According to one estimate, to keep up with the state of the art, a doctor would have to devote 160 hours a week to perusing papers, leaving eight hours for sleep, work and, well, everything else in life.
On one United Nations estimate, to keep today's worker-pensioner ratio stable till 2050, France would have to import 1.8m people a year.It would be nice to suppose a third reason, that in the end the French are less racist than they think they are.
Calling increased cost estimates to keep the project going "unacceptable," the Senate panel withheld not only the $42 million requested to start building RSVP in 2006 but also some $14 million already given to RSVP planners but not yet spent.
There's no need to get anal about the ratios -- these are just rough estimates to keep in the back of your mind.
This is an important estimate to keep in mind when designing strategies to culture the not-yet cultured species from the human intestinal tract.
Introduced in 2003 by the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the bolsa familia is estimated to have kept 36m families out of extreme poverty and to have been responsible for a dramatic drop in infant mortality, with 0-5 deaths from diarrhoea falling by 46% and deaths from malnutrition down by 58%.
In the US where there is a strong intensification related to industrialized production of livestock, more than 80% of sows are estimated to be kept individually confined throughout pregnancy [ 4].
Robert D. Yaro, the president of the Regional Plan Association in Manhattan, estimated that to keep pace with the rest of the New York region, the Island will have to add 500,000 new residents and 350,000 new jobs by 2030.
He paid $25,000 in fines for overusing water – about 10 million gallons' worth, water officials estimated, enough to keep a family of four going for 28 years.
The I.P.C.C. estimates that to keep total warming to two degrees Celsius, which has become a benchmark by international consensus, we must generate less than a trillion metric tons of carbon-dioxide emissions in total.
