Sentences with phrase «gained less points»

Despite the acquisition of three world class players in recent years, and Wenger keeping hold of his stars, we have gained less points than the previous three seasons, and have had the same amount of defeats (7).

Despite having a much stronger team, we actually gained less points in the league, despite moving up a position, and Arsenal pretty much hit rock bottom in Europe.

Not exact matches

After it hit 14,000 at the height of the housing bubble in 2007 — less than three months after passing 13,000 — the Dow wouldn't gain another 1,000 points until six years later, in May 2013.

Since then, the arbitrage strategy has declined in a nearly linear fashion to the point where there were no years where the strategy yielded more than $ 200 between 1959 and 1974 and in 11 of these 16 years an investor either lost money or gained less than $ 100.

The economic gains and market returns that emerged during the Reagan Administration began from a starting point of 10.8 % unemployment, a current account surplus, and market valuations that - on the most historically reliable measures - were less than one - quarter of present levels.

Technically, the lines should not be connected, since they represent the gains following distinct actions of different central banks, but connecting the points shows the trend toward less and less effective interventions.

Looking ahead now to a new day and to the start of the FOMC meeting, we see that stocks were modestly higher in Asia overnight, with the gains generally less than half a percentage point.

These concepts are generally used in spammier instances — such as «link wheels» or other less than favorable examples where links can easily be pushed at authoritative domains — with the hope that the benefit passed back to our site is superior to what will have been gained if the link had been pointed direct.

In contrast, between late - 2011 and mid-2014, T - bill yields averaged less than 5 basis points, and the majority of the intervening market gains overlapped the roughly one - third of that span when our present, adapted measures would encourage a constructive outlook (largely on the basis of favorable market internals).

We win huge upside we lose respectable say less than 7 - 9 points make it a game we gain cred.

The past few weeks, it has been a case of they fail, we fail...... they gain lil points, we gain lil points...... they are still tailing us with less that 9points...... And we knw so well how to disappoint when we are needed to excel most!

Our points gained far outweighs our points lost vs the lesser teams whilst it's the complete reverse vs good opposition.

However this year we had a dire start to the season, gaining close to 10 points less.

It bears pointing out that the breastfeeding pregnant women gained less weight than the non-breastfeeding group, and exhibited a decreased level of hemoglobin during pregnancy.

A friend of mine suffered horribly with morning sickness during each of her pregnancies, to the point that she weighed less when giving birth than she did before she became pregnant and began gaining weight immediately after giving birth.

It's worth pointing out that a substantial minority of Lib Dems are very keen on ideas such as Land Value Tax which would directly address many of the problems arising from asset inequality, in particular the fact that land owners can often make substantial gains in wealth as a result of public works funded out of the income and consumption taxes paid by those of substantially less wealth than themselves.

Parkinson's patients may be somewhat lacking in this respect and therefore eat less and lose weight, whereas the weight gain exhibited after deep brain stimulation seems to point to an increase in pleasure and motivation associated with food.

Such compressed data representations consume far less memory and data transfer bandwidth, and promise substantial performance gains and energy savings over conventional floating - point computations.

And also, if you're then eating less arsenic but for no real nutritional gain, what's the point?

These gains are less susceptible to the home influences than the simple level of achievement at one point in time.

The sometimes - D schools experienced year - to - year changes in FCAT math scores that were only 2.4 points higher than all other Florida public schools, significantly less than the gains in both voucher - eligible and voucher - threatened schools.

Between 1990 and 2009, 4th graders gained 27 points on the MAIN math test (just 7 points less than the size of the gap between DC and U. S. performance in 2000), but they gained only 13 points on the LTT test.

As shown in the chart below, English learners lost ground, and African American students gained less than five points (looking at...

And in all 8 models the point estimates suggest that a standard deviation improvement in classroom observation or student survey results is associated with less than a.1 standard deviation increase in test score gains.

The gain was 3 percentage points in math, one point less than for white students, leaving a 44 percentage point gap.

