In actuality, then, the military may be consuming twice as much fuel as the DoD suggests, or even higher--perhaps three times as much--and polluting much more--again, perhaps, by a factor of three.
As a rule, taking the train instead of the plane will substantially reduce your carbon emissions – perhaps by a factor of five to ten on a domestic trip.
Three, the officials estimates on the number of AIDS cases are seriously exaggerated, perhaps by a factor of two or three, she says.
The emissions trading system is now the bloc's most meaningful market driver, but it would need to rise - perhaps by a factor of 10 - to spur significant fuel-switching.
Less dramatic improvements occur in asymmetric arrangements; perhaps only a factor of 2 is achievable in such designs.
Irreversibly compressed studies could be transferred in less time than reversibly compressed images (perhaps by a factor of 3 or more, depending on the investigation, body part and task).
Using parsimony to minimise the number of mutations required to produce the observed pattern in the data can lead to an underestimate in substitution rates, perhaps by a factor of over 20%, and can also bias d N / d S estimates by underestimating the number of synonymous changes in scenarios where synonymous mutations occur more frequently than non-synonymous mutations [ 40].
In other words, the latest policy and rhetorical campaigns are injurious to the ability of society to function at best, and perhaps a factor in the disenfranchisement of some young people at worst.
The size of the hydrate reservoir is uncertain, perhaps by up to a factor of 10.
In reality not only did Nato's campaign in support of the Libyan uprising ratchet up the death toll by a factor of perhaps 10, giving air cover to mass ethnic cleansing and indiscriminate killing.
