False (A+)
When you have three fourths of something, one fourth is still missing. If you have five sixths of something, only one sixth is missing, so you have more than if one fourth is missing (one sixth being a smaller portion missing than one fourth). If you had ninety-nine one hundredths, only one one hundredth would be missing, meaning you would have nearly the whole thing.
A low C nearly a D. You nearly missed half of the test.
Member of a now nearly extinct Jewish community. Calling themselves Bene-Yisrael ("Children of Israel"), or Shamerim ("Observant Ones"), they claim to be related to those Jews of ancient Samaria who were not deported from Israel by the Assyrians in 722 BC.
nearly 41%
False (A+)
In 2006, 13,470 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (32%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States. In 2007, an estimated 12,998 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes 8,932 deaths were caused in 2008 by drunk drivers in the United States alone. There are over 9,000 recordings of drunk driver related deaths outside of the United States. The state that had the most drunk driver related deaths in 2008 was Maryland with 2,100 deaths. If you go to Maryland, drive extremely carefully, especially on Friday or Saturday.
In The US, a high of 54,561 in 1972 and a steady decline to 33,561 in 2012 (It should be noted that it was down nearly 75% in ratio of deaths to vehicle miles driven between those two years) and 31% alcohol related in 2012
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According to the CDC, approximately 10,500 people die each year in the U.S. from alcohol-related driving incidents. This accounts for nearly a third of all traffic-related deaths. Additionally, around 300,000 people are injured in alcohol-related accidents annually.
Drivers with a BAC of .016 (twice the legal limit) account for at least half of all alcohol-related traffic fatalities.
No. 1/7 is nowhere near three fourths, while 999993/1000000 is nearly equal to one.
There were nearly 30,000 deaths in the battle of Bull Run.
accidents in the bathroom
IRDS
There were nearly 16,000 confirmed deaths with an additional 2,500 still missing, likely swept out to sea.
In 2007, there were 197 000 measles deaths globally - nearly 540 deaths every day or 22 deaths every hour. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs286/en/