Sentences with phrase «few dozen points»

When you move from the top of one group to the bottom of another group, your credit score can drop quite few dozen points with no specific reason behind it.

A few dozen points can mean the difference between being approved or rejected for a mortgage.

This is not a function of SAT prep courses available to the affluent — such coaching buys only a few dozen points — but of the ability of these students to do well in a challenging academic setting.

Not exact matches

While the consumer spending report is only one small data point among a dozen factors, it could be a sign that we will see pay stabilization, and even show us a slight increase over the next few months.

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of articles and books written on ecommerce and the importance of having your potential customer click as few buttons and see as few pages as possible between the point at which they're interested to the point they've completed a transaction.

Since then, additional sources and reports continue to point to the same conclusion: that hundreds, not dozens, of people died from the storm, despite claims by President Trump and Puerto Rican officials that the count is 62 or fewer.

During my initial research, what I found were a few informational sites that basically pointed to dozens of different exchanges and ways to buy bitcoins.

Such acquaintance with world literature and such exquisite sensibility would not be of note except for two points — that Shiqaqi was, until his assassination in Malta a few weeks ago, an Islamist (or what is frequently called a «fundamentalist» Muslim) and that he headed Islamic Jihad, the arch-terrorist organization that has murdered dozens of Israelis over the last two years.

The thing that I did do leading up to Portland, especially a few weeks out, was that I upped my daily consumption to a point where I could handle a half - dozen super-hot chiles a day without much to do about it.

I'm thinking specifically of this Raptors game from a few weeks ago (35 points, 17 assists, 7 rebounds), but there are a dozen other examples from this season in Cleveland.

For the edification of the small crowd gathered to watch him play a few holes on the oldest golf course in the United States, Snead pointed to a half dozen sheep on a nearby fairway and remarked, «Those are the mowing machines at work.»

But even up to 1950 we consumed very few calories from beverages and in the last 60 years, we've gone from consuming almost no calories from beverages to a fifth of our caloric intake in the U.S., and about the same in Mexico and about the same in a dozen other countries — in some less and some more — but the point is, all of those calories we consume, but it doesn't affect the food that we take in.

I am not even joking... At this point I've ordered probably a few dozen canvases (not all for me... many for gifts!!)

And down in that cellar, a treasury of cursed relics ample enough to set in motion a few dozen horror flicks (which is, again, the point).

Critics point out that none of the few dozen Success Academy 8th graders who took the entrance exam over the past two years did well enough to get into one of the city's eight selective public high schools.

Apparently pointing out that there are four hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on the market, with possibly a few more coming within the next five years, and thirty - odd battery - electric and plug - in hybrids currently available with several dozen more slated for production within the next five years is enough to send you onto a frenzy.

But being a self - published author tops the list, more difficult than it was learning architecture and going on to design dozens of large custom homes, or operating a construction company that specialized in the absolutely highest end for the most demanding people on Earth, or running a successful international import / export firm in dozens of jurisdictions, or making wine with one of the biggest wineries in Argentina... I could go on, but the point is that I've done a few tough things which required a fair amount of effort and mental dexterity, and writing makes them all look like child's play.

Passings We'll collect reactions later today to the sudden death of respected comics and animation writer Dwayne McDuffie — Comic Book Resources has remembrances from more than a dozen industry figures — but I wanted to go ahead and point to a handful of links: The Associated press obituary; a few words from Christopher Irving, accompanied by a beautiful portrait of McDuffie photographed by Seth Kushner on Feb. 13; the origin of Static; and a look at Spider - Man anti-drug PSA comics written by McDuffie.

I am so glad I reached out to you with those first few questions, and I am grateful you not only took the time to answer my questions (which very quickly went from a few to a few dozen), but you spent the extra time and went above and beyond to keep answering questions, pointing me to other posts / blogs / groups you thought would be good for me to investigate, suggesting books to help me with writing, and all the while offering a most precious gem of encouragement on top of everything else.

10 year apartment building loan rates had been in a range the last few weeks until Ben Bernanke «failed to taper» last Wednesday causing the bellwether 10 Year Treasury to fall about a dozen basis points to today's quote of 2.72 %.

In terms of how much you could see your score climb, it could be as little as a few points or as much as several dozen points.

Most people don't have more than a few cards, but some people who are really into amassing points and miles have more than a dozen, and sometimes 20 or more.

By contrast, if you go to Montanita, Ecuador's best known surf spot, expect to find a few dozen surfers, mainly locals, hugging a tight take off zone on the point.

More often than not, we brand - hop when it comes to accommodations and end up with a few scant points scattered across a half - dozen programs.

Paragon bore the brunt of the decision that at some point, developers working on the game have been whittled down to fewer than a dozen.

My stack of disc games is relatively few, maybe a dozen, if that, but the number of downloaded games on my 360 is well over 100 at this point and I won't be able to play any of them on the new console.

There's a wide variety of mission types, though, and a few of them, such as having to gather resources from a dozen points on the map within the turn limit, can really test you.

I had the opportunity, with one other reporter, to accompany scientists to a research camp set up on the drifting sea ice a few dozen miles from the point at which everything else is south.

We've identified your «central» point, refuting an entire branch of study that occupies dozens of scientists, a few of them of my personal acquaintance, based on a casual perusal of a few papers.

Now, because of posts like this, I predict that you and a few dozen others will go down in scientific history on this topic, relative to defense of scientific integrity and freedom on an issue that spent the better part of a generation devolving to the point where RICO cases are suggested against dissenting scientists and corporations and «skeptics» are obliquely likened to Holocaust «deniers».

Meanwhile, fewer than a dozen small ice shelves floating on «warm» waters (seawater only a few degrees above the freezing point) produced half of the total melt water during the same period.

I agree it would be quicker to simply note the qualified skeptics on the list (there are probably a few dozen), but, from a rhetorical point of view, I think pointing out these immensely unqualified members of the list is more effective.

A primary — and by sheer headcount perhaps the prevalent — point of view is that the industrial structure of BigLaw is moving toward a bimodal distribution, with a few dozen (at most) truly Global U.S. and U.K. firms, on whose empires the sun never sets, and at the opposite end of the curve a profusion of boutiques and regional powerhouses.