Two 40s is the equivalent of, what, six beers?
This was 5.6% less than the previous year, but still the equivalent of 1.36% of sales.
Congress cuts shortwave broadcasts to save the equivalent of one hour of the defense budget.
It's the American equivalent of ginger beer, but flavoured with sassafras and sarsaparilla roots.
Publishing the source code of a program is the equivalent of publishing the proof of a theorem.
For Marston, the polygraph was the equivalent of Wonder Woman's lasso: an infallible detector of the truth.35.
Sometimes, spoken language on the radio or TV is just background noise, the linguistic equivalent of muzak .
Its danger is that it could be taken to be reducing philosophical activity to the equivalent of solving crossword puzzles.
They stole 3.58 billion pounds of goods from their nation's shops last year, the equivalent of 1.59 percent of British retail turnover.
Translating consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source - language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style.
Outside Mr Sato's house, however, a reading of the equivalent of 150 millisieverts a year left your correspondent strangely reluctant to inhale.
China's rising wages and prices, for instance, should help to rebalance its economy towards domestic spending-the practical equivalent of a stronger currency.
Craig Alexander, the chief economist for TD Financial Group, estimates all this will be the equivalent of about a 1% rise in mortgage rates for most homebuyers.
The report showed that drinking up to 30 grams of alcohol a day, the equivalent of one large glass of red wine, reduced the risk of heart disease by half.
And of course America today is not the equivalent of what the Soviet Union was yesterday - America's internal contradictions have neither the depth nor the gravity of the Soviet Union's.
As Jason Kelly, the co-founder of a gene-synthesis firm called Ginkgo BioWorks, observes, there is no equivalent of an electrical engineer's diagram to help unravel what is going on in a cell.
Some Germans now say the old East Germany is the equivalent of a Potemkin village: the buildings have been given a makeover but the mass exodus of the young means there is no one living in them.
Being the only one on our team with the necessary skills, I rolled up my sleeves and built the ColdFusion equivalent of what existed for ASP, which became our search facility.
What they did find is a nearby galaxy that's producing stars at a rapid pace-the equivalent of about 350 SUNS per year, a hundred times faster than typical galaxies.
This is the cultural equivalent of rust.
But why not just call the Japanese equivalent of 911?
That's the male equivalent of women bemoaning that they don't look like Victoria's Secret models.
This rapid prediction process is the mental equivalent of the old game show Name That Tune.
This is the equivalent of the population of Poland, except that Siberia is 40 times the size.
If you actually got that mileage, you paid the 2012 equivalent of, on average, 16.1 cents to go a mile.
This anchor will slow the car at a rate of more than 20 meters per second, the equivalent of more than 2 Gs of stopping force.
Dr Brown described the experience of having his favoured landing site removed from the shortlist as the geological equivalent of having "your city's Olympic bid rejected".
The movie earned five Golden Raspberry Awards, a mocking equivalent of the Oscars for bad movies, including Worst Actress, Worst Director and Worst Picture.
These transgenic goats, created by Randy Lewis at the University of Wyoming , produce about a half ounce of silk from every quart of milk--the equivalent of a hundred spiders.
Most of the women were prescribed the equivalent of about a week's worth of the medication, but researchers were unable to know for sure whether they actually took the drug or not.
Gaining such fantastic poundage is achieved by not eating breakfast, and eating a large meal (the equivalent of five regular meals) twice a day, washed down by massive quantities of beer.
Within the next six years new desalination plants may add as much as 13 billion gallons a day to the global water supply, the equivalent of another Colorado River.
Paddy Power, the bookmaker that paid out on a Chelsea title last October, described their position as the equivalent of" leading3-0 with five minutes remaining" but Ferguson was sufficiently confident to retract his previous statements that the gap was unassailable.
The equivalent of two tablespoons of multiple unsaturated oil per day is enough.
It is the equivalent of a coast-to-coast marketing blitz.
You must build into your mentality the mental equivalent of what you want in a marriage partner.
Molony called the photographs "the Titanic equivalent of Tutankhamen's tomb," because of the richness of historical detail they conveyed, including the mark highlighting the extent of the damage.
Theoretical estimate of neutron fluxirradiation includes the dose equivalent of fast flux, thermal flux and fast flux at the skin and their total amount.
Three sixes in a row is probably the numeric equivalent of the Hebrew letters for the first-century Roman Emperor Nero.
British research shows that an hour of pushing a mop across the floor works off 238 calories - the equivalent of a chocolate bar or 2 small glasses of wine.
In the software equivalent of this process, you end the drawing program, put away your drawing tools, find an appropriate place on the hard drive to store the image, and send it to someone else via electronic mail.
What is the Chinese equivalent of the word "victory"?
"Meeting recruiters and external candidates is usually the equivalent of entertaining strangers," says Iannelli.
To look at a person with reverence is the equivalent of bestowing a kiss. -j. D. Boatwood.
But the euro is arguably the modern equivalent of the gold standard, with Germany playing the role of bullion as the system's anchor.
This was followed by a day of severely restricted eating, when they ate less than 20 percent of their normal caloric intake, or about 400 or 500 calories a day -the equivalent of about one meal.
However, during most dives below 540 metres during the day, the whales broke into a sprint of up to 9 metres per second, which in deep water is the cetacean equivalent of a world record.
The verbal equivalent of about 150 average-length books!
In terms of impact, the financial crisis has behaved, roughly, like the economic equivalent of a drive-by shooting.
The phone was put up for sale on website Mercado Libre -the Argentinian equivalent of eBay - with a starting price of about 160 pounds, reports .
Some species can detect and respond to pheromone concentrations of as little as one part in a trillion the equivalent of one teaspoonful in a lake that is 1 square kilometer in area and 1 to 2 meters deep.
It's the biological equivalent of opening the throttle of an engine.
The Department of Energy estimates that electricity demand drops by 0.5 percent during Daylight saving Time, saving the equivalent of nearly 3 million barrels of oil.
Europe's officials have now spent nearly $270 billion to keep Greece going, signaling that they will spend whatever it takes to keep an insolvent country from declaring the equivalent of bankruptcy.
Sitting on the equivalent of 173 billion barrels of crude, the provincial government dreamed of making Alberta a new Saudi Arabia (with moose instead of camels).
我不喜欢妥协。我明白有时妥协是正确的*，但妥协通常相当于失败，我不喜欢被击败。I'm not big on compromise. I understand compromise. Sometimes compromise is the right answer, but oftentimes compromise is the equivalent of defeat, and I don't like being defeated.
The blast, which has been estimated at the equivalent of around 15 megatons of TNT is widely thought to have been caused by a meteor a few tens of metres across exploding in mid-air.
In 2008, the use of renewable energy reached an equivalent of 250 million tons of standard coal.
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