Sentences with phrase «guess at the number»

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott proposed paying police officers just # 30 per year - before making terrible guesses at the number of seats the party had lost in the local council elections.

It is simply the best guess at the number of calories that your body will burn.

Even if you just guessed at the number of submitted manuscripts that make it to publication being at 1 % (which I think is awfully generous), you would immediately see a completely different landscape.

Even if you just guessed at the number of [traditionally] submitted manuscripts that make it to publication being at 1 % (which I think is awfully generous), you would immediately see a completely different landscape.

Which (because I'm always on my soapbox about this topic) leads me back to the point I so frequently make: while book promotion may be tangentially related to book sales, it's impossible to predict how closely related even a highly successful book promotion campaign will be to an increase in book sales, nor is it reasonable to ask a book publicist to guess at the number of book sales that might be generated by a successful book publicity campaign.

I have no guess at numbers on drill test holes intersecting hydrates.

Sounds like «guess at the numbers» to me... particularly when (as I show in Figure 3 above) the results don't agree with the air temp data.

I can not even guess at the number of books I have been involved in publishing over my life in this business — 1000?

Not exact matches

BMO Capital Markets guessed the number of shipments at 2.3 million units.

Add $ 14 billion of the accelerated repurchase and I guess you get $ 19 billion in the first four - and - change months of fiscal 2014, which annualizes to... I mean, ISS says «it appears to be on track to repurchase at least $ 32 billion in shares» and, sure, that is a number.

... and yet at the end of the day we only find the of test of science created in a lab to be just an «educated guess», with a number attached to it.

But anyway it would be one game per day, and at the end of the day the people who guessed the right number would be the winner (s).

That being said, so long as Holt keeps his numbers at - or - around league average, I'm guessing they stick with him over Lin.

Mind you, Southampton lost 8 key players plus a manager in the transfer window, they now sit fourth, 3 pts ahead of us.We can no longer use injuries as an excuse because we have always had them, and if wenger was a smart manager, he would have addressed this problem by having better squad depth, but instead he chose to send a defender out on loan despite being short in numbers at the back, foolishly chose not to sign a defender despite an array of good defenders on show at the world cup.So now who is to blame?I guess it's anyone or anything but Wenger.

«My guess is that if FORTUNE looked at CEOs and another magazine looked at the entertainment industry, you'd see similar numbers,» he says.

I would guess that the German could be rested as well with Cazorla playing at number 10 and Ramsey starting alongside Coquelin.

Also I haven't seen figures on Leicesters spending in 2015 buy my guess is that it was quite a bit higher than previous seasons give the number of players they brought in... some at bargain rates with hindsight... Wenger should be investing relative to clubs position as 7th richest club on planet and competing for top european honour..

Yeah a peaceful protest would work... as long as we come in numbers and it is about being a pro Arsenal I guess... I also want a change at the manager position buto let's not hound him out like he is worth nothing If he stays though and the board backs him up... and no candidates rush at Arsenal door here is what I would like:

People guess at what the numbers are, but no one outside the clubs and the players actually know for sure.

At the moment it's sitting as a pick em, which if I had to guess will hover around that number until game time.

I'm guessing, from watching the show, that a large number of these students at West Adams are on free / reduced lunch program.

I'm guessing it would be mostly women who would do that; women seek divorce much more than men do, fewer women don't have custody (2.4 million out of 8.6 million single moms, but that's approaching the number of single dads, 2.6 million) and they seem to face less public scrutiny or at least less outrage than cheating men do.

Responding to another resident's question about whether the dog park would increase the number of coyotes — estimated at six — frequenting the area in the morning, Connolly said, «My guess is the coyotes won't want to be near there.»

But at this point I felt like I needed to have at least a ballpark guess of how much progress I was making, so I asked my midwife to check me, but told her not to tell me a number, just let me know whether I was making progress.

At least they'll learn their numbers, I guess!

