Sentences with phrase «handful of national surveys»

A handful of national surveys released each year focus on education, including the Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll about public attitudes toward education and MetLife's annual survey of teachers.

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The new center would provide services to the Gemini Observatory (with twin 8.1 - meter telescopes in Hawaii and Chile), the National Optical Astronomy Observatory with a handful of telescopes in Chile and the United States, and the still - rising Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, an 8.4 - meter instrument in Chile.

Although the National Breeding Bird Survey does an annual census on the North Slope, they greatly underestimate songbird numbers by counting just once, at only a handful of locations and fairly late in the season, when the birds are less vocal.