Sentences with phrase «enormous numbers»

All this adds up to some potentially enormous numbers.

The higher prices put to rest speculation by some experts last year that Microsoft, faced with enormous numbers of XP PCs still in use next year, would have no choice but to extend free support.

London is one of the two major financial centres of the world and enormous numbers of letters of credit are issued by international banks from their London branches.

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking - bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.»

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Perhaps incomes would even rise given the enormous numbers of additional people who could be helped.

«We simply can't go on subsidizing enormous numbers of people to live in areas that are prone to huge natural disasters,» said Eli Lehrer, the president of the conservative R Street Institute, part of the coalition.

The stark reality is that, while earthquakes often capture our attention case by case, we have entered an age where population density and persistent poverty are putting enormous numbers of people in harm's way.

What's most notable in the new analysis is confirmation that while fertility rates are dropping in many places, some of the world's most turbulent and poverty - stricken regions are seeing explosive population growth leading to enormous numbers of teenagers and children.

Some people think it's just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there's no «bag limit» it's legal to do so....

With its multitudes of everyday items as weapons, enormous numbers of on - screen zombies, and sly sense of humour, it was a flawed but memorable title that did well enough to spawn follow - ups of various sizes.

Enormous numbers of Coconut Walk sherds were also found there.

In areas where heartworms are common, a few summers of repeated mosquito bites to dogs not receiving preventative medications can result in enormous numbers of adult worms in the pet's heart.

Because this virus is shed in enormous numbers by infected animals and is very hardy, it is present worldwide in every environment.

With razor - sharp claws and lightning reflexes, cats kill enormous numbers of birds, mice and other wildlife in Florida.

While those aren't enormous numbers, it does bear out Hyundai's assumption that the Veloster Turbo is an affordable halo model for thrill - seeking shoppers who are also price - conscious.

In India, but also in China, Africa, the Philippines, and beyond, Tooley found private entrepreneurs educating enormous numbers of children at modest fees that are within the reach of most families, and in schools that typically best the government's offerings in integrity, efficiency, and quality.

It is easy to develop the world's best technologies compared with how hard it is to bust up a big bureaucracy like the public education system with the enormous numbers of jobs dependent on it and industries that feed it.

But even after lumping in lots of institutions into these broad, overall categories, Illinois school districts are still drawing from enormous numbers of providers.

Those precious resources were spent developing the EngageNY curriculum materials that schools and teachers in other states have eagerly downloaded in enormous numbers; rigorous exams that reflect real - world standards of proficiency in math and reading; and teacher certification standards that are now among the highest in the nation.

Dating sites bring together enormous numbers of singles, who may have otherwise never met.

Dating Sunday falls within Match's Peak Season, which is going on RIGHT NOW and spans from December 26th to February 14th, where they expect to see these enormous numbers:

The world is generally considered to be quite a big place, and there are cheek - slappingly enormous numbers of opportunities for meeting new people.

Even those with enormous numbers are feeling a shift in readership and followers.

This very same fission process results in the emission of enormous numbers of highly penetrating particles known as antineutrinos.

The adaptive immune system has the capacity to produce antibodies with enormous numbers of binding specificities.

«I think Richard's writings have unquestionably stimulated enormous numbers of people to get interested in biology,» he said.

There are enormous numbers of mistakes you can fall into, and any one of them could trash your company.»

But being able to understand the language means «you can talk to other people and think outside your discipline, and that opens up enormous numbers of career possibilities», he says.

So, if I would try to do this experiment with elephants or even fruit flies, I would need enormous numbers of animals and enormous numbers of animal counter [s], and a tremendous amount of money; but to do this experiment in yeast [is much easier], because we can grow billions and billions of yeast over night.

Straightforward extrapolation of the Standard Model to that primordial epoch suggests that WIMPs should have been produced in enormous numbers in the dense, hot plasma that filled the universe immediately after the big bang.

«It cooked together the components of the buildings and their contents, including enormous numbers of computers, and gave off gases of toxic metals, acids and organics.»

«We have an excellent team onboard and we hope the results will help us understand what controls the size of the very largest earthquakes on Earth, particularly following the enormous numbers of casualties due to subduction earthquakes and tsunamis in the last 10 - 15 years.

But it's an understatement even to say that every case is different: individual tumours in the same person can be quite different, each carrying enormous numbers of distinct genomes (see «Rapid evolution of tumours may be their Achilles» heel «-RRB-.

Maley notes that influences from the environment may drive convergent evolution but that identical mutations can also arise through pure coincidence, simply by virtue of the enormous numbers involved.

Extending that approach can identify primes well beyond 100, of course, but the method is far too slow and unwieldy to solve theoretical problems, like the twin prime conjecture, which can run into truly enormous numbers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's infrastructure plans for New York state will cost $ 100 billion and create more than 250,000 jobs, according to Bill Mulrow, the governor's secretary, who unleashed those enormous numbers during a Monday afternoon speech to construction industry executives at the Mandarin Oriental.

Even in 2012, the Lower East Side remains the area of the U.S. statistically most associated with immigration due to its long service as an initial immigrant destination in which enormous numbers of immigrant and migrant residents were squeezed into its less than two square miles.

He added: «We've got to bring the law into line with reality, and for people who are launching businesses they need clarity and there are now enormous numbers of businesses springing up and operating in this new digital world and they need to understand the way in which copyright law operates.

Calvin's teaching and the reforms in the city attracted enormous numbers of refugees and students from abroad, creating a very international community.

For instance, one admits that in much of evolution (probably all above the bacteria), evolutionary changes involve enormous numbers of genes, rather than a selection of one or two particular genes (although that occurs in a few instances, possibly, for instance, in industrial melanism).

Small per person changes can have enormous effects when multiplied by enormous numbers of people.

He seems to find little problem with finding the good side of killing enormous numbers of people, and will again, at the Second Coming, correct?

Industry representatives say they are doing the best they can, given the enormous numbers of homeowners lining up.

But as Sears (whose sister chain Kmart has also closed enormous numbers of stores) exits many malls, it follows that traffic to such centers would slip and inflict collateral damage on competitors like Penney and Macy's.

«Our drug has been used in hospitals for many, many years and established an enormous number of fans,» she said.

They are highly concentrated in upscale areas and, as a result, provide access to an enormous number of exactly the kind of customers Amazon loves right along with their disposable income.

An enormous number — 93 percent — understood that companies use social networking to get new customers, while 91 percent agreed that businesses use social networks to disseminate information about their products and services to potential customers.

And now, marketers are getting really serious about Snapchat as a platform to reach an enormous number of people due to some key changes Snapchat has released.

The beauty of marketing on Facebook is their enormous number of users and the powerful tools available for carving out your ideal market.