Sentences with phrase «at least a large number»

I have no idea what «most» non-christians believe, but there are unfortunately a very vocal number (and seemingly at least a large number) who do lump any belief in anything other than matter to be a sign of insanity.

Should you feel the urge to make the extended journey to the next camp on your map, at least a large number of sniper posts, scavenge locations, and scarecrows to bring down all stand in the way, eager to distract you from the task at hand.

Not exact matches

At least one expert told Bloomberg that people may be reluctant to think about cereal as anything other than a breakfast food, at least not in numbers large enough to end the sales slump, which is expected to continue at least through 202At least one expert told Bloomberg that people may be reluctant to think about cereal as anything other than a breakfast food, at least not in numbers large enough to end the sales slump, which is expected to continue at least through 202at least not in numbers large enough to end the sales slump, which is expected to continue at least through 202at least through 2020.

But, Trump boasts a large group of voters who will stand by him no matter what, and at least a sizable number happen to be women.

complain that the number of employees laid off at Chrysler in this period is at least as large - and may even have been larger - than the number of jobs that probably would have been lost had Chrysler actually been forced into bankruptcy.

With the Prime Minister having said the government would never go into deficit and with the government having created a structural deficit and with the Finance Minister having wagered on various surplus horses, the Conservatives — they, at least nominally, being conservative — must dearly wish to have these large red numbers out of the way.

Officials from the Coast Guard and local law enforcement told CNBC they have not tracked large number of the stolen engines overseas, at least in recent years.

And nine companies have raised more than $ 1 billion in their debuts so far in 2013, the largest number in at least five years.

It can roll out whatever new features it pleases, and a very large number of people will at least try it, because it's from Facebook.

However, this is unlikely to match the expansion in production potential or export demand, so transport capacity is likely to remain a constraint on export supply, at least until a number of proposed large infrastructure projects are completed later in the decade.

We may inflate the hell out of the money and rob of you two or three percent of your money (the real number may be a hell of a lot larger) but at least we have a rule of law that applies relatively consistently.

Companies are on track to buy back the largest number of shares in at least a decade.

The report finds that rewards crowdfunding is «The New Seed Funding» and that it is at least as significant as the larger numbers claimed for equity crowdfunding — set to surpass VC funding in 2016 (which itself is estimated to provide about $ 30Bn annually).

We have shown that what television really provides is the least offensive program to the largest number of people, at all times.

Thirty - nine states had at least one shooting, but Southern states had the largest numbers: 15 in Georgia, 14 in Florida and Texas, 12 in North Carolina and 10 in Tennessee.

To place this piece of steel in a place of prominence, to hang on it all of the emotional response, all of the tears and gut - wrenching loss of a large number of people who believe, without also acknowledging the other faiths, and those of no faith, who lost their lives, does, in fact, send the message that this was US vs THEM, Islam against Christianity, rather than the truth... that it was an attack against US, the United States of America, melting pot that we are... at least that's the way I see it.

Peterson has emerged as a divisive figure in both academia and pop - culture, and whilst he certainly has many antagonists, the popularity of the interview video seems to show that he also has a large number of supporters, many of whom are uncomfortable with the relativist media and grateful to find someone who is at least challenging this poisonous aspect of our culture.

At least in part to deal with such points, Eigen more recently pointed out that each biological genome is not a single sequence of bases on DNA (a unique «point in sequence space») but rather a fairly large number of variant sequences that have quite similar — even indistinguishable — biological functions.11 b, 11 c Most of these functionally similar sequences differ from the «wild - type» sequence in only one or a few locations, but some have fairly large discrepancies.

For the first time in history the answers to all three questions seem, for a large number of intellectuals at least, to depend completely upon the answer to the prior question: «Who are we?»

The large number of unaffiliated but at least nominally believing Christians — the unchurched, as shown by a 1978 Gallup study — constitutes an enormous audience potential for the electronic church.

A study of Australia's largest food firms shows nine out of 10 are at least partly owned by foreign companies... but with Murray Goulburn about to be sold to Canadian rival Saputo, that number will soon be zero.

I believe, a good exercise would be to take a sufficiently large sample size of players who played for Arsenal and some other club for a long period, say at least 3 - 4 years and compare their injury records in the two phases (number, frequency and nature of injuries incurred).

Privateering is a Practice most inconvenient to the Power which has the largest number of merchant men at sea, and the least useful to the Power which has the largest War Navy.

Since Labour can ignore neither the perspective held by a large number of its membership, nor abandon the rest of the country, the elections that result from these «power vs. principles» crises tend to be fought between candidates who back similar policies — Labour tried to appease Bennites by electing the similarly radical Foot, and now a part of Labour has rested its hopes with Owen Smith, who, at least publicly, shares many of Corbyn's views.

