Sentences with phrase «high number of first»

It provided legal support training for women's shelter and outreach service staff in 10 communities, where agencies were serving a high number of First Nation, Métis or Inuit women dealing with violence.

Also, due to the high number of first and second - party franchises that they have.

And Ohio's high number of first - year closures suggests that Ohio's authorizers can do a better job.

Train operator East Coast's complimentary food and drinks service and new timetable has helped to achieve the highest number of First Class journeys for five years.

Not exact matches

First was that the number of medications taken by PillPack's average user — seven — was higher than they'd expected.

«A lot of people are banking on it to make up for the first - quarter number, it needs to deliver... I really think that that number might be the trigger point on does this market have the legs to go higher.»

Though tourism numbers were (again) at record highs, up 23 % for the first nine months of 2013, further violence would certainly jeopardize bookings for the rest of the year and in 2014.

The governor announced last week that 57.4 million visitors came to the state during the first six months of the year, the highest number ever, according to the report.

That's more than double the number of companies that went public in the first quarter of 2013, and the highest number since the same period in 2000, Renaissance reports.

We believe we will be the platform launching with the highest number of apps on its first device.

While on - page SEO and good content counts, getting to Google's first page is all about the number of white hat backlinks that lead to your article from high - quality sources.

The drop in filings sounds promising, though the study also found that the total number of bankruptcies in the first quarter of 2011 is still 30 percent higher than in the pre-recession first quarter of 2008.

Instead of competing over the same small number of hyper - talented players as his neighbors, he decided to innovate: He became one of the first college coaches to track and pursue high school recruits from across the country.

Fallon's was the first high - profile resignation after a growing number of allegations of inappropriate behavior were made against ministers and lawmakers, fuelled by sex abuse allegations against Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein.

A number of analysts believed that Gawker stood a good chance of having the Hogan judgment either reversed or significantly reduced, especially since two higher - court judges had already ruled in previous decisions that the publication of an excerpt of Hulk Hogan's sex tape was newsworthy, and therefore covered by the protection of the First Amendment.

The bank surveyed a number of runners in New York and found that the Apple Watch's high price point and lack of internal GPS were the main reasons athletes might stay away from the new wearable at first.

The 104.7 March reading, down from 107.6 in February, remains among the highest in survey history and for the first time since 1982, taxes received the fewest number of votes as the number one problem.

Plus, the sites that put their users first tend to generate the highest number of social shares and backlinks organically.

While smart speakers are high - tech and can prove to be really useful in a number of scenarios, getting started can also be a bit overwhelming especially for first - time users.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

Domestic majors ONGC Limited and Vedanta Limited put in the highest number of bids in the first round of...

When you take the high value of Starpoints into account, the sign - up bonus on this card becomes a lot bigger than the sheer number of points would suggest: Earn 25,000 Starpoints ® after you use your new Card to make $ 3,000 in purchases within the first 3 months.

The company has shipped nearly 26 million smartphones globally in the first half of this year alone, the number is higher than what is achieved by Nokia, LG, HTC or Sony.

The reason could be that because of vacations an unusually high number of companies report their employment data too late to be included in the first release.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

Example: Two weeks ago, in response to my column that showed higher job creation numbers in the first 32 months under Ralph Klein, when compared with the same length of time under Rachel Notley, government MLA Graham Sucha took to Twitter in an attempt to criticize my analysis.

Hence, as a result first of large depreciations of a number of Asian currencies during the Asian crisis of 1997 and 1998, and then their more recent decline with the US dollar, the Australian dollar is now some 60 per cent higher than its post-float average against a group of Asian currencies (Graph 23).

Uncle David: If there are more God - believers in the population, and more of them are attracted to AA because of their belief in the higher power in the first place... it does not necessarily follow that AA's approach is more successful than any other program because of sheer numbers.

I still remember the home phone numbers of my old high school friends, but don't ask me to recite my husband's without checking my contacts first.

Because of the baby boom, there was, at first, a high number of workers relative to pensioners making the system easy to finance.

I personally think the second number is slightly higher than the first — people who would be violent anyway, use religion as their excuse — God told them to kill gays, or abortion doctors, or people of another religion, or atheists or whatever.

An evidence of the accuracy of the high rating for the death of a spouse was their discovery that the number of deaths of widows and widowers during the first year following the death of their spouse is ten times greater than the deaths of others in their age groups.

At the end of the first year of the Clinton Administration, the Census Bureau's Income and Poverty Report for 1993 found 39.3 million poor persons, the highest number since 1962.

One trend is the increasing number of students in institutions of higher learning who return to school or enroll for the first time later in life — a far cry from the typical stereotype of undergraduates.

«First of all, the numbers for young Americans are still dramatically higher, and secondly, it is beyond dispute now that the «nones» are one of the largest demographic groups in the United States, and we're going to stay that way for a long, long time.»

Made this soup this afternoon for my family and it met with loads of approval — my 14 year old daughter pronounced it the 2nd best soup in my repertoire (first honors go to colcannon soup, a Cooks Illustrated creation) which is pretty high praise given the number of pots of soup I am likely to make in any given month.

The move has been welcomed by some as an important first step in protecting farmers, though comes amidst processor concerns over sustainable dairy payments following a number of high profile strikes by milk producers across Europe during the year.

A number of big names have made the move to US soccer in recent times, with David Beckham being the first high - profile player to do so when he joined LA Galaxy from Real Madrid back in 2007.

The guys first season with us as a LW, and he had the highest number of assists.

The Dutchman took over at United in the summer, and has made a great number of changes to the first - team squad at Old Trafford, offloading some under - performers and spending big money on some exciting high - profile names such as Angel Di Maria and Radamel Falcao.

First of all I think it's fantastic that we have a world class player in Alexis who is capable of performing to the highest level in a number of different positions across the pitch.

What is wrong with a new 3/4 year contract with the first year on lower basic, but with incentives linked to availability and then following years automatically moving onto a higher wage if a minimum number of appearances made.

Ancelotti will be encouraged to sell a number of first team squad members to help cover a portion of the cost with the likes of Isco, Angel di Maria, Iker Casillas and Karim Benzema likely to be offloaded for fairly high sums.

I feel he may struggle a little getting first team action at Arsenal, given the high number of midfielders we already have at the club, so therefore a loan away again this year may prove beneficial to his future career with the club.

Firmino can play in a number of roles from out wide in a central midfield role as well as up front and the Figueirense player may feel a high profile move to Liverpool could aid his push for a first Brazilian national team cap.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

For a team that has experienced so many seconds, it was particularly rewarding for the Pleasant Grove High boys basketball team to finally experience a number of firsts.

Amazingly Chelsea have a first team squad numbering over 50, with 26 players sent out on loan deals, and as such the number of players Mourinho is willing to offload will be significantly higher than the number of top targets he wishes to usher in.

That includes a handful of potential first - round picks a cornerback and a higher number of top safeties than usual.

Jose Mourinho has ran out of patience with a number of his first team squad and has received the backing of Blues owner Roman Abramovich to make big money moves in both of the next two transfer windows, though moves for high profile additions will be in part funded by player sales.