Sentences with phrase «numbers has taken»

George Osborne's reputation for being good with numbers has taken another blow, after he dodged a maths question asked by a seven - year - old.

A quest for Really Big Numbers has taken over social policy advocacy lately.

The JOBS NUMBERS have taken on added importance as the FED has made its data dependent interest rate decision overly reliant on job growth and more importantly, AVERAGE HOURLY EARNINGS.

Longoria is signed through 2023 (his contract includes a club option for that year) at a $ 13.5 million salary in 2018, and, despite being 32 years old, has kept his recent defensive numbers in line with his career stats as well as even as his offensive numbers have taken a slight dip (in 2017 he hit.261 /.313 /.424 with 20 home runs and 86 RBIs).

Kellyanne Conway made a rare admission for a member of the Trump administration — the president's poll numbers have taken a hit.

Uncovering a nine - million - digit prime number would take centuries using a single computer, but this latest find took just eight days thanks to thousands of collaborators.

In an age in which pedometers are cheaper, more accurate, and more feature - rich than ever, this number has taken on almost mythical proportions — a lofty - sounding goal (in reality, it's approximately five miles, and a reasonably active person can pull it off fairly easily) that separates the active - lifestyle haves from the slothful have - nots.

While you'd think that number would take attention away from some of the box office veterans, 21 Jump Street actually held on rather strong, only dropping 41.3 % and taking another $ 21.3 million to the bank.

Assuming that sales and platform are one of the things that they would look at, I'm curious to hear from those of you who've done it whether you'd be willing to share ballpark figures of what kinds of sales numbers it would take to even get a traditional publisher interested?

It began with how firmly and clearly the numbers had taken hold of people's imagination.

One benefit of the approach that McAvoy has identified is that if claimants could discontinue on the basis that they would retain procedural rights, a number would take that opportunity, reducing the applications before the Federal Court.

Not exact matches

First was that the number of medications taken by PillPack's average user — seven — was higher than they'd expected.

Even if you've stopped answering calls from unknown numbers, the ringing can take you out of your flow.

Using traditional methods, you know if you've taken a sort of Apollo - style approach, an optimistic class number would be about $ 10 billion a person.

Gin Lane had never taken equity before, but Harry's had backing from a number of venture capital firms Shine knew well, and one of the Harry's co-founders had helped launch online eyewear company Warby Parker.

Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

A weak attempt at repeating the truce was made in 1915, but a tradition would not take hold due to «the high numbers of dead and hardened attitudes on both sides but also because of actions of senior commanders.»

Ultimately, the news from Microsoft may also have a substantial side effect: forcing an increasing number of companies to take a second look to ensure they are correctly classifying temporary workers, either as W - 2 employees or independent contractors.

The number of US air strikes in Afghanistan has spiked since President Donald Trump took office a year ago though the insurgents have hit back with deadly attacks, including a bloody Taliban raid on a Kabul hotel on the weekend.

In this case, the Slate story by Franklin Foer has taken a number of fatal bullets by actual cybersecurity experts, but it's worth adding one more quick explanation of why the publication got it so wrong.

In March of 2017, Recode obtained internal documents showing that human drivers had to take over from Uber's system very frequently relative to the same numbers for other self - driving efforts.

Syrian state news agency SANA cited a military source as saying a number of air defense missiles had been fired but no foreign attack had taken place.

You'd be surprised at the number of directors who take their eye off their finances when their workload gets heavy.

Bottom line: Not necessarily the place that the numbers or non-stop notoriety would ever take you, but the right thing to do if you're trying to make an important difference in people's lives.

Google said it had to remove 3.2 billion ads last year, almost double the number taken down in 2016.

Much of this, it can be argued, is that HR analysis tends to focus on the past — for example how many staff have been hired, the number of days taken off sick and the volume of training delivered — rather than looking to the future to see what it may hold.

Experience has already shown that a steady advance in foreign student numbers can not be taken for granted.

Saudi Arabia appears to have seen the visit as an opportunity for good public relations, with large ads taking out in a number of national newspapers.

Like Robert, I tend to work fairly long hours, but I have greater control over mine than he does; I can take breaks if I want, work in the evening instead of at mid-day... the total number of hours I work isn't particularly flexible, but when I work them is.

Despite offering more money to fliers who decide to stay, the Air Force has seen the number of pilots taking their retention bonuses decline, though at a slower rate.

Considering the large number of recording artists who will be in attendance at the Grammys, and the many thousands of photos and videos that will be taken during the event, the Recording Academy will be able to rely on the Watson artificial intelligence platform to sort through reams of content and «create unique fan experiences» with the type of speed and efficiency that would be impossible for humans to do manually.

records available to us and have not been able to identify any calls to any number we know to be associated with Ambassador Kislyak and I am highly skeptical these calls took place.

For a company that makes no money, those numbers are astronomical, and Snapchat will regret not taking the paycheck when it had the chance.

But Bill informed the large retailer that he was too busy and would only be able to take on a set number of jobs per week.

The U.S. has taken a number of policy approaches aimed at increasing the country's innovation output, from boosting STEM education programs to offering tax incentives on R&D research.

Far from an economic powerhouse, China's economy remains a middleweight when its vast number of poor people is taken into account — the country's per capita GDP is only around US$ 4,500, 1 / 10th that of the U.S. And as a share of the economy, household incomes have actually declined over the past decade.

Most LIONs take pride in touting their specific number of connections; it's similar to the way celebrities compete to have the most Twitter followers.

Cramton decided the numbers were low enough, and that he had enough cash on reserve, to take the gamble.

Washington suffered from a number of otherwise debilitating, painful ailments and diseases throughout his life that would have taken a lesser man down — but not the man who founded the most powerful country ever to grace the Earth.

I have started taking ice baths once per week, and plan on increasing that number to two to three.

In recent years, the company's total revenues and number of employees have taken off, while assets under management have climbed to $ 2.2 billion.

Take heart in the fact that you've saved yourself a lot of pain before investing resources in a bad idea and get on with finding opportunities where the numbers will work better for you.

A number of studies have found that workers who don't take vacations are more likely to die of any cause.

He did the math and realized it would take far more money than they had to get the user numbers they needed to succeed.

«The idea of taking the actual account number out of the flow... common sense says that's a good thing, especially in the light of the data compromises that we've seen,» said Visa CEO Charles Scharf at a payments conference last month.

In the credit card world, tokenization means taking credit card account numbers out of merchants» hands, replacing them with strings of characters — essentially, digital tokens — that would, theoretically, be useless if stolen by criminals.

If she wants to change those unfavorable numbers, she's going to have to make some changes and take some risks.

In this edition of the CB Elevator Pitch, editor - in - chief James Cowan suggests companies need to take a hard look at the number of meetings employees are having — or being forced to attend.

In 2016, Google reports, it removed 1.7 billion ads, the largest number the company has taken down, to date, in a single year.

Moreover, while prisoners were generally taken, particularly if they were in large numbers — whole companies or even battalions of soldiers giving themselves up, as sometimes happened — it was an unspoken rule that soldiers who resisted too long or too hard had given up any right to quarter.