Sentences with phrase «by about the eighth»
The screen is deeply inset from the bezel — by about an eighth of an inch.
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A digital coin worth about a dime a day ago has doubled in price, briefly climbing into eighth place by market capitalization.
A digital coin worth about a dime a day ago has doubled in price, briefly climbing into eighth place among cryptocurrencies by market capitalization.
In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.
With the Protestants it was, in most countries, Luther or Calvin, but England became Protestant by the action of Henry the Eighth, and who in the 19th Century knew or cared about his theological view?
The rapid rise and spread of Communism must be accepted by Christians as the most seriously challenging deviant form of the Judeo - Christian heritage, just as, in the eighth century, the rise of Islam came about because of the tendency for Christian Trinitarian doctrine to revert to polytheism, adding weight to Mohammed's call for a pure monotheism.
By the beginning of the eighth year before the Hijrah there were scarcely forty men and about ten women who were Muslims in Mecca, and they met in secret.
In the Middle Ages (at least by the time of the eighth century), those who were about to die were laid on the ground on top of sackcloth sprinkled with ashes.
Build a tostada by topping a tortilla with about 1/4 cup of the bean mash, 1 egg, and an eighth of the cheese, avocado slices, and cilantro.
Three other matches — Watford hosting Leicester City, Huddersfield Town against Stoke, and West Bromwich Albion against Everton — occupy just about the full mid-table reach and can have a huge impact on the table in the reach between eighth and fourteenth place by the time everything is said and done.
Finley: Bears know all about Notre Dame G Quenton Nelson, but their silence «surprising» - Chicago Sun - Times - Maybe the Bears think Quenton Nelson will be long gone by the time they pick eighth in next month's draft.
Acting on a recommendation by the Parks and Recreation Commission, board members agreed last week to study the possibility of lighting Midway Drive between Brookbank Road and Eleanor Place - about three - eighths of a mile.
Test results for third - through eighth - graders across New York state improved this year even amid concerns about the length of the standardized exams and reports of erroneous questions, according to data released by the state Education Department.
At a ceremony that included a saxophone performance and was attended by the Friends of the East Elmhurst Library as well as by about 30 fifth - and eighth - grade students from East Elmhurst's PS 127, the East Elmhurst Library's Community Library Manager Johnnie Dent and Queens Library Chief Executive Officer Tom Galante thanked Peralta for his donation.
Utah parents seek criminal penalties against teacher who they say went too far in sex ed class: «The Jordan School District is investigating allegations that a seventh - and eighth - grade health teacher violated the sex education statute by responding to questions from students about topics beyond the core curriculum, including homosexual sex, oral sex and masturbation.»
A data breach at the company that develops New York State's third - through - eighth grade reading and math tests allowed an unauthorized user to access information about 52 students who took the tests by computer last spring, the state's Education Department said on Thursday.
The water levels rose by about 0.1 millimeters (or 4 thousandths of an inch) per year from the first century through the eighth century.
By mass, Proxima is calculated as 6999123000000000000 ♠ 0.123 ± 0.06 M ☉ (rounded to 0.12 M ☉) or about one - eighth that of the Sun.
Bat droppings were similar to mouse pellets, about a quarter - inch long by less than an eighth - inch wide.
Feature TV film about the first Doctor Who, William Hartnell, played by David Bradley, created as part of BBC America's celebration of the 50th anniversary of «Doctor Who,» to be marked with a special airing Nov. 23 before Matt Smith hands over the keys to the TARDIS to Peter Capaldi sometime during the eighth season.
The Gallagher family is back for the eighth season of this darkly humorous dramedy about a poor but scrappy family trying to get by in a rapidly - gentrifying south side Chicago neighborhood.
A great deal of them are being talked about all throughout the industry by various writers, but one aspect of Tarantino's eighth outing is being woefully neglected.
I was already experimenting with flexible seating in my eighth - grade English classroom when I saw a video about combating writer's block by working in a box castle.
Grade: Eighth - Grade English and Digital Media School: Kenilworth Junior High School, Petaluma, California Students / Room Dimensions: 32 students; room is 900 square feet, about 30 feet by 30 feet Setting It Up: I kind of half - stumbled into flexible seating — I still have 32 desks in my room!
The event is organized by the school's eighth - grade history teachers and draws about 250 people.
In response to administrators» and teachers» worries about the vocabulary skills of Boston Public School students, a group of researchers and educators — assembled by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classrooms.
Expanding school choice has been shown to improve achievement for minority students by about one - third of a standard deviation after a few years of intervention, according to seven of eight random - assignment evaluations (the eighth showed positive but statistically insignificant effects).
In the weeks prior to Memorial Day, classes work on Memorial Day lessons put together by the school's gifted and talented students, and sixth graders view a Power Point presentation about the history of the holiday created by eighth graders.
«Eighth graders are desperately seeking the connection and acceptance by others that CPR offers, yet they often do not know how to go about doing this in school.»
Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.
As Winters, who teaches eighth - grade history, explains: «We hope that by participating in past events, students will learn not only about their historical figures» lives and achievements but also about the times when those people lived.
In eighth grade, I had the good fortune of being taught history by Paul Murray, who was not only gifted at making the learning interesting, but also showed how much he cared about me — far beyond my performance in his class.
All else being equal, endorsing voting as a mark of good citizenship boosted anticipated engagement by about one - eighth of a standard deviation - a slightly larger impact than resulted from an increase in parents» education of one standard deviation.
Ive witnessed enigmatic eighth graders energized about the War of 1812, of all things, simply by playing Johnny Hortons memorable tune, The Battle of New Orleans:
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As packaged by the AFT, the numbers showed that fourth - and eighth - graders in charter schools were performing about half a year behind students in other public schools.
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According to a 2010 Government Accountability Office report, about 13 percent of students nationally changed schools four or more times by the eighth grade.
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«Ms. Plante was talking about Nelson Mandela and how he forgave his jailers,» remembers the eighth grader, who is being raised by her aunt on Chicago's South Side.
In the past year, the school has taken in dozens of Central American students, about one - eighth of the school population, who crossed into the United States unaccompanied by a parent or guardian.
In 2013, the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, a Washington, D.C. - based research group, found that students from the USA's lowest - income families were about one - eighth as likely as the wealthiest students to have a bachelor's degree by age 24.
By far the oldest thing about the new, eighth generation, Rolls - Royce Phantom is its name.
On a conventional mortgage backed by Fannie Mae, the rate on a condo will usually run about one - eighth to one - quarter of a percent (0.125 - 0.250 percentage points) higher than what you'd pay on a single family home.
Organized by Downtown Ace Hardware and VCA Market Street, this eighth instalment of the parade attracted about 275 well - dressed pets.
ABOUT: Join the Big Shoulders Fund Auxiliary Board for a fun night out on the lanes while helping make a difference in a child's life at the Eighth Annual Bowl for Big Shoulders sponsored by 10pin bowling lounge.
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Curator of the PIPA Institute, Luiz Camillo Osorio also takes the opportunity to announce the PIPA Popular Vote Exhibition winner, chosen by the visitors of the Finalists» Exhibition at MAM - Rio, and talks about the new features of the eighth edition catalog.
A study released this year by the World Resources Institute and the Rights and Resources Initiative found that rates of deforestation are, on average, 11 times lower in community forests with strong legal recognition, and indigenous people have official rights to about an eighth of the world's forest area.