As a different example, a school with 2003 Mean NCE Gain in Grade 4 of -3.0 would indicate that students were learning 3.0 points less per year than students were gaining in 1998.

It's also less clear whether incremental improvements on the exam — such as improving one's score by three or four points — translate into student learning gains.

Sorry to disillusion you again in your ongoing moment of confusion and lack of ESL skills but the fact is you hit all seven points on the head with each and every comment and reply you post proving you are nothing more than a vapid little troll with a less than meaningless life attempting to gain credibility by lying.

Complementing traditional investments, Ross points out that real estate is less volatile (unlike stocks, it's not marked to market every day); provides diversification with a favorable balance of risk versus return; is favorably taxed via capital gains tax treatment and interest deductibility; generates returns similar to the stock market and «often more»; provides principal protection; a hedge against inflation and a pension - like «monthly coupon.»

Because the amount of market discount, two points, is less than the de minimis amount (which in this case is 2.5 points, or 0.25 percent of the face value of a bond times the number of years between the bond's acquisition and its maturity), the market discount is considered to be zero and the difference between purchase price and sales price or redemption is generally treated as a capital gain upon disposition or redemption.

When the bond matures, the second investor must include as ordinary, taxable income ten points of gain (the revised issue price at acquisition of 70, less the purchase price of 60).

Granted, real estate also provides value in the form of imputed rent (less expenses such as property taxes, maintenance and insurance) that would add a few percentage points to the price gain.

Interesting points Ben, but i don't believe in ever risking more to gain less, this makes no sense to me.

If you put the $ 160 in to your RRSP for the next year, and the $ 64 (% 40 x $ 160) refund from that etc. etc. you gain an addition $ 264 from refunds after 5 years (at that point the refund is less than $ 1 so I stopped)

Your point that the investment could be lower at the end of the 3 years is a concern, although with a safe investment, it is less so, but this reduces the potential gain.

There is a minimum of 5,000 points required to gain the bonus — anything less does not get bonus points.

A chance encounter with a primitive species provided the opportunity to study them in order to gain more scientific points for research, but that was a fare less compelling option than accelerating their technological advancement.

Combat is more or less the same as in Arkham Asylum when you begin the game, but it quickly expands beyond that with new abilities and moves that are fun to unlock as you gain experience points.

This remains a constant, but when you gain a level, then weaker enemies provide less points than they did previously.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

For one, the game was named after the development idea that the sword could be charged up to gain energy by pointing the wiimote upwards, rather than holding a button, which felt less natural.

you may observe that at around 400 ppmv, the net rate of photosynthesis in ideal greenhouse conditions begins to gain much less per additional unit of CO2; we've already hit the point of diminishing returns and by Liebig's Law of the Minimum can say with some confidence that experiments could find that additional CO2 on plants in the wild may be net detrimental right now.

There may be a point where a system crosses over from gain of less than one to greater than one as one feedback starts dominating over another.

And even women who hadn't cycled at the 1989 data point who were cycling just five minutes a day by 2005 gained less weight than the non bikers.

While I don't normally time my inbox habits, I am pretty sure I have never sifted through 24 emails in less than two minutes, and I got excited every time I gained a few points by deleting or promptly responding to messages.

At the same time, 90 cars each gain 30 seconds back on their commute because of less slowing at the merge point.

The latter's eclectic mix of Windows and Android detachable products could only gain 0.4 percentage points in market share, from 15.4 to 15.8, while staying perfectly flat in terms of shipments, at 6 million units, no less than 5.4 mil behind iPads.

The token needs to gain around $ 2,453 to surpass Bitcoin value, which is less than Ripple's calculated percentage point.

This isn't to say that a 2.7 % yield is going to attract investors to necessarily abandon their stakes in cryptocurrencies that have gained 1,000 % or 10,000 %, so much as to point out that avenues to safer and less volatile growth do exist.

A smaller iPad would be even more portable than current models and would cost significantly less, allowing Apple to gain market share at a lower price point.