Well, if the proponents of the change looked at UK election results they would see there are large numbers of seats where the incumbents already receive at least 50 per cent of the votes.

«If we find that lymphoscintigrams using tilmanocept are at least as good as the conventional radiocolloid tracer in identification and visualization of sentinel nodes, we would like to see a randomised clinical trial involving large numbers of patients,» says Prof de Bree.

«While large percentages of employers report that they have at least some workplace flexibility, the number of options is usually limited and they are typically not available to the entire workforce,» says Marcie Pitt - Catsouphes, Ph.D., Director of the Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College and one of the researchers of the study.

Compared with other dinos of its kind, Matheronodon provincialis» teeth were at least twice as large but fewer in number.

In a paper currently in review at the journal Oryx Hamburg University zoologist Jrg Ganzhorn and his colleagues report that at least three of Madagascars unique ecosystems have sustained so much damage that many of the resident large animal species, including a number of lemurs, have disappeared from them.

«One of the least understood aspects of this process is how the excess milk and large numbers of dead cells are removed from the mammary gland without substantial activation of the immune system,» says Matthew Naylor, a cancer biologist at the University of Sydney in Australia.

You replied, «To actually make a sensible analysis, you will at the very least have to look into internal variability of each model run, which entail comparing a large number individual model runs.»

The discovery instantly killed off a large number of the previously proposed models — at least, as explanations for this particular FRB.

Hospitalists typically work in shifts; therefore, within the same hospital, patients treated by hospitalists are plausibly quasi-randomized to a given physician based on when patients become sick and based on hospitalists» work schedule.34 We defined hospitalists using a validated approach: general internists who filed at least 90 % of their total evaluation and management billings in an inpatient setting.35 Second, to evaluate whether our findings were sensitive to how we attributed patients to physicians, we tested the following 2 alternative attribution methods: attributing patients to physicians who had the largest number of evaluation and management claims and attributing patients to physicians who billed the first evaluation and management claim for a given hospitalization.25, 36,37 Third, within some hospitals, male internists may be more likely to work in intensive care units and have severely ill patients.

Recently, however, a large number of pulsar surveys are turning their eyes toward the sky, with a focus on finding more double neutron stars — and at least one of them has had success.

A number of large studies have found that people who eat fish at least once a week have moderately lower risks of heart attack, stroke, heart failure and sudden cardiac death, according to the new report.

At least in China's current pop culture, where reality TV dating shows like «If You Are the One» have attracted large numbers of viewers.

Data summarized on this website provides additional factual information about online dating that may surprise you even more: First, of the large number of singles in the U.S. (more than 54 million), about 80 % have tried online dating sites at least once.

Curiously, he also lets a number of his young stars slip by unnamed, which points up the DVD's largest shortcoming: a proper making - of documentary featurette, or at least something spotlighting the many fresh talents that are introduced here — not just the actors, but Gonera as well.

A small number of CMOs will have grown to serve at least 20,000 students, placing them among the largest 2 percent of school districts nationally in terms of size, while delivering a level of performance that will change the current paradigm of delivering performance at scale.

In the past decade, at least 20 states and a large number of districts have instituted some form of pay for performance for teachers, including California, Florida, Minnesota, Texas, and the cities of Cincinnati, Denver, New York, and Charlotte, N.C., according to Donald Gratz, Ed.M.»

While Pecchia concedes that Youngstown has had to close schools because of slumping enrollment, the new assignments mean large numbers of students who would have been eligible for vouchers next year won't be for at least two years.

The area with the largest number of schools that went unsponsored for at least a year, was Lancashire and West Yorkshire, with 13 schools.

They also seem likely to contribute to better Ofsted judgements, given that we know that - as of last year at least - that the inspectorate has not been noticing when large numbers of pupils leave a school part - way through their education.

For while Harris seems to have an extraordinary number of managers earning at least # 150,000 — ten, in the 2016 - 17 accounts — there is no evidence that such large financial benefits of pupil success are finding their way to classroom teachers.

The department proposed a rule that would require local school districts to give schools enrolling large numbers of poor children at least as much state and local money as other schools — thus prompting the letter.

And often, according to an insightful essay of several months back by my friend Michael Petrilli in Education Next, large numbers of students are not getting the truth from their elders or at least don't believe it, and he cites compelling data to back this up.

All told, at least seven of the state's programs did not have large enough numbers for any results to be reported in 2010 - 2011.

Brockton never fired large numbers of teachers, in contrast with current federal policy, which encourages failing schools to consider replacing at least half of all teachers to reinvigorate instruction.

Statewatch, a bill - tracking service, said that was the largest number of amendments offered to any proposed legislation in at least six years.

These cases confirmed that at least some districts «matter» in powerfully positive ways for student learning in large numbers of schools and for students of all backgrounds.