turtles, each small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, squirm to the surface, emerging from the sand en masse, and making their desperate dash for the sea.
Along the way, debris, pitfalls, crabs, gulls, raccoons, and other threats will claim roughly 50 percent of those who rose from the sand.
In this phase, roughly 50 percent of those who reach the surf will perish.
There three kinds of cone cells that roughly correspond to the colors red, green, and blue.
And after I'd worked out how to fit reading and blogging about, roughly, four books a week around working five days a week, I then had to face up to the fact that I might even not be able to get books in English from every country.
Thus, I was one of roughly 60 percent of women of color who find finances to be a major barrier to their educational goals.
The ocean covers roughly 71% of our planet's surface, some 360 million square kilometers, an area in excess of the size of 36 U.S.A.'s.
At roughly 65,000 kilometers long, this underwater range is some 10 times longer than the longest mountain chain found purely on dry land, the Andes.
This massive cataract carries roughly 116 times more water per second over its edge than the Congo River's Inga Falls, the largest waterfall by volume on land.
From its snow-covered top to it's silt-covered bottom, then, this Hawaiian mountain is roughly 10,000 meters in height, dwarfing tiny Everest's paltry peak by well over a kilometer.
Put another way, the depth of the Challenger Deep is roughly the same height that commercial airliners travel.
In fact, with roughly 50% of the world's population living within 100 kilometers of the coastline and with most of the remainder living close enough to lakes, rivers, or swamps, all of which ultimately lead to the ocean, virtually every single person on the planet has the opportunity to influence the general health and nature of the world ocean.
Now, that is roughly 150 Big Macs.
As of 2012, the world record for fastest short-distance sprint speed is roughly 27 miles per hour.
After the age of roughly 15, it's almost impossible to learn a new language without an accent and without slipping up here and there as we all know from what language classes are like.
That's roughly equivalent to the amount of moisture in a banana.
Today, roughly half the world's refugees are children, some of them unaccompanied by an adult, a situation that makes them especially vulnerable to child labor or sexual exploitation.
A massive expansion of rural health centers placed roughly 80 percent of the population less than a two-hour walk from these facilities, a truly remarkable accomplishment.
That object was about 10 kilometers across, and 10 kilometers is roughly the cruising altitude of a 747 jet.
Well, roughly 80 percent of those weapons come from none other than the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany.
Well, you notice that, in fact, that also goes up roughly three- to fourfold.
For instance, all of you students here pay roughly the same tuition for every major.
Well, that's roughly the size of South America and Africa combined.
What we mean by that is, you know, frankly, the PC was invented in 1980, roughly speaking more or less, and for 20-odd years, it hasn't changed.
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