Sentences with phrase «failed by a few points»

Anna took the CAHSEE again in the spring, and failed by a few points, and then again in June, missing by just one point.

Not exact matches

There are still plenty of ways for it to fail once it gets off the ground — the structure could be torn apart by supersonic shockwaves or the side boosters may not separate, since that system has never been tested, for example — but at that point, SpaceX could probably launch another Falcon Heavy within a few months.

And if you don't believe that, consider that the Fed's moneyless («Portfoli - O - Matic») transmission mechanism has already had one «stress test» — the one administered between late 2008 and 2014 — which it failed miserably, by proving incapable of transforming $ 3.5 trillion in fresh reserves into more than a few percentage points of NGDP growth, or far fewer than were required to restore that growth to its pre-crisis path.

Drawing on the large numbers of studies undertaken by people in the aid world and by independent researchers (few of these studies are cited in Lancaster's volume), he points out that the structural reforms have largely failed and the situation continues to deteriorate.

To get to this point, the sleuths had managed to succeed where other investigators had failed; they had figured out how to successfully extract high - quality DNA from ivory, and they had done so by picking up a few tips from orthodontists and forensic scientists.

But by this point I had lost interest, and while I tried a few missions once I gave up after miscellaneous fail states.

A study released in May 2007 by the Department of Justice (Canada), Children's Development of Social Competence Across Family Types, points out that «A few studies suggest that children with two lesbian mothers may have marginally better social competence than children in «traditional nuclear» families, even fewer studies show the opposite, and most studies fail to find any differences.»