India,for example, has promised to cut emissions by at least twenty percent from two thousand five levels by two thousand twenty.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

His goal is to increase the percentage of college graduates from forty percent to sixty percent by the year twenty-twenty.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

The owners of the historic building say a planned make-over will reduce energy use in the building by thirty-eight percent.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

The Skin Cancer Foundation says use of tanning beds in youth increases a person's risk of developing melanoma by seventy-five percent.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

The group reported in March that employers expected to increase hourly wage offers for college interns by five percent from last year.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

The group says the cremation rate is expected to increase to almost fifty-nine percent by two thousand twenty-five.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

They found that a city with only white rooftops could reduce the urban heat effect by thirty-three percent.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

They said the overall strength of storms measured by wind speed might increase two to eleven percent by the year twenty-one hundred.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

It also found that every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half fewer lonely days.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

Scientists say an experimental vaccine reduced the risk of infection in humans by thirty-one percent and was safe.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

World trade is expected to drop eleven percent this year, after expanding by three percent last year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

But every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half days.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

We are planning on becoming carbon-neutral and,in fact,reducing our footprint by forty percent by twenty twenty-five.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

Since the peak, deaths have fallen by around ten percent as more people have received treatment.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

But he says that is expected to reach ten to fifteen percent by two thousand twelve.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

The W.H.O.says insecticide-treated bed nets have been shown to reduce the number of malaria cases by fifty percent and the infection rate by ninety percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Major industrialized economies are expected to see the biggest decreases, shrinking by almost four percent.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

The researchers were able to identify asbestos even in places eighty-percent covered by dry grass.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

Half of the groups expect giving to drop this year by more than nine percent.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

But sales in the West increased by nineteen percent in March from a year before.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

International applications increased by twelve percent from two thousand five to two thousand six.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

In the winter months, it is falling by about three percent every ten years.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Since then,deaths have fallen by around ten percent as more people have received treatment.

VOA: special.2009.12.08