Sentence examples for unit equivalent to from inspiring English sources

One of the largest cities of sub-Saharan Africa, it is a special political unit equivalent to a Congolese region, with its own governor.

So the Qualcomm team decided to build a demonstration system, to be unveiled in November 1989.Two base-stations were set up in San Diego, and a mobile unit, equivalent to a handset, was installed in the back of a van.

Behavioral scientists do not agree upon what constitutes a "package" of transmitted cultural information; we have no direct unit equivalent to the gene.

One acre-foot is a volume unit equivalent to a surface of one acre covered by a foot-deep of water.

In addition, Fortescue will sell its high grade lump (larger iron ore with size between 10mm and 40mm which is fed into a blast furnace for steel-making) for $1.00 per dry metric ton unit, equivalent to approximately $61 per dry ton.

As far as the LSBCI is concerned, its estimated coefficient suggest that an increase by one unit (equivalent to a variation of 0.01) of the index would translate into a variation in the logs of expected counts of 0.029, than is an increase of exports by 3%.

By the year 2000, over-capacity will have risen from 18m to 22m units—equivalent to 80 of the world's 630 car assembly factories standing idle.

These students reported drinking an average of 14.6 units – equivalent to more than seven pints of normal-strength beer – in the last week.

The researchers expressed ship power in units equivalent to the catching power of one sail-powered trawler in the 1880s.

Under the terms of the agreement, Virgin Mobile USA will acquire Helio from SK Telecom and EarthLink for limited partnership units equivalent to 13 million shares of Virgin Mobile USA class A common stock, with a value of $39 million based on the closing price of Virgin Mobile USA's class A shares on June 26 , 2008

Slimming World, which commissioned the research from YouGov, said 50% of the people who said drinking impacted their food choices had also cancelled physical activities the day after drinking more than 9.3 units, equivalent to slightly less than four pints of beer.