He described the goal of reducing the overall number of head impacts that high school football players sustain in a season as «logical» and «appealing,» but noted that, «until the risk factors for chronic traumatic encephalopathy [25](CTE) are better defined by carefully designed and controlled research,» and research determines «what the advisable limit to head impact exposure should be,» employing contact limits or establishing «hit counts [4]» will remain «educated guesses, at best.»

The number of diagnoses «have been steadily climbing» from one in 150 since the CDC's national surveillance system was put into place in 2000, «so I guess I shouldn't be that surprised» by the new data, says Sarah Spence, a neurologist at Boston Children's Hospital.

For an hour or so after treatment, 10 of the volunteers were twice as accurate in guessing at a glance the number of dots flashed on a computer screen.

Although of course there are a number of caveats since mice can be cured from cancer at higher rates, they don't suffer from some of our diseases, they are sensitive to being handled (if grabbing them can shorten their lifespan through stress, the mouse version of standard human medical care may do the same), so I guess that increases in maximum lifespan are indeed the only reliable indicator that an intervention is impacting age - related mortality.

My guess came in at half the actual number.»

Now I would have guessed almonds would have been number three, but no, they're down at number five.

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And then, there were a decent number of auteurs who appeared at the Cannes Market who should (hopefully) pop up in Venice, such as Lido regular Benoit Jacquot with his adaptation of Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, apparently retitled Never Ever, while Wim Wenders could be a contender with The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (though he may hold out for Berlin 2017, the same guess we'd wage for a new film from Volker Schlondorff, Return to Montauk).

I guess though, looking at the fact that last week's numbers covered the first three days of the week and this week's numbers covered the rest of the week, 84K for one week is pretty darn good.

His prediction is not just that plenty of people will put Dunkirk first on their ballot; it also looks at the films likely to get the fewest number of No. 1 votes — Daniel predicts that will be Darkest Hour, The Post, and Phantom Thread — and then guesses where Dunkirk shows up on those ballots.

At the end of the activity, I explained to the students that this number guessing program was actually learning as the game progressed.

The Juke is supposed to be aimed at young males, though we guess that, outside of AW readers, the number of rally - car and superbike aficionados is higher in Europe than in the States.

Maybe, but I guess the point is that even when the overall package falls just a bit short, the number of fun details crammed into these little cars shows that someone is thinking creatively at Mini HQ.

In any event, I'm coming up with the same gut sense: there's a pretty massive margin of error on these numbers, and my innate guess at it is «big.»

So instead of trying to guess at a total sales in a set time to determine the amount of money that can be spent on a project so that the project makes a 4 % profit, indie publishers can calculate a different number entirely.

And while frequent - flier questions aren't always the same types of things I'd ask an author — I'd rather hear what earned her the most time - outs as a kid than where her ideas come from (mostly because I'm pretty sure we all snag ideas the same way, from that guy on the corner selling them out of his van)-- I guess I can understand the curiosity of a reader, a bookstore patron... or a stranger I've cornered at a party who I'm pretending is my number one fan.

Amazon guessed at $ 9.99 for that threshold... it's a nice number (mine is actually lower for an impulse kindle purchase, but I'm a secretary, so money is a concern for me).

I recently discovered that you can actually swipe through the collections (or list of books) in both list view and cover view so you don't have to guess at those page numbers!

Based on these numbers, assumptions, guesses and my own biases, I am going to put the self - publishing industry at about $ 1 billion of sales worldwide annually.

So we're not sure if it has the backlighting that Wilson hated so much in the PRS - 700, but seeing as the model numbers are lower, we're guessing that this will hit at somewhere below the $ 400 price tag of Sony's higher model.

The exact number of Android tablet users has always been doubted (some semantics on whether shipped or bought equals market share) but as late as July of this year, some folks were guessing only a million or so have been sold (compared to nearly 30 millin for the iPad at the time).

Now that we've looked at the numbers, well... I guess it depends on your point of view.

Take a wild guess at what the 401 (k)'s expected value becomes with that number?

I wanted to ask a little bit about the, you had a number of parties go over your reserves, three and all I believe and how, I would assume at this point you are rather certain that you have been able to clean up most of reserving problems particularly given what was happening in your claim department prior to, I guess September 2007?