Sentence examples for half as efficient from inspiring English sources
They found that because of overmatching on genotype, the use of sibling controls leads to estimates of genetic relative risk that are approximately half as efficient as those obtained with the use of population controls, while relative efficiency for cousin controls is approximately 90%.
In hot, sunny climes, these C4 plants are half as efficient again as their C3 counterparts.
The Science Council of Japan estimates that Japan's R&D is only about half as efficient as Europe's and America's.
Nocera's artificial leaf, in its current form, is less than half as efficient as Turner's, but it's far more durable and only a fraction as expensive.
When I finally had enough spare cash, I turned into the worst kind of fashion victim and ordered a KitchenAid Artisan, a machine that might look delightfully cool and retro, but isn't half as efficient or easy to use.
They are roughly half as efficient (meaning that a panel must be twice as big to generate the same amount of power), but a third cheaper, watt for watt.
(1) The extraordinary effectiveness of the Marxist-Leninist-International-Communist Party: businessmen speak organizationion and efficiency; there is nothing half as well organized and efficient as this great party.
But aggressive research on a hybrid with a diesel engine could yield a 2020 vehicle that is twice as efficient and half as polluting as that "evolved" technology, and future gasoline engine hybrids will not be far behind, the study says.
It can be quantitatively expressed by the uptakes that evoke half maximal responses, classically known as efficient concentrations 50 (EC50).
The least efficient new fridge freezer on sale today consumes only half as much energy as the least efficient products on the market eight years ago.
The Dyson digital motor, which spins three times faster than a conventional motor and is twice as energy-efficient and half as heavy, powers the latest Dyson handheld vacuum cleaner and the hand dryer.
